Make Elastic Hair Combs
Elastic hair combs, also known as double hair combs and African butterfly hair combs, are a special hair accessory that allows you to style your hair in an almost infinite number of ways. The elastic that runs between the two hair combs helps to both keep the combs in your hair as well as keep your hair in place better than just a plain hair comb would. You can make your own elastic hair combs with some beads and other supplies found in the jewelry making section of craft stores.
Instructions
1. Measure along the top of your hair combs and make marks with the permanent marker, starting at one end, at the 1/4, 7/8, 1-1/2, 2-1/8 and 2- 3/4 inch points. Drill holes at these marks with your 1/16 inch drill bit.
2. Put the two hair combs together so the teeth are facing each other, pushing them together until they look like a closed mouth. Hold them together like this with a single strip of masking tape.
3. Cut a four-foot length of elastic cord, making sure the cord is not stretched when you are cutting it but is lying flat.
4. Thread one end of the elastic cord through the top hole in one of the hair combs, it doesn't matter which, from the front to the back of the hair comb. Thread a crimper bead onto this end of the elastic and close the bead with your needle-nose pliers.
5. Thread beads onto the other end of the elastic cord until you have reached the other hair comb. Thread the elastic through the hair comb from front to back. Take the elastic cord down to the next hole in the hair comb and thread it back through to the front. Continue to thread beads back and forth between the two hair combs, threading the elastic through the hair combs and down to the next holes when you reach them, until you reach the very last hole.
6. Bring the elastic cord through the very last hole in the hair comb and thread a crimper bead onto the elastic. Pinch the crimper bead closed with your needle-nose pliers and trim any excess elastic cord. Remove the masking tape that was holding the hair combs together.
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