How to Create Unique Vintage Ceramic Hair Grip
I am always looking for ways to recycle and support both environment and save money in my pocket ! These broken pieces of crockery surely going to transform into some super hair decorations.
I choose some green vintage pieces and use wheeled tile nippers to cut and shape ceramic into rounded even size. Always use goggles to protect eyes from flying china .
The edges of each piece need smoothing so I use a mini rotary hand sander. It uses a carbide grind stone and you can adjust speed to do the edges easily. It takes just a few minutes. Always wear a protective breathing mask when sanding to prevent dust inhalation .
Once they are the right size for fitting into the hair grip bezel I begin to mix epoxy resin glue to secure them.
A pea size blob of resin and hardener and smooth onto the bezel base and the ceramic pieces.
To make the ceramic easier to stick it’s best to rough up the back surface also with the sander as it makes the glue contact firmer .
Place ceramic rounds centrally into the hair slide bezels and leave to dry firm for about an hour.
I really love these little lovelies as they are so unique, quirky and wearable.
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What kind of black bezel are you using to glue the ceramic piece? Is it metal, paper and are you ruffing that up also to stick to Bobbie pin?
Love this. As i have alot beach pottery. What does the bezel piece look like?