manic MANI MONDAY: 90's T-SHIRT NAILS

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I call these 90's t-shirt nails because that is what they remind me of. "Lisa Frank Nails" was in the talk too, I guess either of the names work. Casey bought me a whole nail stamping set with tons of plates and it's taken me a while to do a tutorial with them. That is because they are kind of hard to get used to. I definitely took Elizabeth's advice while creating these nails. Check out her tutorial to learn to use a stamper.

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These are the nail polishes I used for this tutorial:
Clear Top Coat- NYC Quick Drying
Neon Pink- Ultra Pro Punki Pink
Nude- American Apparel Palm Springs
Turquoise- Color Club Age of Aquarius
Light Blue- JULEP Jessica

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This is the plate I used to stamp with- BM10.

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Paint your nails light blue.

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Stamp the triangle design in hot pink polish on the bottom half of the nail. When stamping, you may get some of the design on your finger and you can just clean that up at the end. Some of the design may not actually go onto your nail and when that happened, I just kept it. Every nail will not turn out the same and it's totally fine that way.

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Stamp the nude polish in the middle of the nail.

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Stamp the turquoise polish on the top half of the nail.

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Cover your nails with a top coat. Be careful on this step- you want to make sure the designs are completely dry to make sure they don't smear into eachother.

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And here are some pictures of the finished nails!

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What do you think? Lisa Frank or 90's t-shirt?

the DIY: PAINTED DOORMAT

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So Casey and I have been talking about painting our nasty doormat forever but we never figured out exactly how we wanted to do it. Yesterday I decided I was just going to go for it. Our doormat couldn't  have looked worse than it already did. We had seen a doormat that said "Nice Underpants" and well, that is exactly something our doormat would say. So here is how I did it....

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Start with your old doormat or a new one. (Fix up your old one and save money or buy a new one that is already the color you want!)

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I spray painted the first coat with black spray paint. It took a while to cover the whole mat. We didn't really want our mat to be black but it's the only color that would cover up all the designs.

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Then I put another coat of spray paint on the mat to make the color more consistent.

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Using acrylic paint and a sponge brush I outlined the word "NICE" first in the top center area of the mat.

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Then I put another coat of the paint to make the letters thicker and darker.

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One more super super thick coat of paint to make these letters as solid as possible on this mat.

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Then I wrote the "UNDERPANTS" word with a different color of paint and a sponge brush. I tried to center them as best as possible.

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Another coat to make the letters a little thicker.

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And another coat to really thicken the letters and make them as solid as possible.

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Let it dry and then it is ready to use! We think it's pretty stinkin' cute compared to what it used to look like.

manic MANI MONDAY: COLOR BLOCK NAILS

We super love everything that involves color blocking so you can imagine I loved the nails that inspired this tutorial. Of course, I saw a picture on Pinterest and thought, "I NEED TO RECREATE THIS." I also just purchased these nail colors that I'd been eyeing at Target so I figured they'd be perfect for this design.
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These are the colors I used- Coral Cabana and Paradise Pink.

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Paint your nails a solid color and tape off a random section.

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Paint the empty space with another color.

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Peel off the tape and repeat on all your nails. It should look something like this.

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Draw a black polish line in a different direction than the colored polishes.

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Fill in the empty space on one side of the line.

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And finish with a no-chip top coat!

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eat THIS: FROZEN YOGURT CHIPS

Today we make history. Ha! Basically we've never done any food posts, so this is our first one! We don't intend to do food posts that often but every now and then we will share the easy little things we do. So for our first food post we have... Frozen Yogurt Chips/ Blobs/ Dots.
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I saw these on Pinterest and couldn't resist making them immediately. I figured freezing yogurt drops couldn't really be all that hard and it would taste great! Well... it wasn't all that easy but they still taste as great as I had hoped. For those of you who haven't seen these or tried to make them, allow me to take you through the process.

