How to Make a Sparkly Pink Crystal Butterfly Hair Clip with Wires

In this butterfly hair clip tutorial, I choose pink crystal beads as the wings of butterfly, black oval beads as its body, copper wire and black round acrylic beads as its tentacles. At last, the crystal butterfly is fastened with 0.3mm copper wire. It looks so sparkling and elegant. I believe it will be suitable for every girl, especially office lady. Now, let’s start to learn how to make a butterfly hair clip with detail steps and pictures!

Materials needed in crystal butterfly hair clip tutorial:

4MM Pink Crystal Beads
4MM Black Round Acrylic Beads
Black Oval Acrylic Beads
0.5MM Copper Wire
0.3MM Copper Wire
Hair Pin

Instructions for crystal butterfly hair clip tutorial:

Step 1: Make the wings for the crystal butterfly hair clip

1st, cut off about 30cm 0.5mm copper wire, slide 13 crystal beads onto the wire, wrap a loop and twist the wire to fix the loop;
2nd, slide 13 crystal beads onto one wire again, wrap a loop and twist the wire to fix the loop as picture shows; now, you get a pair of wings;

3rd, slide 10 crystal beads onto one wire, and twist the wire as picture shows; this is one bottom wing;
4th, do the other bottom wing in the same method;
 

5th, do the other bigger butterfly’s wings in the same method, use 17 crystal beads to make each upside wing, and 14 crystal beads to make each bottom wing.

Step 2: Finish crystal butterfly for the hair clip

1st, slide two oval acrylic beads onto a 20cm 0.3mm copper wire, and wrap it to the center of two crystal butterflies’ wings as picture shows;

2nd, cut off the extra wires of the small crystal butterfly;
3rd, slide a 4mm black bead onto one 0.5mm copper wire of the big crystal butterfly and twist the wires; this is one tentacle of the butterfly;
4th, do the other tentacle in the same method.

Step 3: Finish crystal butterfly hair clip tutorial

Use the extra 0.3mm copper wire to fix the double crystal butterfly to the blank hair clip, and pinch the wires so that it will not prick you.

The final look of crystal butterfly hair clip tutorial is like this:

Wonderful! This butterfly hair clip tutorial is over! You must have known how to make a crystal butterfly hair clip. Just make such delicate and adorable crystal butterfly hair clip for your own or send to your close friends. Have so much fun!