Do It Yourself: Creative Hairstyles
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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. 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
The 10 Best YouTube Hair Tutorials
We already brought you our 10 favorite YouTube makeup tutorials and now it's time to get your hair up to snuff, too. From a perfect 5-strand side braid to the elusive beachy wave, we've got the best online hair gurus teaching you how to take care of your locks. Click through to find a new 'do and pick up a few styling pointers along the way. How to Do a Five-Strand Side Braid: The (seemingly) bad news? How to Create a Textured Updo: Whether your hair is naturally full of texture, or you’re just trying to revive/extend the life of a three-day old hairstyle, this is the updo for you. How to Make Your Ponytail Look Fuller and Longer:Ponytails are all fine and good until they start looking lame, limp, and lacking. How to Get Beachy Waves: Call it what you want—be it bedhead or beachy waves, seemingly naturally textured strands will always be a highly sought after look in our book. How to Create a Cute Top Knot (With a Sock!) How to Give Yourself a Blowout: OK, OK.
This DIY Mascara will Lengthen your Eyelashes
There are oodles of haircare products available. 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! What You'll Need First, wash an old mascara or nail polish container and fill with: 1/4 of the container with Castor Oil1/2 Vitamin E Oil1/4 Aloe Vera Gel Mix the concoction together as well as you can with your mascara wand. And you're done! While you wait for your own to grow, try out some of these crazy temporary lashes. Also try out some of these fun braids to match your plump new lashes.
How To: Upside Down French Braid Bun
Here is a simple hairstyle that will keep your hair in place, and make you look equally stylish, and sleek, even on hottest summer days (or for an elegant winter party). I suppose that all you can think about in these long summer days is how to keep your hair off your neck and shoulders, but you are probably getting tired of the usual ponytail, and top knot hairstyles. So, here is a suggestion, try a style that combines your two favorites, a French braid, and a ballerina bun. And yes, now you can look interesting and polished even in the tropical temperatures. For making the Upside Down French Braid Bun you might want to enlist a help of a friend who’s proficient in French braiding, and it will be fun. But with a few basic hairstyling tools, and a little knowledge in the science of braiding, you can do it on your own. Tools: a brushelastic bandsbobby pinsbun roll, mousse and hairspray (optionally) Tip: Keep in mind that your hair will be easier to work with if it’s not freshly washed.
Natural looking beach curls in under 20 minutes!
I don’t know about you ladies, but I’m itching for the summer. 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? 1. As you can tell, I have a lot of wave to my hair, but this works for all hair types! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Something to keep in mind is, obviously, the wetter your hair is to begin with, the longer it takes to dry. Give it a try! Do you have any tips on how this will work on your hair type? (dardame.blogspot.com) Darlene loves being a wife to her husband of two years. Like This Post?
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. 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. 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! Recommended Products:
Secrets learned at makeup artist school
You could say that I have a love/hate relationship with makeup. 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
