Tutorials – Page 4 – Elisabeth Johnson

Posted on April 21, 2013April 15, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 4 Comments

A Side Messy Bun in Less Than 2 Minutes

I showed you last week how I used an elastic headband to jazz up my leftover hair (Second Day Hair). This week I wanted to share with you another 2 minute style.

This is a side messy bun with with bangs that really open up your face. I love how easy and fun this looks. Plus, it makes you looks like you spent so much time on your hair and you really just spent 2 minutes.

Here is a short video showing you just how I accomplished this style. You will be amazed at how easy and quick it is.

A messy bun is perfect for so many different occasions including your every day look. I don’t usually just pull my hair back into a basic pony tail which forces me to come up with other quick styles.

Check out some of my other 2 minute styles:

Are you ever looking for a 2 minute style?

Do you think that any of these will help you out in getting ready in the morning?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 2 Comments

Designing My Wedding Center Pieces {Using Clear Wine Bottles}

With the wedding only four and a half months away I feel like there is still so much to do. I know that I am going to have a ton of DIY things for the reception since I want to make sure that everything is cost efficient. Ok, and because I want everything to be perfect and just what I have envisioned.

Pinterest has been a great help with all of my planning so far! It has helped me decide so many things, for instance: My wedding color scheme along with some of my other Wedding ideas.

Although today I am going to need a little bit of your help. I can’t decide what I want to do with all of these clear glass wine bottles. My Mom and Dad were down at a winery in Missouri, where they picked up a couple dozen empty clear wine bottles that I can use for the wedding.

So naturally I would go on pinterest to see what kind of DIY’s I could come up with for clear wine glasses. These were my favorites:

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This one I cold even use all of the corks I have been collecting.

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Meanwhile, I had to get these bottles in shape for the wedding. I needed to remove the tops and the labels off of all of them. I thought it would take hours because there were so many.

I filled up our sink with hot water and put a quarter of a teaspoon of Basic H into the tub and let them soak for 10 minutes.

To my surprise all of the labels came right off! Thank you Basic H!

I am so glad it only took me 10 minutes to get all of these cleaned and not a couple of hours like I thought it would.

So after all of that work, the question still stands: What do you think I should do with all of these wine bottles? I just can’t make up my mind.

Posted on April 15, 2013April 15, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 2 Comments

Style Your Hair Using an Elastic Headband in Under 2 Minutes!

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend, I know that I did! I don’t know about you but Mondays are always a little harder for me to get back in the swing of things. I am not much of a morning person and for some reason Mondays are always the hardest.

Monday’s are also my lazy days, especially when it comes to my hair. I have a large amount of two minute hair styles that I have and use almost every Monday! (hehe! Shhhhh, don’t tell anyone)

I want to show you one of my favorite styles to help second day hair look good. {Just so we are all clear, I like to call my second day hair “leftovers”. Brandon laughs every time he hears me call it that. Although that is me and I thought I would share that little fact with you.}

You will only need an elastic headband and some bobby pins.

This style is very simple and can work with straight or curly hair. Here is a short video showing you just what I do to achieve this style!

The flower headband was the inspiration for this entire outfit. I love the color and the softness of how it looks. It really goes well with the light pink lace top, the cream crocheted flats as well as the dark grey skinnies.

I love this top with the flower headband.

Do you think this is a style you would be able to achieve at home?

Thanks for following a long and I am looking forward to this nice week ahead of us!

Posted on April 12, 2013April 12, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 5 Comments

10 Steps to Fake a Good Nights Rest!

I am proud to announce that I have been a blog contributor for a good friend of mine, Natalia at Ma Nouvelle Mode! Her and I met at a blogging conference a while back and have stayed in touch ever since! She is an amazing wife and mother to 2 beautiful boys. She loves helping busy moms find well deserved time for themselves and has graciously has asked me to help her along the way. Last month I posted about “2 Hair Styles in Under 2 Minutes Each”.

With moms being as busy as they are, I know that most nights they aren’t getting enough sleep. So, this month I wanted to share with you how to “Fake a good nights rest”.

This video has a complete makeup tutorial showing you just how I faked a good nights rest. It is very easy and makes you look and feel very refreshed.

I hope this helps you on those mornings after a long night.

Do you think this is something that you will be able to use and incorporate into your morning routine?