Sudden Hair Chalk Craze!! ♥ Review and Tutorial

Okay, first is first. What is hair chalk some people may ask. Is it chalk for hair, or chalk made out of hair (ewww). Well, hair chalk is normal soft pastels. You can find them at a local art store. DO NOT GO FOR OIL PASTELS. GET SOFT PASTELS. Oil pastels are a lot messier and don't work cos' the oil will clump your hair together. Another tip, HAIR CHALK IS NOT SOMETHING SPECIAL. What I mean is, don't pay extra for it. It's just normal soft pastels which aren't really expensive, so if you are buying online and someone sells hair chalk for more than $15 AT MOST, don't buy it. So yeah, here's how you do it!! LEGOOO!!

(Sorry there will be no step-by-step pictures here. It's difficult to do it and take pictures, but there will be a video!)

• First, wet the section of your hair you want to colour with water. Make sure it's really wet.
• Next, dip the tip of the hair chalk in water. It helps to moisten the chalk for easier application.
• Run the chalk down your hair until you feel you have added enough. NOTE: THE COLOUR GETS MORE OBVIOUS WHEN YOUR HAIR DRIES, SO WHEN YOU APPLY IT, DON'T ADD TO MUCH
• Comb your hair
• *Optional* Use a straightening or curling iron to straighten/curl your hair. The heat helps brighten as well as seal the colours in.

:) Easy right? Will post a video tutorial up on Youtube when I'm free. :)

Okay, so here's my pros and cons of using hair chalk:

PROS:

• Your the stylist, so be creative and think of different ways or areas to apply it in and make your hair super cool.
• Quite cheap and available in art stores.
• Works on dark hair too.
• Don't worry about making mistakes, it's temporary (;

CONS:

• Very drying to your hair.
• The fact that it's temporary can also be a con:- Like when you do a super cool design and you wanna keep it forever, but it will have to come off :'(

Anyway, here's some that I did. Enjoy (;

Galaxy Nail Tutorial :)

YAY! Galaxy nails! I love everything galaxy, so when I heard about galaxy nails, I watched like every tutorial on Youtube, although it's more or less the same thing. You'll need:

1. Black/Dark Blue nail polish
2. White/Silver nail polish
3. About 3 more nail polish with the colour of your choice
4. Nail Polish with micro-glitter OR Clear top coat
5. Make up sponge
6. Toothpick

Not that many things right? Okay, not really, but it's worth it! (;

Okay, so first, paint your nails black or dark blue.

Next, using a make up sponge, gently apply the white or silver polish diagonally across your nail. Ensure that it's spread out, the colour being most concentrated in the middle and slowly fading out, and that the base colour applied can still be seen towards the outer corners and the faded white/silver areas.

Use the same technique, do the same for the other colours of your choice, applying it around the faded areas of white/silver, not in the centre of the 'concentrated' colour.

If you'd like, use a toothpick to add small white/silver dots to represent stars. Finish off with nail polish with tiny micro-glitter for a more galaxy feel, or a clear top coat if you prefer.

With flash

Without flash

Ta daa! Mine usually turns out retarded :x but if you practice and have a steady hand, if can turn of awesome! So give it a try. You can email pictures of your galaxy nails and I'll post them up!
Have fun! ^^

Here are the brand of nail polishes I used:

From left to right:
Black: No brand, got it from Sasa
White: No brand, got it from FourSkin
Blue: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri 240 Blue Streak
Purple: Got some time ago .__.
Pink: LA Girls Disco Brites NL79 Chic

Leopard Nails Tutorial ^^ ☢

Woo hoo! Doing a tutorial for leopard print nails! If you look above ^^^ that's the result! I might shoot a video for this tutorial and upload it on Youtube, but we'll see first.. Anyways, let's start!

First, paint your nails with your favourite base colour, but keep it light and preferably pastel, so the spots will be more obvious. I'm using 83 First Blush from Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear nail colour, it's a really pale pink colour. Anyway, try to apply it as even as possible and make sure it is COMPLETELY dry before you continue ^^

Next, choose some of your favourite colours. I chose bright colour to make the spots stand out. The polishes I'm using are LA Girls Black Light Nail Polish in NL79 Chic (Hot Pink), some nail polish I got from Sasa (Purple) and some cheap polish I got cos' I really liked the colour (Blue). Using a bobby pin (I don't have nail dotting tools cos' I can't find them anywhere! I know Sephora has but when I went there it was out of stock :( So I use normal household items), add random dots on your nails. Make sure they are some distance apart, so the next step will be a lot easier

Once the dots have dried, I use a pencil (again, no dotting tool) to outline the dots with a thick black line. It's important that the line does not become a full circle surrounding the dot or touch the line of another dot. Once done, add some random small black dots

Okay! So you're done! Although you should apply a layer of clear top coat to help protect the polish. It should look something like this:

I know now it doesn't look very nice compared to the ones at the top of the post, so I might redo it in the form of a video tutorial and post it on Youtube... I'll inform you guys when I've done it! :)