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How To: Strengthen your hand and wrist with piano exercises

If you are looking to improve your piano technique then this how to video is the place to start. You will learn how to strengthen your fourth (ring) and fifth (pinky) fingers, as well as the wrist and arm, with this easy piano exercise. The fourth and fifth fingers are often the weakest fingers when playing piano. You must learn to strengthen then so you can play piano better. This is a great exercise for beginner to advanced students. With this tutorial you will be able to gain strength in y...

How To: Curl Your Hair with a Straightening Iron

In this tutorial, we learn how to curl your hair with a straightening iron. To begin, straighten your entire head of hair with a thin straightening iron. When you are finished, section your hair off. Now, take a 1" strand of hair and open it up. Wrap the hair around one part of the straightening iron while it's open and pull down when you close the iron down. Do this on your entire head of hair until it's completely curled. If you want a more loose look, run your fingers through your hair. Af...

How To: Tap into your intuition with EFT

This video tutorial is in the Spirituality category where you will learn how to tap into your intuition with EFT with Elise Lebeau. There are two parts to turning on your intuition. First you will use the EFT tapping technique to release any past negative beliefs or experiences. Then you will use it again to reinforce a positive belief that will allow you to tap in to your intuition and to act on them. You don't need to know anything about EFT. In this technique 8 acupressure points are activ...

How To: Make papier-mâché

In elementary school, we all experienced the wonders of papier mâché, that wonderfully malleable mixture of paper and glue (or maybe paper, flour, and water). Once it hardens, it's a homemade work of art. And homemade papier mâché is art on the cheap, allowing your imagination to soar without breaking your budget.

How To: Treat the skin on your bodhrán drum

Michelle Stewart of BodhranExpert.com demonstrates to viewers how to treat the skin on a Bodhran drum. The skin on this particular drum is made of goat skin and, much like your own skin, must be treated with a skin-conditioning treatment in order to maintain proper moisture.

How To: Make an egg, bacon & croissant out of polymer clay

Gentleman Bunny takes his viewers through a polymer clay breakfast preparation that combines the best of both worlds: visual appeal and no calories! He starts off by making a croissant out of a strip of clay. The clay is rolled between the fingers and then twisted to resemble a light and flaky croissant. While this is "baking", the polymer clay egg is made. A piece of white clay is formed into a round, similar in look to a fried egg white. A dot of yellow is then placed over the white and a p...

How To: Put on a spray skirt in kayaking

In this how-to video, you will learn how to put on a spray skirt while kayaking. This is important if you want something to wear while you kayak. A dry top has a latex neck and wrist. A semi-dry top has a neoprene neck and wrists. For both of these, a feature called a double tunnel is built in. This means there are two layers on the top. The skirt creates a water tight seal and keeps you dry. First, get your arms in the dry top. Poke your fingers through the gasket on the wrist. This takes ef...

How To: Make marzipan roses and rose buds when cake decorating

This video shows you how to make marzipan roses and rose buds when cake decorating. Cut disks with cutters. You need two sizes, small and large. Cut 5 of each and roll a ball of marzipan. Make this into a cone. Flatten out the disks to make them thin. Wrap these petals one by one around the cone. Squeeze the bottom and bend the petal edges out. If your fingers stick then rub them in a little corn starch or cornflour. Always use an odd number of petals. Pinch the flower head off the base and m...

How To: Draw Master Chief from the video game, Halo

First of all you have to draw the rough sketch using light color lines. You have to draw blocks to the size of helmet, chest, two arms, legs and boots. Now start from the helmet and draw the outline. Draw the glass for viewing. Draw the lines as shown on the helmet. Also darken the spots as shown. Now draw the chest guard. Draw the lines to make all the different straps and marks over the armor. You also have to draw a tank at behind. Make the arm and the gloves. Now draw the outline of a gun...

How To: Make fizzing bath bombs

Janice Cox shows how to make fizzing bath bombs like the ones you see in bath and beauty boutiques or department stores. These bath bombs can be very relaxing when dropped into a warm bath and can be given as gifts. She starts with about a cup of citric acid crystals which is also called powdered vitamin C or ascorbic acid. Citric acid can be purchased in places that sell wine and beer making equipment and online. The next ingredients come from right out of the kitchen cupboard: a cup of baki...

How To: Cut up your t-shirt like Adam Saaks of Ed Hardy

The girl in the video desribes how to cut up a shirt to make it look like an Ed Hardy shirt. This idea was inspired by Adam Saaks, who she saw do this in Vegas. First, she cuts out the neck of the shirt, and then matches up the side seams of the shirt and cuts slits halfway up the shirt about an inch apart. Now there are slit down the back of the shirt. After, each slit should be pulled taut separately. Start at the top of the shirt and pull the second string under the first string and contin...

How To: Do pushups on your coffee table

Rick Pitts takes us through how to do a push up using a coffee table. First, he starts by doing a push up for shoulders and triceps. You do this by placing your hands slightly wider than shoulders with fingers pointing forward. Keep your elbows near body as you lower yourself towards the table.

