Hey! I'll be teaching you guys how to make a super simple hand scrub today. Trust me, it's simple and won't cost you too much. This will definitely be a great gift idea or even something for you to use yourself.
This hand scrub is magical, it has definitely made my skin much smoother.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 - 2 tbsp Lemon juice (I added 1 1/2 to make it smell more lemony but I think 2 tbsp would make it smell even better.)
1/4 Extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup White sugar

Method:
1. Add all the three ingredients into a contrainer (e.g. jar. Make sure you have a lid for the container)
2. Mix it all together
And you're done! How simple is that!? Pretty much just throwing the three ingredients together in a jar and mixing it together.

In the process of watching off the scrub, your hands my feel oily (like when you've got grease on your fingers and it seems to just not go away) but trust me, after you dry your hands, they'll be super soft and smooth! So just give it a try. :)

I might make a short Youtube video for this simple DIY as well. If I do, it won't be up until near the end of November though (because that'd be after exams.)


Love,
Elaine

Hello! Holidays started last week and to celebrate the fact that there's no uniform rules while at home, I painted my nails! I haven't painted them in so long, mainly because whenever I try to make cool designs, it always fails. But since it's holidays, and I was so bored, I decided to try paint my nails and give it a nice design. I searched on youtube for some cute nail designs but nothing good came up but I searched for it on google and it came up with a blog post Cheesie (cheeserland.com) did. It had steps on how to do this simple nail design. I used the same nail polish colours as her because on my first try I didn't want to ruin it and make it look weird. So I stuck with being safe. I love this design because even people with short nails can do it (I have short nails so I know for a fact that you can do it too!) I think that these nails are perfect for parties! I don't know, they just give me a wild vibe haha.

Equipment:

Clear base/top coat (Sally Hansen), baby pink nail polish for base (Pinkey, bought from Sasa), pink nail polish for dots (Sylvie, bought from Sasa), black nail polish for around dots (Nail Color), nail polish remover, pink tool (toothpicks can be used as substitute), Q tip

Step 1: Buff your nails so they are smooth and clean.

Step 2: Paint a thin layer of clear base coat. This will protect your nails. (Even though, if you're painting your nails, you're not really protecting them in the first place) You don't have to do this step, it's your choice.

Step 3: Paint a layer of baby pink. It has to be a light shade of pink because you don't want it to stand out as much as the actual leopard prints. But you do want a layer of baby pink because it contrasts with the pink prints. In the picture below, you can't really see but I did apply a layer of baby pink nail polish.
Step 4: Use a darker shade of pink and just paint random dots (doesn't have to be perfect) around your nails. Don't paint them too close together though and don't paint too much because the black lines will be hard to fit around. I advise you to use a toothpick (or those fancy tools) to do the dots, unless your brush is thin.

Step 5: Use your black nail polish and draw lines around the pink dots. I used a tool similar to a toothpick because the lines have to be quite small.

Step 6: You can add other stuff to your nails now. Like glitter. You don't have to, you can just leave it as it is. I did a few strokes of glitter for one nail on each of my hands. (I only did it on two nails because from experience, the glitter was super hard to get off)

Step 7: Paint a thin layer of clear top coat nail polish to ensure that your nail will look nice and shiny!

Step 8: If you got some nail polish outside of your nails, then get nail polish remover and a Q tip then just dab away the little bits of nail polish that always seems to go out of the line -.-

note: after each step, make sure you wait until the paint dries!

the finishing product:

This is my right hand, I'm not even gonna show you guys my left hand because it looks like shit. 10x worse than that ^

Question of the day: What's the most amazing nail art you've done? Give me some ideas.

Love,
Elaine

Hey, last night, my sister and I made these candy things! It's those Japanese one (like the brand Kraci) where you get powered substances in the packet and then you add water and mix to create something magical. The packet that we opened was one that tastes like melted fruit bursts (after everything was mixed) I don't recommend buying this for the taste of it, I only recommend you to buy it once in your life and play with it. Because it is quite cool, mixing the powder and water.

The packet

Pour in the powder from green packet (labeled 1) in the circle tray

Pour in powder from the red packet into the same place you poured in the green packet

Pour powder from the orange packet (labeled 4) into the other tray, the one with the companies logo kinda thing

Fill water in the little tray and fill into both sides of the tray

Using the plastic spoon, mix the round tray. Mix it quite a lot so there are no more lumps

Using the plastic spoon, mix the powder and water. (maybe wipe off the pink mixture first...)

The finishing product. You get the spoon and scoop out some pink mixture, then dip in the red mixture.

Question of the week: What's your favourite Kraci product?

Love,
Elaine

Hey everyone, Yvonne and I opened the packet of candy donuts. They are so shit. Like honestly, it's not even cute to look at. These candy donuts are made and sold in Japan. They are made to look like donuts but I failed at it. I advise you to NEVER EVER buy these. No matter how cool you think they are, you will regret it. The candy is so disgusting. Well, it's not that bad but I didn't eat them. It only took me one bite to instantly spit it back out. The candy are kind of like half gum and half toffee. It's not actually gum, but the texture is like gum. Yvonne wanted to buy those Kraci lollies that are cooler, like the sushi one (where you make the caviar and it looks really good!) but she couldn't find them anywhere. I would have much rathered one of those ones than these because you don't even do much to it. Just dip and eat. uck.
Here's our progress:

The packet. The instructions of how to make them are pretty much there

The goodies inside the packet. Plastic tray (that was all squashed), candy (the circle things), white straw, plastic fork, chocolate sauce (in little blue packet) and jam (red packet)

Squeezing all the chocolate sauce out. Looks just a little bit like shit

This is when the straw and fork is useful. You get the straw to poke a hole in the middle of the candy to form a donut shape then use the fork to poke out the little round, extra bit of the candy.

The hole that Yvonne made. Just the slightest bit crooked and not in the actual middle.

Yvonne adding a coat of chocolate on. Mmm, looks good?

The two actual donuts I made

Question of the day: Would you eat these?

Love,
Elaine

Hi lovelies. A few days ago, my science class made sherbet. It's really simple all you need is baking powder (or soda, i forgot), tartaric acid, raro/drink crystals and one other ingredient. just search on google 'homemade sherbet recipe'and I'm sure heaps will come up. I know it looks dodgey because it's in a small clear plastic bag with this white powder stuff in it. but I swear it's not drugs! Just sherbet. But omg, I hate it when the straw clogs up and when you suck really hard, a whole lot of shebet shoots into your mouth. My sherbet lasted me for so long! All through 3rd block (1hr) and lunch (45mins) and even while I was on the bus going home. (10mins?) so a little bit of sherbet lasted me 1hr and 55 mins. haha and it was pretty much non stop eating as well ;)

I'm so nice that I even searched up the sherbet recipe for you.
ingredients:

3 tablespoons citric acid

1 tablespoon baking soda

7 tablespoons icing sugar or 7 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

1. Remember that everything you use for this recipe must be absolutely dry or the sherbet will not work.
2. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl. (you don't really need to sift it)
3. Add citric acid and bicarbonate of soda and mix well.
4. Grind the contents to a fine powder with the back of a spoon.

a big ass chunk of shebet flew into my mouth D:

Question of the day: Have you ever made sherbet before?

Love,
Elaine