Updated December 22, 2025
When you have a good idea in your head and want to turn it into a product, then we could be your professional hair accessories production supplier.
As a professional manufacturer of cellulose acetate, we promote our products, and we also promote the new materials and designs to let more people know how much fun the production process is.
When turning custom hair accessory ideas into reality, you personalize and use them. What an interesting process! Let me introduce how to realize it.
Step 1: Design and Technical Drawing
According to your drawings’ designs, we will draw reasonable and suitable design drawings for production through computer design software. Normally, it takes years of experience working with hair clips to find out what doesn’t make sense and fix it.
Step 2: Color Selection
Choose the color of cellulose acetate board you need, and we cut it. We can provide more than 1000-plus acetate colors. Contact us or view our acetate color cards.
Step 3: Precision Cutting
Input the design drawing into the CNC engraving machine for precise cutting, and we can carve your logo. According to different customers’ requirements, we use various sizes of knives, including round-head knives and straight-head knives. According to the thickness, it is 0.6 mm, 0.5 mm, or 0.3 mm.
This process requires professional workers with more than 2 or 3 years of experience in hair accessories to control the production. (Complete production process for hair clips)
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Step 4: Polish
Fresh off the CNC machine, the acetate edges are sharp and rough. The semi-finished clips are placed in tumbling barrels filled with wood or bamboo chips. This step is the biggest differentiator in price and quality.
Step 5: Shaping
When we get the cut acetate hair claw pieces or acrylic hair claw pieces, our next job is to shape them. Putting the acetate acrylic pieces into the mold of hair clips and then through the pressure machine, extrusion finalizes the mold. This process typically takes about 10 seconds. According to the hardness of different materials, the time will be slightly different. Acetate materials generally take 10 seconds finalize, acrylic needs 15 seconds. Only enough time can guarantee the standard shape.
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Step 6: Painting
Spray eco-friendly paint. After we clean the surface of the hair clips, we need to spray paint them. Spray paint can not only make the surface of the hair clips brighter but also create a smooth paint protection to protect the hair clips, which are easier to clean; the hair clips’ texture will be better.
We use environmentally friendly paint that has passed environmental testing. Typically, eight coats of paint are sprayed. This process takes at least two minutes.
The process of painting usually uses gloss finishing. If you prefer matte finishing, we can also provide it.
You can check out our videos ：https:// youtube.com/shorts/l-IIZqsk0VQ
Step 7: Glue the Spring Buckle
Spring buckles have 3 kinds of materials: acetate, plastic, and ABS. According to different material combination requirements, it must use different spring buckles. Acetate material needs an acetate spring buckle and professional acetate special glue. Acetate is usually fused using acetone, whereas acrylics must be fused using methylene chloride. If used incorrectly, the spring buckle will fall off or even break. In addition, their costs are different. Many hair clip manufacturers will consider cost and use cheap spring buckles, which can lead to poor-quality hair clips or a poor customer experience.
We have made a video link：https://youtube.com/shorts/toJ0AAUCw7g?feature=share so that you can see the glue process
Step 8: Assemble the spring
This is a manual process requiring dexterity. Workers assemble the two acetate sides with the spring and hinge pin. Using a chopstick-like tool, we use leverage to bend the spring, insert the spring buckle, and insert the spring pin. Typically, a skilled worker can install 800 to 1000 hair claws a day.
Technical Note: We use high-carbon steel springs that have been tested for fatigue resistance and have good elasticity. Through environmental protection plating, we ensure that the color will not fade for 8 to 10 months under normal conditions. We usually provide springs in gold or silver.
Many hair claw suppliers use cheap springs that usually turn black and rusty after three to four months of use.
You may not know how to attach a hair claw’s spring. We have a video you can see
Video here：https://youtube.com/shorts/neiv8Z3XHdI?feature=share
In addition, the position of the spring also needs to be accurate, otherwise the hair claw will easily twist.
Producing hair claws is a simple process, but care must be taken!
Step 9: Customized Logo Coloring for Hair Clip
The new design has painted white angel wings. We use artificial coloring to ensure uniform lines and correct colors. This process is also a test for workers; if they are not skilled, it will take a lot of time, and the logo of the hair clip will not be perfect. The paint will set in about 3 minutes after the color is applied, and then the worker will use a thinner (alcohol) to wipe off the excess paint. It’s a very fun process; you can design patterns and colors you like, and we have a wide selection of custom hair claws. Such personalized design is very popular with customers. Do you have any good ideas? → You can view the other custom hair clip processes we offer.
Check out our link to the claw clip production video：https://youtube.com/shorts/x1YTnhn_Q5Q?feature=share
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Step 10: Spot Drill
There are many kinds of diamonds, such as the commonly used Swarovski diamond, the Czech diamond, the domestic glass diamond, etc. Prices vary widely. Swarovski diamonds are the most expensive. Glass diamonds are much cheaper, and the price difference can reach five to ten times. We usually use Czech and domestic glass diamonds.
spot drill, we use an ultrasonic point drilling machine, through the workers into the carved hole one by one, instead of using glue, because the texture of glue is very poor, and the diamond is easy to fall off.
This process requires a lot of time and labor costs. So if your design has a lot of diamonds, the grip will be expensive.
The size of the diamond is usually 1 mm, 1.5 mm, 2 mm, 2.5 mm, 3 mm, 5 mm, etc., and variously shaped diamonds are used. If you need to personalize it, you can contact us. We will send you a diamond color card suitable for the hair clips.
You can check out our video:https://youtube.com/shorts/XBDiil9S9QA?feature=share
Go through the process of producing hair claws. This completes your design.
As a professional acetate claw clip manufacturer from China, we hope to cooperate with more customers.
Yiyi provides professional design advice and a complete production process to produce personalized hair accessory products that more consumers like and make valuable and interesting products.
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