Blogmas Day 4: Homemade Ornaments

Hey Everyone!

Sorry for not doing blogmas yesterday, I can't believe that I missed a day. I was doing homework and I didn't have anytime to write. So now I am a day behind...

On a brighter note, today I wanted to give you some homemade ornament ideas :) You can hang them on your tree, or give them as gifts.

Glass Ball Ornament

So, this ornament is going to look like the one above. 

You will need:

- a glass ornament (I got mine from Michaels craft store)

- anything you want to put inside it, you can use paint or paper, glitter or music notes

How to make it:

So take of the top of the ornament, that will be the metal part. They should just be able to come off. 

If you want it to look like the picture above just get music sheets and glitter paper, whatever you might have into strips. Then just put in into the ornament. 

You can also put paint in them and swirl it to give it a unique effect. Or, you can just paint the outside.

I just had a great idea! You could make little paper swans and put it into the ornament! How cute is that?! Adorable <3 

Paper Ball Ornament 

I found this picture on weheartit.com and wanted to make one myself! So, I searched it on google and just finished making my own :) Here is how to make it!

What you are going to need: 

- paper

- scissors

- stapler

- glue

How to make it:

Trace out nine circles. It can be an size you want and the paper can be whatever you want :)

Fold each circle in half and place them in a stack. Staple them at the top, middle and bottom fold (make sure that they are unfolded when you staple it).

One by one glue them together alternating from top and bottom. 

And that's all, pretty cute, eh? :) 

Those are two idea's for homemade ornaments :) I think that they are pretty easy and a great project to do when your bored. Hopefully you found this helpful and will try some of these out! Anyway, I will talk to you tomorrow! 

Hair Tutorial: Top Knot :)

Top Knots are quickly becoming one of my favourite hair styles! There are two ways I like to do my top knot: Normal (like in the picture above) and Braided. Also at the end I will give you tips on how to deal/avoid "hairaches"! 

Top Knot

For a normal top knot you are going to need 2 elastics, bobby pins and hairspray (optional)

First flip your head upside down and brush your hair out.

Then collect your hair on the top of your head and put it into a ponytail. 

Take your hair in the ponytail and twist it.

Eventually put your hair into a bun (by moving it around the elastic). Once it s how you like it tie it off with an elastic. 

You can use the bobby pins if you hair is falling out or you want to fix it up a bit.

You can hair spray your top knot if you want it to look more polished or leave it and have it look more messy (personally, I like to have it messy). 

You can also have it off center to make it look more fun!

Braided Top Knot

This is really similar to the top knot but has a little twist!

You will need 2-3 elastics (one small), bobby pins and hairspray (optional) 

Flip your head upside down and brush out your hair.

Collect your hair at the top of your head and tie it in a ponytail.

Next, braid your hair and when your done tie it with a little elastic.

Then wrap it around the elastic.

You can secure it with bobby pins or another elastic. 

You can make this look polished or messy just like the normal top knot.

How to Deal/Avoid a "Hairache"

After having your hair up all day can give you a "hairache". That's basically a headache but its just your scalp hurting. Here are some tips to deal with it:

- don't tie it tightly 

- shower after you take it down

- massage your hair after you take it down

I know it is always a downside for me when I have my hair up. 

If you have any other tips on how to avoid a "hairache" put them in the comments :) 

That's how to do a top knot and a braided top knot :) Hopefully this was helpful! 

And I don't think I am going to be doing any nails of the week this week because I am probably not going to be painting them (but maybe tomorrow, we will see!). Anyways, talk to you tomorrow!

Whats your favourite hair style? 

How To Wear Crop Tops In The Fall/Winter!

After rocking your crop tops all summer, what do you do with it when the cold weather comes around? Here are some tips of how to wear it in the fall/winter! :)

1. Add a tank top. This might depend on the crop top and what you like best. If it is a top the goes under your bellybutton I think putting a tank top under it is a good call! You can also get tank tops that are flowy and having a crop top over it will give it a completely different look! 

