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8 Do-It-Yourself Home Facials. Facials are a great way to keep your skin glowing, but they can be pricey.

8 Do-It-Yourself Home Facials

We asked Louisa Macan-Graves, author of Hollywood Beauty Secrets: Remedies to the Rescue, and Elda Argenti, owner of the Plantogen skincare line, for their favorite make-at-home face masks crafted from common household ingredients. For All Skin Types. DIY: MAKEUP BRUSH ROLL. Photos/post/design: Kristin Ess This is by far the most ambitious tutorial we’ve ever done on TBD, but we think you guys might be ready for something a little bit more challenging.

DIY: MAKEUP BRUSH ROLL

This DIY dip-dye brush roll is such a good gift and you can do it in any color you want. I picked white + teal, which is probably not the smartest for makeup brushes but it looks the prettiest! Besides, I’ll probably use it for hair combs, scissors and clips. Make-up / Add 20 drops of clear nail polish to eyeshadow. Voila, brand new nail polish color. Gotta try this! Out of the ordinary Beauty Tips that work. Use toothpaste on yellow nails.

Out of the ordinary Beauty Tips that work

This usually happens when you let nail polish stay on your nails for very long and when you’ve used cheap nail polish. Whiten them all up by rubbing toothpaste to remove the stains. You can also add a few drops of lemon for extra whitening, it’s a natural bleaching agent. See other uses of lemon with this POST. Use suntan oil to treat damaged hair. TBDlipstain.jpg (512×756) How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch - Health - GOOD.

Let's keep things simple this week.

How to Make Your Own Beauty Products from Scratch - Health - GOOD

When it comes to personal-care products, we are big believers in streamlining what you use—see "Eight Products You Think You Need But Don't" for a refresher—buying less in general, and getting creative. We have both always loved experimenting in our kitchens and our bathrooms, checking ingredients in products we love, isolating the main ones, and then trying them on their own. Sometimes it works: A favorite hair leave-in contained aloe, for example, so one day we tried aloe alone and found that, lo and behold, it worked just fine on its own. And sometimes it didn't. Over the years we have tried dozens of DIY beauty recipes to find ones we like—and that work. TBDSavingFace1.jpg (512×1268)