How To: Make hairbows for kids with Simple Kids Crafts

Materials required are lace, hair band, scissors and glue. Start by cutting off a piece of lace around ten inches length using a scissors. Now apply glue at the edges of one end of the lace. And then join the other end of the lace together to form a circle. Now hold this lace at the middle and then push in the middle. Press in at the centre so that it is divided into a Bow as shown. Spread the edges a little to make it appear fine. Now cut off a piece of lace around four inches using a scisso...

How To: Pan for gold outdoors

In this Outdoor Recreation video tutorial you will learn how to pan for gold outdoors. This is a good excuse to play in the dirt for young kids or even for the whole family. Go to the woods, find a stream that is shallow and the current is not strong. Choose a spot that has roots, because the gold gets in the roots. Scoop up some mud in a deep pan and remove all big stones from it. Then put the pan underwater and stir it. Loosen the mud with your fingers and keep stirring the pan. Gold being ...

How To: Easily make a hair bun

First of all you have to start with the bungee band pony tail at behind. You can use the brush on your back hair to make it appear bigger. Use your brush on the underneath of the back hair to make it appear wider and it should appear to have a body. Pick small locks at the back and brush it outwards so that it looks that you have more hair than actual. After this you have to gather all the hair at behind. Now you have to wind it and bring it all towards your head. Now use a hair pin to grip y...

How To: Make wood out of polymer clay

This tutorial shows the viewer how to make polymer clay look like wood. Begin by using a pasta machine and roll out ecru on a number four and rolling out brown on a number six. Stack the brown on top of the ecru and cut the stack in half. Then sandwich the two stacks so it goes light - dark - light - dark. Repeat the process by Cutting it in half and stacking them again. Roll this stack through the pasta machine on a number one so it squishes them together. Cut in half and stack. Repeat this ...

How To: Throw a giant clay pottery novelty goblet

IngletonPottery demonstrates how to create a giant clay pottery novelty goblet in less than eight minutes in this video. The goblet can be used as a decorative piece or it can be used to drink from. The choices are endless for this giant piece of art. The giant goblet begins as a big blob of clay. A portion of the clay is wet and the spinning table begins. While the clay is wet it is placed on the spinning table and then the molding process begins. To mold the clay requires concentration and ...

How To: Get Kim Kardashian inspired loose curls

S2Pandapple shows viewers how they can get Kim Kardashian Inspired curls! First, you should wash and let your hair air dry. Make sure you spray heat protector in your hair before curling! Next, make sure you brush your hair thoroughly getting rid of tangles. Separate your crown and the bottom of your hair. Twist and pin the top up and put the bottom in a ponytail. Now, unclip the top of your hair and begin to put your hot rollers in. Spray each hair section with volumizing spray! You will wan...

How To: Play "Gitara" on the ukulele

First of all you have to watch the screen for two bars. One bar is situated in the right side of the screen and the other bar is on the bottom of your screen. First you have to start by following the ‘side bar’ which has the four strings separated by different sections. It also shows red color buttons which are depicting the movement that you need to do by pressing the strings with your fingers. At the start you have to press the second section of the second, third and the fourth strings. The...

How To: Make a fake tattoo with a ballpoint pen

Learn how to draw a ‘Fake Tattoo’ using a ballpoint pen and some colored highlighters, by watching this video. Begin by drawing a faint design of your choice at the back of your palm, using a ballpoint pen. Darken the outlines when you are done with the image drawn. Now according to your choice, fill colors in the drawing using colored green, blue, yellow and pink highlighters. Begin with the yellow color and blend it together with the other color applied in each area, using your fingers. Use...

How To: Easily wear a rockabilly bandana style

This video demonstrates how to wear your bandanna in a rockabilly style. First, you'll need to curl your hair in either rollers or hot sticks. This particular video utilizes both. Do not worry about including your bangs. Use three rollers on top, so the ends of the rollers are pointing towards your ears. The third roller will be on the top of the back of your head. Put to more rollers on each side of the top, this time the ends facing forwards and backwards. Use four hot sticks for the sides ...

How To: Draw an anime Fox Furry

This video shows how to draw an anime Fox Furry. First, draw the outline of the face, neck and straight-up ears. Then draw the eyes with eyebrows and make them prominent, to look nice and real. Then draw the nose and mouth. Then give borders and shades to ears to look prominent. Then outline and draw the hairs over the head, a little on the face and also side hairs. Then for finalizing the eye part, adding pupils to the eyes to look a little real, and more bordering the eyebrows. Then, draw t...

How To: Prank a Coworker or Friend by Flipping Their Computer Screen Upside-Down

The perfect way to avoid boredom at work or in the classroom is with a good old-fashioned prank, and this one is for tech-minded. In the video below, you'll see how to change your coworker's (or classmate's) computer screen to be display upside-down, which will totally freak them out when they return from lunch or the restroom. The best part is watching them try to revert it back to normal!