2. Wear it over a dress. This is such a cute way to wear it! Also try to wear it with a skirt. To make it more 

warmer put on a denim jacket! 

3.  A high wasted skirt or jeans. Either one will keep your outfit looking cute! 

Here is a DIY of how to make a crop top and how to rock them from MacBarbie07! 

Even though this video has a lot of summery ways to wear them you can add really warm tights to you dresses or shorts! But I think a lot of the looks can relate. 

If your crop top only shows a little bit of skin you might be able to get away with it. But overall the key thing to remember is..layer, layer layer! 

I hope this helps convert your summer wardrobe into winter! :) I will have the Minnie Mouse tutorial hopefully up by tomorrow (fingers crossed!). So, I will talk to you then! :D 

How will you being wearing your crop tops this fall/winter? 

How To: Halloween-ify Your Nail's

Hey Everyone! 

Halloween is a week and a few days away so what better way to show your Halloween spirit then to have spooky nails! I put this post into two catigories: if you are good at painting your nails and if you are bad.

If You Are Talented With Nail Polish...

If you are good at painting your nails then check out some of these cool ideas :) 

Tip: use nail art pens or a toothpick to get the perfect design.

Candy Corn

The colours of nail polish you need for this look is:

- white

- yellow 

- orange

To make your nails look like yummy candy corn you are going to want to paint three strips of colour. Start off with the bottom strip and paint it yellow, let it dry. After it is dry paint the next one orange. Then after that is dry paint the tip of your nail white. Letting the polish dry before starting a new one will make it less likely to mix the colours and mess up. 

Pumpkin

The colours of nail polish you will need for this look is:

- orange

- black 

Also for this you will need a toothpick or a back nail art pen. 

Paint all of your nails orange. When it drys add two eyes and a mouth. To do this with normal nail polish open  it and dip the toothpick into the nail polish and draw with it. If you are using a nail art pen just do it with that :) 

Spider Webs

The colours you will need for this look is:

- white

- black 

Start off with painting your nails white. After it drys dip a toothpick into the black nail polish and draw a spider web in the corner of your nail or all over it.

You could also draw on bats or skulls using the same nail colours. 

Glitter 

I really like the look of these nails. 

The colours you will need are: 

- black

- orange

- glitter

So paint all of your nails black except the ring finger. Paint the ring finger orange. When it drys paint all the nails that are black with the glitter nail polish. Then using a toothpick dip it into the black nail polish and draw a spider & a web or a pumpkin on it. 

You can always look for Halloween nail inspiration online and you can paint each nail a different thing, like a pumpkin, candy corn, a bat, ect. :)

If You Are Not Good At Painting Your Nails...

 Do not fear if you are not a pro at painting your nails! There is still another way to Halloween-ify them :) You can buy Sally Hansen nail strips from the store that already have a pattern on them. Here are the different patterns:

 Pretty cute, eh? I got the ones with all the ghosts on them. 

So that is how to halloween-ify your nails :) I am going to go and put the ghost nails on now, so talk to you tomorrow! 

Are you going to halloween-ify your nails?

How To: Make Your Own Popsicles!

Just because popsicles were used in the summer for cooling down, doesn't mean they can't be eaten in the fall! They are great to have during cold and flu season. It can help your sore throat and give you lots of vitamins to help you feel better. Plus making them rather than buying them will be a lot more healthier and yummier! 

What You Are Going To Need

- Juice or water (juice can be any kind that you want! like grape, orange, cranberry, lemonade and more!) 

- Fruit (strawberries, grapes, watermelon, oranges, kiwi, ect) 

- Popsicle mold 

How To Make It

step one:

Take your fruit (if you are planing on using it) and cut it up into little pieces. When finished put it in the popsicle mold.  

step two:

Get whatever kind of juice you are using and pour in into the popsicle mold over the fruit. 

step three:

Put the popsicle mold into the freezer and wait until it freezes! 

step four:

eat! :) 

You could also make it with yogurt and blueberries! Doesn't that sounds yummy?? <3 

Their are a lot of different combinations you can try out :) Hope you guys enjoyed this blog post and talk to you tomorrow!  

