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r e s r t o t t i e d e L e h t m o r f Dear Readers, LUXE will give the inside scoop on the latest fashion trends and fitness exercises. This edition of LUXE includes what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to work in the fashion world. There are exclusive interviews with supermodel Allison Walton, makeup artist Jenny Cole and entrepreneurs Heidi Krell and Rachel Roberts.We want to show you the world of fashion from the perspectives of people who work in it. Interviews were not easy to come by but we finally found people who were happy to share their stories with us. Our mission is to help you keep that body of yours in shape and in style. Read our stories and suggestions to get the most out of your everyday life.

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08 - Meet the Babes

FASHION 10 - Paint it yourself, American Flag shorts Learn how to make American Flag shorts in preparation for the Fourth or just for fun!

12 - A Love for the Arts - The Life of Heidi Krell Get the inside scoop on fashion design! Meet Heidi Krell, a seamstress in Austin, Texas.

16 - Model Behavior - A Day in the Life 20 - Nature of Design - The Art of Simple Jewelry

Climb over the stereotypes of what it’s like to be a model and get the real story.

Necklaces, bracelets, rings, all types of jewelry! Not too much, and not too little, learn about Mingle Jewelry and it’s appeal.

24 - Make your mark, with chevron art Here’s an easy step-by-step guide to making chevron art... for anything! This trendy pattern is becoming more popular everywhere, so go with the flow!

HEALTH AND FITNESS

22 - 12 minute abs, the easiest way to get toned Don’t have time for the gym? No worries, here’s a simple, quick and effective workout to tighten that tummy!

BEAUTY 29 - How to: The Perfect Cat-Eye Whether it’s for school, work, or a girl’s night out, we’ve got you covered with a simple, timeless and elegant look.

31 - How to: A Smokey Eye, Day and Night If you’re glitzy and glamourous, or if you’re sultry and mysterious, you will be in love with these two easy ways to achieve the smokey eye. A toned-down version for the day, and a bold one for the night.

36 - DIY: Galaxy Nails, a how to guide Galaxy prints are in style, here and now. If you just want to experiment, to see if you like it, try it on your nails, we’ll show you how!

30 - Be who you want to be - Change your life, one simple way

Some think that makeup is for girly girls, or that it’s hiding who you are, but it can make you more confident, or give you that boost you need! 34 - At Home Spa Treatments Do it yourself, the perfect alternative to spending money. You will no longer have to go to the spa or the salon, because you can do it at home. For all skin types, we have a solution. 38 - In art we trust, show your preppy side Frockets, or front pockets, are oh so cool. it’s an easy way to add depth to your outfit. Chevron, polka dot, zebra, checkered, vintage or camo, it doesn’t matter! Pick your face and let’s get started!

s e b a B e h t ea ltook inside e M Mikaela “Little Boss Lady” Rodriguez Middle School: Kealing Favorite Brand: American Eagle Favorite Accessory: Bows Hobbies: Soccer, softball Favorite outfit: Pink shirt, shorts and Sperrys

Currie “JP” Larrimer Middle School: Kealing Favorite Brand: Brandy Mellville Favorite Accessory: Monogram necklace Hobbies: Softball Favorite outfit: Jeans, a comfortable shirt and cowboy boots

Anja “Couch” Meisel Middle School: Lesher Favorite Brand: H&M Favorite Accessory: Rings Hobbies: Lacrosse, singing Favorite outfit: Comfy tee and jeans

Stella â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quinoaâ&#x20AC;? Luck Middle School: Kealing Favorite Brand: Lululemon Favorite Accessory: Jesus sandals Hobbies: Rowing Favorite outfit: White high-waisted shorts and a comfy button down

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What better way to show your partiotism than with American flag shorts? Not only are they cute but they can be made in no time at all! All you need is a few cheap materials and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re set. Follow these four simple steps to create shorts youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to wear every day.

