Make the most out of your cosmetic brushes by cleaning them regularly. Wet your cosmetic brush. Take a small amount of a natural shampoo in the palm of your hand and make circular motions with the brush . Rinse the brush under running water, continuing to make circular motions in the palm of your hand until the water runs clear with no bubbles. Don't allow water to extend past the bristles. Gently squeeze the bristles to remove excess water. You can also use conditioner to condition the brush...
If you want to know how to ice & decorate cookie pops, you should watch this video. To ice and decorate cookie pops: Spread your pan with a non-stick spray first before putting the refrigerated dough in the cookie pop pan so that it doesn't stick when you take it out. Position cookie stick, slightly pressing into dough. If desired, place a little additional dough over the top of stick to secure. Bake cookie following pan instructions. Normally, it takes 10 minutes for it to be baked. If you d...
This video will show you how to make Ropa Vieja, also known as Shredded Beef. Follow these easy steps to make Ropa Vieja (Shredded Beef): You will need: 3 lbs flank steak 12 cups water 2 bay leaves 1 large onions diced 1 large green bell pepper, cored seeded and diced 1 large red bell pepper, cored seeded and diced 4 tablespoons crushed garlic 2-15 ounce cans tomato sauce pinch of cumin powder 2 tablespoons oregano 1 cup vino seco (dry white wine) 1-15 ounce can sweet early peas (low sodium) ...
Chef Daisy teaches you the secrets of preparing Chinese sticky rice in simple steps. First soak the Chinese rice in water with some salt for an hour. Now use two leaves to make a cup shape, add some rice, pork, egg yolk, dry shrimp, Chinese sausage, chestnut, mushroom, green beans and finally some more rice on top. Use two more sticky rice leaves to finish the packing and tie it up two water grass. Repeat the same to make more packs, put it into water boiling at 100 degrees and cook for 4 hou...
This video will show you how to prepare healthy scallops in a garlic sauce. To cook scallops in a garlic sauce you will need the following ingredients: 1 1/2 pound scallops, 1/4 cup vino seco or dry white wine, 1 tablespoon butter, juice of 1 lime, 1/4 cup olive oil, 4 tablespoons garlic, minced, 1/4 teaspoon oregano, pinch of cumin, salt to taste, dash of hot sauce, 1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped. Add all the ingredients to a hot pan, except for the scallops, and let it simmer. Now lay the ...
Beside the frosted cake, you will need some artificial flowers, some pretty ribbon, a ball of Styrofoam and some saran wrap. Start by covering the Styrofoam ball with a piece of saran wrap. Then clip off small pieces of the dried flowers and stick them all around the ball of Styrofoam. If the flowers have wire stems you will need a pair of wire cutters or pliers for this job. When the ball is completely covered with the flowers, set it in place on top of the cake. Next, measure the ribbon the...
Learn how to crack an egg so that you can preserve the shell in simple steps. First take an egg and a butter knife and you have to make a hole at its top. To make the hole gently tap the top of the egg to make a crack. Now insert the knife in the crack and peel its top out. Pour the egg yolk in a container and rinse the shell several times with hot water. Spray an anti-bacterial spray to kill any germs in it and let it dry for sometime with its hole facing downwards.
This video shows how to tease your hair for any occasion. Make sure that your hair is dry before starting and brush it well. Separate a section of your hair. Hold the section up firmly with one hand and hold a brush gently against the strands. Lightly brush towards the scalp while continuing to hold up the strand firmly with your other hand. Repeat the teasing motion until the strand has the desired volume. Spray Ion and Herbal Essences. Do it again with the other strands of your hair at the ...
How to make a Cuban style roast pork in five easy steps. Mix 1 cup naranja agria (sour orange), 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon dried oregano, 4 tablespoon crushed garlic, salt and pepper, and olive oil in a bowl. Place 1 small boneless pork loin roast in a re-sealable plastic bag. Pour marinate into the bag and refrigerate over night. Place the marinated pork loin roast in a baking dish and cover tightly with aluminum foil. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Remove foil in the last 15 ...
Pam and Connie from Levain bakery show you how to make chocolate chip cookies. Here's Pam and Connie's recipe for the best chocolate chip cookies in the country: Cream your butter and sugar. Add your eggs and mix well. Add the dry ingredients and mix, then add the walnuts and chocolate chips. Empty the contents onto a sheet pan and do a little more mixing by hand. Place small handfuls of dough on a cookie sheet and bake.
Gary Bunzer the RV Doctor shows how to avoid potential RV problems by cleaning your electrical hookup cord. Before you connect your RV to an electricity supply, make sure to clean and brighten the metal contacts on your shoreline cord. Use fine-grade steel wool to clean all surface corrosion off your cord's prongs. You can also use sandpaper, emery cloth or any other gentle abrasive. After you get the metal prongs clean and shiny, use a dauber or brush to coat the surface of the prongs with a...
