Wearing Your Heart On Your Nails .. Tutorial

Hello everyone!

This is my first time doing a nail "tutorial". So please bear with me! xx

In my NOTD for my birthday, I had put hearts on my nails and had asked if you wanted me to show you how I did them.  The lovely Rose wanted to see how it was done, so I figured I better do it before I forget. I'm going to be wearing these nails for Christmas so I did them in red and green. The hearts are a bit hard to do at first I must admit, but once you get it down how to make them, it goes pretty quickly.

You could use a dotting tool, but I don't have one. I used a Bobby pin, it's pretty much works the same way as a dotting tool. You just have to be a bit careful with the end of the bobby pin, I have realized that. So onto the tutorial!

Oh.. I am by no means good at doing nail art, so please don't mind them :P

What you will need:

1 bobby pin pulled apart

Your nail polish's of choice

Base coat

Top coat

Something to put your nail polish on.

Cuticle Oil (extremely optional)

directions:

First of all, you need to paint your nails. It doesn't matter the color. For this I used China Glaze 3D Fantasy. It's a holographic red polish.(it has been discontinued unfortunately, but with the influx and popularity of holographic polishes you will be able to find something like it.) I used two coats of this. I was to STRESS THE IMPORTANCE of letting this base coat dry completely. To where you can press on your nails and not seen any type of indentation. If your nail polish is not completely dry, it will mess the rest of your nail up.


Take your second color and place a small amount of it on the surface you choose. (It could be a piece of paper or I used the lid to my Bath & Body Works candle since I can clean the polish off and reuse it) With this step, do not place a lot, because it will start to dry and could mess your nail up as well.
Make your two dots on your nail where you want the heart to be. In this picture I places them pretty far apart, but the closer the dots the better the heart comes out in my opinion. The farther the dots the bigger the heart and it becomes a bit more complicated to get it looking uniform. This nail polish is Orly's Jealous, Much?

How far apart you place your dots also depends on the side of your nail as well. My ring finger's nail is quite large so.. :P

The next step requires you do dip back into where you places your spot of polish. The reason for this, is so that it is easier to drag down and create your first part of the heart.

Place the bobby pin in one of the first dots and draw down in a diagonal. Then repeat with the other dot.

And there you have it! Your very own heart manicure! This is perfect for valentines day, BUT I am deciding to use this for Christmas. :)

Let the heart dry and apply your top coat. If you want your nails to be completely smooth, you may need to add a second layer. In the picture above, there is no top coat as of yet because I am not quite done, they needed to dry :P

On the tips of my nails I used China Glaze Glistening Snow and on my left for the hearts I used Jolly Holly from China Glaze's 2011 Holiday collection.

(Okay no idea what happened to my nails. Over night they chipped and the polish shrunk. I'm very sorry for them looking like crap in the last two pictures.)

For my base coast I used Sally Hansen's Continuous Growth treatment and my top coat is Out The Door.

Tip: The hearts that you do with your dominant hand will wind up looking better than those done with your non-dominant hand..at least that is how it is for me :P

If you try this out, tweet me a picture! I would love to see how they come out!

Microwaving a bar of Ivory Bar Soap

Oh my goodness y'all!! I am having a serious child moment right now.

So, I saw something about microwaving a bar of Ivory soap. I literally did this face o_O the fudge?! Yeah probably wont ever do that! I don't use bar soaps, they dry my skin out like crazy. Cue lizard skin. :P

When I got my VoxBox and this was inside of it, I was like :O SO GOING TO TRY THAT NOW! I was having a nerd moment. Granted it took me a week or two to get around to it, but hey, I did it, didn't I?! :P



Anyways so what you do is you take your bar of Ivory Bar Soap and you put it on  a microwave safe plate or dish, I chose the container it was in because 1) microwave safe & 2) I can just put a lid on it and send it over to my parents house for them to use. Easy peasy right?!

Well, the best part is watching it in the microwave. I literally was like a little kid (no shame) watching it expand. I literally doing a little dance and calling Chris over to come watch it! You can microwave this from 90 second to 6 minutes. It really wont hurt it if you microwave it for 6 minutes, it just wont grow anymore. You will be able to tell when to stop it because it wont be growing anymore. I did mine for 90 seconds.