The first step in is to cut out stars in some paper or cardstock. Choose a size that goes with the shorts you are painting. Then place the stars on the left side of the shorts and trace them lightly with a pen.

Once the stars are painted, you can move on to the stripes. First, line the right side of the shorts with painters tape. Then paint the non taped parts white. Make sure the tape is flat on the shorts so you get the straightest lines possible. Source: Our LIfe in the Queen City

Pick the stars up off of the shorts and paint inside the stencil you made in step one. Use white fabric paint for the best results. Try to make the stars as white as possible so that after much washing and wearing they are still visible.

The last step is to paint the red stripes. Remove the tape and paint these spaces red. For a more vintage look spread the color so that it looks darker and less finished. Let them dry flat for 4 hours and after 72 hours wash and wear them!

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eidi Krell was getting her daughter ready for school, when she got an alert from her computer. She wearily walked over to her computer and looked at the screen. The message read “I would like to order some shirts for my company, could you make them for me?” Krell, a local business owner, makes and sells baby clothes and quilts from her house. She has been doing this for about 16 years and just recently started her business back up again. “There’s this store from the town that I’m from that wanted their employees to all wear the same T-shirts,” Krell said. “So I created a screen using the design that they gave me and I made the shirts.” Heidi Krell attended Sewanee University, also known as The University of the South, a small liberal arts college located between Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn. “Well I’ve always been into art,” Krell said. “I knew when I was little that I wanted to do something that had to do with art. So I majored in art in college and I got out of school with a bachelors degree in fine arts.” After taking some time off from school, Heidi thought about going to graduate school for fine arts, but instead went back to school to become a teacher. She earned her teacher’s degree from Colorado State University and became an art

Heidi Krell, owner of Heidi Krell Designs, stands in front of one of the baby quilts that she made. She has been making quilts and clothes for about 16 years.

teacher at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, Colo. “I remember when I was a teacher I had two students who would come to school with these amazing things on and I would ask them where they got their clothes and they said ‘Mrs. Krell I made it myself,” Krell said. “I was just blown away that they could do it by themselves, and I asked them many times if they could teach me to sew

and they told me I could teach myself.” This was the first time she had an interest in sewing, so she bought a pattern she liked and started using her grandmother’s sewing machine regularly. “Also, I started to read books and figure thing outs by trial and error,” Krell said. “It was really frustrating at the beginning, because you would be going along and doing really well and then you would really mess up.

So it was just patience and I worked on my projects whenever I had free time because I wasn’t working.” After a while she finally learned how to sew and made her daughter Matilda, a quilt. The quilt was the first item that Krell ever made and it jump started her business. It took Krell a while to make her first quilt because she was new to the quilt-making process. “It depends on the size and

