How to Style Elsa’s Braid from Frozen Tutorial
Girls around the world are obsessed with Frozen, and most are particularly in love with Queen Elsa. Make your daughter/niece/neighbor’s or your own day by doing this Elsa’s braid tutorial from Makeup Wearables. It’s a lot simpler than it looks! She has another version of Elsa’s braid, videos, and TONS of gorgeous hair tutorials. I’m glad I discovered it! 
- If our hair is straight, you need to curl it to give it extra body and texture. They used a 1.5″ curling-wand and pinned the curls up to keep the curls stronger for longer.
- Apply hair powder to help with teasing later because it makes your hair sticky.
- Tease your roots everywhere really well, and make sure to use a strong hairspray to set it.
- (Optional) Attach hair-extensions and a couple of hair padding at the back of your head to create Elsa’s cartoon volume. If you don’t have a hair padding, just tease your hair more.
- Gather the back of your crown and make a half-up ponytail, but Leave out the front of your hair.
- Start a normal 3-strand braid with the half-up ponytail.
- Start adding in hair to the side strands to start a French braid: First section, take from the crown, and add it to the right strand, before crossing both strands over the middle strand. (See picture or video for clarification.)
- Take a section of hair from the left side and add it to the left strand, before crossing it over the middle strand.
- Repeat until all the hair is in one big braid.
- After putting the braid in an elastic band, pull out the sides to make the braid bigger.
- Grab a small piece of hair at the end with one hand, and pull up the braid with the other hand towards the crown to scrunch it. This will instantly create more volume in the braid and look more like Elsa’s.
- Tug on the sides to adjust the size and to make the braid even, then spray well with holding hairspray. TAKE PICTURES!!
DIY Spoon Planter Hooks
Looking for a creative way to hang some small plants either outside or indoors? Check out these DIY Spoon Planter Hooks. Learn How to bend the spoons properly from WikiHow HERE. Then hang in desired location and display small plants around your house! What a wonderful idea. May be a great way to display your herbs in the kitchen! Have fun with it!
Recipe: Kool-Aid Playdough
I love using my freebies and awesome deals to make fun low cost activities for the kids. This is a super fun thing that the kids can even help make! It is really easy and you can finish the whole process and be ready to play in about 7 minutes (okay 10 if you have the kids helping). Someone asked if you can make this with Country Time Lemonade and I can say, the last time I tried it, it did not produce as good of results as the Kool-Aide. Plus the KoolAide scent lasted a lot longer.
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- ¼ cup salt
- 1 packet Kool-Aid
- 1/2 cup Water
- 1 tbsp oil
Instructions
- Mix the flour, the salt, and the Kool-Aid together.
- Boil the water.
- Add the oil to the water.
- Pour some of the water into the dry ingredients and mix with a spoon. Keep adding water and work the dough until the color is uniform and feels like playdough.
- Be sure to keep stored in a resealable container in the refrigerator – it will last a very long time if you do, and can be used over and over again.
DIY Decorative Rose Mirror
Next time you use up all the eggs, hang on to those egg cartons and make this awesome decorative mirror. So simple.
Materials
- 12-cup egg cartons (you’ll need 5 cartons to make a small mirror or 12 to make a large mirror)
- Hot-glue gun and hot-glue sticks
- Mirror tile or small mirror (frame removed)
- 3mm MDF
Directions
- Step 1: Make a mirror with a flower design that is made out of none other than egg cartons.
- Step 2: Cut 1 slit into each corner of 1 cup (to make 4 slits). Cut each piece into a petal shape. Repeat with another cup, to create second layer of rose. Repeat with a third cup, but cut petals a little smaller, then roll so petals curve and make a bud shape.
- Step 3: Hot glue the 3 layers together, offsetting middle layer so petals sit in spaces between petals of bottom layer. Finish with layer of smaller petals. Repeat process until you’ve made enough roses to completely surround mirror. Spray roses with white paint, if desired. Leave to dry.
- Step 4: Measure and mark 3cm in across top and down side from 1 corner of MDF. Rule a line to join marks and saw off triangle. Repeat for all corners. Position mirror in centre of MDF, trace around, then remove.
- Step 5: Drill 2 pairs of holes in frame above mirror position. Thread through picture hanging wire and secure. Paint MDF border with black paint and allow to dry. Glue mirror in position.
- Step 6: Starting at 1 corner, hot glue roses to frame, bending petals to fill in gaps if needed. Continue until frame is covered.
DIY Glitter Sandals Tutorial
Have a pair of boring sandals that aren’t getting worn enough? This tutorial will teach you how to easily and very inexpensively glam your sandals up and make sure you’ve got sparkly feet this summer!
What You’ll Need:
- A pair of basic flat sandals
- Glitter (a large container of glitter in the color of your choice)
- Tacky glue (from the craft store)
- Foam brush
- Clear sealant
Directions:
- Use a brush to apply a layer of glue over the areas of the sandal you are going to apply glitter. Do 1 sandal at a time.
- Sprinkle glitter generously over the glued area while the glue is still wet. Be sure to put pour the glitter on the sandal over newspaper, paper, or other way to collect the leftover glitter.
- Gently shake off extra glitter. To keep the remaining glitter in place, spray on a light coat of clear sealant. Or if you’re out of sealant, use a light coat of clear fingernail polish.
- Repeat steps 1-3 on the other sandal.
- Allow your sandals to dry fully overnight, then admire your new glitzy footwear!