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Thank you Hive for all your wonderful comments and opinions on this post! After going back and forth between my top two favorite veils and polling every person who listens to my rambling on about veils, I finally bit the bullet and ordered this beauty!

Photo via weddingchicks.com Veil by Tessa Kim

Oh she’s lovely and she’ll be heading my way in just a few short weeks. While I wait for my new piece of bridal flair to reach our home I’ve been busy at work putting the final touches on my equally-as-lovely hair comb.

When I purchased my dress a couple weeks ago I knew that I wanted a hair piece that would complement the crystal applique on the bodice of the dress. Something kind of like this was high on my list of possible combs:

Image via Etsy Designed by Twigs & Honey

Since I refused to pay over 200 bucks for an accessory I would only wear once I decided to get creative and recreate the look on my own. After some brainstorming I came up with a pretty simple process and headed down to Michael Levine Downtown, where I picked theses pretties for 11 bucks each.

I later picked up some gold tulle, fusible interfacing, nylon thread and silver hair comb at Jo-Ann. After about two  nights of stitching, cutting, and gluing, I had my very own sparkly hair comb—all for about 30 bucks!

The process was pretty simple. I started by playing around with the appliques until I came up with an arrangement that I liked, and then used my clear nylon thread to stitch both pieces together to create one large applique.

I then took my tulle with the interfacing already fused on and stitched the applique on with my clear thread.

Once applied to the comb, the tulle and lightweight fusing added just enough support to the applique to help it hold its shape. I read a tutorial online that instructed you to apply decoupage glue directly onto the applique to make it ridged, but I really wanted the back of my comb to look neat and I didn’t want to risk ruining my appliques with glue.

Once completely stitched, I trimmed the excess tulle from the applique and using some E-6000 glue, I attached it directly onto the comb.

Since I’m paranoid, I reinforced the glue by stitching the comb onto the applique with some embroidery floss making sure to only go as far as the tulle and not catch the actual applique

And that’s it! Easy peasy hair comb that looks like it cost twice the price of your supplies!

Anyone else making their own hair accessories?