Cuteness Injection: Dose #2

Apologies for any pixelation, it happens when I reduce the file size.

"Jelly Pop Princess"

I went a liiiiittle bit overboard with the roses, but who doesn't like roses?

DIY: Hime Gyaru Edition (#2) Hime Gyaru Inspired Hair Clip

I loathe taking pictures in the same outfit twice - I have no problems wearing the same outfit multiple times, but photographing it more than once? No thank you. This is why, when I received my blonde wig in the post, I rummaged around my room for a hair accessory which I hadn't photographed to death before (no such luck). The solution? Make my own!

I'm sorry I haven't photographed the process (I had no idea I'd want to blog at the time), but I'll let you in on a secret little miracle worker which fulfils all of your crafty needs; hot glue. The best part of all? My fingers don't look like I tried to break my way out of an acupuncture clinic.

What you will need;

Cardboard

Scissors

Hot glue & Hot glue gun

Alligator clip and/or double pronged hair clip

Felt and/or fabric

Lace

Pleated ribbon trim

A string of pearls

Small organza bow

Crown cabochon

You can probably guess the steps I took to make the hair clip, but I'll include them anyway;
1) Cut a circle out of cardboard

2) Glue two circular piece of felt to the front & back of the cardboard

3) Glue two separate strings of pearls to the back of the circle (one longer, one shorter, and make sure to only glue one pearl on each side of the string the back of the circle, so that it drapes down when attached to the head)

4) Glue lace around the back of the circle and over the pearls

4) Glue the pleated ribbon trim around the front of the circle

5) Glue a string of pearls on the inside edge of the ribbon trim

6) Glue an organza bow to the front of the ribbon trim to hide the seam (attaching a pearl to the bow is optional)

7) Finally, glue a crown cabochon in the centre of your hair-piece, et voila! You're all finished.

Now this hair accessory isn't the best quality (you can visibly see the lace is a bit dodgy), but it only cost me £2 to make (since I only bought the ribbon trim and used whatever else I had floating around my room).
£2 vs a £22 Hime Dreams bow from DreamyBows.co.uk? If I planned to wear it more than a few times I would definitely choose the Hime Dreams bow, but my little hime-gyaru inspired hair clip does the job for now.

DIY: Hime Gyaru Edition (#1) Trinket Box & Mirror (Inspired by Emmeline from TransparentFawn.Blogspot)

Emmeline from TransparentFawn.Blogspot created a beautiful, romantic hime-gyaru mirror which really caught my eye, so I just HAD to make one for myself.

I didn't change Emmeline's design too much. I still used the;
Cherry Blossoms

Two layers of lace along the top of the mirror

Strings of pearls

A ribbon in the centre
Why adapt too much when something already looks gorgeous enough?

I did adapt a few elements of the mirror to give my own little spin on it;

Instead of two layers of white lace along the top of the mirror, I used one layer of pink. To make the lace 'pop' I added smaller, darker cherry blossoms with a much larger pink ribbon (with a pearl in the centre)

Since I used a small, table-top mirror I added a string of pearls and two cherry blossom corners to the base.

I also added a few furniture appliques to the mirror to match my drawers and give it a bit of a rococo twist. As you can imagine, the mirror began to become pretty top-heavy at this point so I left it as it is (even though I did want to add a second layer of pearls).

After making the mirror I still had plenty of supplies remaining, and a lot less space in my (already overrun) room, so I thought why not make a trinket box to store my decoden materials?

I wanted the trinket box to match the mirror, but look a bit more extravagant, so I added two strings of pearls (with pearl borders along the top), a gemstone cabochon and a crown cabochon to really emphasise the 'princess' theme.

I included my Chocomint crown themed accessories in the picture, because they were too adorable not to!