One of my Christmas presents this year from the awesome Fables in Fashion was this awesome Unii magnetic palette. So the other day I set about consolidating some of my favorite eyeshadows into an ultimate travel palette!
This time I used the hair straightener method and here’s the way I did it.
First I collected all of my shadows and worked out exactly how many I could fit in.
After letting my mini straightener heat up I picked the first palette to do, since I hadn’t used the method before I picked one that I had another very similar colour to incase it didn’t go well.I placed the shadow onto the straightener and used it to gently heat the back, this loosens the glue and allows you to pry them out easily. I was careful not to heat it enough to melt the plastic, just enough to be warm.Using a sewing needle I gently wedged the shadows out. It was a little hard at first because there wasn’t much room between the shadow and plastic but after working the various sides and reheating a few times I managed to pop it out.
Done!
Some of the shadows I depotted required a bit of clean up on the bottoms and sides to remove the extra glue or extra crushed shadow.
This was my placement, you can see that the gold (a super cheap one from a palette I hardly use now) didn’t quite fit so I used some scissors and snipped off the end. A couple of the shadows cracked while I was removing them but I fixed that easily by repressing with some hand sanitiser.
Some of the shadows were magnetic to start with but others I needed to add the magnets that came with the palette, this posed a bit of a problem with a couple of the larger ones because they were quite tall and with the added magnet the lid no longer closed. I also found the adhesive on the magnets didn’t want to stick to some of the shadows. I figured I probably wouldn’t be changing the shadows around any time soon so I used thin double sided tape instead.
So there you go, these are the colours I use the most and now they’re all in one place and I don’t have to pack a billion things when I travel!
Absolutely love it and it makes my morning make up routine so much more organised and easy! Thank you Celina!
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These are the easiest Christmas baubles in the universe. So easy in fact that I made them on Christmas Eve because it was our first day off.
You need:
Cheap baubles, I got mine in a pack of 30 for $5
Puff paint
A gel pen to draft designs
Use a gel pen to draw the outline of your design on the baubles. This step is optional but I didn’t want to ruin any before I got the hang of working with the puff paint.
Pipe on your design… DONE.
Leave them to dry overnight, I used an ice cube tray and some egg cups to make sure they didn’t roll over during the night. It’s easier to actually paint them if you use egg cups as stands too because I can’t tell you how many I screwed up accidentally dropping them and smooshing puff paint everywhere. Luckily if it’s still wet you can just wipe it off and start again.
I made a lot of gifts as Christmas presents this year, a lot of my friends travel often so I thought I could make travel masks personalised to each friend.
The first one I made was one of my favorite shapes: kitty shaped haha!
So what you need:
Black felt
Pink leopard print polar fleece
Ribbon
Thread, needle, scissors
Decoration, I’m using a crochet flower
Start by cutting out the basic shapes. You want it to be as wide as the person you’re making it for’s face and tall enough to get from forehead to cheeks. The basic shape is straight along the top and then with two large curves along the bottom.
Cut one out of black felt and one out of the polar fleece. You will also need two triangles for the ears.
Cut some sleepy eye shapes out of the felt too.
The ears will be pleated so they puff up a bit.
This will be the layout for the final mask:
Stitch on the eye pieces with needle and thread.
Taadaa 😉
Stitch the pleat in the ears and then place them good side down on to the face area like this:
Put the black felt piece on top and stitch around the entire outside leaving only a 3cm gap at the start.
Turn the whole thing inside out through the hole.
And then stitch the hole up.
Add a little decoration to one ear like a flower or bow and it’s almost finished!
The last step is to add a ribbon or elastic to either side so there is some way to actually wear it 😉
And that’s basically it, you just need to find a willing model to try it out!
Shh nap time!
These are so much fun to make, I want to make lots of different shapes now 😀
First up today an update on the Bunny store. Unfortunately I’ve had to push the launch back a while as currently the shipping quotes I’ve gotten are quite high. Aus Post have quoted $11.55 for non-registered overseas airmail which I think is quite high when you add that to the cost of the little Bergamots. So I’m looking at other options and possibly having them made somewhere else and shipped there to keep the costs down. I’m not sure at the moment but I’m still working on it and looking into other options because I don’t think there’s much point putting them up if most of you guys can’t afford them *_* So short story is that the launch will be pushed back into the new year but will still be happening! Let me know if you have any suggestions.
In the mean time here’s a hair tutorial.
Ages ago I did a little video tutorial on making a faux bob hair style for long hair, I promised a follow up photo version and here it is!
Here’s the video version too incase you missed it…You need:
Hair ties
Brush
Bobby pins
Hair spray
Brush out and separate your hair into two sections.
Tie them with the hair bands around half way down.
Pull each ponytail backwards so the hair slips through a bit. This will make the front parts in the end result longer in the front than the back.
Curl the ends of the ponytail into a little loop.
Keep rolling upwards until you can’t go any further and you should have something like this:
From the side it will bow out and form a nice finish underneath.
From the front it looks like a curl.
So now you need to pin it in place. You should try to pin through the hair band to give it extra strength. Make sure you’re pinning it as close to the scalp as possible.
Repeat on the other side too.
Now you need to take care of the back, right now it looks terrible.
Take your brush and gently coax the divide together so it hides the gap. You can use your fingers and a few extra bobby pins at the bottom to keep it all in place.
This version isn’t so great but you can get the general idea…
Now you just need to style your fringe and any layers around your face. The style works better with layers around the face because they create an illusion of being the ends of the hair.
Taadaa!
Short hair without a major chop 😀
Hope this was helpful, let me know if you have any questions!
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A new segment I’m trying out where in I show my morning make up routine for various days and chat about what I’m doing that day. Not really a tutorial, more of a random girly chat while we get ready together in the bathroom 😉
Today’s style features green liner with a double wing, I really like coloured eyeliner at the moment and these colours go really well together for Spring or Summer!
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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.
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Time for another random Morning Make up video in which I do my make up and we chat.
Today is green and pink for Spring.
Start with foundation as usual.
I applied a thick line of green liner with a bit of glitter in it.
I’m packing this week for a trip up north to Brisbane.
Next a highlighter.
We’ve done a lot of traveling this year.
I added a pink shadow all over the lid.
I’m getting quite tired of it, I’d much rather travel overseas than within Australia.
Next was a very thin black line at the lashes to disguise the false lashes later.
That’s the worst part, coming home to mess.
To give a little depth I added darker pink to the outer corner and green near the outer lash line.
We’re going up to celebrate James’ Dad’s birthday and his family is renting some cabins.
Next was mascara and third corner lashes to the outer corners.
By the time I actually uploaded this you’ll probably have seen some of the vlogs I’m going to film during December.
Now to make the wings, using cream shimmer I went over the green line and gave it a long wing. I added a second wing above to make it more interesting.
Or maybe you’ve seen all of them because my magical seeing into the future abilities don’t know when I’m going to upload this.
The top wing is slightly longer. To seal in place I dabbed a little bright green shadow over the top.
While I’m away I promised to work on my seeing into the future ability.
I thought it needed to be a little darker so I touched up the dark pink corner with a little purple to blend it all together.
A nice pink blush and it’s almost done.
As always, lipstick and gloss last.
Phew now I have pretty make, I should probably get packing.
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!
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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