Drugstore Halloween How to: Tiger makeup

Drugstore Halloween How to:
Tiger Makeup

Hey guys! Today I have a makeup tutorial brought to you by my little sister Kori!
She's starting her own blog soon, so I thought I'd let her get in some practice over here.

What I used:

e.l.f. Professional eye shadow brush 

Q tips

Water

Wet 'n' Wild megalast black eyeliner

e.l.f. Waterproof eye liner pen

e.l.f. liquid liner

Wet 'n' Wild rainbow eye shadow

e.l.f. black eye shadow
Thick concealer a few shades lighter than your natural skin tone
light lip gloss

 I started with an almost fresh face. Just covering up some pesky blemishes with my normal cover up.

With the wet n wild eyeliner I made some rough outlines of my tiger stripes.

Then I outlined them more precisely with the liquid liner, dipped my eye liner brush into my cup of water and made a bit of a paste with the black eye shadow, and filled in the stripes.

I made the same paste type thing with the orange Wet 'n' Wild shadow (Though the wet n wild shadow didn't need near as much water as e.l.f.), then spread it in between the stripes and across my forehead.

Ya know when you put on your eyeliner, it looks PERF and then you blink and it smudges? I did that- but on purpose to make the line thicker, then smoothed it out a bit. I used my eyeliner pen for this, but the liquid liner would work just the same.

I extended the line around my entire eye and then tried to draw a triangle, and filled it in.
 I have no advice for this. It took me a lot of Q tips and water a.k.a. I messed up about three times.

With the liquid liner again, I made a bit of a heart shape on the bottom half of my nose, and drew a line down to my lip. put a couple flecks of it to fill in the spaces and with a wet Q tip rubbed it in.

With some of the black eye shadow paste fill in your upper lip.

Cover the rest of your nose and jaw with the lighter concealer and put the lighter gloss on your bottom lip.

And you're done! Wasn't that easy?

Stay minty! Or whatever it is that Juli always says...

Stay minty,
- Juli  (and Kori)

Super Simple DIY: Fabric covered storage

Storage from a Tin

Hey guys! So today-as you can see from the title- I have a very simple DIY for you!

They may be simple but they're SO helpful :)

I saw something slightly similar on Pinterest, but it wasn't fabric covered, just labeled, so I thought I'd try my own twist on them! Plus the idea had been brewing in my head for quite sometime hehe.

A couple of things I use mine for, is holding sewing supplies, -like buttons and thread- And my headphones-I don't know about you guys, but I alwaaays lost my headphones. This is a great place to keep them so you always know where to find them! As long as you remember to put them in ;) 

But really, they're super simple, cute, AND helpful!

What you need:
Scraps of fabric
Altoid tins (or any tin you have/would like to use)
Mod podge (I'm not sure, but other glues/sealers may work!)
Scissors

Steps:
1.Cut your fabric to cover the area of your tin- I cut mine a bit extra so that I could wrap the sides.
2.Apply a layer of mod podge on the top of the tin with a paint brush and carefully place down your fabric. Make sure you've placed it correctly and smoothed out any air bubbles!
3.Mod podge the sides and press them smooth as well. Repeat this on the inside corners if you still have excess fabric.
4.Once those things dry, you can put another coat of mod podge on the outside to make the fabric less likely to come up after time. 

 

Now you're done! So easy.

If yours are a bit like mine the tins got a little sticky opening up. This is because the fabric made the top thicker(if you folded under). I solved that problem by pressing an indent into the front and middle with my thumb- as you can see if you look closely in the photos-, and they're good as new now. 

   A little tip:

 Do you ever have to spend a lot of time going through your loads of buttons trying to find the right color or  size? You can keep them better organized by stacking them up on a large safety pin like you see below! 

I made these really quickly and it was pretty fun too! There are so many different uses for them, especially because you can do this with pretty much any tin/container that you have!

Of course, I have loads of these Altoid tins because I go through mints like water. They're so amazingly strong and pepperminty!! ;)

Are any of you guys gonna make these? What would you store in them?
Well, I hope you found this helpful:)
Talk to you next time!

P.S. I also have a trick for tangle-free headphone cords! If anyone's interested I'd be happy to do a post on how to make them! :)P.P.S I'm going to try and post more regularly, I just can't seem to get the hang of a schedule haha.

Stay minty,
-Juli

100 Journal Ideas

100 ideas (for use with a journal)

Heeelllo everybody! 

Awhile ago I was on Keri Smith's website. You might know her as the author of the Wreck This Journal series. Lots of other amazing books as well! Anyway, while I was browsing I came across her

100 Ideas (for use with a journal) post... thingy!

It really inspired me to start journaling again, because I'm horrible at keeping up with journals, diaries, etc. I always want to- I've had them off and on since I was just a little kid!

But this post has these really amazing ideas for you to use, a few of my favorites being: 

Write a letter to yourself in the future.

List all of the places you've ever lived. (That's a LOAD for me)

Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.

List the smells in your neighborhood.

Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.

Illustrate the concept of 'simplicity'

I just love the ideas soooo much- I just had to share! You can view the whole list here
I think that I might share some pages(i.e when I draw things) I do if I find any of them to come out interestingly enough, or just need a post idea, haha. 

So what do you guys think of the list, are you gonna try it out with me? 
It'd be cool if someone else joined me!

P.S. You can pin my pictures now! Just roll over and click the pin button:)
P.P.S Thanks Anna!

Well, until next time, 

Stay minty,

-Juli