Karen Knowler, The Raw Food Coach, demonstrates how to make a wonderfully filling raw muesli. Start with a cereal bowl. Coarsely chop and add two or three varieties of nuts of your choosing. In this instance, Karen adds hazelnuts, almonds and brazil nuts. She then adds cut dried apricots, dates and raisins. Blend together with your hands. Now, add fresh fruit of choice. Bananas, blueberries, raspberries and apples are good picks. Stir to blend and finally, pour almond milk to taste over all. ...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a dirty martini and Bloody Mary. The dirty martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth. A Bloody Mary is a popular cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and usually other spices or flavorings. For a dirty martini, users will require these ingredients: 3 oz of gin or vodka, 2tsp of dry vermouth, 1 tsp of olive brine, 1 olive, and ice. To make a Bloody Mary, users will require these ingredients: 1 1/2 oz of vodka, 3 oz of tomato juice, d...
Eddie teaches the secrets of designing your own clothes & mix dying your clothes. First mix together 1 tablespoon golden yellow, 1/2 teaspoon sunshine orange, 1/2 cup salt and 4 cups of hot water. Dip a piece of cloth to check the color, add more dye to make it darker or some water to make it lighter. Pour the dye solution in a big container with water, add some detergent and batter to mix the dye well. Put you plain shirt in hot water for sometime, squeeze it out and put it in the container ...
This video describes how to remove unwanted odor from plastic storage containers. The video shows three easy steps to remove odor. Firstly, thoroughly wash the plastic container as you usually would. After it dries, place a few pieces of crumpled up newsprint inside of the container and close the lid. Leave the newsprint in the container for a couple of days before removing the paper. After you remove the paper, simply wash the container again and the odor should be gone. A viewer would benef...
Victoria Walsh from Chatelaine TV will show you how to cook an artichoke in this very simple video. To begin you want to make sure to remove any dried leaves from the artichoke, and then proceed to clip the rough ends of the remaining leaves on the artichoke. Next, you want to cut the top off, and then cut the stem off leaving only about three quarters of an inch. Now, you want to prepare a boiling pot of water and let the artichokes stem in the pot to tender for 25-45mins. To check the tende...
Do you know how they divide your hair into sections when you are at the salon? Though it is never easy to reproduce what they do at the salon, but you can do the same thing as best you can (and next time you are at the salon, watch closely to see how they do it). You are going to divide your hair into sections and put all the sections up on top of your head except for the bottom section. Use a brush to select a small segment of hair from the bottom section that you did not put up. Start at th...
Drink@Drink demonstrates how to make a cocktail martini. First, add ice to a martini glass and a cocktail shaker. Next, stir the ice to chill the glass and the shaker. Then, strain the excess water out of the shaker. Add 8 parts gin and 2 parts martini dry to the shaker. Pour the ice out of the glass. Mix the ice with the gin and martini concoction in the shaker. Strain the mixed martini into the martini glass. Finally, add an olive garnish to the glass, gently mixing it in the martini, to co...
CreativeXpress shares a video regarding the usage of the Yudu personal screen printer. Put the plastic foil over the design you want on your t-shirt and turn on the light on the printer. This will cause the design from the page to be transfered onto the foil. Then you simply place the shirt onto the foil and place a good amount of ink on top of the foil. Use the squeegee to spread the ink over the design and onto the shirt. Let it dry for a bit, then iron the shirt using a cloth or piece of p...
You may hate deep frying as much as Sue Mallick does. Fortunately, she has a cleaner, less greasy alternative: oven frying. This succulent chicken recipe is just the fix.
Ingredients: 2 lb shrimp cleaned
In this video the author shows how to make a never ending foam snake. He starts by speaking about how hydrogen peroxide can be fun. He starts with the requirements first which are a dish soap, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, some dry yeast, and a red fruit color. Now he fills up a cup with hydrogen peroxide, adds the color and two table spoons of dish soap. Now he shows how to use yeast which is used to remove the oxygen from the hydrogen peroxide. And finally he demonstrates the never ending ...
Heat the broiler and arrange the rack so it's about 6 inches from the heat. Peel the pineapple, cut it into rounds about 1/2 inch thick, and use a paring knife to cut out the core.
MakeoverGirl1 presents a video on how to make your jeans look stylish by adding a design using sandpaper. The process is so simple that only a few things are needed for the job: a shape cut out in leather, cardboard or felt; a deck of playing cards; and a piece of sandpaper. Literally all you have to do is place the shape in the back pocket of the jeans, wrap the sandpaper over the deck of cards, and rub the jeans until you see the silhouette of your shape. After that, just rinse and dry. So,...
This video teaches students how to multiply and divide to solve equations in algebra. The teacher made this video specifically for his class because he points out page numbers from the textbooks that the students can go back and review. He is standing in front of a dry-erase board explaining various examples. This video is intended for people who are very new to this concept because he progresses very slow through his examples and tends to repeat himself. I think this is great for students wh...
AskAuntPattie is providing you with some how-to tips when it comes to cleaning your hardwood floors. Use a microfiber pad to dry dust on your floor. There are all different sizes of pads for your needs. You should clean the floor as often as you like. You can test your floor with a mineral smear. Yellow residue is wax finish. Clean smears are polyurethane. If you have a wax floor you should use a base wax. For a polyurethane floor use a type of floor wax from a good company. Go to a place tha...
