How to Make a Something Blue Dried Flowers Hair Comb

 Carolyn J. Braden • 3 Minute Read 

How to Make a Something Blue Dried Flowers Hair Comb

For my wedding in 2003, I had my florist make a flower hair piece with real flowers to match my bouquet. I wanted to wear it in my hair in a half up hairstyle with my veil sitting right below it. She made it with a bit of hot glue, matching flowers (with one of my favorite flowers, sweet peas, mostly) and a hair comb and it was beautiful. The comb stayed in my hair all day and I still have it to this day, even though it’s all dried up.

From a blank hair comb to a flower adorned one!

Unfortunately, when you make a flower hair comb with real flowers, it doesn’t last more than just for your wedding day. So, recently I was thinking about how I’d do it today and I came up with using dried flowers instead. I’ve seen dried flowers start to show up on cakes (see my dried flower cheesecake idea here), in wedding bouquets (talk about a wedding bouquet that would last!) in home décor and more.

My original real flower hair comb kind of still is in tact

I even made dried flower boutonnieres for a friend’s September wedding one year. See that farmhouse style wedding I put together here. Dried flowers last a long while and I’d actually use them a lot more today.

half up wedding hairstyle

An idea on how to wear the flower comb on half up hair

For my wedding, I did use dried flowers to adorn a large hat box in which I keep my wedding cards and memorabilia in. I saved them all as they are fun to read through and look at sometimes. I glued some flattened dried flowers to the box and used Mod Podge to seal them. The box has held up and so have all the wedding related things I’ve kept in it. I love some of the drawings some family children gave to me and saved them in the box.

The side view of the hairstyle with the flower comb

The most memorable one was from my husband’s very young cousin that said “please don’t get a divorce”. Well, my husband and I have experienced a lot together (including a very traumatic life event called “Hurricane Ian”, which I wrote about here) and we believe we have only grown stronger in our many years of being together. You either grow together or you grow apart and, in my opinion, if your traumatic life events bring you together as much as your happiest life events, then you are doing great with the marriage thing.

dried flower wedding hair

The comb is great for braided hairstyles to as the braid anchors the comb well

I really tried to incorporate a lot of wedding traditions into our June 14th, 2003 wedding day, including the “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.” While for my wedding, my something blue was my initials embroidered in blue on my undergarments (I had them custom created for myself and some undergarments for my husband), you can incorporate your “something blue” in many ways. The Martha Stewart website gives you a great list of “something blue” things here.

wedding hairstyle with flowers

The front view of the flower comb and hairstyle

For my DIY dried flower hair comb project, I experimented with a blue dried flower set I ordered on Temu. On the Martha Stewart website, the writer says you can incorporate blue flowers into your wedding day and the set of dried flowers from Temu were in the perfect shades of blue. As soon as I saw them, I knew what to do with them.

An up close look at the dried flower comb

I created my hair comb with mostly blue dried flowers, but you could maybe put one blue flower in your bouquet or hair comb for your wedding day. If blue is one of your wedding accent colors (oh how I love “Tiffany” blue, a color so popular, it was trademarked) then you could incorporate many shades of it and be set on the blue tradition!

How I wore my original flower hair comb

Instead of a dried flower hair comb, try a sparkling headband! My one-minute tutorial below shows you how to make one easily or view it via my YouTube channel @carolynjbraden:

Now for the project. Here’s what you need to make a dried flower hair comb:

Note: If you order from Temu, use my code afe55197 for 30% off or use my link here. The discount is for new app users.

See me create this in my 1-minute video below or via my channel @carolynjbraden:

How To:

Set out the flowers you want to use. Trim them to fit the comb as needed. I started with a small bunch of dried hydrangeas and started to attach the by wrapping the wire around the flower stems, through the comb “teeth” and around the top of the comb a few times.

My hair comb creation set up

You can simply hot glue them on a LOW temperature to the top of the comb, as my florist did for my real flower wedding hair comb, but the wire will ensure they stay put.

I wrapped small sections of dried flowers to each of the sides of the comb and trimmed them with scissors as needed. I also cut the floral wire with the wire cutters.

Wrapping wire around the dried flowers to secure to the comb

Once each side was “balanced” with the flowers I wanted (taking it slow, understanding balance and having a bit of a creative eye helps….enlist a creative friend with a good eye if you are unsure of this), I then used hot glue on a low temperature to glue some flowers to the comb in the center. These were flowers that would not hold with the wire, like dried daisy-like flowers.

The initial flowers attached to the hair comb

I used my wax tip pencil to grab some flatback rhinestones and added some glue to the flowers where I wanted them to be. You do not have to add any rhinestones…I just wanted it to sparkle just a bit. A little sparkle is pretty, especially if your wedding is outside like mine was. When the sun hits the sparkle, it’s beautiful.

The front side of the hair comb

Lastly, I trimmed a piece of felt to match the top of the hair comb (into a little arch shape) and used hot glue on a low temperature to glue it over the back of the comb, on top of the wire. It not only hides the wire, but it also helps the wire not get stuck in a hairstyle.

Adding some felt to the hair comb to cover the wires

Overall, I love how it turned out and I’d make more of these. They look pretty in hair half up, but also in braided hairstyles and more. Hair combs stay in most hair styles, but if you have really fine hair, adding a bobby pin or two to the hair comb teeth area while it’s in your hair, is always an option if you are worried about it falling out.

dried flower hair comb back side

The felt helps the wire not get stuck in hairstyles

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Carolyn J. (C.J.) Braden is the owner of Carolyn’s Blooming Creations is a regular contributor and editor for CBC. She has been featured in numerous media publications such as InStyle Magazine, on HGTV, on Bustle.com, and more. She is the author of the books Georgia McMasters in Amethyst Lake Cemetery, How To Be Yourself: 3 Ways To Help You Being You, and the illustrator for the children’s book Bridging Connections. She is a former classroom teacher that now dedicates her life to educating others on how to live their most healthy, creative and happy life. Learn more about her visiting our About Us page.