Water Marble Tutorial. Supplies: orange stick or... Water Marble Tutorial. Supplies: orange stick or toothpick, shot glass or cup (the smaller the circumference, the less polish you end up wasting), room temp. water, nail polish, tape (optional, but it helps with the clean up) I like to begin by prepping my nails with base coat and one coat of polish.
Here I used China Glaze Innocence for a nice neutral base. Steps: 1. Fill your cup with some warm or room temperature water. If the water is too cold, the nail polish will seize up. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Most importantly, have fun! We would love to see pictures of all your water marbling attempts, so get dipping! Make Your Own Gifts LIGHT BULB TERRARIUM – Green Holiday Gift Guide. How to Get Rid of Acne Naturally - 10 Easy Tips.
5 Foods You Have In Your Kitchen That Should Be In Your Hair. Baking soda should be in your hair if it has build-up. Let’s make a pact today. You and me. From now on, when we have a beauty issue, we’ll look in the cabinets – first – before we run out and buy an expensive (or even bargain) product to fix us. And, I know, I know … there’s just something a little bit comforting about picking up a bottle of FancySchmancy-Make-You-Fabulous Potion; there’s some weird satisfaction in forking over your hard-earned money to feel hot.
But there’s a new and better feeling from fixing it yourself — by rummaging through your kitchen. And don’t get me wrong, sometimes it’s easier or less time consuming to snag a product from the shelf. Now, I’m here to get you started with your tresses. When I say “5 Foods You Have In Your Kitchen,” I mean “5 Foods That Are Still Left In My Kitchen,” because my produce drawer is really bare right now. At this point, I figure if I have these 5 things in my kitchen, you SURELY have them in yours. And we’re going to fix your hair.
Soda. Health special: Flat tummy forever. By James Duigan UPDATED: 01:26 GMT, 15 May 2011 Beach babe curves? Check. Honed legs? Sort of. If you want evidence of the plan's effectiveness, look no further than the woman on these pages, Christiane. 1 Eat fat I'm talking about good fat, the sort found in nuts, avocados, oily fish and oils. 2 Take a bath Lots of my model clients take an Epsom salts bath just before a bikini photo shoot. 3 Spring-clean your insides The ideal ratio of bacteria in a healthy human gut is 85 per cent friendly to 15 per cent harmful. Drink filtered water rather than the chlorinated water that comes out of your tap.Eat organic meat. 4 Don’t overcook it If you overcook food, you’ll kill off or reduce the number of nutrients it contains. 5 Beware of gluten Foods that contain gluten can weaken your abdominal wall and make it slack, resulting in a protruding stomach. 6 Sleep it off In the hour or two before bed, turn off your laptop, TV and mobile phone, and keep your lights low. 7 Eat flat-tummy foods.
How To Style Maiden Braids. Last month I did a makeover story with Kelsie and had many requests for a maiden braid tutorial. Yesterday she came in and we photographed these simple step by steps. Kelsie has extremely long and thick hair, but anyone with shoulder length or longer can do these braids (see my photo below for an example). Steps 1-2: Braid two strands on each side of a center part. Steps 3-5: Wrap braids around the crown of your head and pin in place with one pin each. Step 6: Arrange braids so that they cover the front of your head like a headband.
Steps 7-8: Pull the rest of the hair into a ponytail and pin it into a cute messy bun. Step 9: Add final pins and spray. A Millionish Uncommon (and Not So Uncommon) Uses for Coconut Oil. Heart-healthy, heart-warming coconut oil. You’re a nut! You’re crazy in the coconut! Okay – I’m crazy in the coconut. As you can tell. I’ve just spent 37 hours obsessing about coconut oil. In the homemade toothpaste post, Karen from Abundance on a Dime posed a thoughtful question. And I thought, “Hm. So I combed through the Crunchy Betty archives for all the recipes I’ve posted using coconut oil, so we could see them all in one handy place. But wait! If you figure out a way to get it to drive you to the store, let me know. Effective DIY Coconut Oil Deodorant It’s been months since I made my first batch of coconut oil deodorant – and I’ve made three more batches since then.
