How To Make A Hair Wrap - Tutorial

Hi there this is arden such and today, i'm going to show you how you can make a hair wrap now you're going to want to have some embroidery thread on hand. Some scissors, an elastic, i'm going to use a rainbow, loom band. If you have a charm or a bead, you want for the end. You can get that handy and you're going to want somebody with some hair. I'M using a dollar store, fake, hair extension. This is pretty blue, and i'm going to show you on here today how this works. So the very first thing that you want to do is make a braid in your hair, because, if you've got your hair like this, all your pieces are going to be loose. You'Re going to have sections coming out and it's also going to get caught in the threads and your hair is going to break and rip and it gets messy so to braid. We separate the hair into three strands, whatever section of hair you're gon na braid, and you can do any size of a section and what we do is we take the one on the right we bring it over and into the middle you're, going to switch places With the side one and now we go from the left and we go back into the middle and the right one into the middle again. We'Re gon na do a braid, we're gon na try and keep it a little bit tight. Because, again, we don't want our hair to be loose and flopping about if you're wondering what i've got this pin to it's just uh, just a cushion i use for my macrame embroidery, but you could really pin this. If you're using a fake hair extension, you could pin it to your pants or your shoes or a blanket if you don't mind the possibility of getting a hole in it and just wherever, wherever it's wherever it works, we're going to go pretty close to the end. Here - and this is where you want your elastic ready, we're going to put it over the end, give it a twist put it back over twist it and wrap it until it's very secure and your braid isn't going to come loose now later on. You can take this elastic off and you can leave it on as well. If you want so i'm just going to hold this up to show you we have now a braided section of hair. The next thing you're going to do is pick your colors for the threads that you want on your wrap and you can have as many colors as you want as many strands as you want for this thickness. You want about five strands and you might be able to see here. I have a variety of colors and that's because i change the colors part way through i'll show you how you can add or change colors, but to start off you're gon na get five colors and of string, i'm using just basic embroidery thread, and you want to Measure your string to about three times the length of your piece of hair - i'm just going to do some short ones here, because this is a demonstration video. I want to show you the techniques more than more than i'm looking to show you the the entire entire piece together. Now, let's get this all ready, i'm gon na get my a blue color. Next, i'm gon na get a green and, as i said, i will show you this with five strands. If you want it to be thicker, if you want your section to be thicker, you can use more. If you want it to be thinner, you can use fewer strands, but the more colors you have, the more fun you can do with combinations right now. I want to show you something here before we go on, so i'm going to pinch my threads together now. Some of your threads are going to be really long and let's say that i want. I want my my green to show up two times. I'M gon na fold it over and i'm gon na use this as two of my five strands and it's okay. If the thread like the thread could run out or you could end up with some extra, i will show you how to add on. But ideally, you wanted about three times the length of your hair again and if you fold it over, you can get a loop which is a little bit easier to attach i'll show you how that goes. Maybe i'll make a little loop with these other ones as well, now you're going to go to the top of your braid and you're, going to find a spot and you're going to bring your loop under bring all the threads over and through the loop. So i'm going to put two fingers through the loop i'm going to grab the rest of the threads and i'm going to pull them through. This is going to make a knot. You don't want it too, too, tight if you're doing this on real hair, because you want to be able to take it off later. But if you have a hair clip - and you want to secure it by putting it through a hair clip, you can do that as well. All right we're ready to start wrapping. So you just hold this up. One time you can so you can see it's just tied on and a knot at the top or you can tie it to a clip and attach the clip on top. Instead, now to do a basic first wrap, i'm going to secure this just a little bit better, because mine isn't we're going to put this through the clip. I think just make sure i don't lose this here now. You'Re gon na pick a color. If you want to do a basic straight wrap, which looks like this and you're going to take your hair and your threads and hold them together in your left hand or your left arm less dominant head and the color, you want to wrap with you're going to Bring it over the direction you want to go and reach under and grab it from the back. Now i'm going to put my hand behind so that it holds onto the piece that i just wrapped, i'm going to bring it over again and i'm going to grab it from the other side. And i'm going to put my finger there to hold it. Because if i let my finger off, it's going to start sliding down and if i let this hand this hand go loose while i grab it, it's going to go and get loose again, so i throw it over i'm going to reach underneath and bring that thread Back to the right side - and you start to do this a little bit faster - you can also hold on to the threads just underneath, but keep this one really really tight. I'M going to show you a little cheat in just a minute and you wrap it for as long as you'd