DIY: Cute Heart-Shaped Paperclip

Hey guys!
So here's a super easy DIY that I know all my girlies will love. Instead of purchasing already-made, more expensive heart paperclips, why not make it at home in a matter of seconds?
So here's what you need: A paperclip and a long-nosed plier. You don't need a paperclip that large or colorful either. You also don't have to have a long-nosed plier. I've done it with my nails/finger plenty of times with success. Im only doing it with pliers here for easier-precision.

1. Place the tip of your plier (or nails/finger) in the middle of your paperclip.

2. With your other thumb and index finger, push the two sides up.
3. Make sure they're twisted in a way where the excess are bent down on the same side.

4. Slide it on your stack of papers! You can also use it for a book depending on how big your paperclip is.

Hope you liked the little tutorial!

XO

DIY: Earbud Holder

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of having my earbuds flop all over the place. One of my friends did this DIY off an idea on Pinterest, and today I decided to do the same and show it to you all.

It was linked to Apartment Therapy, which I found to be a really cool site a while back, so it was a good surprise to hear this idea coming from there.

1. Find an old used gift card or credit card and cut off the edges in the form of two trapezoids, like in the picture.

2. Using a strong hole punch or a drill, punch out 2 holes at the top of your card (you choose which side should be the top) and one hole at the bottom.
3. Cut some lines from the outside of the card to the holes for each of the holes that were cut. This allows the earbuds to easily pass through.

4. Fold back the top two cuts that you just made and slide the ear pieces of the earbuds in the slot. The gift card is flexible, so you can easxdily do this. Make sure you cut your hole a little bigger than mine so that your final product will be pretty flat.
5. Take the wire and wrap it around your card.
6. At the last step, loop the wire around the bottom hole twice and push the plug-part through as well.
I'm very bad at describing things, so I hope the pictures helped.
Tell me if you tried this out too and if you know of any easy techniques to store your earbuds/headphones in your bag. :)
XO

Hearts/Valentine's Day Nails Tutorial

This video was made a while ago, but I thought I'd share it with you all. It was for Valentine's Day- a cute design containing tons of hearts. I actually found out the trick of creating the heart through bubzbeauty on Youtube. She was drawing bumble bees from Winnie the Pooh and created dashed lines. She gave the idea to her viewers to use a bent toothpick to create the lines, but I thought they were better suited to create hearts and flowers because of the teardrop shape. 

Hope you all try this design! If you do, please share a picture. I'd be really happy to see one. :)

XO

Items Used:

Toothpick

Sinful Colors - Soul Mate

Avon - Blossom 

Spring Flower Nails Tutorial

1. Paint your nails a creamy purple color besides your ring finger. Here I'm using Tutu Cute by Ulta (and you have to admit that the name itself is too too cute!).

2. Now use a white polish to paint your ring finger. The one I used was Wet n' Wild's French Creme.

3. Here are the things you'll need for this nail design. Instead of a brush you can use a bobby pin or pen for the flowers and a toothpick for details.

4. Create messy dots to represent the flowers on the white base of the ring finger.

5. Now mix the purple with the white polish to create a light purple used for detailing.

6. Draw a swirly design within the flowers, like in the picture.

7. Now take out your green polish and draw 2-3 leaves around the flowers.

8. And lastly, set your design with a shiny topcoat.

Remember that this design can also be done with toothpicks and bobby pins, so don't be bummed by seeing the brush.

Also, play around with it- do the springy flowers on all your nails or on your toes, or even have a different color scheme.

Hope you all try it out! I'd love to see a picture.

XO

Tuxedo Nails Tutorial

A while ago I decided to try out these cute tuxedo nails. 

They were inspired by Zooey Deschanel in this year's Golden Globes. She actually tweeted about them, so the picture on the far right of the photoset underneath is one that she took of her nails. 

Zooey Deschanel is such a cute and quirky actor. I love watching her in movies or in her show, New Girl. (I have to catch up on it, though.)

Picture from here :)

So my nails are pretty similar, but I decided to go with just a very, very small black tip instead of the normal black french tip that she's sporting. I wanted more space for the bow and the buttons. :)

Here's a little tutorial on how to have quick and easy nails like her:

1. Start of with a white base. Here I am using a Wet n' Wild white creme color. 

2. Since I couldn't find my brushes, I decided to use both a pen and a pencil. I still need to search for those. Both of these are good alternatives too if you do not own a brush/dotting tool. In the picture, I added a blob of black polish on a post-it note to use in my nail art. 

3. Create a bow using your lead pencil. It's fairly easy- just connect two triangles together. 

4. Line the outer edge of your nail with black polish on the tip of your lead pencil. If you want a thicker tip, I suggest using a steady hand to glide the black across. Make sure while you are doing this to move your finger in the direction you want, rather than the nail polish brush- this makes it an easy application. If you're not able to do this, try a nail art pen. 

5. Make three dots with a pen. The reason why we use a pen in this rather than the lead pencil is that the pen has a thicker tip, making the dots a larger size. 

6. Not pictured, but protect your design and give it some shine with a good top coat.

And wala! Here are your fancy, schamncy tuxedo nails. You'll look spiffy all over town. :) Hope this helped!