overtherainbow
Well-Known Member
So love flexi 8s but I hate paying for them. I don't mind giving them as gifts, but I protective style a lot and at $40 a piece for the mega XXL, I can't afford to buy as many as I need. So I made some today out of beading wire, beads, and remains from cheap jewelry that I never wore.
I used a hair stick that I found at sallys months ago to secure them to my hair. They are a lot more comfy than the traditional flexi 8s and secure my French twists a lot easier. It cost me roughly $20 to create 3 xxl flexi "fakes", and half of that price went to a beading multi tool that I bought from Joann's. (The multi tool was nice to have, but I could have gotten away with good old needle nose pliers)
To make them, I started at the bottom of the left loop, worked my way to the center, used a bead with 4 holes and threaded my wire straight across the bead (not in a figure 8!), made my way around again, through the center bead and interlocked the two ends. I then threaded the remaining wire back through the beads to make a somewhat neat finish. They take about 10 mins to make!
I hope this helped someone!
ETA: the last pic is really really crooked! Whoops!
I used a hair stick that I found at sallys months ago to secure them to my hair. They are a lot more comfy than the traditional flexi 8s and secure my French twists a lot easier. It cost me roughly $20 to create 3 xxl flexi "fakes", and half of that price went to a beading multi tool that I bought from Joann's. (The multi tool was nice to have, but I could have gotten away with good old needle nose pliers)
To make them, I started at the bottom of the left loop, worked my way to the center, used a bead with 4 holes and threaded my wire straight across the bead (not in a figure 8!), made my way around again, through the center bead and interlocked the two ends. I then threaded the remaining wire back through the beads to make a somewhat neat finish. They take about 10 mins to make!
I hope this helped someone!
ETA: the last pic is really really crooked! Whoops!