I placed the shadow onto the straightener and used it to gently heat the back, this loosens the glue and allows you to pry them out easily. I was careful not to heat it enough to melt the plastic, just enough to be warm.

Using a sewing needle I gently wedged the shadows out. It was a little hard at first because there wasn’t much room between the shadow and plastic but after working the various sides and reheating a few times I managed to pop it out.

Done!

Some of the shadows I depotted required a bit of clean up on the bottoms and sides to remove the extra glue or extra crushed shadow.

This was my placement, you can see that the gold (a super cheap one from a palette I hardly use now) didn’t quite fit so I used some scissors and snipped off the end. A couple of the shadows cracked while I was removing them but I fixed that easily by repressing with some hand sanitiser.

Some of the shadows were magnetic to start with but others I needed to add the magnets that came with the palette, this posed a bit of a problem with a couple of the larger ones because they were quite tall and with the added magnet the lid no longer closed. I also found the adhesive on the magnets didn’t want to stick to some of the shadows. I figured I probably wouldn’t be changing the shadows around any time soon so I used thin double sided tape instead.

So there you go, these are the colours I use the most and now they’re all in one place and I don’t have to pack a billion things when I travel!

Absolutely love it and it makes my morning make up routine so much more organised and easy! Thank you Celina!

You need:

• Hair ties
• Brush
• Bobby pins
• Hair spray

Curl the ends of the ponytail into a little loop.

Keep rolling upwards until you can’t go any further and you should have something like this:

From the side it will bow out and form a nice finish underneath.

From the front it looks like a curl.

So now you need to pin it in place. You should try to pin through the hair band to give it extra strength. Make sure you’re pinning it as close to the scalp as possible.

Repeat on the other side too.

Now you need to take care of the back, right now it looks terrible.

Take your brush and gently coax the divide together so it hides the gap. You can use your fingers and a few extra bobby pins at the bottom to keep it all in place.

This version isn’t so great but you can get the general idea…

Now you just need to style your fringe and any layers around your face. The style works better with layers around the face because they create an illusion of being the ends of the hair.

Taadaa!

Short hair without a major chop :D

Hope this was helpful, let me know if you have any questions!

Better shots of the make up…

This next one was the outfit I wore to the Topshop opening here, I’m super classy so I took the photos at McDonalds afterwards ;)

Dress: Jesus Diamante
Stockings: Ambra
Cardigan: Myer
Shoes: Mini Maos

My favorite part is the shoes :D

Now some of the outfits I wore while we were in Queensland! This was the only photo I got before the humidity destroyed my curls. I can’t believe I didn’t notice until now that I have my phone stuffed down my top >_< I was waiting for James to call me while trying to pack my bags and apparently I thought that was a good time to take photos, so much fail at multi tasking!

Outfit:
Dress: Infanta
Scarf: Can’t remember
Jumper: Femme Connection
Stockings: Myer leggings I changed to stockings
Shoes: Gift
Hair accessory: made my me

You know one of the best parts of staying at James’ parents house? Gigantic well lit mirror to take photos in front of!

Shirt: Savers
Shorts: Modified from Femme Connection
Usamimi- Junk store

And the mini styling wand obsession continues with this outfit XD

Dress: Ice Outlet store.

I really wish I’d remembered to take hairspray to QLD because the heat just killed any styling I tried to do after around 20 minutes! Next time ^_^

Have you guys got anything cool planned for the holidays this year?

So what you need:

• Brush
• Pretty hair comb
• Hair spray
• Bobby pin

Brush the hair upwards to it’s sticking out horizontally.

Now use your hands to fold it across like this:

Tuck all of the ends inside and fold them into the roll.

Should look something like this. You should run your fingers through the sides from right to left to make sure the hair is all sitting the right way.

Once it’s all folded inside it should look something like this:

Secure it with a comb on the side. To use the comb you should grab a bit of hair from the twist…

…pull it right to the side and push into the scalp back the way it came.

And it looks like this! You might want to put in some more bobby pins if you don’t think it’s stable enough.

Most likely you’ll need some pins in the top swirl part to stop it coming loose.

Hair spray over everything and smooth flyaways with your hands.

If you have any problems with the insides breaking out again just lightly brush the outer layer into place again using short strokes.

Now just style your fringe and that’s it!

All done! I didn’t notice the bit popping out until after I finished >_<

Other side:

Stylish and sleek, this is a good one for work as well as times you just want to look a bit more polished.

Hope that all made sense and let me know if you have any other questions!