How To: Chuck When Playing You Ukulele

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to chuck when playing the ukulele. The chuck is a different type of strumming technique. It looks like the user is slapping the ukulele. To chuck, users are to slide the fingers quickly down the string. The chuck is used as an extra beat and helps add rhythm to the song that is played. This video provides a visual demonstration and step-by-step instructions for viewers to easily understand and follow along. This video will benefit those viewers who ar...

How To: Add highlights to your hair without using bleach

This works well for short hair. First of all you need to have artificial hair extensions of golden color or any other color of your choice. You also need a glue gun and hair clips to hold these extensions to your real hair. You can choose to fix these extensions on the left side of your head, just below the hair. Lift your hair at the left sides, add some glue using the glue gun and place the extension. Now add clips to fix it on your hair. Carefully conceal it below your real hair. Take care...

How To: Make a mini polymer clay kitchen pot for a dollhouse

To begin you need to have a metal hollow tube made up of a strip which is around one inch wide and about two inch in length and has been bended round. Now take some clay and put it inside this hollow tube on a table. Press it with your finger. Take a glass tube with lid and use it to press the clay down to form a pot with this clay. Now remove the both the glass tube and the metal tube. Put the clay pot again back over the lid of the glass tube and press with your fingers. You have to press s...

How To: Make sour creamed scones

Looking for a new way to jazz up your traditional scone recipe? This video might have the solution you've been looking for. The addition of sour cream is sure to mix things up and add a new twist to your baking adventures.

How To: Make a bunny bead out of polymer clay

This art and craft video shows you how to create a bunny head out of polymer clay. You start it by creating a round ball for the bunny head. You can then make it into a bead by using a small screwdriver (if you wish it to be a bead). You then take some additional clay and shape it into flat ears, fold them over to make them look floppy and attach them onto the round ball (head). The presenter then shows you how to add eyes, by pressing beads onto the face of the bunny using a needle. You can ...

How To: Clean the camera contacts on a DSLR

When the camera has trouble auto focusing the first step to take is to clean the contacts on the lens. If it continues then the contacts on the camera may need cleaning. When you clean the contacts in the camera you have to be extremely careful because they are inside the shutter chamber and there are a lot of small parts that can be easily broken in there. Face the camera down at all times during the cleaning procedure. Take the battery out of the camera and remove the lens. Put the rear cap...

How To: Fix a running toilet easily

Having trouble with your toilet continually running? Here's a video to help you with that troublesome toilet. 1. Check the flapper valve if it is already worn out. This can be done by pulling the siphon end and running your fingers around the valve. 2. If you can feel grit and lime scale, then, it needs to be cleaned. However, if it feels distorted or damaged, it needs to be replaced. 3. Check the chain or the wire link connecting the arm lever to the rubber flapper valve. It may be too short...

How To: Make a mini polymer clay tomato for a dollhouse

Garden of Imagination shows you how to make a miniature polymer clay tomato cane to slice and place on top of a doll house hamburger. First, a thin layer of brown clay is rolled flat through a pasta maker and cut into the shape of a cane or long rectangle (with excess clay discarded) and the canes rolled tightly lengthwise. It is rolled by pressure of the fingers to a very small diameter, then cut into one or two inch lengths, and put aside. Next, red clay is mixed with translucent clay to ma...

How To: Grip your golf club the right way

One of the key fundamentals to playing a successful game of golf is to master your grip on the club. Stand in front of the club with your hands relaxed at your sides and let the club fall into your hands. Next, bring the club around front and set it down. When you position the club to hit the ball you will see two to three knuckles of your left hand. Your right hand will be hanging relaxed at your side. Bring your hand up like you are shaking hands with somebody. When you look down, the V sha...

How To: Handle & mince garlic

This is a video showing how to handle and mince garlic. Make sure that the garlic is firm and not dried up. The skin is broken with a hammer to get the cloves loose. The skin is then peeled off of the garlic. The garlic is then cut into long pieces. Each slice is a 16th of an inch thick. Heat up olive oil and place the garlic into the oil. Let it cook for about a minute so that the flavor is drawn into the oil. Do not leave the garlic unattended. Garlic burns quickly. The garlic is removed an...

How To: Hold a dinner conversation with Japanese etiquette

This video language lesson explains how to hold polite dinner conversation in Japanese, focusing on traditional Japanese table etiquette. At the beginning of a meal, a typical thing to hear is "itadakimasu". Translated literally, it means, "I will partake." When finished with a meal, everyone says, "gochiso-sama", which is a way of expressing respect for the meal. The names of the utensils used in a Japanese meal are "hashi" (chopsticks), spoon (same as in English) and "foh-ku" (fork), "coppu...

How To: Draw Mike From Monsters Inc on a computer

This video from Drawing Now outlines how to draw Mike from Monsters, Inc. There is no audio in the video. To being, draw a tear-shaped oval with a rounded top. Draw a half moon that faces down, with the top of the rounded end of the “moon” touching the top of the tear shape. This will be the eyelid. Below the eyelid, draw a big circle for the iris, with a smaller circle inside it for the pupil. To start the arms and legs, add them in stick form. The arm has two segments and the hand and the l...