I love silk scarves. I collect them from vintage and charity shops, and I now have quite the collection (a ridiculous amount). I love wearing them in my hair, but other than that I never really wear them. But then I got to thinking, how can I have all of these beautiful pieces of fabric just laying around? I'd seen quite a few pictures of silk scarves as tops and though it looked so gorgeous. I'm a huge fan of the care-free, natural aesthetic recently, and I can just imagine frolicking (frolicking) on the beach wearing this and some shorts. If you have any old scarves gathering dust, I hope you find this useful. Don't let anything go to waste!

DIY Candy Cane Scrub

 It's a body scrub, it's a lip scrub, it's a hand scrub, it's probably a foot scrub too. This scrub smells insane, and I'm not just saying that. I've been using it for the past few days and it works so well, and it's EDIBLE. Yeah. So, if you want to save money on silky smooth skin, read ooooonnn...

simple rope braid

 To all the girls out there with hair that's at an awkward length and it doesn't grow and it's thin and gross and you can't wear it down because it's too frizzy - I feel you. Sometimes it feels great, I don't need to be like everyone else with thick and luscious long hair. But it gets a bit of a pain. Since I can't find any decent tutorials for my type of hair, here's one that should help out any of you in the same position!

All you need to do is have two sections of your hair twisted around each other, but on the section closest to the middle of your head, pick up little sections of hair each time you twist it ( that was an awful explanation, I hope you know what I mean ). You can do this as many times as you want down the side of your head, but I think it looks nicest with just two. I love how this looks with messy, wavy hair, but you could opt for curly or straight hair, which I'm sure would look nice too!

What's your go-to hairstyle?

diy raspberry lemon sugar body scrub

I'm 99% sure that most girls love any products that smell nice, body scrubs, moisturisers, perfume and all that. We just do. So when one of the Blogger Project challenges was an easy spring diy, this was the very first thing that sprung ( geddit ) to mind. It's a body scrub, which is super easy to make, it's very moisturising, it has a lovely happy pink colour to it and smells good enough to eat!

You Will Need:

100g ( 1/2 cup ) granulated sugar

5 large spoonfuls of melted coconut oil ( this depends on what texture you want the scrub to be )

1/4 tsp raspberry extract

1/4 tsp lemon extract

red food colouring ( optional )

Method:

Mix all the ingredients into a large bowl. I ended up adding a bit more coconut oil. Start with 1/8 tsp of the extracts, and add more to your preference. If you want, you can add a drop of red food colouring to make it this lovely bright pink. When you're happy with the colour and scent, spoon it into a little jar - I put a cute label on mine, and gave it to my grandma for mother's day! I'll definitely be making more of these, as it looks amazing, smells amazing, and to be honest, it doesn't taste all that bad either.

(This post is part of a little blogger series I'm taking part in called the "secret blogger project 2015" run by teen bloggers Emily , Rebekka and Charlotte. About 30 of us will be writing twice a month on selected little lifestyle topics and you can also go onto the twitter and Instagram hash tag "#secretbp2015" to have a little chat and view everyone's posts. If you would like to join or know more (we'd love to have you!)  Instagram dm @theperks0fbeingemily or if you don't have Instagram, send a quick email to  rebekkarosebeautyxo@gmail.com!)

halloween diys

I thought it would be nice to do some quick and easy diys for y'all today. I usually find it impossible to find successful things to do without going to Mars and back, so hopefully this will help you out!

Glitter Pumpkin

What you'll need:

• a pumpkin ( real or faux - they both work )
• pva/liquid glue
• rainbow glitter
• newspaper
• a paintbrush

1. Put some newspaper down on a surface.

2. Squeeze some glue on top of the pumpkin ( mine was a faux plastic one for £1 from asda ), spread it out and neaten it up with the paintbrush. Remember, it doesn't have to be perfect. It's got to look fairly random and un-coordinated so the glitter stands out.

3. Here's the fun part. You can go wild with all that glitter ( yaaaaay ). I find it looks best if each drip is a different colour, but I'm sure a mix would look amazing too. Just make sure you cover all the glue.

4. Let the glue dry, then use a paintbrush to sweep of the excess glitter.

And here's the finished look. Not the completely finished look, as it was left out in the rain before the glue dried ( oops ). This would look great by itself or next to a traditional carved pumpkin. It was so easy to make, and I'm sure if you made this the night before Halloween it would be ready by then. Bonus, it's glittery.

Pumpkin Nails

The next diy is almost too cliche for me to post, as pumpkins are the most famous Halloween food ever, but it's too cute not to.