Here’s the link to the entire post on how to make homemade deodorant. 1/4 c. baking soda1/4 c. cornstarch or arrowroot powder5 Tbsp. coconut oilEssential oils (optional – I used 3 drops of ylang-ylang, 4 drops of sweet orange, and 2 drops of tea tree) Coconut Oil Deep Conditioner Coconut Oil to Manage Frizz and Flyaways. DIY - MAKE YOUR OWN WAX FOR HAIR REMOVAL - Fashion + Beauty on Shine. I was chatting with someone on my flight back from my vacation. She lived in another country where salons are hard to come by or if they are around, they aren't very good. So, sometimes a girl has got to depend on herself.
You can make one on your own so easily. So when I described it to her, she loved it and she said I just have to put it up online. So here goes: Wax recipe Ingredients 2 cups sugar ¼ cup water ¼ cup lemon juice Method Pour the sugar, water and lemon juice in a saucepan, and heat it over a low flame. How do you know it is done? Take a glass of water and put a drop of wax into it. Benefits of making your own WAX: 1. Waxing strips: We used to do this in college all the time. NOTE: The inner facing fabric of the jeans should be the one touching your skin otherwise if you use the opposite side, your skin will probably get blue with the denim color.
Waxing technique Test the temperature before applying the wax to your skin. Benefits of Waxing 1. BLOG. Feb 11 This is my newest obsession – newspaper fingernails! Recently, I was reading Little Chief Honeybee‘s blog & in this entry, I saw a photo of newspaper nails. I thought to myself, “Omg, this is the best thing I’ve ever seen! I need to have nails like that!”
.. So I searched around a bit, and found a couple variations of how-to’s. (1 & 2) Here’s what I did. Supplies needed: ♥ Light-coloured nail polish (white, pastels, cream, etc) ♥ Clear fingernail polish for a top-coat ♥ A newspaper ♥ Rubbing alcohol & small container to pour it into Directions: ♥ Cut out 10 sections of text from a newspaper. . ♥ Paint your nails with a base-coat of the light-coloured polish (I used white.) ♥ Pour some rubbing alcohol into your small dish. . ♥ Take a strip of your newspaper, hold it down firmly on your fingernail. . ♥ Slowly & carefully peel off the newspaper strip. . ♥ Repeat process for all 10 nails & then use your clear polish as a protective top-coat. That’s it. Leave a Reply. Hair Cut & Hair Style. "Don't have your Haircut or Hair colored without consulting My guide to the sexiest looks out there. HAIRCUTS: Short, fresh, sexy and all out confident Who it works for: Your face is front and center with this cut, so you've got to feel good about your skin and your features if You're going to try it Tell your hairstylist: You'll need short, different length bangs.
Avoiding blunt, even pieces. Part of the fun of this style is the choppy, unabashedly messy look of your hair Maintenance: Keep it looking fresh with a monthly trim. Style it by slicking bangs down a la Twiggy, or pushing them to the side for a sweet, girly effect Who it works for: A chic, low maintenance style for very curly Or African American hair. Tell your hairstylist: Your hair should be an inch long at most, but if you want a style with more height, leave it just under three inches Maintenance: Keep the shape by picking your hair out and tying a silk scarf over it, patting the hair until it's even. Maintenance: HIGH! Pamper and Primp. Shoe Lacing Methods. Mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion ways of feeding a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe.
This section presents a fairly extensive selection of 50 shoe lacing tutorials. They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of. 50 Different Ways To Lace Shoes Criss Cross Lacing This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes & boots. The laces simply criss-cross as they work their way up the shoe. Over Under Lacing This method reduces friction, making the lacing easier to tighten and loosen plus reducing wear and tear.
Gap Lacing This simple variation of Criss Cross Lacing skips a crossover to create a gap in the middle of the lacing, either to bypass a sensitive area on the instep or to increase ankle flexibility. Straight European Lacing This traditional method of Straight Lacing appears to be more common in Europe. Straight Bar Lacing. 10 Cosmetic Uses for Everyday Foods - The Ten - Top Stories. The folds in a chef’s hat are supposed to symbolize the number of ways that chef knows how to prepare an egg, but we’re sure there’s at least one missing: as a facial mask. Many common foods can be used as cosmetics with surprisingly good results. So no matter your motivation (you want to save a few dollars, up your green quotient, or just find a novel way to pass the time), here are 10 cosmetic uses for food that are just as good, if not better, than their store-bought counterparts. (A word to the wise: If you have sensitive skin or processed hair, try these remedies on a small patch of skin or hair first.) 1.
Egg White Mask. You can either save your leftover egg whites for an omelet or angel food cake, or use them for your next facial. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.