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beauty, bridesmaids, budget, diy, easy hair styes, fascinators, fashion, hair, hats, headpiece, make up, mini hats, style, veils, wedding
If you read my last post, My Favorite Things: June Edition, then you’ll see where the inspiration for this post came from.
I have a major thing for mini hats, hair pieces and fascinators. I really can’t get enough of them. I’m not exactly a DIY, crafty type of girl but I can definitely follow directions! So after a quick consultation with my wedding planner (Google) and reading this DIY Fascinator Tutorial, I decided to make a trip to Michaels for supplies.
- Glue Gun (if you’re me, it has to be pink)
- Scissors
- Felt
- A large silk flower
- feathers
- An alligator clip or hair comb to secure the hat to your hair.
- Crystal buttons or beads
My preference is a hair comb because my hair is super thick. Unfortunately, my local Michael’s didn’t carry them so I resigned myself to alligator clips. These clips work fine, its just a personal preference.
Since I was, admittedly a total noob at creating my masterpiece, I didn’t stop to take DIY pictures like a proper DIY tutorial includes. So here’s the result of my first try:
CAN’T EVEN TELL ITS HOME MADE CAN YOU? Yeah, I’m totally proud of it!
The alligator clip wouldn’t fit properly to the felt due to the bone in the feathers so I problem solved that by cutting a 2nd piece of felt, hot gluing the clip to it and then gluing the 2 pieces of felt together. Sharp as a tack, I am!
In all truth, this fascinator turned out a lot better than I thought it would and I have a great little black cocktail dress that I can’t wait to wear it with.
After the jump, check out my DIY Tutorial for a Bridal Fascinator.
So in lieu of not having proper DIY Tutorial pictures, and the fact that I was so pleased with how the first one turned out, I went back to Michael’s this evening for more supplies to make another mini hat.
The Bridal Fascinator by OMGitsJen
What You’ll Need:
- White Felt
- White Silk Flower
- Scissors
- Glue Gun
- Feathers (white and any accent color you like)
- Self Adhesive Rhinestones or pearls or whatever you like!
Keep in mind that you’re going to reassemble the flower using your glue gun in just a few minutes so you’re going to want to keep the layers in order while you dismantle it! When you’re done, it should look something like this:
Now here’s the thing, when people are looking at your fascinator on your head straight on, it’s gonna look 9 ways of fabulous, but you want them to think that from the top and sides too. So take a quick second to inspect the different angles. In the case of this particular mini hat, the feathers were hidden by the petals but the petals were moving just a bit much so I went ahead and glued down one of the petals over the bone of the feathers to hide the mess.
And voila!!! You’ve got your very own bridal headpiece to show off at your wedding.
You can easily attach a birdcage veil using veiling fabric. For a great DIY on how to build your own birdcage veil, check out this Project Wedding how to: The Birdcage Veil!
This entire project took me about an hour and that was stopping to take pictures step by step. This is a GREAT DIY for hair pieces for bridesmaids too! You can pour some wine and have each girl make their own hair piece saving them some bucks and having some bonding time to boot. Your only limit is your imagination!
Little big said:
Thanks so much for linking to my tutorial! I was surprised at how quick and easy these were to make. Yours looks wonderful!
omgitsjen said:
OMG!!! Thank you so much for posting it for us!! Great inspiration and SO so easy! Such a shame this trend hasn’t caught on here in Pittsburgh. Finally throwing in the towel and making my own. :)) Now I just need a mini top hat pattern and it’s on!
littletash said:
These are both gorgeous. I’m seriously impressed and also chuckling to myself that you were at one point considering shelling out serious money for something from etsy. DIY weddings are the best 🙂
omgitsjen said:
I showed this blog post and pictures to my mom, right? So she wants me to make a ton of these fascinators and start selling them to help fund the wedding now. If I can make 1 for $4 and sell it for a $10 – $20 profit, I’m pretty ok with that. I think selling them for $155 is obscene though. Unless its covered in like swarovski crystal. GTFO!!
Problem is, no idea what sort of veil I want to use so stay tuned for that!