like so again we're just throwing it over the top grabbing it i'm going to grab it with my left hand now and then i'm going to grab It again from underneath, with my right hand - and you can see here - i didn't need my hand at the back anymore, because it's really tight, but you can always keep a hold there. Now, i'm going to show you one sheet: you don't want to do this on real hair, because you're going to get knots in your hair and you're going to have to cut out a chunk, but if you're using a fake extension, what you can do between sections To hold pieces in place is bring your string over and we're gon na do like a macrame knot where you have a hole here and you can reach through and bring it back into the side. So this is, if you're, using a fake piece like i am, and if you want to hold your place or even, if you're, using hair and feeling confident and want to hold your place and then undo the knot after. I wouldn't recommend this for real hair, though now i'm going to show you how to make a basic stripe and for a stripe you're going to pick out two colors that you like and put them on the side and you're going to decide which one you want On your under layer you hold on to all of your other colors and with your under layer, color you're, going to start wrapping again. So this time, i'm not holding on in the back. I'M just going to keep this tight. I'M going to hold on to my strands and the hair, and i'm going to keep circling this green around hold it really really tight. If you see it sort of loosening up, you can kind of push it up with your with your fingernail, with your thumb, just gon na wrap this a little more and then i'll show you a thing or two before we do a stripe so now before i Do my stripe, i want to make sure i have a firm hold on that and you can see that this green section is a little bit thinner than the pink one, because we took one strand out and that's the blue one. We have on the side now with the blue one. You decide how tight you want your stripes to be and you're going to wrap it around your bottom layer layer accordingly, but still hold on to your bottom piece. That'S where it gets a little bit difficult. You can see it's even starting to get a little loose when i'm doing this, but i'm going to keep holding on all right. So i'm just going to switch back to blue for my next wrap and i'm going to do a basic cool wrap again. So i'm going to bring it over oops over where my finger is and grab it wrap it a couple of times and that's going to start securing this all into place again. So this is what we have so far. We have the pink section we have green with blue on top, and then we have just blue i'm gon na bring make the blue go a little further. You can see i'm pressing up with my thumbnail to make it tighter there. Now there isn't really a set length for for how far each section should go. You can make them really short. You can make them really long. You could even do it all in one color or just stick to to plain wraps. If you want to next thing, is the x i'm going to show you it with two colors to start and then i'll show you with one color, so i'm gon na do i'm gon na make my x have green and pink on it. I'M gon na pull those strands to the side. I'M gon na make my bottom wrap layer blue, so it will contrast. So let me get a good hold of this here, so i'm holding on to most of the strands. I'Ve pulled out two colors or two threads that i want for my ex and i've pulled out another color that i'm going to wrap around, and this is going to be an under layer just like what we had with the stripes. So i just wrap the blue. Like i normally would, this is a slightly different shade from the one i had on top it's kind of nice because it blends in with the hair. That'S another thing to to kind of consider when you're doing these is if, if the person has really light hair, it's summery you might want, maybe lighter brighter colors sorry about that is my film. If the person is dark hair, maybe if you want something something that contrasts something something light you can use whites or browns or whatever so i've got my under layer done and now i'm going to bring each of my strings to each like to one side. So i have the pink on the left, the green on the right and i'm literally just gon na bring them across, so i've just pulled them over each other over the blue and i'm going to make it a little bit tighter and i'm going to repeat it. I'M going to bring it, let me show you this first now, i'm going to bring the green to the back and they're just going to cross each other on the back side, and you can do multiple crosses or you can just do one cross. If you want i'll show you that on the next section, so you get kind of a little x thing happening now, i'm going to do a green one kind of making this up as i go along. Let'S do a green wrap and then i'll show you uh what an x looks like if you're using two of the same color, i'm getting the text message. There hope it's nothing too urgent. Let me pull up two blues and this is another reason why you might wanna be folding over your colors and using two of the same. These are pretty close, so i will do another green wrap here. Push this back, so we've got more room. I'Ve pulled two blues up to the top and the side they're not going to be included in the threads that i wrap. So i'm going to do my base layer of green and i'll hold this up for you to see in just a minute. So it goes over and i grab it with my left hand, you can see those blues are standing out on the right, because we're gon na incorporate them in just a minute. Now we're gon na do just like we did before, but i'm gon na do go across one way across from the other direction, and i'm only gon na do one cross this time and then i'm gon na start wrapping again just bringing one of my blues around To wrap it, because i want this to be really secure, um and you don't want it to get too too loose