A quick tutorial on how to get those cute mermaid style waves which are so popular these days. This version is much quicker than using a crimper. .
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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.
Mermaid Waves Without A Crimper Hairstyle Instructions.
Today’s hair tutorial is all about getting those mermaid style mini waves without having to use a crimper.
Brush you hair and add some head protector.
Divide each half into top and bottom sections.
Clip the top one away.
Tightly plait the section all the way to the bottom.
You can do this with a crimper too but it’s quicker this way.
You can also vary the size of the waves by plaiting smaller or larger sections of hair.
Tie off the end with a band.
Repeat for the other sections.
Look at my super awesome speed.
Enjoy your moment as a 1990’s alternative rock star.
Then back to reality.
Slowly run the heated straightener down each plait a couple of times.
The heat will set the hair in that position.
After the have cooled, untie the plaits and unravel them.
You should see they are all wiggly now.
If your hair is hard to style you can add some hair spray too.
To make the hair fluffier, give it a brush through and fluff it out with your fingers.
The non heat version of this is to plait it and then leave it in overnight.
This style is cute with a bow or an usamimi up top.
Cute and very mermaid style.
Hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the descriptions for more information and photo tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye!
Let’s make some little fabric roses! I made these ones to decorate a top now it’s a bit warmer 😀 I’ll show you the top as soon as it’s finished too.
You need:
Fabric (gauze, chiffon or anything of a similar floaty texture)
Needle and thread
Cut a long strip of fabric. It should be triangle shaped so it’s thin at one end and thick at the other.
For best results cut it on the bias, this means that all the threads in the fabric are diagonal to the edges not straight. You can kind of see what I mean below but here’s a better explanation.
Fold the strip of fabric in half along the length.
Start at the thin end and roll it into a spiral.
You want it to be pretty messy as you roll and you can gather the bottom slightly to make the top puff out more like petals. Stitch in place as you go.
As you roll the edges will become a little ragged so they will look like ruffled petals:
Once you reach the end of the fabric stitch it all in place and tie off. The fabric being cut on the bias means that the edges will frey a little but not so much that the fabric comes apart completely. The more the frey the prettier the roses get anyway.
And from the side:
You can make larger or smaller flowers depending on how big the original piece of fabric is. I like to group them in threes and put them on shirts or hair bands.
Pretty and great for trimming dresses too.
You can of course just buy these ready made but I prefer to do them by hand if I have time because you can completely colour match them to your individual project ^_^
I really like making them, what else do you think I could put them on?
Still growing out my nails! I haven’t written about it as much I meant to because of the fluffy little dog who’s sleeping in my lap at the moment. Lottie can be a very distracting puppy with all of her adorableness… also her love of standing on my keyboard doesn’t really help either XD
Aaaanyway today I wanted to share my manicure routine and show you guys an easy way to do retro styled moon manicures.
I used:
Base coat from Daiso
Purple Pretty Serious Polish
Gold glitter Ulta 3 polish
Top coat from Daiso
Nivea hand cream
Clippers
A thick rubber band
First off is some basic maintenance, I use hand cream to soften everything up and moisturise my fingers. I try to use hand cream a couple of times a day but I am quite forgetful.
Next I use the point part of the clippers to remove any dirt under the nail gently. Normally I would use a cuticle stick for this because I hate the feel of metal but I’m totally out at the moment >_<
My cuticles are pretty dry and beat up because I use my hands a lot day to day but they’re getting better slowly.
After my hands are dry I paint a base coat, sometimes two. This prevents the polish from staining the nail and also give it some strength.
Really short nails can be kind of irritating to paint clearly because it can be hard to keep the polish off the end of the finger. My solution to this is using a rubberband to pull back the skin and you’ll get a clean coat every time.
Hold the rubberband like this and it will gently move the skin away and make a barrier for the polish.
Now just paint as normal and go straight over the rubberband.
