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DIY Hairstyles: Easy Step-by-Step Hair Tutorials. Videos. Homemade Sugar, Sea Salt & Oatmeal Scrubs Recipes. Scrubs are a luxurious way to pamper skin since they exfoliate and moisturize at the same time and will leave skin feeling smooth and soft.

Homemade Sugar, Sea Salt & Oatmeal Scrubs Recipes

There’s no need to buy expensive stuff, make it yourself for a quick and easy way to have a spa experience right at home. They make great gifts too! Here’s a bunch of recipes to get started with, I’ve sorted them into separate groups for easier browsing. First a few tips: Mix and store ingredients in glass bowls and jars to prevent reactions with other materials.Shelf life is only a couple weeks or so (if kept cool in an airtight container) unless a preservative of some sort is added.

Note: Substitutions used in the ingredient lists below: C = cup TBS = tablespoon tsp = teaspoon G-W-S = Granulated White Sugar B-S = Brown Sugar EO = Essential Oil EVOO = Extra Virgin Olive Oil. 7 No-Fail Hairstyles for a Bad Hair Day. We all have those days when our hair just won’t do what it’s supposed to.

7 No-Fail Hairstyles for a Bad Hair Day

Or when we’re so busy meeting deadlines (and, let’s be honest, friends for happy hour) that spending an hour shampooing and blow drying in the morning just isn’t going to happen. Truth is, we could all use some tips on how to deal with a bad hair day that don’t involve hiding out in a cubicle. So we turned to YouTube’s best beauty vloggers for some inspiration, and found seven styles that’ll spruce up your look and let you get out the door with plenty of time to still grab a latte. But be warned: They’re so awesome, you may want to wear them on good hair days, too! 1. This everyday updo, courtesy of Wendy’s Lookbook, requires only a few hair clips and a few minutes! Perfect for: Those mornings when you hit the snooze button one too many times. What You Need: A hairbrush, 2 hair clips, a few bobby pins, and 2 elastic hair bands.

This DIY Mascara will Lengthen your Eyelashes. There are oodles of haircare products available.

This DIY Mascara will Lengthen your Eyelashes

Between oils and deep-conditioners, it's really easy to keep our manes in tip top shape. But what about our eyelashes? They are technically hair as well, and although we love falsies, wouldn't it be nice if your real lashes were super long? If you want long and healthy lashes, look no further, because we've created a DIY lengthening mascara that'll do just that! Natural looking beach curls in under 20 minutes! I don’t know about you ladies, but I’m itching for the summer.

Natural looking beach curls in under 20 minutes!

It doesn’t help that department stores are already putting out their summer wear and swimsuits. Have you ever wanted to get that beautiful “natural” beach curl look to your hair? I want to share with you a technique that works for ALL types of hair, whether it be short, long, thick, thin, frizzy, or flat… and no curling iron involved! 1. Dampen your hair with a spray bottle or let it semi air dry after washing it. No Heat Curls - Moms Who Wear High Heels and Swear. No Heat Curls - Moms Who Wear High Heels and Swear. Bye Bye Beehive: Hair Styles. Bow to the Brow: Brow Grooming. If you know anyone in your life who does makeup, one thing they will always attest to is the importance of good brows.

Bow to the Brow: Brow Grooming

I can't say enough about how much brows can completely make or break your face, and no one wants a broken face! I, myself, have problem brows. I used to fight and fight with my brows, trying to make them have more of an arch, until one day I realized my brows look terrible with a fake, forced arch. It seems pretty obvious, but a lot of women tend to think that the more arched and the higher their brows are, the better they will look. (we've all seen those brows that look surprised all the time. Take a look at all of these brows. To help you on your journey to great brows, I've put together this step by step for maintaining and grooming them.

Here is what you will need: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. This is what my brows look like before I do anything to them: See? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ta-da! Styling / Hair and Makeup Tips &Tricks. Secrets learned at makeup artist school. You could say that I have a love/hate relationship with makeup.

Secrets learned at makeup artist school

Some days I enjoy playing with all the different colors and get excited when my smoky eye turns out perfectly. But then there are those days when my liner refuses to go on straight, my bronzer makes me look like an Asian Snookie, or my lashes refuse to curl. That's when I want to toss my makeup bag out my bathroom window. I had one of those days last week, and after walking into work wearing two very different winged tips on my eyes, my editor assigned me a new story: Go to makeup school and write about it. Want to see the best techniques I picked up without spending the thousands of dollars (and crazy amount of time) it takes to go to makeup school yourself? Lesson No. 1: Spend some bucks on your tools At Napoleon Perdis' Makeup Academy in Hollywood, Rebecca Prior, NP's National Educator, begins the first lesson by introducing us to our tools.

Here are the eight basic brushes you need: 1. Totalbeauty.com.