DIY Keep the bacteria away from your brushes! Quick ,easy and fun!

Hello lovely readers!

I hope you all are doing alright , I am feeling better nowdays and I am so glad I finally can get out of bed and do some chores ,haha.

So recently I do everything to improve my skin. Back in a day I would not take care of my sponges or brushes but today , oh me!

I do weekly cleaning ( checks HOW I CLEAN MY BRUSHES) and I am recently looking to purchase a daily brush cleaner spray. But so what if the dust if going to gain on the brushes anyways?

That is why we should keep them covered. I know you do not have to do so or anything ,and personally I like the way brushes look , it makes my make up table feel so ...professional haha. 

But then I know how dust is everywhere and it disgust me when I use my brush but have to tap off the dust first. So I decided I have to store them difrentlly.

I collect every box after chocolates , sweeties and all that stuff for college purposes. I never know what I will need to I collect loads of rubbish. 

So I have notice that one of the boxes after chocolate goodies will be perfect for some of my brushes!

Although I do not want loads of boxes and storage with label and chocolates on them - not cute !

So for this super quick easy and fun DIY project all you need is:

1.Scissors

2.Funky paper - I have whole block of scrapbook pappers to choose from , you could use some old wallpaper too!

3.Double sided tape

4.A box

5.And pencil

So I chosen this cute polka dot pattern paper and all I have done for first step was to hold the card onto my box and mark how much i have to cut off.

Then I put the lid onto the rest of paper and trace the shape that I cut of afterwards.

I put the double sided table on the edges of the paper to simply keep it in place.

And just simply place your cut out paper on the storage box!

And your done! It looks so much better doesn't it?

I just showed you one example , but you can and I will look for more taller boxes and other storage after candy boxes to make them cuter and storage more , coz obviously this box of mine is not tall enough to storage some of the big brushes. But no worries I am getting there!

So here we go .

I hope you enjoyed this quick and easy idea that will help with keeping our tools clean , look nice and is good for recycle fans haha!

xxx

suzanne marie

Fancy Pants

The tuxedo is the smart way to dress up - and hide those knobbly knees, says Hilary Alexander.

BY HILARY ALEXANDER |

Jacket, £715, Moschino Cheap & Chic; trousers, £455, Dries Van Noten. Silk camisole, £32.50, Biba, £32.50. Photo: JONATHAN GLYNN-SMITH

Tuxedos in pictures

Knobbly, wobbly, or cobbled together with the scars of a hundred childhood bike-rides which ended in disaster (as are mine), they are one of the least attractive parts of the body, unless, of course, you happen to have a pair of perfect patellas, such as those which intersect the enviable pins of the Duchess of Cambridge.

"Coco" Chanel, wasn't fond of knees; she looked upon them with distaste, decreed 'the perfect skirt' would always cover the bony abominations, and was the first women to wear trousers in public. (Karl Lagerfeld, incidentally, in his haute couture collection for Chanel, earlier this month, paid homage to the legacy by insisting all his models wore over-the-knee boots in satin or leather, veiled in chiffon and tulle).

The tux is about style, not fashion

All great news for women with a mild form of 'genuphobia', since trousers have emerged as the heroes of the new-modern wardrobe.

Wide or second-skin skinny, flared or fitted, cropped or over-the-ankle, trousers are the ultimate anti-knee champions, flattering and fashionable, and, not to mention, way more functional and practical than a maxi-skirt.

Their return to the frontline of the fashionscape, has prompted a re-think of the working wardrobe, as well as a revival in the way we address trousers for evening.

The 'tuxedo', a la Yves Saint Laurent's 1966 'le smoking', has, of course, long been one of the usual suspects on the party circuit and red carpet, favoured by every celebrity from Bianca Jagger, Julie Andrews and Catherine Deneuve, to Naomi Watts, Mary-Kate Olsen and Eva Mendes, and has remained impervious even to the nonsensical ban imposed by the dress code-dinosaurs at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

But tuxedo-dressing has been given an update by way of the 1970's revival in general, Tom Ford's glam take on the tux, and Marc Jacobs' fascination with one of his "fave" inspirations, YSL.

Jacobs, unlike Ford, eschewed the classic black, in favour of satin 'le smokings' in the mouthwatering colours of a Ladurée macaroon.

Designers as diverse as Donna Karan, Ashish, Balmain, and Dries Van Noten have merged the Saint Laurent look with glam-rock, via glitzy DJ-jackets and/or trousers which, far from being relics of 'the decade taste forgot', have a new lease of life because of loose-cut, 'boyfriend' tailoring. And bargain-hunters will find luxe labels like these a little more purse-friendly in the July sales.

Create your own DIY tuxedo-style by putting a bling-bling jacket with plain black trousers or jeans, or vice versa, a tailored jacket with Dorothy Perkins' sequined strides, (as photographed); Markus Lupfer's gold, sequined stretch trousers, down from £350 to £175, at theoutnet.com; or the Moto bronze foil, snakeprint jeans, £60, at Topshop.

Then, put on the glam-rock 'n' roll Ritz with Alber Elbaz's favourite tux-cessory - a floppy bow-tie.

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