You will need:

• A basic/nude polish
• Dark and light orange polish
• A thin brush or nail art tool
• Brown polish
• Green polish
• A topcoat 

1. Paint your nail with two coats of the nude polish. White or light brown would work too.

2. Paint a semi-circle of the darker shade of orange on the top of your nails.

3. Using a thin brush or a nail striper and the lighter shade of orange, paint stripes so it looks like the pumpkin is curved.

4. Paint a brown stem, and a spiral of green.

5. Finish with a topcoat to seal your design.

Alien Mocktail Drink

glasses from asda

You will need:

• An orange drink - I cheated and used fanta.
• Cool Glasses
• Alien/ghost marshmallows or any other Halloween themed food that will slip onto the glass.

All you need to do is pour the drink into the glass and slip the marshmallows on the side. It's so easy but SO ADORABLE.

Those were some Halloween diys I've done so far. Please let me know if you're going to re-create any of them.

pop art make-up tutorial

1. Start off by doing your normal concealer, powder, foundation etc routine.

2. Use a white eye shadow base all over your lids. This makes the colour brighter and stay for longer.

3. Use a very bright eye shadow all over your lids. Preferably not a blue or pink one, as it tends to look a bit funny with the lips and tears.

4. Use a ridiculous amount of blush all along your cheeks - trust me, it looks so good under the white dots.

5. Use the eye shadow base to draw out the shape of some tears, and go over it with some light blue eye shadow.

7. Put on a heavy layer of eyeliner and mascara.  I'm pants at handling eyeliner so I did a fairly light layer.

7. Use the eye shadow base to put rows of dots on your face.

8. Using the eyeliner, contour whatever you want on your face - nose, cheeks, eyes. You could do your chin, but I don't really like how that looks. Fill in your eyebrows in a worried sort of shape.

9. Put on a really really bright pink lipstick, and using a cotton bud, put a bit of the eye shadow base on one corner to create a shine line. Finally, outline your lips with the eyeliner.

I hope you enjoyed this sort of Halloweeny make-up tutorial, I know it wasn't that great but I love how it turned out. I'm in no way claiming this to be original, it's been done by so many people, but this is my take on it and I really wanted to try it out.

Products used

Maybelline fit me concealer and powder

Maybelline dream fresh bb cream

Nyx jumbo eye pencil in milk

Sleek ultra mattes bright palette

Sleek blush palette in pink lemonade

Collection fast stroke liquid liner

Benefit they're real mascara

Buxom gloss in exhibitionist 

making sea spray

Howdy folks. Today imma be makin some sea spray innit. It's always sad when you wake up and you try to use your favourite product but it's all gone. I recently experienced this with my sea spray from Lush. It's the holy grail of hair products and for around a week my hair made me go bleeuurgh every time I touched it or saw it in the mirror. But, I have taken a wild guess at what might be in it to make some of my own sea spray ( or something vaguely similar ).

You'll Probably Not Need

• the empty bottle that used to contain your sea spray ( or just an empty bottle with a nozzle spray thing at the top ). Make sure it's completely cleaned out too before you go putting washing up liquid on your hair 
• some pretty warm water ( just enough to fill your bottle )
• a tea spoon of some sort of hair oil ( macadamia etc ). I didn't actually have any, so I just used a few sprays of a sun protector hair moisturiser thing. Anything that leaves your hair super soft.
• half a teaspoon of any hair product that smells nice - hair mousturiser, hair balm, maybe even a blob of conditioner. I used an aussie conditioner spray.
• a few drops of lemon juice. This one's optional, but as I'm in a very sunny country at the moment, I thought I'd take advantage and make my hair a little blonder. If that's possible.
• something to put on the front bottle to remind yourself it's sea spray and not what it previously was.

                                       ...mix it all together...

                                             ...give it a shake...

and done.

I hope y'all enjoyed my diy, let me know if you're gonna give it a go.

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mint and vanilla apple juice recipe

A few posts back I mentioned going to the fanciest restaurant in the history of forever ( so fancy I've forgotten the name ), and I had this amazing mint and vanilla apple juice. It was so delicious I asked the barman for a recipe. He was pretty rubbish though. Only gave me the obvious. This left me to do a bit of trial and error, and, after making about 4, I was getting compliments from my family about how delicious the drink was. So here's the recipe.

You will need

• a glass/mason jar jug
• crushed ice
• cloudy apple juice
• fresh mint
• vanilla extract

Method

• fill the glass up half way with the crushed ice
• fill up the rest with the apple juice
• put the teeniest tiniest drop of vanilla extract in and mix it thoroughly ( I swear I've never used that word before )
• put the fresh mint leaves somewhere in the drink and the flavour will soon spread, adding some sweetness
• drink outside in the sun and be glamorous with your non alcoholic cocktail. I very much doubt this counts as a cocktail though