by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 8, 2012 | Hair-Tutorials, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials, Violet Vision Videos
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A blog and Youtube channel about a girl and her quest to make everything sparkle. New craft, hair and beauty tutorials every week!
Violet LeBeaux spends most of her time trying to think of ways to make life prettier, posting said ways on her blog and drinking very strong tea. She writes about big hair cute things, girly fashion, beauty finds, sometimes Hime Gyaru fashion (姫ギャル) and crafty tutorials.
She lives with her adorable boyfriend Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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Mini Bow Hairstyle Instruction
I love bow style hair but sometimes the big ones can be a bit much!
Here’s a simple mini bow.
Grab a section of hair from the top of your head and brush it to one side.
This technique is all about making loops of hair with the elastic so you need a pretty stretchy one.
Mine can go over 4 times… so I wrapped it twice before starting the bow.
Pull the hair through again but this time only a few inches so it’s a loop.
Twist the elastic and pull the hair through again for another loop.
Taadaa you have bow loops.
Now flip them so they face the right way.
And pin them in place.
So one more time in case you missed it.
You should end up with something like this.
To hide the band use a flower or some kind of clip.
You can also split up the tail so it curls on both sides like ribbon tails.
Sweet and cure but not too over the top.
I hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye!
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 8, 2012 | Beauty, Review
Price: $39.95
Obtained: Bought but was also given one in a gift bag.
Thoughts:
My favorite thing about Mirenesse mascaras is the easy removal, rather than make up remover they can be removed by using water and rather than smudgy black mess, they come off in little black tubes. I don’t know why more companies don’t do things like this, it makes clean up so much easier! The mascara itself is quite nice, it lengthens nicely and looks fairly good on. It has a bit of an odd smell though and both of the containers I’ve had have smelt like this. It’s not noticeable once it’s dried but while applying it did cause me to hold my breath a little. I find that it doesn’t clump much so long as you apply slowly and you can lengthen lashes very easily by applying again just to the tips.
Overall I think it’s a decent mascara, the best part is definitely the removal.
Would I buy Mirenesse Secret Weapon Mascara again: It’s definitely in the higher price range but I would buy again should I manage to see it on sale on the website.
Disclaimer: All reviews are my honest opinions whether product was provided for review or bought. I am not an expert, just a girl who likes beauty products. Click here to read about my personal preferences or for more information on “Currently Using” mini review posts. Click here for my Editorial and Ethics Policy.
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 7, 2012 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial
When I got my new camera I decided I wanted it to be as customised as possible. Other than deco-ing it I wanted to customise all of the other aspects as well including the straps, bag and any accessories. The first thing I did was paint the lens flower 😀
James get consistently frustrated by me calling it a lens flower because it’s such a girly way to say lens hood 😉 Now I just do it because I know it irritates him mwahahaha. LENS FLOWER!
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I used acrylic paint and nail polish to do it and these are the steps I took ^_^My lens flower: I painted it with several coats of white acrylic paint as a base.
It took 3 coats to make sure it would be completely opaque. Coat 1 was kind of patchy.
But all I really needed was a decent base so the nail polish wouldn’t be lost in black so I didn’t bother making it perfect.
Once it was dry I gave the whole thing a coat with some nude polish.
I gathered all of the polish colours I wanted to use and decided on a design, this one was inspired by a Pucci print.
Then I went colour by colour building swirls up from the bottom.
It’s quite hard to see at this point because the pinks were all quite similar.
 
All of the base colours are done!
Here’s one with upped contrast so you can see a bit better.
I used a thin brush to paint gold and dark purple glitter around the bubbles to give them definition as well as the top and bottom.
 
To remove any bits that got a bit out of the lines I just wiped it away using a cotton bud and a tiny bit of polish remover.
 
All finished! Totally girly and very me 😀
 
What do you think? Haha an improvement? The next thing on my list is making a nice camera strap to hold it all together 😀 |
