DIY Liquid Eyeliner

The trick to staying as natural as possible with DIY recipes is to only make what you need.  Depending on what your making,  this can be a pain in the butt sometimes, but here is a simple and COOL idea I will be trying soon.  If you look at liquid eyeliners they typically have water as the top ingredient meaning they have some type of preservative in it. 

Supplies Needed:

• Pressed or Loose Eye Shadows (store bought) or Mica or Iron Oxide powders from places like Coastal Scents
• Eyeliner Brush
• Visine

Very Cool and simple!

More DIY makeup coming soon!

I will begin learning more using this book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Natural Beauty Products

Enjoy!

DIY Manicure/Pedicure

It's summer and if there is any season that demands maintained mani/pedi's it is summer.  I love nail polish, but hate how long it DOESN'T last.  If you know my blog, you probably have figured out, I'm lazy and don't like DAILY maintenance of anything other than bathing rituals and facial care.  Anything else needs to last 3 days to a week at least lol.  Because of this, I usually have a chipped manicure throughout the week, smh!

Anyhoo, these are a the Tips and Tricks I have learned recently.

• Nothing beats a good base and tops coat
• Don't buy the cheap stuff!!
• Alcohol will make your manicure last longer!!!

My Fav's

• Polish:  Essie hands down! ( last up to 3 days) and OPI
• Base Coat: Nail Tek- Foundation II Base Coat- Ridge-Filling Nail Strengthener
• Top Coat: Seche Vite

This combination works great for me!

Mani/Pedi Instructions:

1. Soak nails either in a dish or as I do, during your bathing rituals
2. Apply cuticle oil or jojoba oil, Olive oil, etc and let sit for a minute
3. Clean cuticles with cuticle pusher or orange stick
4. Wash hands
5. File nails in one direction and shape.  Do not run file back in forth across nails tip.  This will cause damage.
6. Rinse hands
7. Apply alcohol to nail bed.  This will dehydrate the nail and remove and excess oils that cause nail polish to chip.
8. Apply base coat.  Allow base coat to dry.
9. Apply 2 coats of polish or as desired.  Let polish dry for 20 minutes
10. Apply 1 layer of your top coat and drag brush across tip of nail to seal... Let dry
11. Apply 1 layer of your top coat daily

Side note:  If you like crackle polish, when your manicure begins to chip, apply a fresh layer of clear polish, then apply a layer of crackle polish.  This help disguise chips and helps you last the rest of the week!!


Voila!!

DIY Makeup Brush Cleaning

Here is a easy way to clean your makeup brushes.

 

• Use a mild baby shampoo or any leftover shampoo you didn't like for your hair.
• Take an napkin or sponge and wet with water and a dab of shampoo
• Take the your brushes and wet, making sure water does not go into the handle.

• For Flat Brushes( eyeshadow, eyeliner, etc)
• With brush horizontal to sponge/napkin wipe brush across making sure not to disturb bristles
• Do NOT press brush down, you will ruin it.
• Wipe brush in the opposite direction of the brush bristles
• Turn brush from one side to another until clean
• Let dry

• For Foundation Brushes
• With the handle facing upward swirl your brush in a circular motion across sponge/napkin
• Do not Smush Brush into napkin Sponge
• Keep doing this until the napkin/sponge does not pick up any more dirt
• Take brush and reform the shape with your hand gently
• Allow to dry

Done!

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Polish Strips

This is the new cheaper minx like polish Application by Sally Hansen. They can be found in your local drugstores, i.e. Walmart, Walgreen, for around $9.99 a pack. I will be keeping an eye out for these!!

Other Cheaper minx like applications:

Sephora OPI nail stickers  (dry nail polish)
Nail Rocks (like minx)
Incoco ( I usually find these in Walgreens)


These are the one's I know about. I have seen other sites or ebay listings, but I have not tried.

Enjoy!