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How To: Prevent razor burn and ingrown hairs when shaving

In this video, which is another installment of Masc Minute, we learn about razor burns, and how to prevent and treat razor burns. One thing is that you don't want to be using a dull razor. As soon as your razor is done, throw it out, because that will definitely irritate your skin. You also want to use a good shaving cream that will protect your skin. But something you can do to help treat razor burns specifically is using a post-shave repair product. The product recommended in this video is ...

How To: Trim your dog's toenails safely

When it comes to trimming your dog’s toenails, there are several instruments you can use. In this video, Patrice introduces you to the toenail clipper and the toenail grinder. To begin trimming your dog’s nails, pull back the hair surrounding the toenails so you can get a better look at the nails. Then separate the toes so you can work with one toe at a time. Using a toenail clipper, cut the nail enough to where you can see the jelly-like substance. You will know when you haven’t cut en...

How To: Make home remedies to make hair softer

In this video you will learn how to make a home remedy to make hair softener. If you don't have any conditioner at home and you don't have time to run to the store and get more there is a remedy you can make that starts right at your refrigerator. All you will need to do is to grab your mayonnaise, a few eggs, and even a little bit of olive oil. Then all you'll need to do is take a spoon and mix them all together and then you'll have something else to use to soften your hair.

How To: Bake Spumoni cookies for the holidays

Learn how to make layered spumoni cookies for the holiday season in this simple tutorial. First, melt 1 oz of unsweetened chocolate and soften two sticks of butter. Cream butter together with one egg, half a cup of sugar, and a teaspoon of vanilla. Add in 2 1/4 cups of flour and a pinch of salt. Divide the dough into three parts. Mix candied cherries in one part, 1/4 chopped nuts in the second part, and the chocolate into the third. Press the layers into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper....

How To: Make beef noodle stir fry with Kai

Forget the take out tonight, cook some Chinese food at home instead. Watch this how to video tutorial as professional Thai chef Kai shows you how to cook up an authentic dish of stir fired beef noodles. You can serve your homemade stir fried beef noodles with a side of rice.

How To: Draw a Goomba from Super Mario

In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a Goomba from Super Mario. First, draw the softened triangle shape of the top of the head, then draw the body and the oval feet at the bottom. After this, draw on the oval eyes and then a flat mouth with two triangle teeth on both sides. From here, draw on the eyebrows to Goomba in thick lines. To draw another type of Goomba, draw the same basic shape, but then make the eyes squished into small lines and then draw the mouth with crunched teeth on the ins...

How To: Make a molded tomato aspic salad with crab & couscous

In this video, we learn how to make a molded tomato aspic salad with crab and couscous. You will first take 2 c tomato juice and pour into a saucepan over medium heat. Next, take 1 c of tomato juice, and add in 2 packets of unflavored gelatin inside. Sprinkle this over your tomato juice so it softens, then pour this mixture into the hot tomato juice and stir until it's dissolved. Next, add finely chopped carrots, green peppers, and cucumbers to the mix. Stir this, then place into small molds ...

How To: Prepare an easy radish appetizer

Clinton Kelly teaches us how to prepare an easy radish appetizer in this tutorial. First, take a radish and cut off both ends. Next, scoop out a little bit of the center of the radish going in a circular motion with a pairing knife. Now, take softened butter and place it into a plastic bag and push into the corner. Snip off the corner of the bag, then fill the middle of the radish with butter and sprinkle with kosher salt. Next, place this on a platter with a bed of kosher salt on the bottom ...

How To: Touch up eyes in Photoshop

This tutorial teaches us how to touch up eyes while using Photoshop. First, open up Photoshop and zoom into the eyes on a picture you want to touch up the eyes on. First, select the adjustment layer icon and brighten the image. Next, invert the mass and select the "v" key, then pain the eyes on both sides. Next, click "filter" and then click "blur" so you will soften the edges so the picture doesn't look fake. Now, you can click on "before and after" to see what the picture results look like....

