So, today's post is something a little bit different for me because I don't normally post about hair (but no worries, I did a makeup look too!). Over the past week I had some extra free time, so I put together a quick video tutorial on one of the latest crazes to hit the beauty world: Hair Chalking.

If you're not familiar with the technique, it's a simple, cheap and temporary way to dye your hair an assortment of crazy colors without committing to permanent dyes. Originally inspired by Lauren Conrad's to die for dip-dye do, bloggers and beauty enthusiasts everywhere have been desperately trying to recreate her colorful coif.

Lauren Conrad's Dip-Dye Hair

One of the preferred methods for recreating this look without the permanence of dye is by using artists pastels, which I tried out for myself and filmed for your viewing pleasure. Please excuse my painful awkwardness and general hot messness. Filmed the first 6 minutes before I realized I had hot pink lipstick on my chompers. o_O Embarassing. I hope you can still enjoy and learn!

I didn't use water because I have to go back to school this week as a teacher, so I couldn't have crazy cotton candy hair - so this faded from bright neon to soft pastel in about an hour. After that the color stayed put for over 24 hours before I washed it out with shampoo. The pink stained my hair a TINY bit, but nothing too noticeable. All in all it was fun to feel like a Unicorn for the day!

My colorful hair also inspired me to try out a tutorial from one of my favorite artist's; Cora of Vintage or Tacky. I've been dying to try her Raspberries & Lime look for myself for the longest time now, so I figured why not? I already look like I stumbled into an episode of My Little Pony, what's a little lime green EOTD gonna do? The hair and the eyes aren't meant to match, I just wanted to go totally color crazy that day. Here's a close up of my take on Cora's look. 

This look is a lot 'draggier' on me than it does on her, but I think that's partially because a) I have much bigger and more prominent lids and b) I can be a bit heavy handed when it comes to hot pinks and neon colors. I just can't help myself. 

Anyways, I hope you guys found something in this post to inspire you to play with color! Send me your hair chalking pictures if you decide to try this out for yourself.

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Here's the video tutorial for my Driftwood look. I know, I know. TWO tutorials in ONE week! Y'all are probably like this right now:

Well, actually. Let's not be TOO modest. Probably more along the lines of this, am I right?

OH WHO AM I KIDDING?! IT'S LIKE THE BEST WEEK EVER, RIGHT!?!!!!

All demure modesty aside (lets be real, I had a lot of unused .gifs lying around that needed an audience), a lot of people were in fact actually wondering how I got that bright pop of blue on my waterline in my Driftwood look:

I had a lot of questions about what eyeliner it was and where they could buy it. Well, the secret is officially out. It's not actually eyeliner. I used a combination of eyeshadow products to create the illusion of baby blue eyeliner and now you can too! In fact, you can make your waterline  any color you want  - this video will show you my nifty trick, complete with suggestions on how to best compliment your eye color.

I apologize for the crappy lighting. Parts of the video are really over exposed so the colors are washed out a lot but there's not much I can do about it now without compromising the quality of the video. Nevertheless, I hope you find the video helpful and/or useful. I hope to be doing a few new looks soon, and I'll be posting a tutorial on dying your hair temporarily with chalk so be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and check back often for updates! Have an awesome weekend!

First of all, let me say thank you so much to all of you who sent me such sweet messages about my Cockateal eyes look. It's one I'm really quite proud of so to see that kind of reception for it was truly amazing. I finally had an hour to myself this past weekend to do some filming so I created a short eyes-only video tutorial - now available in full HD. I'm still working on getting better lighting for my videos but it can be hard in a basement apartment with no natural light. 

Anyways, please enjoy and let me know if you have any questions. I plan on filming my Driftwood tutorial next, so subscribe to my channel and keep an eye out for that look later this week!

Welcome to the February installment of my blogger of the month series. Each month I will be recognizing and featuring someone who I believe to be a true talent in the beauty blogging world. For this monthly feature I have included an interview as well as a gallery of their best work. And, as a special treat, I have commissioned an exclusive look for the monthly 'Pigments & Palettes Challenge'. The next blogger I've decided to feature is:

Toria of MusicMakeupSpiderman