Making & Baking Birthday Gifts For My Friend! - Hime Gyaru Accessory Master Tutorial

Hi cutie gals! A special post today 😆, a hybrid post perhaps~
Last Thursday, one of my close friends invited me to her birthday party! Unfortunately, because I had tutoring that morning, I couldn't go to her day party, but I was able to go to her little game night with some other friends!

When I asked what she wanted as a gift, she said nothing, but she's turning 16! So I simply could not come empty-handed!

Before we get into the "blog" part of this post, here are three easy, short, but super adorable hime gyaru accessories: A big double hair bow, wrist cuffs and a rose clip. These aren't strictly Hime gyaru; of course, you can use them for Himekaji, or Lolita even. My friend just loves cute things, so I thought this would be perfect ❤️

All of these projects are beginner-level and are easy to customise however you'd like.

Double Hair Bow

Materials

5cm wide ribbon
Tulle or organza - any somewhat stiff, but somewhat translucent, not opaque
12cm or wider lace
Clear jewellery twine
Beads
Hairclip
Hot glue gun
Small clear elastics
Sewing machine, thread, scissors

Cut out a 30cm piece of your wide lace, 2 30cm pieces of your 5cm wide ribbon as well as one 28cm piece
Place the two 30cm long pieces of ribbon together, and sew along the top edge with a 5mm seam allowance so they make one 9x30cm piece of ribbon
Unfold the ribbon, and right sides together, sew up the short end. Once unfolded, you'll have a loop with a seam along the latitude
With the 28cm piece of ribbon, also sew up the short ends to make a tube, then turn right side out
Repeat this with the wide lace
On each of the three tubes, make sure the seam is at the centre back, then use that as a guide to put a small clear elastic around each to start off the bow shape
Once they all have an elastic holding the centre together, place the 9cm wide tube on top of the lace, and the 5cm wide on top, then put a small elastic around all three. If your elastic breaks, you can wrap a string around really tight too
Now, with your tulle or organza, cut a 34 x 14 cm rectangle
Fold the rectangle in half, and sew where directed in the diagram
Once you've sewn but left the small opening, clip the edges and trim down the seam allowance
Turn the rectangle inside out; you'll have this pillowy shape
Fold the bow like this, and push it through the opening
Once it's in, fix it up so the bow ears are proportioned right, and unfold the lace as much as possible; see how I didn't do that, and the lace is pretty hidden!
Fold the raw edges of the opening in, and close up the hole
Pinch the bow in the middle, and use a clear elastic band to hold it together
Cut a 12cm piece of ribbon
Right sides together, sew along the length, and turn inside out
Hide the seam at the back, and wrap it around the centre of the bow
If you can, shift your needle to the side, and place the ends of the ribbon tube under the presser foot of your machine
Sew some back and forths, then trim off the excess. You can melt off the ends too
Cut a 17cm piece of ribbon
Fold, and sew up the short side
Turn inside out, and put the seam at the centre back
Cut a 18x8cm piece of organza
Fold, and sew on the two parallel open sides, leaving one side open
Trim edges and turn inside out
Insert the bow, and sew up the open side
Again, use a clear hair elastic to pinch the centre of the bow
Cut a 1.5cm wide piece of the ribbon, and burn the edges if you need
Fold it around the centre, and seam at the back, shifting the needle to make it easier to sew
Choose some beads, and add some clear jewellery twine to a needle, and knot around the back of the big bow
Begin stringing on beads, I did a length of 15cm
Knot on the back of the small bow, and cut excess
Slide hair clips underneath each of the centres of the bows
Now, you can stop here, but I am going to be sticking on some gems 💎!

Rose Hairclip with Hanging Bow

Materials

5cm or wider satin ribbon or some long strips of wide satin
Inch wide satin ribbon
Clear jewellery thread - not stretchy though!!
Pearls, beads
A small metal hairclip
Hot glue gun
Sewing needle, scissors, thread

To start off, we will use our inch-wide ribbon to sew the hanging bow.