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I used four servings of yogurt. These exact ones in the picture actually. I didn't want to do just one flavor, I wanted a mix of flavors.

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Line a baking sheet, plate, or flat (and move-able) surface with wax or parchment paper.

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Line a cup with a sandwich baggie and pour the yogurt in. I did one cup/ flavor of yogurt at a time.

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Zip up the baggie with as little air in it as possible and snip of the smallest corner possible with scissors.

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Example of the size to cut off. (The yogurt comes out extremely fast.)

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Gently squeeze out the yogurt from the baggie onto the sheet. If your yogurt has fruit chunks in it like this peach one did, you will have some issues. As you can see my blobs weren't all that perfect. Doesn't matter- they all taste the same in the end. If a piece of fruit blocks the hole in the back just gently squeeze it out with your fingers. If you just squeeze the bag really hard, yogurt will go every where.

More flavors.. I got a little better at making the blobs equal.

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And my last flavor was almost perfect. The strawberry yogurt was actually the easiest to do. It wasn't as runny as the other flavors. Stick all of the dots/ blobs in the freezer for at least 2 hours.

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When they are frozen you can just peel them off of the wax paper and put them in containers that will keep easily in the freezer. Casey and I ate half of the blobs right away and the other half went into these little jars and back into the freezer.

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In the jars... starting to melt. No biggie! We put them right back in the freezer for a nice snack tomorrow and the next day! These just make yogurt a little more fun to eat! Next time I will try these with Greek yogurt. I'm sure the shapes will be more consistent and they may even taste better!

four DESIGNS I NEED ON MY NAILS

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via NAILED IT

I love looking at all of the nail designs I see around on other blogs. Sometimes I just need a little inspiration to do my nails. I don't necessarily LOVE doing my nails but I sure love when I'm done and they look all cute and fun. Here are a few manis that I really want to try soon. Whenever I get the patience to do so, I will surely share them with you! Meanwhile... check out these blogs and all of their fun nail designs!

The Most Popular Beach Waves On Pinterest

This post was formerly called "Does Pinterest Know Everything?"
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If you haven't read about why we do these posts, check out the explanation in our first "Does Pinterest Know Everything?" post.

So Pinterest told me that if I braided my hair and then used a straightener on those braids, that I would end up with these beautiful waves. So naturally I click on the picture to see a tutorial and I just end up on an image. No tutorial. But I'm thinking... I like to sleep on damp braids to get pretty waves in the morning- this just might work. So I pull out my straightener and get started. Only I ended up with more of a frizzy and crimped mess. Not like the picture on Pinterest at all! But I tried several different techniques and the one I'm about to show you is the one that worked best on my hair.

You will need:
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Here is my hair before, completely straight. This would definitely work better though if your hair hadn't already been styled before. If your hair doesn't take well to heating tools, you may want to use some curl spray or hair spray before you start.

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Split all of your hair into two parts and then braid each part and secure with a hair tie of your choosing. I found that the "waves" ended up looking better with bigger braids.


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Take one of the braids and twist it tightly away from your face.

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Place the straightener around the twisted braid and instead of just pulling the straightener down...


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Twist the straightener in the same direction the hair is twisted. I started at the top and worked my way down the braid. Make sure you don't put the straightener where your hair tie is or else there will be a weird crease.

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This is what the braids looked like after being "straightened." I repeated the twisting and straightening step one more time on each braid just to be sure.


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When your hair has completely cooled, pull out your hair ties and run your fingers through the braids to release them.

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This is a front view of my hair.

PROS
-Beachy waves look without adding texture products to your hair
-Fast and easy

CONS
-Inconsistent

I think this method worked okay. I usually will french braid all of my hair when it is still damp and sleep on it and I get some pretty fun waves. For some reason I thought this tutorial would produce some of those same waves but it is much different. However, this is a great way to add some texture and body to your hair really quickly without much effort.

If you've tried this and it worked, send us a picture!
heywanderer@gmail.com

xo, Savannah

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