Pinterest Challenge - Day 13 - Honey Sugar Face Scrub

Day 13 Pinspiration:  Click here to see my pin

Photo By: Cutout and Keep

 My Honey Sugar Face Scrub: 

  What youll need: 

• Sugar
• Honey
• Olive Oil
• Salt

Mix together equal parts of each ingredient, I used about a tablespoon of each.

Apply to desired area and scrub!

I did my face and chest and was surprised at how wonderful and rejuvenated my skin felt! I would not recommend this scrub for people with a naturally oily skin because the olive oil really adds moisture. However it worked perfect for my dry skin and the granules of salt and sugar really helped to scrape off the dry and dead layers of ski, leaving my skin feeling clean and pampered

Pinterest Challenge - Day 12 - Denim and Leggings

Day 12 Pinspiration: Click here to see my pin

Photo By: Fashion Worship

 My Denim and Leggings:

Pinterest Challenge - Day 9 - Jean Jacket

Day 9 Pinspiration: Click Here and Here to see my pins

Link to Photo

By: Fashion Worship

 

My Jean Jacket: 

 

Pinterest Challenge - Day 7 - DIY French Manicure

Day 6 Pinspiration: Click here to see my pin

 

My DIY French Manicure: 

I was so excited to find this on Pinterest because I never go get my nails done, its expensive and my nails get trashed at work because of how much antibacterial alcohol I have to use. This seemed like a great way for me to get a salon look for free! However I was very dissapointed, the tip color bled under the sticky onto the base nail color and the whole thing looked messy. Attempted a second time with a not to flashy color (silver) and It looked better but again not perfect like it does in the Pinterest version. So bummer here, but this Pinterest fantasy was... BUSTED

Pinterest Challenge- Day 5 - Golden Smokey Eye

Day 5 Pinspiration: Click here to see my pin

 My Golden Smokey Eye:

Ok I have now learned that my camera sucks and the lighting is horrible in my bathroom, so sorry everyone for the last couple of pics that are dark and fuzzy. Anyway I pretty much followed this tutorial for this look however I used less of the gold and more black on my eyes.

Also they show just a dark black eye shadow for the dark parts, I took it a step further by lining my eyes with heavy black pencil liner all the way acros top and bottom lids and then taking a smodger brush (you could use a small defined brush if you dont have a smudger) and smudging up the liner the whole way across my eyes on both lids but really focusing on bringing out the liner on the outer edges of the eye. then split my eye in half like they did and did one side gold and one side black, I used a darker gold color in between to blend the two shades together.

dotted line showing how much to smudge out eyeliner

So here's my finished product, sorry again that its so dark and cant really see much. But I was really happy with the way it turned out. I think the dramatic eye paired great with the simple bun from my last post.

Pinterest Challenge - Day 4- The Fun Bun

Day 4 Pinspiration: Click here to see my pin

 

My Fun Bun:

 

I tried to follow the steps as shown in the pins above but unfortunately the example shown doesn't work well for shorter hairstyles so I had to improvise. I also have bangs so I chose to leave those out of the updo. So if you have shorter hair follow my steps:

1. Just as seen above pull your hair into a tight pony either on the top of your head or just pretty high. 
2. In the above tutorial she said if you have straight hair curl ends before putting in the ponytail but I found it much easier to curl after the pony tail. so after up in a pony divide your hair in 1/2 upper and lower sections and curl the ends of the upper portion up toward your face and curl the ends under and back toward the ponytail. The bottom sections of hair curl toward base of neck and curl the ends under and back toward the ponytail. This will help the hair form the bun shape. 
3. Divide the top 1/2 of the hair you curled into right and left sides. Take the right section and loop the ends in toward the pony tail and bobby pin the section so it starts to form the bun loop. Pin the hair tighter and smaller loop then you want so you can reshape a little later. Repeat with the left side and divide bottom 1/2 of hair into right and left and pin sections just light top 1/2 of the bun.
4. Once all your hair has been formed into the bun shape, pull gently on the hair to spread it out so there are no open spots present in the bun and the bun is the size you want.
5. Top off with hairspray and your done!

Pinterest Challenge

Like many young women, Ive been a pinterest-a-holic for some time now. Often I find myself combing page after page looking at cute pictures of funky outfits, beautiful houses, delicious food, and crafty DIY projects. I save these pretties to boards and keep on looking. The other day I finally asked myself, Melanie are you ever going to do any of those things that you pin? Probably not....

 

Pinterest in Action:

My time and energy is precious and I should focus my efforts on productive things, but I'm to hooked to say goodbye now! So instead of saying no more to pinning, I've decided to turn it into a real world effort to improve my home, closet, kitchen and life! My next 30 posts will all be focused around ideas or inspiration I found on Pinterest.

Day 1-30 Blogs:

1. Pernil Pork 
2. Pylo Pilates 
3. Fridge Mats 
4. The Fun Bun 
5. Golden Smokey Eye
6. Lasagna Pasta Pies
7. DIY French Manicure (Busted) 
8. Freezer Breakfast Burritos 
9. Jean Jacket 
10.  Lazy Girl Workout
11. Squash Apple Bake 
12.  Denim and Leggings
13. Honey Sugar Face Scrub 
14. Homemade Pita Chips 
15.  Kitchen Wall Storage
16. How to cut a pineapple 
17. Kabocha Squash Curry 
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