Do not cut a length of ribbon, but hold the end of the ribbon like this
Then wrap the ribbon the whole way around the middle finger
Keeping your pointer finger apart from the middle finger as the size of how big you want the bow "ears", wrap the fabric around
Once the ribbon is under both fingers, cut the ribbon, leaving a tail
Tuck the end over the ribbon into your finger crevice, and take it around the bow ears like so
Begin to tuck in the tail under itself from the middle finger to the pointer finger
Pull the tail tight, then pull out the other ribbon tail
While the ribbon is still on your fingers, keep adjusting the bow until it's how you want it
Cut a 45cm length of 5cm wide ribbon
Fold one corner down like this, so the sides don't match up
Place the corner underneath the needle, and set your stitch length 4-5mm
Match up the sides, the fold should look messy, and wrong, but that's what we need!
Sew along the length of the ribbon, leaving a little bit less than 5mm of seam allowance
Once you are done sewing along the edge, it should look like a rumpled tube. Make sure that there are some thread tails so we can gather the length
Gently pull one thread to gather until it looks similar to this
If your ends are fraying, melt them slightly with a match
With a needle and thread, make a little knot on one end of the ribbon
Then, begin rolling the tail inward, making a stitch, and continuing to wrap the ribbon around, stitching in place as you go.
Once you've wrapped up the whole rose, make a few more knots all around
Once you are finished, you'll have a cute rose like this! I will admit, these do take a bit of practice, and even though I have made 20+ of these, I did have to do a practice rose before this one. My main tips are: gather a lot, make the knots below the gathering stitch, and try not to let the centre rise too far above the rest of the rose.
With that same type of ribbon, cut out 5 10cm long pieces
Fold the corners inward to make a triangle, pin it together
On one end, make a knot with a needle and thread
Baste stitch across the bottom of the triangle, and flip it over so the fold isn't shown
Cut out a 4cm long piece of lace, and place it in the middle of the triangle
Fold both corners in again, and pin at the centre
Baste stitch along the bottom again
Repeat so you have five petals!
Make a knot at the centre of one petal
With that same needle, pierce through one vertex of another petal like so
Baste stitch until the centre of that petal.
Add another petal vertex to the needle, and continue this pattern until 5 petals are connected
Once the five petals are connected, place the last petal underneath the first petal and stitch together, knotting to close the circle
Cut out a small piece of felt, a bit larger than the hole made by the petal wreath
Clip your small hair clip to the felt, so the felt is in between the teeth
Knot your clear jewellery twine where the bottom of the circle is
String on a small length of beads. I did 7cm.
Make a knot on the back of the bow you made at the start
Put some hot glue around the edge of the felt circle, and place the wreath atop the glue
Add some more glue in the centre, and place the rose made earlier on top

All done! If you don't have the hanging bow portion, I suppose you could also use this as a way to make a rosette if your friend has an ita bag!

Lace Wrist Cuffs

For these wrist cuffs, it's quite easy to modify your design by adding more layers of lace, different colour palettes, as well as the widths you choose.

Materials

A 7-9cm wide length of lace, I used broderie anglaise for this, and I recommend it for the wide piece just because it is more solid(?) - it acts a bit like a backboard visually for the rest of the lace
4-6cm wide length of lace
A type of centre lace or a nice patterned ribbon to go in the middle
Bows, charms, rhinestones and such to decorate at the end
1cm wide elastic
Sewing machine, thread, scissors, & pins