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Krell uses many pins when she is creating her items, in how intricate you get,” Krell pencil or pen sketch and then go her friends sell their work to order to ensure everything stays in place. said. “You can do one in a day if from there.” boutiques like Atown, which it’s just square and very straight After making the products focuses on local artists. Krell forward. Othshe ships them still likes selling her items from ers have taken out directly to her house because it’s less of a “Well I’ve always been the customer. me a week, if risk. She is not a risk-taker and into art. I knew when I But she didn’t I’m spending having to take out a huge loan was little that I wanted always sell her all my time would scare her. So for now she sewing. But products from is going to continue selling from to do something that what takes the her house. When her house. had to do with art. most amount of So I majored in art in she first started Aside from working on her time is designher business, she items, Heidi also volunteers college and I got out of went to craft fairs for CASA. CASA, also known ing it, getting school with a bachelors but she didn’t like as Court Appointed Special the fabrics you degree in fine arts.” want, and placthem because Advocate, is a national agency ing them where she didn’t know dedicated to speaking up for any you would like how many people neglected children. Heidi works amount of effort that she needs them to go.” would show up. When not for CASA of Travis County and to in order to keep her business Heidi makes baby quilts, baby enough people showed up to the in her free time she’s an advorunning full time. Ever since her clothes and T-shirts all by specraft fairs, Krell felt the effort cate for a child in need. kids, Matilda and Larsen, 13 and cial order. She started making she put into preparing her booth “So you get to know that child 7, have gone off to school, Krell baby items around the same as was a waste of time. for a year and you go to court has been able to work on her her T-shirt designs. The process “People still ask me if I have on their behalf,” Krell said. “You projects more. Her plans for the of making a T-shirt requires a a website and I don’t, but I’m also get to help decide what you future involve keeping her busiscreen which can be made very starting to think I should,” Krell think will be best for them. It’s ness up and running. simply or quite complex. A said. “Because that’s the best way really cool because now I have “ I’d like to focus on my Etsy screen is used to print an image to get your work out there, but time to do both jobs so if I get site and continue to quilt on or words onto a T-shirt. The first the Etsy account is kind of new tired of doing one job I can just commission,” Krell said. “I’ve screen she made was created for me and it’s empty.” work on the other on in order to considered starting a blog as from items inside her house. Krell has sold most of her try something new.” well. Sometimes I think I’d like “One of the first screens products online, but some of Krell feels she hasn’t put the to teach art privately, too.” that I created was made with Krell makes many baby items, including bibs and burpiing cloths, that she sells from the comfort of her house. Evan was one of her customers and she made him bathroom towel. a wooden frame, a stretched shower curtain, and duct tape,” Krell said. “First, I stretched the shower curtain material over the frame and taped it down using duct tape. Then I drew what I wanted my design to look like, and I painted some acrylic paint all around it. Next, I squeegeed it and the parts that didn’t have paint on it were the picture.” Whenever Krell gets an order to make something, the customer has the option to specify what they want or they can let her come up with her own design. “Sometimes the person will tell you exactly what they want or they’ll have a logo and you’ll completely copy it,” Krell said. “Other times you just come up with some sketches. I’m not very technically savvy and I don’t do a lot of work on the computer. Most of the time I start with a Photo by Mikaela Rodriguez

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for myself and say I don’t want effectively. She says that she has to do this is important. You to “have goals, have thick skin.” have to stand up for yourself Her advice to teenage girls? and you can get a lot of respect “Don’t take everything perfor that, people know where sonally. It’s important to stay in you stand. It’s really good for touch with family and friends, girls to know how to stand up it’s a very solitary existence, for themselves and know who you have to enjoy traveling, they are. You decide what’s and everywhere you go be curiright for you.” ous, there’s a lot of great things Body positivity and self out there when you’re curious.” esteem are While things that self With businesses like this esteem is many teenage girls you’re thrown in with the a definite struggle the sharks, you’re not protect- issue, with. Do modeling ed. Mental and physical Someindustry thing, a health are the most impor- isn’t as non profit as tant things, know who you bad organizasome are and focus on the posi- people tion, has recently make it tive. That’s it really, bereleased to be. cause every single person out some Allison has something that they has had shocking statistics. would like to make better some 7 out of about themselves, but you amazing 10 girls experican’t focus on that. You believe that ences. they are When a can’t be your own worst not good modeling enemy. enough, agency, 44% of The Paige high Parkes school girls are attempting to Corporation, found her headlose weight and that girls will shots, Allison’s life was changed low self esteem are four times forever. more likely to engage in activ“I was going to go to Baylor ity that they end up regretting. University, and she [Paige Allison says that the key to Parkes] got me a job with the avoiding this is loving yourself. Germans in Miami, I decided Staying positive is sometimes to give it a shot for 3 or 4 days something that Allison wrestles and I fell in love with it. I put with too, but she deals with it off college for a year, but 22

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years later I haven’t gone back.” When asked what the best experience Allison has had in her career was, Allison was excited to share. “I got to work with David LaChapelle, he’s one of the best in the world. It was an outstanding experience, to work with someone that you always wanted to work with. And to be able to live in places like Milan or Sydney, these incredible cities, and also make money. You don’t just vacation, it’s like getting paid to travel, its incredible.” “You can become really self conscious really quickly, but if you work on who you are and staying secure with who you are, you can be resilient in that sense.” So girls, stay secure with who you are. Don’t let anything distract people from the real you, and focus on the positive. Beauty isn’t just in the way you look, it’s in the way you walk and the way you talk, it’s the way you treat yourself.

