How to Make a Festive Christmas Hairpiece DIY
If you’re having a December wedding, you may want to include the holidays in your big day. Completing the look with a greenery hairpiece can be the capstone to your wedding day look. Our Christmas hairpiece DIY is simple with our tutorial, and the results are stunning!
How to Make a Christmas Hairpiece DIY
Supplies for Your Christmas Garland Hairpiece
- Fresh greens suitable for Christmas hair accessories, such as evergreens and holly berries
- Thin, but sturdy wire
- Hair comb in a neutral color
- Tacky glue
- Dowel or wooden handle (such as a spoon or paintbrush)
- Hairspray
- Ribbon
Instructions for Your Christmas Floral Hair Piece
- Pick a midpoint for your comb. Either use the exact center or go slightly off-center to create Christmas wedding hairpieces.
- Lay the greens on the comb front, keeping your fingers at your preferred midpoint to hold your greenery.
- Start with longer, evergreen pieces and place shorter greens on top.
- Once you’re satisfied with the arrangement, wrap wire around the midpoint to secure greens in place. Wrap wire around several times to secure greenery.
- Either cut the wire and secure the end, or leave it hanging for later use.
- Lay holly pieces on top again, keeping the midpoint in mind.
- Once you are happy with the layout, wrap the midpoint with wire to secure the holly.
- Place smaller pieces of greenery at the midpoint after placing and wrapping the holly on your hairpieces for Christmas.
- As a final (optional) step, cut ribbon for your Christmas hairpiece. Winter weddings don’t need holiday ribbon, so use one that coordinates with your big day.
- Wrap ribbon around the dowel, and use hairspray to hold the shape.
- Set aside and let the hairspray dry. Additionally, the ribbon doesn’t need to dry hard. It can be flexible and still hold its shape (just like hair).
- Place the ribbon on your Christmas hairpiece DIY and position it where you like.
- Use tacky glue to adhere the bow to the midpoint, and also add dots of glue along the length of the bow where you want it to touch the greens. As a result, a little goes a long way!
- Let your greenery comb dry.
- You can also store your greenery hairpiece in the fridge until you want to wear it. Then, you can also spritz it with water (watch out for the bow, or add it right before wearing it) to keep it fresh.
Finished Christmas Hair Piece
Headpieces can be so lovely in a bride’s hair, and this technique can be used any time of year. Summer flowers would look beautiful on a comb as long as they stay fresh. Here are the results of our DIY Christmas hair comb.
Virginia Christmas Wedding Vendors:
- Virginia Wedding Photographer – Amative Creative
- Wedding Venue – bride’s family farm
- Florist – Fleur by Heather
- Dress & Jacket – Celebration Bridal & Tux
- Hair – BJohn Beauty
- Makeup – Ashley Ancheta
- Table Styling – Max & Dexter Event Design
- Cake – Suzy Q Etc
- Drinks & Bridal Hairpiece – Hill City Bride
- Santa – Santa in Central VA
Save our Christmas Hairpiece DIY project!
Oh wow this is beautiful! I never would’ve thought of this idea! So pretty and festive.
I really love these photos and the red wedding dress – super festive! The hairpiece looks perfect for a Christmas wedding!
What a lovely lovely hairpiece for a wedding. I’d use this for my birthday too lol
WOW, WOW, WOW! This looks fairytale magical. I’m in love with the headpiece.
Wow! This is really pretty. Very timely since my best friend is getting married this Christmas. Will ask her if she already has a headpiece. If none will share this with her. Thank you for the inspiration.
I love cute DIY accessories like this ! Your hair looks so perfect, can’t wait try!
How fun is this! What a lovely addition to make your big day truly memorable. It’s beautiful.
Such a good idea for activities to do in Christmas time. I may try it this year. Thanks for sharing!