How To: Make baked bacon and scrambled eggs

From Betty's Kitchen, Betty shows how to make bacon in the oven! A serving of bacon is then placed beside perfect scrambled eggs, thick-sliced raisin toast, citrus slices and hot chocolate to make for the perfect breakfast! Start your day off right with this delicious breakfast that is sure to make you and guests smile! To complete this meal, you will need the following ingredients:

How To: Soften the look of a stone walkway with creeping thyme

Stone walks can look a bit intimidating. But by planting small plants you can make a stone walk both welcoming and beautiful. You want to plant something that is hardy and still attractive. You shouldn't plant on a heavily traveled area, but this technique is perfect for a lightly traveled path. When planting in between stones, dig a small hole for the plant and place it gently between the stones. As with all plantings, you will want to immediately water after you put the plant into the soil....

How To: Make an Italian wedding cake with Sandra Lee

Sandra Lee shows us how to make an easy Italian wedding cake in this video. First, take a box of white cake mix and put it into a mixing bowl with 1 stick of softened butter, 1 1/4 c buttermilk, 1/2 c egg whites, 1 tbsp vanilla, 1/4 tsp almond extract and mix together for a minute or two until the ingredients are combined. Now, add 1 can of crushed pineapple, 1/2 c of sweetened coconut and 1 c of chopped pecans and fold it into the cake mixture. Now grab two 8 inch round cake pans and grease ...

How To: Prepare a tuna steak

In order to prepare a Tuna Steak, you will need the following ingredients: lentils, onions, olive oil, garlic, rosemary, parsley, tuna, sage, mushroom, white wine vinegar, sugar, and water.

How To: Cook healthy and savory bok choi

Bok choy is to be properly washed and drained. If the stem is too large it is to be cut off and cooked separate. Cooking Oil is heated in a frying pan within which chopped garlic is placed to fry. The stem is then put in to fry first. The bok choy is added to the stems and is flipped and stirred many times on high heat, with a spatula until softening and cooking begins. Salt is added to this when it is 3/4 cooked to enhance the taste and cooking ends shortly after. Do not add soya sauce as th...

How To: Make homemade egg drop soup

This video explains how to make homemade egg drop soup. What you will need for this project is a pot, noodles, water, an egg and a bowl. First, you'll want to heat up and boil your water in the pot. Next, add your noodles. The noodles and flavor you will use will be Choice Ramen. Before you add the noodles, crunch up the noodle in the package. When the noodles are half way done, limp and softening, add the flavor to the pot and mix. Next, drop in the egg and simply break the yolk of the egg. ...

How To: Soften the background by crushing the depth of field

In this Film and Theater video tutorial you will learn about depth of field and how to adjust it. Depth of field means how many objects are in focus in the frame at one focus setting. If the depth of field is large, more objects at various distances from the camera are in focus. The first factor is the amount of light. If the light is good, more objects will remain in focus. On the other hand if you zoomed in with a long focal length lens the depth of field will reduce and lesser objects will...

How To: Make Brazilian rajma-chawal (black bean rice)

In the video Juarez Goncalves de Azevedo who works as a Master Chef at the Crowne Plaza in Gurgaon, Brazil, shows us how to make black bean rice. You start with butter and bay leaves over the heat, then adding chopped onion and tomato and getting it to soften. Once that is done you add the black beans (soaked) and mix it all together. Then comes parsley, salt and long grain rice. The rice absorbs all the flavors. Water is added and the whole thing is cooked for 15 minutes. After that time it ...

How To: Make delicious spicy butternut squash soup

Peel the squash and cut it in half lengthwise. Remove the seeds for roasting. Now cut the squash into half-inch cubes. peel and chop the carrots into pieces as same as size of squash. Heat the onion and garlic over a medium heat for up to 7 minutes. Add the squash and carrots to the onion and garlic mixture in a large saucepan. Cook it for ten minutes to soften the vegetables. Add salt, ground pepper, thyme, chili peppers and the remaining ingredients and boil for 30 minutes. Add cheese and s...

How To: Cook fresh pumpkin flowers

To cook pumpkin flowers you need some pumpkin flowers and some of the smaller more tender leaves from the pumpkin patch. First thing is to take off the little spiny things from the base of the flower. Then you want to pop the top of the flower off at base of the stem. Remember to save the stems, open up the flower gently and pluck out the thing in the middle. You want to pick off the spinets on the back of leaves, wash them rubbing them to soften the leaves up. Then you would take the stem an...