“Be young while you’re young, don’t try too hard, just have fun.” - Allison

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ot every piece of jewelry is inspired by the simple nature surrounding us. It can take a certain creative touch to make something so captivating and basic at the same time. “My designs are based on organic shapes and textures found in nature and the natural processes of fabricating the metal,” Rachel Roberts, owner of Mingle Jewelry, said, “I was not interested in making pieces with angular features and perfectly straight lines. I am able to explore the imperfect and organic look of natural shapes through my process of making the jewelry.” Roberts sells her products in stores all over the country and makes 100 percent of it herself. It may seem like a lot to do but Roberts handles it well. She mainly sells out of Texas and California but she also has stores in New Mexico, Florida and Tennessee. Her largest stores are Johnny Was located

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recognize what she wanted to in California and Eliza Page do for the rest of her life. located in Austin. She’s worked Roberts’ jewelry is inspired hard to get to where she is now by a number of things such as and is having the time of her nature and the way life. Anyone the metal is shaped could make “ I am an artist by a variety of tools. an amazing and have always She has always loved career out of been an artist and being creative but jewelry deshe was only sure of sign just like drawn to makwhat she wanted to Rachel has. ing jewelry at a do while working in To acyoung age. Once a UT classroom one complish year. what she I began working has, Roberts “I am an artist and in metalsmithing have always been an attended The in college at UT, I artist and drawn to University of Texas at Aus- was captivated by making jewelry at a young age,” Robtin, earning the process and erts said. “Once I a Bachelor wanted to pursue began working in of Fine Arts metalsmithing in (BFA) with making jewelry college at UT, I was a concenfull time.” captivated by the tration in process and wanted metalsmithto pursue making ing. This jewelry full time.” later helped her start Mingle When Roberts first started Jewelry. Going to school was out, she used her resources to especially important for Robher advantage. Although she erts because it allowed her to

The earrings that Roberts’ designs are extremely popular and each and every pair is a unique shape and designed with a special touch. This pair of earrings costs $60 at Mingle.

All of Roberts’ pieces are simple but meaningful. This bracelet is unlike any other and is a great example of Roberts’

didn’t know too many bigname companies, the people close to her helped out a lot. It isn’t easy to start a business and get your name and products out there, but Roberts was smart and did what she could to get started. “I mainly relied on word of mouth to grow my business,” Roberts said. “I started having jewelry parties with friends and family. These parties continued to blossom and more and more people started to see more of my jewelry.” Roberts feels her business is in a good place, but to improve it even more, she’ll need to get her name out to more companies. Because the digital world is becoming more and more prevalent, it is important that she put her products on the Internet. This way customers can easily view and purchase them. “I am currently working on a new collection and all new website that will be a fresh new look for Mingle Jewelry. Then I will be working on more national marketing and national trade shows. The new

work. Almost all of her pieces are made of pure silver or gold just like this one.

collection will add some modern elements to the distinct Mingle style that I have always designed. There will be newer versions of classics, and still include some all time favorites. I have let out some sneak peaks of the new collection, and people have responded very well,” Roberts said. Another good promotion for Mingle has been appearances in popular magazines. So far the company has been mentioned in People magazine, Austin Monthly, and Dallas Child. These opportunities help out a lot with promoting Rachel’s business. Based on the effects of this publicity, as she continues being recognized, her business will grow more and more. “They helped me to gain more progressive recognition as well as a larger national audience,” Roberts said. In order to please all of her customers, Roberts must work hard to produce all of the jewelry that has been ordered. But this had become second nature to her, after working for 10 years getting all of these orders