How To: Clean Your Room...Fast :)

Your room might look like a tornado just went through, but in a a few minutes it can look spotless! Here are my tips on cleaning your room fast! :) 

Before You Start Cleaning:

Play some happy and upbeat music! You can sing, dance and totally forget your cleaning :) Here are some songs that are on my playlist:

Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae

Kids - MGMT

You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

Ridin' Solo - Jason Derulo 

Good Life - OneRepublic 

Part in the USA - Miley Cyrus 

Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) - Katy Perry

Not Over You - Gavin DeGraw

You can also listen to your favourite radio station! :) 

Get some supplies! You are going to need some garbage bags, vacuum/broom and a cloth.

Lets Start Cleaning:

- Pick up all the clothes on the floor, if they are dirty put them in the laundry hamper, if they are clean put them away.

- Pick up any garbage that is lying around and put it in the garbage bag. At this time you can always pick up cups and put them in the kitchen when getting rid of the garbage. 

- Put everything back where it belongs. Like your books, makeup, CDs, ect.

- Make your bed and give your room one last look to make sure everything is where it should be.

- Get the cloth and wipe off your dresser, shelves and anything else that needs it.

- Vacuum/Sweep your floors 

Done! :)

How to Keep it Clean

Every night before you climb into bed put your clothes laying on the floor in the hamper and put anything laying around in their place. 

I find taking 10 min or less really makes a difference and keeps it under control. 

Happy cleaning and I hope your having a great monday (only 4 more days until the weekendddd)! :D 

How To: Give Yourself A Manicure!

 This is a great way to relax and give yourself some 'you' time :) Plus it can save a lot of money and can work just the same as if you were to go to the salon. I like to do my nails every Sunday, my nail polish tends not to chip or come off easily so I can do them every week or two weeks at most. But If your nails do chip easily I would suggest maybe doing this twice a week. 

What You Are Going To Need:

- towel 

- bowl

- cuticle pusher (optional)

- cuticle cream or moisturizer (optional)

- base coat/top coat 

- nail polish 

- nail polish remover

- paper towels/cotton balls/Q-tips

- nail clippers

-nail file

Steps:

1. Lay out the towel on a table or flat surface and fill your bowl with hot or warm water.

2. Take some paper towels or cotton balls and put some nail polish remover on them. Take off any nail polish you have on. Still do this even if you don't have any nail polish on. 

3. Soak your fingers in the bowl of warm/hot water for around 5-10 minutes. Doing this will make them softer and easier for when you have to cut them.

4. Clip your finger nails and take any dirt that can be under nail out. After that file them.

5. This step can be optional, you don't need to push your cuticles back but it always makes the nail look nicer. So if you are doing this step take some cuticle cream or oil and but a bit on each on of your cuticles. Then massage them in. After that take the cuticle pusher and push them back. 

6. Apply hand lotion to your hands. Then take a cotton ball or paper towel and take off the lotion that got onto your fingernails.

7. Apply a base coat to your nails. 

8. When that dries paint you fingernails with what ever colour of nail polish you want. I don't have any tricks for this, I am actually really bad at paining my nails. But just try your best. 

9. Paint a second coat if it needs one, and look at all your nails to make sure they all have the same amount of nail polish on them. 

10. Wait for them to dry. After they are dry put a top coat on them.

11. Once they are completely dry fix up any mistakes with a Q-tip or paper towel with nail polish remover on it. 

12. Wash your hands. I like to do this to take any smell of nail polish remover of my hands and you will know for sure that they are dry. 

That is how you give yourself a manicure :) I am going to paint my nails like the picture above because I think it is so pretty. I love how there is glitter on only one half of the nail! Super cute :) 

"If your claws are out, you might as well paint them " - unknown 

How To Style Your Scarf!

Fall officially starts this Friday! And you know what that means...you can finally wear scarves again (woohoo)!  :D But how will you style them? Here are my favourite ways to style my scarves :) 

Drape

This is basically taking your scarf and draping it around your neck.

