The White Princess: Elizabeth Woodville Inspired Twists & Diy Hair Jewelry

Hey everyone. Today'S video was inspired by the miniseries, the white princess and the character Elizabeth Woodville. When I started to mess around with the twists, I realized I didn't, have a single necklace that fit the circumference of my head. So I thought why not make my own and show you guys how I did it for this project. I used a set of chain nose, pliers round, nose, pliers and I had to set in nylon jaw pliers on hand too. I also had some wire cutters and a measuring tape. I chose cornflower blue glass beads in two sizes, small and medium and then put the center pieces. I found some flat blue disc beads and then these really cool silver medieval around beads, which I thought would be perfect and of course I had craft wire, and this is size 20 gauge. The first thing I do with any kind of project like this is the layout. It just helps to see my design before I begin working that way once it's a foot I'll know where everything goes in advance. To really start this, though I unspooled about 10 inches and slipped on the first bead, I gave myself a little bit of space at the end and then went in with my round nose pliers. I think you can probably see that all I'm doing is grasping the very tip of the wire between the jaws and turning it in words, so that it'll form a loop and then just to be sure, I'd fully closed it. I switched to my chain nose pliers for a moment. It'S the same thing. On the other side, I only need like half an inch to form the bends, so I snipped off the excess wire and repeated the steps first link in the hair. Necklace is now complete. With the second bead I'll be doing the exact same thing running the wire through cutting off excess and turning the ends into loops with the round nose pliers. The only difference now is that I'm attaching this bead to the first before sealing it off with the chain. Nose, pliers and really that's all there is to it. It'S just a repetitive motion. That'S actually pretty easy. In fact, I think anyone can build one, even if you're a beginner and especially if you find nice beads, definitely go for glass crystal or just anything that reflects light, because if you have pretty supplies, no one will notice if your links and loops aren't perfectly symmetrical. I kind of built my hair necklace in pieces when I measured the place on my head, that I wanted it to fall, that circumference was 22 inches, so the first 10 inches is the design that I want near and around my face and the other two pieces. Both of which are 6 inches, each will form the sides and back all that was left for me to do, was to attach them into one peace and then into a rounded necklace. As I said earlier, I didn't have a piece of jewelry that worked because they were all either too big or a smidge too small, and I hated the jewelry clasp --, showing when you build something completely from scratch for a project like this, you can tweak every Detail, including forgoing that clasp as I've clearly done putting it into my hair, wasn't hard either. I started by micro, crimping everything and I did this so my braids would appear a little fuller at the end, but obviously that's an optional step. The first sections are vertical lines on either side of the head, and they extend from the top of my centered parting to slightly behind the ear. For now, I'm clipping them out of the way. Next, I carved out a small horseshoe shape at the crown and I tied it up. I just needed to move the hair in that area out of my way so that I could gather sections from underneath it for the first set of rope braids as always I'll leave my braids dictionary, video linked in the description. Just in case, you need some extra help, but moving back to the first two sections now you'll see that I'm making two horizontal lines within these panels, and that's because I'm going to lay my necklace between the hair. I kind of wanted my accessory to look as though it was immersed in the style itself, and it's also just an easy way to keep the decorative piece from slipping off my head. While I wear it once it was laid in place. I began my work on the left side. This is a French rope twist braid, which basically means I've got two strands and I'm crossing the bottom over the top before adding hair in unlike a rope braid, I'm not twisting the individual strands themselves before I do this. I kind of like this pattern because it tends to look a little softer, especially around the face, but once all my loose hair was pulled in, I did switch to the braid, and that was just so. The lower half of this would feel a little more secure. This is actually just like the Dany Targaryen twists and, if you'd like to see a way more in-depth explanation of these two patterns and one I'll have that in the underbar. Now that all four braids are done, I'm going to start pinning to keep the jewelry centered. I'M clipping it to my head, just in the back that way, it won't shift out of place. The two rope twists at the front are just lifted up and looped towards the top of my head and then secured with a few pins. Since I ended up only having a small braid tail left on either side, I simply tuck them up and tried to hide them underneath. But if your hair is much longer than mine, I bet you could loop it twice, which would probably look really pretty twists in the back are draped across the nape, and I think you can see that all I'm doing is pinning each to the base of the Loops from the front again, I did have some braids and left over, so I did my best to incorporate them into the style by hiding them around the loops. When looking at the actress's wig, the braids appeared relatively seamless, as in at a glance, you wouldn't be able to tell where each braid began and ended, and there actually is a pretty good chance that her twists were a whole separate piece that was just laid on Top with that said, this isn't always the easiest thing to recreate, especially on living hair, but all things considered, I do feel that I was able to cheat here and get the basic shape right. So what do you guys think? Would you ever make a jewelry necklace? Let me know and as always have fun and keep reading bye.