Make Your Own Hair Bows

Make Your Own Hair Bows

Hello Lovelies! I'm back with another tutorial, this one is very simple and super cute: DIY hair bows! This is so much fun and an inexpensive way to make some cute hair accessories, you can make them whatever colour you like and mix and match patterns if you wanted!

What you're going to need:

Your choice of fabric, I'm just using some scrap fabric I had,

Scissors,

Glue Gun

And Crocodile hair clips

First step is to cut out a square and a rectangle from your desired fabric. I didn't measure exactly, I just kind of eyeballed it, but obviously make the sizes bigger or smaller depending on what size you want you bow to be.

Next, take the square piece of fabric and fold over the edges to create a rectangle. Make sure the edges of the fabric are overlapping.

Now take the hot glue gun and CAREFULLY glue the overlapping edges together.

Once you've done this the next step is to fold in the corners to create a single point and glue them down. It doesn't have to be perfect so don't worry about it if it's not exact!

Fold the two edges into the centre to create a small rectangle, but don't glue anything just yet!

The next thing to do rather than glueing is to turn over the rectangle and then pinch it in the middle, as demonstrated in the picture bellow:

Now it's time to adjust and play about to get the look you want and once you're satisfied add a dollop of glue to the back and let it cool. Remember the thin rectangle of fabric we cut earlier? It's time to use it. All you need to do is wrap it around the centre of the bow like so:

And then glue it so that it doesn't come undone.

The final step is to take your crocodile hair clip, add some glue to it and then press it to the back of your bow.

Make sure to press firmly.

And there you have it! You're very own bow! Isn't it cute? And it didn't even take that long to make!

 

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial, let me know what you think!

Friday, 21 August 2015 Comments: 0

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DIY Eye Shadow Palette

DIY Eye Shadow Palette

Hello Lovelies! Sorry for such a long break between posts, but I've been moving houses and it's all been a bit hectic! But I'm back with a fun new tutorial for you all: how to make your very own, personalised eye shadow palette. This is completely customisable for you, you can make a palette full of nude colours, neon colours, blues, pinks, you get the idea. Also, another fun perk is that you can mix up your own colours with this, and make new, exciting eye shadow shades! It's also a great way to de-clutter and minimise the amount of palettes you have lying around by recycling your old ones. What you'll need is:

Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle

Vegetable Glycerine

Eye shadows / Eye shadow pigments

Empty Eye Shadow palettes with removable pans

A coin the same size as the pans

Some fabric

Toothpicks

Scissors

Exacto Knife or similar

And some small, clear bags

These are the palettes I'll be using today. As you can see there are a lot of similar colours in both of them, and there are also colours I just don't use and probably never will, unless I tweaked them slightly, like that yellow which I ended up combining with a more neutral shadow to get a more wearable shade.

 First thing's first: take your exacto knife and, VERY CAREFULLY (you don't want to slip and hurt yourself) use it to pry the eye shadows out of their palette.

Then, use a toothpick to break up the shadows into a fine powder.

Now turn back the edges of your bag to make the next few steps easier. Pour your chosen eye shadows into the bag and add a drop of the vegetable glycerine. The glycerine is not only really good for your skin, but it also acts as a binder, making sure that when the alcohol completely evaporates the eye shadow won't crack and fall apart. Just be careful not to put too much in otherwise the shadow won't dry completely and it'll be more of a cream than a powder.

Next add a couple of sprays of the rubbing alcohol and use a clean toothpick to mix everything together. It should be a creamy consistency that's not too watery. This way you'll be able to get more pigment into the pans and it'll just be easier to manage in general.

It should look something like this:

Now cut a tiny hole in one of the corners of the bag and pipe the mixture into the pan.

If you're left with an uneven, bubbly mess like in the picture below, don't worry!

Just pick up the pan and very carefully drop it onto a flat, hard surface. This'll help to get rid of any bubbles in your mixture and also even out the product.

 Once you've done this it's time to set them aside and let them dry for a couple of hours. Once they're all ready they'll look something like this:

Now take your coin and wrap it in the fabric nice and tightly, making sure there aren't any wrinkles in the fabric.

Put the coin in the pan and press down. Hard. This'll compress your pigments and make them really compact in your pan. Keep pressing for about 10 to 20 seconds.

Make sure that you move the coin around in the fabric and always use a clean section when pressing a different eye shadow.

In the end they'll look like this:

All you have to do now is pop the pans back into the palette and there you have it! Your very own eye shadow palette!

Here are a couple of swatches of the colours I made:

Let me know what you think!

Wednesday, 15 July 2015 Comments: 0

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DIY Decorative Phone Cases

DIY Decorative Phone Cases

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You'll be able to find this post and lots more on this new website!

Sunday, 14 June 2015 Comments: 0

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