Naruto headbands- hidden leaf village-blue

Question

i dont have money to buy a naruto headband. how can i make one?

Answer 1

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Naruto-Hea...

Answer 2

You start with a soda can. Yeah, a soda can. Make sure it's clean and had light colored soda inside. Cut off the top and bottom, then cut it long ways, so that you're able to take it and roll it out into one big strip. Outline the size and shape you want your headband to have(helps to have a storebought headband to trace- I used my brother's Suna one as reference) on a piece of paper. Place it on the strip of metal, and take a boxcutter and cut along the lines that you drew on the paper, cutting through the paper, and metal can underneath. Make sure that the shape on the paper is a bit bigger than your headband should be, in case you make mistakes, or need to trim edges.

So, you have the general shape on the nice shiny metallic back(inside) of the old soda can. Now what about the symbol?... You can actually draw on the metal with pencil, which helps when trying to get the symbol perfect. Once it is, take the boxcutter, and cut again, but this time, do so very slowly and lightly, so that you make a deep gash in the metal, but don't cut all the way through- DO NOT CUT ALL THE WAY THROUGH FOR THE SYMBOL. This takes a while- because you're literally scratching away at the metal, you have to keep going over the same part, smoothing it out for visual appeal, but not cutting through. Don't worry, it's worth it later. After you have a nicely smoothed out design etched into the metal, get some black acrylic paint, and a really small tipped paint brush, and paint into the indentation you made for the symbol. (All the store-bought headbands have this black paint effect). Then take your boxcutter again, and do that same slow, tedious etching for the slashing across the symbol- but when you get near where you've painted, be careful. You want it to look like it messed up the symbol a bit, but don't destroy you work!! If you want, you can sketch out the slashing too beforehand- I did. For the slashing, once etched in, add a tiny bit of paint, so little that it almost blends into the metal. It makes the slashing noticeable, but not stupid looking.

Buy a shiny piece of black cloth, long enough to fit around your head with a bit of excess, and wide enough so that you can fold it over three times equally, and still have yoour metal piece fit nicely on it with excess on top and bottom(like Naruto headbands look...). Also buy some brass fasteners- if you can find them in metal color, great!! I couldn't, so had to buy brass, and paint them as close as I could to the metal headband color. But they do come in metal- my sister's teacher had a whole pack 2 weeks before... Ugh!!!

You've seen how in the upper and lower corners of Naruto headbands, as well as at the center area of each side, there's a little round nail or s***w like thing, probably used for attachment, right? Well, draw little circles on your headband in the corners, and far centers, where those round metal pieces should be. Measure for eveness. Then, make small cuts -through the metal this time- where you've drawn those circles- BUT DON'T CUT TO THE EGDE OF THE METAL, OR YOUR HEADBAND WON'T HOLD ON TO THE CLOTH AND WILL FALL OFF! Take the bottoms of those metal or brass fasteners, cut them a little shorter, and shove the prongs 1 through each of those 6 cuts you made, so that the round part holds nicely to the front of your headband. If your cloth is folded into 3 equal parts, so that the part without an edge is facing forward, and the 1st fold is underneath it, the 3rd fold over that one in the back(helps with aesthetics), cut six holes to 2 layers of the cloth, and shove the prongs of the fasteners through. Fold them over, and your metal is now attached to the cloth, without glue, and won't come off. The last piece of cloth fold, that you didn't stick them through, is to protect your head in case those metal prongs ram into your skin- ha, now they can't! Sew the 3 pieces of cloth along their entire tops and along their entire bottom, to keep things together- and you can sew at the back edges that will tie around you too if you'd like. I did because I cut that in a triangle sort of shape, because my brother's headband was like that where it tied off.