How-To – Page 4 – Elisabeth Johnson

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?

Posted on March 26, 2013March 26, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 10 Comments

Natural Eye Makeup Remover {DIY}

Are you sick and tired of your eye makeup remover burning your eyes? Or maybe it just doesn’t work the way it should and your eyes are raw after wiping them so many times (and probably way to hard).

You are not alone! For years I have been struggling to find the right eye makeup remover for me. I don’t know how many different products I have tried. Out of all of them there was only one that stood out from all of the rest and that was coconut oil!

I know what you are probably thinking: coconut oil isn’t a eye makeup removal product. Although coconut oil is used in the kitchen there are so many other uses for it and removing makeup is one of them.

Here is a short video showing you just how easy it is to use coconut oil as an eye makeup remover.

I honestly can’t believe how amazing coconut oil works. It is natural, safe and effective. Once you start using it, I guarantee you won’t ever go back to your old stuff again.

It is this simple:

1. Start with all of your makeup still on your face.

2. Put coconut oil on your fingers (about a pea size) and close your eyes.

3. Rub the coconut oil on your eyes.

4. Yes it will look you have big black raccoon eyes. lol

5. Grab your wash clothe.

6. Gently wipe off the oil with your clothe.

7. Repeat on other eye.

8. You’re finished!

It doesn’t get much easier than this! It doesn’t make my eyes burn and there are no harsh chemicals! This is definitely a must try, it even gets off waterproof mascara!

Do you like the eye makeup remover that you are currently using? If you get it in your eye does it burn like mind did?

Posted on March 15, 2013March 15, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 9 Comments

Make an Infinity Scarf in Less Than 1 Minute {DIY}

Last week I showed you how to make leg warmers in less than 1 minute and now I am going to show you how to use that same sweater and turn it into an infinity scarf in less than a minute.

Upcycling is such a fun thing to do. I love the thought of taking something old and turning into something new. There are so many thing that can be upcycled, it is kind of exciting.

Here is a video showing you just how I made this infinity scarf!

You are going to need one old sweater and fabric scissors. Lay the sweater flat on the table.

Cut the sweater for one under arm seem to the other.

It should look like this.

Give it a good stretch.

And you are done!

I love the way it looks! Snapshot 1 (3-11-2013 4-45 PM)

I just love the way this scarf make an outfit look, it adds so much to so many outfits. I guarantee that you are going to love making these that you are going to end up with a lot of them and you are going to need to a great way to organize your scarves. Do you like wearing scarves?