Measure your wrist and double the length. If you are making these for someone else like I am, 15cm is a pretty standard measurement, but keep in mind that these are elasticised so it's not a big deal if it's too small
Using the doubled wrist measurement + 2 cm for seam allowance, cut out two pieces of your wide lace, four of your medium lace, and two of your centre laces
Place your medium lace on top of your widest lace - this is your "long" side
On top of this, place another piece of your medium lace - this is the "short" side, and you can add more layers of lace if you'd like, sew along the raw edge
Open it back up, so the short side is separate from the long side
Cut a piece of 1cm wide elastic 2cm shorter than your wrist measurement
Turn your machine to a small zigzag, and place the elastic on the back, where the seam is
Anchor the elastic, then stretch the elastic while you sew it down so that when you release it, it gathers together and retains its stretch
Turn the wrist cuff over, so the seam is hidden, and place your centre lace over the seam.
Anchor the lace down with a few back and forward stitches on one edge, and continue sewing, but as you sew, stretch the material as flat as possible, like you did with the elastic
Sew down the other side of the lace
Right sides together, pin the edges of the wrist cuff together and seam them. If you have an overlocker, I'd recommend that, but it's not absolutely necessary
Turn your wrist cuff right side out and try it on. If it is a bit loose, you can make the seam again.
To decorate my wrist cuffs further, I stitched a cute bow (using the same method as I did with the rose hairclip) on each, but you can hot glue charms on as well.

Now, what did I bake for my friend?

In my personal opinion, there is no better way to make new friends than bake them treats! ~ When I first found my awesome current friend group, I would bake things for them every sunday, to bring to school on monday - for at least a term!

Thankfully, they don't expect this from me 😭 but they've all been requesting me to make them banana bread for the past month, so perhaps I'll have to do that once exams are over (five weeks from now - yikes).

Anyways, like any true Aussie home baker, I consulted Nagi (RecipeTinEats) to find some cookie recipes my friend would love. I was looking for a chocolate chip cookie recipe and a jam drop cookie recipe.

The first batch I made was her Outrageous Triple Chocolate Cookies, which used glucose to make them nice and chewy in the middle without the need to undercook the cookies, which is great, because salmonella and the birdflu outbreak scares me. However, some advice from me to you, is to soften the glucose tube, because the nozzle is really small but the glucose is so viscous!

Something funny about this recipe is that the dough is really really tough, and mixing in the chocolate chips at the end is an absolute arm workout!

Rolling these out is also something...cue my dirty hands after rolling out all the cookies

Anyways, once I had baked these, they looked really nice, but I wanted to make sure my friend had all the cookies to herself, so I didn't get to try any...

Next up, I made vanilla shortbread Jam Drop Biscuits, which were much easier to make and were done in a little more than 30 minutes, compared to nearly an hour for the other biscuits.

I was getting a bit tired making these, so I didn't document as much. While jam drop cookies are usually have circle dips for the jams, I did little heart shapes!

But, in future, I would flatten the cookies a bit more, as well as put less jam in, as there was a bit of an overflow, and it was a bit murder-mystery-esqe

Sending my babies off into the oven 😔

Soon enough, it was tuesday! But I had tutoring for three hours that morning (and the next four days after - holiday course waaa), and took a while to get home.

As always, i forgot to take an outfit pic - I wore essentially the same thing to tutoring and the party 😭 except I changed from these sensible pants to a miniskirt afterrrr

Unfortunately, I only had an hour to eat my lunch, clean up, and get ready, so while I had initially planned to tease up my hair and put some nails on, I didn't have any time...but that's okay! I did a black and gold smoky eye to match my top - which is one of my favs and which I *heavily* associate with my baeeee Rihanna nya~ She's doing her HSC soon, so everybody, wish her good luck!!!

Bru someone tell this girl to find a new pose we are getting TIRED.

I'm not going to lie, carrying my purse, the gift bag, and the big jar of cookies all throughout to North Shore was a bit of a trek, but it was all worth it for my friend!

Trying to take a pic of mt outfit, praying the gifts I put next to me don't fall over...

Another peek of the #Cookie Jar!

Me on the bus! The only seat available was facing backwards; it made me really nauseous, so I'm lucky the bus trip was short!

I was the first one to arrive too, so I got a crown haha, isn't it so cute?~

Me when I'm happy to look a mess ig...

I had a great time last night! I hope all of you cutie gals get the chance to have a fun party with all your friends sometime soon~

My friend with her cookie jar, everybody say happy birthday!!!

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Wednesday, 7 October 2026