Take the rubberband away and it will take the extra polish with it. Keep going with each finger and you’ve got nice perfect manicure!
You can use the same technique for making vintage moons or french tips without any overflow too. You just need to hold the rubberband tightly in the shape you want. I decided to do some glitter moon shapes so I held the rubberband like this:
Then painted the glitter polish over the top.
After removing the rubberband (while the polish is still wet) you should get something like this:
As long as you can hold the rubberband steady you’ll get a good result. This makes painting your non-dominant hand much easier too.
Once everything it dry it’s time for a top coat!
Super shiny and pretty 😀 Much less clean up than usual too!
I hope the tips were a bit helpful for those of you tying to grow out your nails too! Mine are starting to come along nicely, I took these photos quite a while ago! To be honest, it’s been a lot easier this time because I’ve been so busy I haven’t even had time to think about it XD
Australia seems to have a love hate relationship with Ugg boots. Sometimes they’re acceptable fashion, sometimes they’re just for bogans. The rest of the world seems to have embraced them though and far be it from me to tall poppy them 😉
As an Australian I’m slightly embarassed to own ugg boots because they were so uncool when I grew up. Well not ugg boots but the $7 equivalent from Target. I honestly don’t know how these managed to be some kind of fashion statement or something that people wear in public? Growing up in North Queensland, uggs were the kind of thing that you wore around the house or farm, not what you wore to the shops. Maybe to the servo at like 2am or the McDonalds drive through… but definitely not as a fashion statement, it always seems to me like wearing pajamas out haha! Each to their own though ^_^
I ended up with this pair (my first ever) when my last slippers finally bit the dust as the rubber bottoms disintegrated all over the floor one day. It was the middle of Winter and there was nothing remotely boot-like in the store other than these.
This is pretty much sums up how I feel:
But ignoring the whole debate over cool or not cool, comfortable or not comfortable I certainly didn’t want plain ones so I added some quick decorations to jazz them up a bit.
I used some nylon lace, ribbon flowers and a hot glue gun. You really should sew them but I’m not expecting mine to last for very long since the fluff is already half gone XD It’ll be Summer soon anyway so I can go back to Mario slippers!
First I glued a row of lace around the edge of the turned over part.
Easy.
A couple of flowers completes the job in around 10 minutes max!
Yep that’s it!
I still don’t know how I feel about them. They’re quite good for around the home but I don’t think I’ll be shopping in them any time soon 😉
All of this deep thinking about Australia’s export items makes me sleepy anyway….
What do you guys think?? Does your country have any exports which other countries think are cool when everyone at home thinks they’re a bit lame?
These headphone jack decorations seem to be really popular lately! They can be pretty expensive too considering they really do nothing useful. Here’s a quick way to make your own in any design you like.
What you need:
Old broken headphones
Scissors
Decorations
Glue
So the decoration basically sits in the top here in the headphone jack spot.
First step is to decide which decoration you want to use. I went through a few options before deciding on the bow.
Take the jack end on your old broken headphones.
Cut it off with the scissors. Get as close to the end as you can without having to cut metal. You can strip off the plastic if you prefer. Or if you want something even closer you could probably use heavy duty pliers to get a closer cut. Be careful if you try it though, in fact be careful when modifying any electrical equipment like this especially if it’s very old.
See it still fits in there nicely. I needed to double check the height was ok when using my case too so keep that in mind.
Now just glue it to your decoration. I glued it to the bow.
Then I glued another bow to the other side so it looked good both ways.
Once it’s dry it’s done. Yep, seriously that’s it.
It’s probably a bit of overkill on my phone…
But on James’ phone it makes a bit more sense!
I’ve seen some very cute crown ones too which would be equally easy to make if you could find some crown charms.
So there you have it, next time you have some broken headphones don’t throw them out!
Illustrator. Strong tea, knitting, watercolours, and making a video game called Moonlight in Garland. Living with her adorable husband Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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