How To: Make delicious garlic bread

Tony D'Angelo shows us how to make delicious homemade garlic bread. The ingredients you will need are 2 tbsp diced garlic, 1 tbsp parsley flakes, 2 tbsp oregano, ¼ teaspoon salt, a stick of softened butter, ¼ cup of olive oil and a loaf of bread. Combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix with a spatula; it is very important to preheat the butter. Take your bread and cut it right down the middle; with the spatula coat the bread with the mixture. Set oven to 350 degrees and place bread ...

How To: Wear red lipstick to look glamorous

Erin Bried, author of "How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew," will show you how to wear red lip stick when you want to look glamorous. First, you are going to want to soften your kisser, which can be done by taking a damp washcloth or dry toothbrush and using them on your lips. After, you want to take a tissue and blot your lips. Next, you want to line your lips to prevent your lip stick from bleeding out. Make sure you line your real lips though, don't make your ...

How To: Make your face look thinner

This video teaches the secrets to make your face look thinner in an easier way. An excellent summary is given below. To contour your face with cream, take a concealer two times darker than your skin tone, using your finger apply it below the cheek bone. To hide any extra fluff on your cheek use the same concealer for it. Use the same concealer on both sides of your nose to make it look thinner. Now apply a thin layer of face powder to your face. To contour your face with powder use an angled ...

How To: Create a wavy hair look with extensions

Wavy hair is a classic, glamorous look, but not everyone has the exact hair for it. With this video, we learn a quick and easy way to get that timeless wavy look using extensions. It's entirely easy. Beginning with a spritz of water or your best anti heat damage spray, you then merely use your crimping or curl iron the same way you would with your normal hair, applying a light touch, not going for actual curl, and checking your results often. When done, you can spritz your hair again, and run...

How To: Change hair color using Adobe Photoshop

Thanks to technology, art savvy users can visually edit pictures with the click of a button. This video tutorial demonstrates how to color hair in Adobe Photoshop CS. In Quick Mask Mode, color over the hair area with a fairly large brush. Under Filter, select the Blur category and apply a Gaussian Blur to soften the edges of the mask. Revert back to Standard mode where the mask will appear as a selection, and under Select, choose the Inverse option. Finally, adjust the hue and saturation to s...

How To: Juice a pomegranate

Start with a nice firm pomegranate. Take the pomegranate in your hands and start squeezing it by pressing with your thumbs one of the other pushing into the pomegranate. Squeeze all around the whole surface of the pomegranate. As you press in using your thumbs overlapping each other you will hear the pomegranate seeds popping inside the fruit. Take the softened pomegranate and bite a hole into the side. As you bite the hole make sure you suck the juice as it begins to come out. Once you have ...

How To: Remove stubborn masking tape

Do you have a piece of stubborn masking tape stuck somewhere and you just can't get it off? Does it stare at you in the face, begging you to have a nervous breakdown? Ron Hazleton is here to save your day. In this video, learn how to remove old unwanted masking or duct tape from walls, wallpapered surfaces, concrete (and more) using a hair dryer to warm & soften te adhesive.

How To: Make a natural floral arrangement in a cigar box

You want to soften a man's study, a library or office with some flowers, but he doesn't want anything "flowery." Watch Dana Plazyk of Flowers by Design as she creates a non-floral floral in a cigar box in this video tutorial. Perfect for a desk or a shelf and guaranteed to bring some natural life into any room! See how to make a natural floral arrangement in a cigar box.

How To: Make a claymation character for stop motion animation

Here is a video tutorial that offers basic tips on crafting a simple claymation character using everyday, household objects. Soften a single chunk of material and pull your claymation character's limbs and head from it. Insert a toothpick (or armature) to stabilize the body and head. Pull out facial features with small tools. Experiment with different poses and facial expressions to make a fun animation. This playful claymation how to video is great for beginning animators, so sit back and en...

How To: Use Dryer Sheets to Clean Soap Scum Off Shower Doors

How often do you fight with your shower doors? Maybe not literally (although my elbow has smacked the hard glass many times), but when it's time to clean the bathroom, getting a few weeks' worth of soap scum and grime off the shiny, clear surface becomes an insurmountable task. Whether you use a special cleaner and squeegee or a carefully selected wipe, chances are you still battle the streaks and grit left behind. Although it might not make sense to steal cleaning supplies from the laundry r...