Now, I was going to make a video of it expanding in the microwave, but you couldn't see what was going on with the screen on the front of the microwave. :(

This is a really fun thing to do honestly! My nephew will love this! Any child would! Its a really neat thing to do with kids for sure!

Now you can still use this after its been microwaved, and in reality since its expanded, you have more of it and if you use it in the shower, you wont use as much and go through the bar as quickly! So a double plus there! Fun for the kids and economical! <3

You can use Ivory many different ways. You can scrape some off and use it as a laundry detergent. You can use it to wash your body, hands and even your FACE. It gives a simple yet effective clean to anything. I'm not too crazy about the scent though, it kind of gives me a headache. It can also be used as a spot remover, how cool is that?!

Ivory is also affordable, its one of the cheapest soaps per ounce on the market! So hello value right there!  You can purchase Ivory at any mass retailer and for a 10 pack of bath bars its only $4.49! HELLO! Why did I not think of doing this before?!

I definitely say you all should go and try this!  Bring out the inner child!


Disclaimer: I received this product for free from Influenster for testing and review purposes. I am not being compensated or paid to do this post. 

Emerald/Dark Green Tutorial

Long time no update! So sorry! Im going to try and blog/make a video once a week!

I had another one, but lost the files D: What a shame. Anyways, to what you are actually here for!





Sorry about some of them being blurry! Can you believe these were taken on my phone! Crazy crazy. Anyways.



These are the two main products that I used in my most recent tutorial that you can watch HERE



The products that I used were.

EYES:

Maybelline Eye Studio Color Tattoo in 50 Edgy Emerald 

e.l.f. Mineral Eye shadow in Outdorsy

Urban Decay Original Eye Shadow Primer Potion

Tarte multiplEYE primer

Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes Mascara



FACE:

Revlon PhotoReady AirBrush Mousse Foundation in Nude

Urban Decay Razor Sharp Ultra Definition Finishing Powder

Urban Decay DeSlick spray



TOOLS:

e.l.f Contour Brush

My finger

















So, I really hope that you all enjoyed my tutorial. I honestly had a lot of fun filming it!

I haven't gotten a lot of feedback on it, but that is A-OK. =^_^=



Should I continue doing Tutorials? I actually enjoy it more than I thought I would.

What other types of videos would you like to see me do?

Let me know!





Autty!&lt;3

My First Ever Tutorial!

Eek!

So I filmed my first every makeup tutorial!

I will not lie, I had to re-do this twice. Lol.

Only because the first time, I was out of the shot a lot and it was massive forhead.

In the second one though, I kept putting my glasses on to see!

How embarrassing! I think I need to get another mirror to do more tutorials. That way I can see better!

But I had so much fun doing this!! Eek. So I definitely plan on doing more,

I should have taken better pictures though! &gt;(

But onto the deets!

This is basically just a metallic silver and grey look. This just happens to be a eye shadow look that I wear quite a bit.

So, it was easy for me to re-create into a video.

Face: CoverGirl NatureLuxe Foundation in Alabaster

Rimmel London Stay Matte Powder in Natural

Eyes: Urban Decay Primer Potion

L'Oreal HiP Metallic eyeshadow duo in Platinum

Almay intense i-color trio for blue eyes, top color.

L'Oreal Voluminous False Fibre Lashes Mascara

Lips: Wet N Wild lipstick in 542B

L'Oreal HiP Intense Liquid Lip Color in Splendid

Tools: elf eyeshadow C brush

elf concealer brush

random L'Oreal HiP pigment brush

Essence of Beauty small crease brush

Nails: China Glaze It's Alive

China Glaze Ghoulish Glow

China Glaze Black Mesh Crackle Polish

China Glaze Cross Iron 360

I hope you all enjoyed my first tutorial!!

Let me know what you think

If you have any requests just comment below :D &lt;3

Disclaimer; All of the products shown and talked about in this video were purchased by me. I am not being sponsored or payed for this video.