Rachel Roberts, owner of Mingle Jewelry, creates a piece of jewelry while in deep concentration for one of her many shops. She makes all of her jewelry by hand and can make up to 50 pieces per day. She spends most of her time designing a new collection coming out soon.

done is a piece of cake. “It really varies on the time frame,” Roberts said. “My jewelry is very straightforward and simple, and I can work on multiple designs all at the same time. It is a process that has allowed very efficient production time. Within a couple of days I can produce 50 pieces of jewelry.” Roberts loves designing her simple jewelry. It allows her to be creative and do her job at the same time. Just like she makes all of her jewelry, Roberts also designs it all. “The design process is my favorite part. I love working on new ideas and especially love when I create a great new design that achieves my aesthetic goals and the classic Mingle look,” Roberts said. Designing the jewelry is a very important part of this business because it is how customers see what kind of jewelry the company is all about. Designing is also important because in order to keep a

This piece of jewelry is one of Roberts’ masterpieces. It is simple, as all of her jewelry is, and conveys a special feeling.

theme for the store, the jewelry must work together and match each other. “The design process is anything from sketching, day dreaming, researching, and basically playing around with shapes and pieces of metal. It is always fun to explore new ideas, and when something really great comes out of that, there is great satisfaction,”

Roberts said. The business of jewelry making is fun and rewarding at the same time and Rachel is lucky enough to pursue it as her career and enjoy her job everyday . All Photos Courtesy of Rachel Roberts

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Every room needs something on the walls and this simple project is perfect for any bare wall that you’re not sure how to decorate. Not only will this piece look beautiful in your room, but you’ll have a blast making it. It may look complicated but anyone can make the perfect piece of art using the tools and steps shown here. Source: Mum’s Business

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The first step in this project is to take your white canvas and tape it. The most simple way to do this is to cut equal length pieces of tape. Place the tape in zig zags across the canvas. You can put as many zig zags as you want to cover the canvas. Try to spread them out as evenly as possible to get the best results. Painters tape is the best tape to use for this part because it leaves clean lines across the canvas and is easy to peel off. You may have to retape the canvas more than once to get it to look just like you want it to. As soon as you’ve done this you’re ready to move onto step two. The next step is to paint your canvas. Choose your favorite color or a shade that will go with whatever else you have in your room. You can either spray paint or just straight brush paint over the tape. To make the art more interesting you can alternate colors in between the zig zags. Once this layer of paint has had time to dry you can add the glitter. Another option is to wait until after you have pulled the tape off of so that the glitter covers the entire canvas even where the colored paint isn’t. Once you have done this set the art out to dry before beginning the third and final step. The last step is to peel off the tape. Wait until the paint is completely dry so that after you peel the tape, it doesn’t start spreading. If you didn’t put glitter on your canvas you can do it after you take the tape off or not at all. After you have let the glitter dry (or not), it is time to hang your artwork. Chose a room with not much on the walls or anywhere you want. At this step you can add anything you’d like over the original chevron. A common addition is a monogram or your name to personalize the art for a bedroom or office. You can add anything you want to make your art unique.

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about her profession and makeup is the power of makeup, how it’s transformative and a great confidence booster. She expresses that it’s not all about outer beauty, but believes that it helps you feel like the better you. Katherine Cooper is an aspiring makeup artist. She says, “To me, makeup is art, like painting, except I’m good at it.”

