DIY Beauty Tutorial Roundup...

Just in time for Mother's Day I've searched the web for the best DIY beauty tutorials...check out the best of the best...

Click here to see links to all the tutorials.

Create your own workbook for A Beautiful Mess e-course...

The very wonderful and talented ladies over at A Beautiful Mess recently released a new e-course called "Blog Life." This e-course is designed to share the wealth of information these ladies have on blogging...after all they did turn their blog into a million dollar business...so I'd say they certainly have something to teach.

As someone who is always wanting to learn new things I signed up for the course. It's super simple, you purchase the e-course, you create an account so you can login and work your way through the course (which is a work at your own pace type of thing). Also, when you purchase the e-course they send you a pdf of their workbook. It's super cute pages with whimsical lines and each page is labels for each lesson you will be working on throughout the course. I thought this was a really added thing to have for the students. It's always nice when your doing an online course to have someplace to organize your notes and thoughts about what you're learning about.

While the print out is helpful and very cute...I wanted a way to keep it all organized so I could grab it and get to work without working about loose papers or just using a plain old staple or paperclip. Alot of other bloggers were using the Martha Stewart binders from Staples...which by the way are adorable and I do use them for alot of other things, but they are big, bulky and stiff. I was looking for something that I could grab quick that could be tossed in a tote really quick.

Everything else at Staples was *not* even close to being cute...so I grabbed a cute notebook and came up with this little gem!

Here's how you do it:

1) I grabbed one of the notebooks from the Martha Stewart Collection at Staples, a package of paper ring clips (I have no idea what the official name is of these), and some metal clippers. 

2) Clip the metal sprial off of the notebook, separate the cover from the blank note pages, grab your printed "Blog Life" workbook and carefully start adding them to the metal rings. Since I had the blank note paper I added 2-3 pages behind each "Blog Life" lesson section so that I would have extra space to write down ideas and such. 

3) Close the ring clips and you're done! 

4) I grabbed a cute little zippered pouch to keep some extra post-its, pens and washi tape (to secure any extra little papers I've written on)

DIY Storage Options...

I love shopping for organization supplies as much as the next girl... but sometimes you need to just be creative and use what you have on hand...and what I had on hand was an empty Costco box of cookies, a crap-ton of colorful contact paper and some scissors.

 Seriously you guys...it's that easy! Plus its dirt cheap and you're saving space in the landfill!

Homemade Hair & Face Masks

I am totally loving this amazing list of homemade hair and face masks. Go check it out over at Free People Blog....so so so so many amazing ideas.

And to find more masks check out my Pinterest board of DIY Hair Masks.

How to get more mileage from eye shadow primer

Prepare to be amazed!

 

How many of you own one of these from Urban Decay?

This Urban Decay eye shadow primer potion is my favorite primer of all time.

And how many of these have we tossed ladies...thinking it's empty?

 

When you think it's empty DON'T throw it away.

 

Cut that bad boy open!

 

I promise there will be tons of product still in there that the little wand can't reach!

 

 

You're welcome.

 

Girly Fundamentals...DIY Bangs!

Source: thebeautydepartment.com via The Beauty Department on Pinterest