Hair Tutorial Bonus Video

I just did a How To photo post for one of my regular hair styles. It had a ton of photos in it, so I I decided it would be best if this bonus video was in a separate post. Enjoy.

Hair Tutorial

Sara of Bombshell Beauty requested a tutorial for how I wore my hair here ---------------------->

I am never one to turn down an opportunity to take a ton of pictures of myself in bad lighting first thing in the morning, so you know that I immediately busted out my camera, propped it up in my medicine cabinet and gave up my mirror so that I could document doing my hair. Extra bonus? I spent so much time trying to get my camera timer to recognize my face that I was late for work. LOL All in the name of blog dedication!

Please note that you may not need to follow all of these steps to achieve this look, but you'll miss out on the Tina Experience if you skip too many of them.

On with the photo overload...

There is a bonus video on how to make sausage curls in separate post b/c this one is already way too huge with photos.

DIY Kind of Day

Monday was a DIY kind of day. First, I did three different dye baths: tan, grey, and hunter green. This -----> is my tan dye job. Did you know that if you dye things one at a time in the same dye bath, the color changes? For example, when I used the grey dye bath, I first dyed a slip and then a cami. They both started as the same color and fabric. But the slip was so much darker than the cami. It was a steel grey and the cami was a pale green grey. The same thing happened with my tan and green baths too. It's like each item you dye uses up the dye in the water, leaving just the liquid behind.

Anway, since I spent all day dyeing clothes and sewing, I looked like a bum, so no photos. I did stay fully on track foodwise, though. So I'll post those. I need some reinforcement to keep me motivated.

What I Ate While Dyeing Everything I Own:

• breakfast: cheesy egg, alternative bagel, two cuties, hot tea
• lunch: chicken buddig sandwich with cheese, apple, brocolli slaw
• snack: 2 no pudge brownies, 1 oz goat cheese
• dinner: faux chicken parm, spaghetti squash, ghetto garlic stick

Total for the Day: no exercise (I sprained my ankle last Friday), 26 points

How To Make A Big-Ass Flower

Several of you asked about how I made my Big-Ass Flower last week. Here is my step by step.

(FYI - I formatted this several ways over several hours and could never get it to where it looked the same on my home computer, my work computer, and on my Google Reader. It seems to look better in Blogger than in Google Reader. I may try again later to get the formatting fixed but I just had to quit or I would have gone bonkers. Sorry.)

Items needed:

long narrow scarf
safety pin
stick pin
brooch


Step One:

take one end of scarf in hand (I had mine doubled to make it more narrow.)





Step Two:

fold scarf back over on itself (where you fold it over should be based on how big you want the flower to be)




Step Three:

fold over again, slightly over from previous fold, so that it it starts to create petals.





Step Four:

repeat




Step Five:

repeat







Step Six:

repeat





Step Seven:

repeat, until entire scarf is used.



Step Eight:

use safety pin to secure all layers of petals together.







Step Nine:

Use stick pin to secure "flower" to shirt.







Step Ten:

Use flower brooch to form center of Big-Ass Flower.





A few notes: the scarf I used is a very thin silk scarf, which made it easier to secure with a safety pin. Also, I just used what I had on hand. If I hadn't had a stick pin, I would have used a bigger safety pin or something else to secure it to my shirt. Be creative. It never hurts to try stuff out.

Any questions?