akeup, sometimes considered utterly unnecessary, sometimes considered required, has the potential to not only change what you look like, but to change how you look at life, how you feel about yourself and how you look at yourself. Proof of this is Sanjana Srinath, a freshman at LASA High Jenny Cole is doing a model’s makeup School. “A lot of girls wear makeup because they “ I love the power of makeup, I makeup as a way feel like they’re not think it’s really transformative. to be more con‘pretty enough’ withIt’s a simple way to lift someone’s fident as well. “It out it when truthfully, does make me mood, and just make people hapthey’re absolutely gormore confident,” py. It’s a really great confidence she says, “It makes geous with, or withbooster, it helps you feel like it’s it easier for me to out it,” Srinath said, “I don’t wear makeup conform to socithe better you!” quite that often, but ety’s expectations when I do, I feel really of what convenconfident, because I feel Makeup is a confidence tional beauty is.” like I’m doing something booster for a lot of girls, “Some people are made for myself. For me, wearand when Cole does more confident with makeing makeup gives me a “someone’s makeup in a up, but others don’t find it feeling of confidence, it’s way that they haven’t tried appealing or don’t find it super fun, and I love it!” before, but end up liking, appealing or don’t have the Jenny Cole is a profesyou just see their eyes light time to apply it; it’s differsional makeup artist. As a up, and I just love that, it’s ent for everyone,” Cooper makeup artist she sees, ala simple way to lift somesays, “But I love it, and I most every day, how it can one’s mood, and just make think it’s loads of fun.” change someone. She says people happy,” she said. The first time Cole ever that her favorite thing Cooper says she sees put on makeup was when

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she was 8 years old. It was Christmas and as a present, she got a book by Kevyn Aucoin from her aunt, as well as some generic, cheap makeup to play with. “From then, I knew that whether it was my profession, or just a hobby, that I wanted to be a makeup artist and be able to do that. It started young!” she says, “Now, my favorite beauty product is my Urban Decay Naked Palette. I use it every day.” Cole also goes to the University of Texas at Austin and is studying international relations and French. She says, “ the reason

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t h g i N r o eye: Day Day: If you want to wear a smokey eye, but you’re too shy to try a dramatic look, then the Day tutorial will teach you how to do a light smokey eye. Night: If you’re going out, or if you just want a dark, sultry look, then this tutorial will teach you how to do the perfect smokey eye.

by Anja Meisel why I didn’t just become a cosmetologist is that my parents really emphasized the importance of education, but my dad and my mom have always been really supportive, and I always thought I was going to be studying something completely different,” she said, “I realized how much we change and evolve, and I really think that a college degree opens a lot of doors.” Change is simple, one little thing you change can change everything, like

maybe a different eyeliner, or a different way of doing your makeup, can make you feel like a completely different person, give you a little boost of confidence. Change is good, and makeup is a temporary way to experiment with change, make you more confident and has the ability to bring out the real you or who you want to be. “We spend a lot of money on clothes, something we can change everyday, but our face is something we wear everyday.”

Sephora Glitz and Glam Set $45 ($159 value)

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1. Prime your lids

2. Take the dark green and apply it all over your lids, it’s okay if it’s messy, you can fix it later

3. Take an angled eyeliner brush, and wet it. Now dip it in the matte black eyeshadow and apply it in the outer corner of your crease

4. Blend

5. Take the smokey black eyeliner and line your lower waterline

6. Take the light gold and lightly apply it in the center of your lids

7. Take the eyeliner brush again, make sure it’s clean, now dip it in the turquoise eyeshadow and apply in in your inner corners

8. If its messy, take a q-tip and apply a face lotion on it, and clean up the excess shadow

9. Now take your liquid liner and make a cat eye - if you don’t know how to do this, go to (p.029)

10. Curl your lashes (11. add false lashes) and apply your favorite mascara

1. Prime your lids

2. Take the orange gold and apply it all over your lids

3. Take the brown gold and apply it in the outer corner crease

4. Blend 5. Take the light gold and apply it in the inner corners if it’s messy, take a q-tip and apply a face lotion on it, and clean up the excess shadow

6. Now take your liquid liner and make a cat eye - if you don’t know how to do this, go to (p.029)

7. Curl your lashes (8. add false lashes) and apply your favorite mascara Source: Michelle Phan and Cosmopolitan Magazine

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by Anja Meisel

Cucumber Mask Skin Type: Any, especially sensitive or acne prone

Mask Ingredients: cucumber, honey and bentonite or kaolin clay Instructions: Blend 1/2 a cucumber with 1 tbsp of honey and 1 tsp of clay, apply and let sit for 20 minutes, then wash off with lukewarm water.