either. So there's that blue axe finish this blue section and then i'll show you the next thing. Okay, so let me show you how to add on new threads, we'll do that next um, let's do what's a nice color here, i'm gon na do a pink here. This is similar to the pink i have already. So i'm just going to get that together here and you can add as many threads at a time as you want. But you don't want to do too many, usually at once, because then it gets kind of lumpy. So, if you're using artificial, like fake hair like this, what you would do is just tie it around all of the threads i'll show you this both ways. So i'm gon na i'm gon na cheat here. I'M gon na tie off this blue section, so this doesn't unravel. Don'T do that with real hair. This is for demonstration purposes only so what i could do here is, i can take my pink and tie it around all of the hair and all the threads. So you bring it around, you cross it in the back from the back. You bring it in front and you press it through the hole, and you do that two times now here we don't want it to put it on the hair, so we're gon na just pull the strings separate the strings out and i'm going to tie this around The strings i'll just put the hair to the side: try not to pull your friend's hair when you're doing this part, so it goes underneath we're going to cross it around from the back. Now you have a little circle, a little hole you're going to reach through from this side and bring it under it's just a basic standard knot and we're going to knot it a second time. But now we have a little tiny lump and we have an extra little threat and we want to get rid of that. So we're going to pinch this all back with where the hair hair is i'm going to take another string. Let me find my green is a little long still and i'm going to wrap over my newly added thread. So i'm really quite literally just wrapping on top of the one that i've added you can see it blends in really well now, there's a kind of a shortcut for the stripe which actually looks just as nice as it does the other way, and that is when You take two strands together and you wrap them together and you sort of want to try and keep your top one on the top and your bottom one on the bottom. So i'm wrapping the two strands. At the same time, you can see i'm holding them both on my left hand, i'm going to grab them both with my right hand, i bring them back over, with my left hand back over to my left hand, which grabs it and i'm going to keep repeating That for as long as as long as i'd like you can sort of play around with the different colors and whatnot now i'll show you two up, you can do if you're working with artificial hair or just at the bottom. If you get to the end, let me let me tie this off for the moment and i'm going to show you my other hair wrap, which is almost all done. So this is what we did so far on this one. Just a quick review. We did a straight wrap, we did a colored a base, color wrap with a stripe. On top. We did another plain one. We did one with x's or criss-crosses. Then we have solid green, a single x but using the same color for both of the top threads. We have two plain ones, and this one covers the place where we added our new thread and then we did a stripe using both strands together, and i just kind of finished that off in the moment. So i'm gon na just get this second one clipped on and ready and i'll show you once you've got to the length that you'd like and you've tried the different patterns. I'Ll show you what you can do to finish this off. There are a couple ouch couple of things. So, first of all, you want to make sure that you're at the bottom of the hair - and you can take the elastic off when you get there or when you get to it and keep going until all of the hair is covered. So i could even wrap this just a little bit further. I'M going to show you right now. You can see there's a little little bit of hair sticking out there, so i'm going to make sure that's all covered when we tie our final knot or put on our beads. You don't want your hair to get caught in that. So let me do a couple of last wraps here: i'm just doing a straight single color, wrap single strip thread, wrap and when you've covered all of the hair, and none of it is showing you're going to do a knot like this you're going to bring your Thread on top up and on top of your hair wrap and you create a hole here, you want to reach into the hole and grab the thread and pull it back and then bring it down and bring it close to the side and pull it tight. And you can do that a couple of times now at this point you have a couple of choices. You can do a little braid at the bottom. You can do some knots or macrame, and i have a tutorial out about that. It'S a little further back. You'Ll have to dig, but maybe i'll, put a link in the description now. The other thing that you can do is, if you have a charm or a bead, you can put one or all of your strands through said bead and once it's on, you just make another knot. So this time i'm going to go under i'm making my the hole and i'm going to reach through make sure this is on camera. I'M going to reach through the hole, take the threads, pull it back and you always want to make sure that you have two knots there. So i'm going to do it one more time and i think i'm going to do it do a couple of extra knots. Just to make it extra secure and when you want to take the hair wrap off of the hair. This is just the last thing. I should note you can undo the clip it's attached to. You can loosen the knot at the top. Hopefully, you won't have to cut it if everything's been done right or another thing you can do is undo the knots at the bottom. If you don't have too many and you can just unravel it, because this is all a rolled on piece right. So that is my tutorial on how to do a hair wrap, and i thank you all for watching. I hope you'll check out some of my other videos and tutorials