Colors In Your Hair: A Little Hair Chalking Tutorial

I know I used to do something similar with my dolls hair when I was younger with permanent marker...yikes!

This is much more fun and it washes out in 2-3 shampoos

I've found that it doesn't really matter which pastels you use. 

I bought the most expensive small set and the least expensive small set to compare and it works exactly the same for me.

My best friend Roz, who an amazing hair stylist, helped me along the way!

You will need:

Soft Chalk Pastels

Hair Spray

Any wet hair product(smoothing cream, volumizer etc) 

Water

Towel

Curling Iron, Flat Iron (Optional)

Here we go!:

-Put your towel over your shoulders.  This is a not a super messy project but you don't want to color anything that doesn't need coloring!

-Wet your hair and apply a small amount of product into your hair. I've tried it without product, and with and found that putting the product in your hair with the water helps it adhere to the hair better and last longer.

-One the strand of hair is wet, hold at the tip and twist until the whole piece is twisted.  Then run the chalk directly up and down your hair in one direction.  The twist helps break up the chalk so it sticks to your hair.

*a fun to do is multiple colors on one strand. 

Like this: purple and pink!

-once you have added the chalking to your hair, untwist it, blow dry it, the comb the excess chalk out and spray a little bit of hair spray so that it is sealed.

We even tried a bit on Rozs dark hair and it did work, just not as bright as with light hair.

I would love to hear in comments etc how it worked for you or if you do anything different!

Happy Chalking!

<3 Margaret at MGC

What I Made For $1: Recycled Tshirt Tote Bag

This Thursday's What I Made For $1 is a lot of fun...and it only takes about five minutes to create!

Recycled Tshirt Shopping Tote

I got this pretty blue spiral tie dye at the Salvation Army for .99 and thought it would look great as a shopping tote.  No sewing Machine required!

I've seen this done many different ways but this is the way I do it, and I'd love to pass it along to you!

You Will Need: 

1 Tshirt

Scissors

Pins

Sewing Machine Or Serger Or Needle and Thread

Five Minutes of Uninterrupted Creative Bliss

Here are the steps:

1: Lay Tshirt Flat On Table

2: Cut Sleeves Of Leaving Serge Stitched Edge on Tshirt

3: Repeat Step 2 for other sleeve

4: Cut neckline in a U shape in the desired depth you'd like(don't cut to low or items might fall out of your bag!)

5: Cut the finished hems off of both sleeves and put aside for later (they will serve has cute little ties for the straps)

6: Cut bottom of tshirt off in a semi curve

7: Turn Tshirt inside out and pin bottom of tshirt into four inward facing folds(or more smaller folds if you'd like

8: Serge, sew with your machine OR hand stitch the bottom of the tshirt together.  

9: Turn Tshirt right side out 

10: Take the sleeve hems that you previously cut of tie them around the straps of the tshirt

11: It should look like this when you are finished! 

Here are some pictures of the completed tie dye bag!

<3 

Margaret at MGC