Guacamole Mask Skin Type: Any, especially dry, or damaged Mask Ingredients: avocado and honey Instructions: mash 1/2 of a ripe avocado with 2 tbsp of honey, let sit for 20+ minutes, then wash off with lukewarm water.

Honey Scrub Skin Type: Any

Scrub Ingredients: honey and sugar Instructions: combine 2 tbsp of honey with 1 tsp of sugar, then apply to face and gently scrub to remove dead skin and impurities, then wash off with luke warm water

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the time, patience or money to run to the spa? No problem, here are 3 easy face masks that you can use, for certain skin types!

Cucumber has cooling properties, and is used to moisturize, as well as relax irritated skin. Avocadoes have many natural oils that are beneficial to moisturizing as well as restoring damaged skin.

Honey also has restorative properties, and tastes good if it so happens to drop... (oops!)

Sugar gently exfoliates the skin, and expelling oils, while not drying it out, allowing people with any type of skin use this scrub Source: wellnessmama.com

s l i a N y x a al

G : Y I D A how to guide

by Mikaela Rodriguez

Nail Salons have become more expensive over the past couple of years, and women are spending about $20 for a manicure nowadays. Instead of spending tons of money by going to the nail salon weekly, you can make fabulous nail designs at home and save money. This is a step-by step guide on how to get the best galaxy nails. Galaxy nails are painted nails that look like galaxies. Below is a list of the items used, which can all be found at any grocery store or drugstore.

Items Used:

A makeup wedge

Nicole by OPI Color: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an Angel

Nicole by OPI Color: Deck the Dolls

OPI Nail Polish Color: This Gown Needs a Crown

Sally Hansen Top Coat Dries Instantly

Sinful Colors Nail Polish Color: Black on Black

Source Likealady.net

Instructions:

1. Start off with clean nails.

2. Then paint your nails black.

3. Paint a light coat of the blue nail polish and gently

4. Paint a light coat of the pink nail polish, but don’t

wipe some of it off.

cover all of the blue. Then gently wipe some off.

5. Mix some silver nail polish with the top coat and then 6. Now you’re done and it’s time to show off your new

paint it on the nail.

manicure!

All photos by Mikaela Rodriguez

t s u r t e w e d i t s r y p a p e r p n

r u o y w o sh

by Currie Larrimer

Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re boating around on the lake or just relaxing on a hot summer day, everyone needs a shirt with a frocket. These additions can be attached to any shirt you want and add a special touch just where you need it. This fun design can make any boring shirt stand out. Source: MeauxsMonogram on Etsy All photos by Currie Larrimer

1. Choose a Pattern

Chevron

Polka Dot

Zebra

Checkered

Vintage

Camo

2. Find a T-Shirt After you have chosen your favorite pattern or just a simple color, the next step is to find a shirt. It can be patterned or just a plain color. Make sure to pick a shirt that goes with the pattern you chose in step one. You can use an old shirt that you don’t wear any more or buy a new shirt. Either way will give you a cute shirt you’ll never want to take off.

3. Cut the Pattern Once you have chosen your pattern, cut a pocket that goes with the size of your shirt. For example if you are making a smaller shirt you’ll need a smaller pocket. Cut the fabric in a pentagon using whatever dimensions you feel looks best. You may want to trace the pocket onto the shirt and fabric before you cut it so that you make your shirt as efficiently as possible. Now you are ready to move on to the final step.

4. Sew it on to the shirt Now that you have your shirt and the pocket cut out, you are ready to sew the pocket onto the shirt. You can trace the pocket onto the shirt to make sure it is lined up evenly. Use thread that matches your pattern and color so that it isn’t visible. Place the pocket on the shirt and sew it on. Now that your shirt is finished, you can wear it as often as you want. Wash in cold water with like colors for the best results.

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