You can learn how to make rock candy. The process is very simple. You only need water and sugar. You put the water to boil and then add a cup of sugar. You mix it up and then put it in the sink and poor it into a glass. Then a screw is inserted into the glass to get moisture into the solution. Take it out, leave it for 3 days, then after 3 days sink it again in the solution and then leave it to dry for 1 week.
We all learn a simple description of photosynthesis in grade school but there are a lot more complicated process going on. Plants can utilize carbon at night and this description will explain a very advanced understanding of how CAM works.
To bake a potato start by preheating your oven to 375 degrees. Pierce each potato with a knife and then bake them in the oven for one hour. To get the potato done even faster try using the microwave. Take the potato and cut a length wise wedge out. The wedge cut allows the steam to escape as the potato is heating in the microwave. Do not cover the potato because you don't want to trap the steam. Cook the potato on high for 8-9 minutes. After cooking the potato top them off with a healthy topp...
This instructional video shows you how to be creative and paint your shoes. You will need acrylic paint, paint brushes of different sizes, waterproof permanent markers, and spray lacquer. You should create a base coat with white paint. Draw whichever designs you want with a permanent marker. Next color the design with the acrylic paint. Using one color so your paint doesn't dry out. Fill in the background with whichever color you chose. Then spray with a lacquer and you are finished.
In the video Make Garlic Mashed Potatoes we learn how to get the garlic taste into mashed potatoes. All it takes is to sauté the potatoes after boil with butter and garlic before mashing. The video adds steps to this process some of which are unnecessary such as clean then drying the potatoes before peeling. Other steps such as adding milk were omitted from the camera only to be added in a text. The process of sauté is the essential step here which makes the video worth watching. Other ingred...
This video tutorial shows you the proper way to prepare for the installation of laminate flooring. One thing you need to do is maintain a temperature of a minimum of 65 degrees. You can install it practically anywhere, as long as there is no moisture or dampness. Concrete, ceramic, wood , and vinyl are all find for installation but the surface needs to be dry, flat and smooth. This video is a simple guide to give you some precautions before you begin your installation.
In this video, he shows you how to make chocolate crinkle cookies. He starts out by showing you all the ingredients that will be needed for this recipe. He combines the butter and granulated sugar and mixes the two together and adds the cream slowly while he is still mixing the ingredients. Now the next step would be to add the cocoa powder and melted chocolate and mix those in. The eggs and vanilla extract are now added also and mixed in. Next the flour is slowly folded into the batter along...
Salsa is always a great appetizing treat to serve with chips or in a salad. This recipe for traditional Mexican salsa will provide the kick for your kickback. So kickback and learn how to make traditional Mexican salsa that will make your guests hot!
Have you ever dropped your iPhone or iPod in water? Learn how to fix it here. Water can be very damaging to electronics because of its conductivity. You can avoid short circuiting your device by following the directions in this tutorial. Discover why water can hurt your electronics and how to dry out a wet device from the inside out. Find out how to open the device and access the logic board. With materials as simple as a hair dryer and guitar pick, your device can be as good as new!
This video is about brining a turkey. 1. Start with dry ingredients - black pepper, garlic powder, brown sugar and kosher salt.
This video demonstrates how to make raw vegan nori cheese sticks. First, put sunflower kernels, nutrition flakes, salt, olive oil, water, shredded cheese, and a whole jalapeno into a blender. Blend until the mix is paste-like in consistency. Slice sheets of nori into smaller pieces and spoon some of the paste onto the smaller pieces. Wrap them into little cylinders. Set them out and let them dry until most of the moisture from the paste has gone, and the stick is firm. This video is useful fo...
Do you want to learn how to make fire with a magnesium fire tool? Then all you need is a magnesium fire tool and this video. First of all, you need some kindling ready such as dry grass, small leaves, twigs, etc. Create a small pouch for the magnesium strips, then shave small pieces of magnesium into this pouch. Then, use your knife and move it against the flint side of the tool. This will cause a spark, which will catch on fire and the magnesium will assist in allowing this flame to grow. La...
Acne is a problem for many individuals and by following these 5 simple steps, you can be on your way to nice, acne-free skin. First, cleanse your face gently and not more than twice a day. Do not pop your pimples, which could spread the bacteria and allow them to get deeper into your skin. Avoid using too much acne medication, which could cause your skin to become too dry and irritated. Also make sure that you use noncomedogenic products. Finally, a healthy diet that has the correct blend of ...
Max's Filipino style fried chicken. Takes a spring chicken or a Cornish game hen, ground jack pepper, dried bay leaves, cilantro or parsley, and a pan full of water. Bring water to a steam then add bay leaves and chopped cilantro. Then in a metal colander or strainer place chicken over the steaming water. Once chicken is steamed let drip out the excess water. Add the pepper and some salt to the chicken by rubbing over the surface. In cooking oil fry the chicken until a light golden brown. Tak...
