In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make your own wooden hair stick with twigs! Twig hairsticks are so easy and fast to make – and they cost practically nothing. They’re also a wonderful DIY gift.

You can decorate the twig hair sticks to suit your fancy: with pom poms, tassels, fabric flowers, strawberries, a French beaded flower or beaded tassels …

You’ll need:

• fresh twigs, such as apple tree twigs
• pruning shears
• pencil sharpener
• sandpaper
• oil or wax, such as jojoba oil

Prune some apple tree twigs and peel off the bark.

Cut the twigs using a hair stick as measure.

Sharpen one end of the twig hair sticks with a pencil sharpener.

Round the other end, also with the pencil sharpener.

Smooth the wood with sandpaper.

I carved a small notch at the end of one hair stick so I can later add a flower or tassel with a piece of wire.

Let the hair sticks dry for some days, then oil them – I used jojoba oil. Let the twigs soak up the oil for some hours.

And your twig hair sticks are finished!

I used a DIY Indian beaded tassel to decorate one of the hair sticks.

And I decorated the other hair stick with a pink fabric flower.  On my blog you’ll find some tutorials for fabric flowers: Edwardian satin roses, DIY daffodil and real silk flowers.