With perhaps the most well known and greatest music festival in the world coming to an end tonight, Glastonbury showcased some of it's best fashion, and in particular, headgear to date. Attending a festival of my own at the end of the summer, it got me thinking as to what my headgear of choice would be this year. I've always been a fan of floral garlands/headbands/crowns and after my ever loved purchase way back in 2010 from Leeds festival sadly started to fall to pieces, and with none below the price of £30 grabbing my attention in the slightest, I decided to take matters into my own hands and make one of my own.
This year I thought bigger would definitely be better. Despite only attending a two day festival, my hair has to last the best part of four days without getting greasy; this is perhaps the greatest challenge of all during my festival weekend. So, with a plan of action to find the biggest flowers I could to conceal my less-than-perfect hair after day one, I headed to my local hobbycraft.
Making my own headband, admittedly with the help from my younger sister - who in my eyes is a complete arts and crafts genius, but perhaps that's just because i'm so embarrassingly bad I struggle to draw a stick man - wasn't as much of a struggle as I thought. I picked up two bunches of perfect for summer coral coloured roses, each of which contained five roses, and one 10 pack of smaller white roses.
Knowing how to start to headband was possibly the most difficult part, however in the end we chose to take one large rose (each of these come with attached sticks which ultimately joined together to make the headband base) and attach three smaller roses onto its stem next to it. To attach the second coral rose we basically entwined its stem to the stem of the existing rose and started to build onto it, adding a selection of smaller white roses as we went.
The beauty of making your own festival crown not only lies in knowing that you will be the only one at your chosen festival with it, but also in the fact that you can design it however you like. I chose to break up each large coral rose with either two or three white roses and continue in that pattern. As you can see from the image above, a small space where the crown is attached is left blank, this comes down to the fact that I have a huge moon head and we didn't buy enough flowers to fill the full band. However, extra roses can be added with ease by simply wrapping their accompanying wire stems around the base and superglueing them into place where necessary.
To bring the crown together I simply twisted the wire stems of the last rose together with the stem of the first rose used and superglued it appropriately. This ensured that it was completely secure and wouldn't follow the same path as my Leeds festival headband and start to break apart.
Personalise your crown to suit your personality by adding glitter, ribbon and extra flowers in either a different style or colour. The sky is the limit when it comes to designing your floral headband and when it comes to festivals, the crazier the better!
(The time taken to make my headband was around 30 minutes and cost under £8 in total)
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