Single Knot

Take your scarf and hold it in front of you. Then wrap it once around you neck and let it hang loose or tight.

Classic

Do the drape from above and then flip one side over your shoulder. 

Infinity

with a loop scarf: loop around your neck twice

without a loop scarf: Do the drape and tie the 2 ends of the scarf together. The loop it around your neck twice and put the knot in the back so you can't see it.

European Loop (or formal)

I have seen this with both names but what you do it fold your scarf in half and drape it around your neck. Then put the ends of your scarf through the loop. I love to do this with winter scarves. 

Wrap

Just wrap the scarf around your arms.

Those are the ones I would do most often. Here is a great video I found on youtube of how to style scarves! It is by wendyslookbook:

Thanks for reading and tell me how you like to style your scarves in the comments :) 

The End of Split Ends

How to Avoid it in the First Place

There are many things we do to our hair that cause split ends. Here are some basic tips on how to avoid it:

- Let it air dry or use a heat protectant when blow drying it. I always air dry my hair because I find it a lot easier and it works (plus my blow dryer is from the early 90s and I don't like to use it, i think it is older than me!). But sometimes you have to blow dry your hair so use heat protection. 

- ALWAYS use heat protectant spray when  curling/straightening your hair. I use my heat protectant like it is my best friend. It is better to protect your hair than leave it untreated and let it get damaged. 

- Try not to dye it often. Dying your hair like crazy can dry it out and cause split ends. 

- Watch when you brush it! Brushing it when you just got out of the shower is a bad idea. Try using a wide tooth comb.  

Treatment

- Focus on the ends of your hair when using conditioner. I use Pantene Breakage to Strength shampoo & conditioner. This is suppose to help treat and prevent split ends. 

- Get your hair cut. I think how often you get your hair cut depends on you, I would suggest every 3-6 months. But getting your hair trimmed will take away all the split ends and leave it healthy! 

There isn't much treatment for split ends. This is because the only way to really get rid of them is to cut them off. 

I hope this was helpful to you guys & I will talk to you tomorrow :D 

How To: Fishtail Braids!

To get Elle Fanning's look do 2 fishtail braids a clip your bangs back :) 

Fishtail braids are effortlessly chic and are great to do with second day hair! It can be complicated to get at first but it becomes easier as it goes on. This does take a bit of time so make sure you don't do this when your running out the door! You can have this look as a side braid, a normal braid or two braids, this tutorial will be a side braid. Lets start braiding :)

Step One

Brush out your hair so you don't have any knots.

Step Two

Bring all of your hair to one side. Then separate into 2 parts.

Step Three

Take a small piece of hair (from the outside) of one part and bring it over the hair and add it into the second part. Do the same on the other side. Repeat.Try not to take large pieces of hair because it will end up looking like a normal braid and we don't want that.

Step Four

Once you are done braiding take and elastic and tie it off. 

If You Want It Loose...

Pull apart the braid to make it look more messy. 

If You Want It Smooth...

Take some hair gel and put it over the braid. This will take away all the fly aways! 

So that is how to make a fishtail braid! I think that they are super cute and work with almost every outfit! So I hope you guys have a good rest of the day and I will talk to you tomorrow! (p.s it is the last weekend of summer!! i am so sad :( gonna miss the hot weather, lol) 

How To Clean Your Brushes!

Hey everyone! So today I am going to tell you how to clean your brushes! You should do this every week or every 2 weeks. So lets get started:

Step 1: Take your brushes and run them under warm water. 

Step 2: Take makeup cleanser, or baby shampoo or if you don't have any of those normal shampoo for you hair can work. So work the cleanser into a light lather (make sure all the bristles have soap on them)

Step 3: Rise out all the cleanser/shampoo. Sometimes you can see the old makeup getting rinsed away. Do thins until there is no colour/soap coming off the brush. 

Step 4: Air dry them. I like to put mine on a towel or something :)

Ta Da!!! Now you have freshly cleaned brushes!