We love bohemian hairstyles: The loose, beachy waves, pretty curls, and sprinkling of braids look princessy and oh so feminine. But when you have to get up at 5 AM in the morning to get ready for school it's not as easy to muster up the patience to plait, pin up, and curl your hair.
When it comes to back to school, you probably already have enough on your plate as it is to think about. From new books to new classes to new crushes, you're probably feeling overwhelmed by the kick off of the school year.
This clip presents a guide on how to achieve a sandstorm reveal-style effect within Adobe After Effects CS4 or CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
In this clip, you'll learn how to use layer styles, blending modes and cell pattern effect to create a fun, glamorous pre-roll sequence in Adobe After Effects CS3, CS4 or CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular motion graphics and compositing software or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various features and filters, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step inst...
What we love about Christina Hendricks is that the lady's got serious curves - you know, the kind that would make those cartoon cayotes howl and hearts pop out of their eyes.
Disney starlet Selena Gomez was once called "the next Miley Cyrus," but over the past year or two she's really stepped out on her own as a bonafide movie star and pop singer. With recent hits like "Naturally" and "Round and Round" to add to her long list of accomplishments, the actress is setting the curve for a new era of stars.
Kim Kardashian knows her way around a smokey eye. Like, sister could put her makeup on in the dark and still be the hottest thing on the red carpet. So it goes without saying that we often find ourselves oogling her pictures and finding inspiration in them for our own smokey eyes.
When it comes to anything artistic, from interior design to makeup application, color theory plays an immense role in determining what colors go together and what colors clash. Of course, you won't find the average woman at the cosmetics counter asking the saleslady for a cool toned though slightly neutral foundation shade for her, but this is what we should all be doing if we're to find the right shade.
This clip presents a general overview of how to utilize content tags when writing a website using HTML5, the new HTML standard. Whether you're using a fancy WYSIWYG (or what-you-see-is-what-you-get) page editor like Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 or a barebones text editor like Notepad, if you want to build websites, you'll need to have some understanding of HTML (for the structure of your web pages) and CSS (for their style). And this free coder's guide will get you started along that path.
Perhaps inspired by her collaboration with Lady Gaga, Beyoncé created a very retro several months ago not in her usual full-blown sexy style but with lots of '40s female stereotypes and a vintage film look. This music video, made for her single "Why Don't You Love Me?", features in one scene a very curvy Beyonce repearing a car and wearing her curled hair up in a bandana.
Perhaps inspired by her collaboration with Lady Gaga, Beyoncé created a very retro several months ago not in her usual full-blown sexy style but with lots of '40s female stereotypes and a vintage film look. This music video, made for her single "Why Don't You Love Me?", features in one scene a very curvy Beyonce repearing a car and wearing her curled hair up in a bandana.
Let's face it: You're exploding with joy at the fact that your best friend is getting married, but the bridesmaid dress? Sorry, but the last time you pulled off chartreuse was in second grade when your mother dressed you as a duckie for Halloween.
We never thought you could wear anything that would make you look cute and sexy all at once, but this bohemian headband with a cute pink bow proves us wrong. Rather than simply teach you how to make a simple two strand bohemian headband in the style of Nicole Richie, your instructor teaches you how to make that headband and attach it to a bow for extra girly appeal.
You probably haven't played with marbles since you were a kid (anyone remember Chinese checkers?), but more likely than not you still have some marbles lying around your house, especially if you have a kid.
The great thing about drawing in the anime or manga style is that once you've learned how to draw one girl you can easily learn to draw any girl, from the main female character in "Chobits" to Sailor Moon. This is because there's so much crossover in how women are depicted.
This makeup style was inspired by the Irish folklore creatures called Leprechauns, with their greens and pots of gold. Marinshe shows you this green makeup look that's perfect for Saint Patrick's Day, with a little bit of gold to top it off!
If you love Adobe Illustrator and are looking for an interesting and creative way really to bring the life out of your pictures, this video has an interesting twist. If you remember the movie, "A Scanner Darkly" and the art style that they used, it was quite impressive and unique and called rotoscoping. In this video Karl Gude goes into great lengths showing you his method of tracing the picture and then adding the right colors all the way to the finished product.
In order to do a big back giant weight sets, you will need free weights, a bench, and a hanging bar. You can use towels or and powder, if it helps you.
The Aero desktop experience dresses up your PC with translucent window glass, cool graphics, and new colors. Plus it has new ways to help you get around your desktop. The Aero desktop experience is available in the Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions of Windows 7.
Comic book art is not only awesome, but it takes a really keen eye, and talent, to draw great comic book art. Steven Sanchez has a unique style and tone to his artwork, and in this great two-part video, you will learn how to draw the faces and heads that make Steven stand out from other artists.
Phish bone keychains feature a highlighted midsection with three different colors of hemp (in this video we use regular rafia-colored hemp, red hemp, and green hemp) that surround wooden beads.
Pendants are like the stars of your necklace. Without them, you'd only have a boring necklace chain or cord. Pendants add excitement to a necklace as well as show off some of your individual style and charm.
Hold your moolah in style using this duct tape wallet. Leave your friends with their Dior clutches and fancy business wallets - this duct tape wallet is SO much cooler! Featuring a woven pattern, you can weave two duct tapes in whatever colors suit your fancy.
WE don't know what the hell Hiyajiru means, but from the screenshot above we'd love to find out! This recipe for Japanese Hiyajuru combines a delicate miso with healthy tofu, sesame seeds, and Japanese Horse Mackerel to create a lovely soup that's healthy and delicious.
If you want to bring a spa like atmosphere to your bathroom, the shower is the best place to start. There are so many ways that you can do this and one way is by installing a power shower in your bathroom. There are many different kinds that you can choose, depending on your style and what you can fit.
In this video, we learn how to get bouncy curls with a braided headband. First, you will need to spray heat protector on your hair before you put heat on it. Next, you will take small sections of your hair and wrap your hair around it, then pull straight down. Once you do this to the entire head, style as you prefer with your hands. Next tease the hair to give it volume, then spray hair spray on the entire head. Next, you will need to braid underneath your on both sides, then wrap it around t...
In this video, we learn how to get a feathered look with your hair. First, take the top of your hair and hair spray it on the back. After this, tease the hair and then place a large barrel curling iron in it. Then, take a clip and roll it into the clip. Continue to do this all the way down until you reach the bottom middle of your hair. After this, hairspray your hair, then do this on the sides of your hair and on your bangs. When finished, take the pins out of your hair and hair spray, then ...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a Mediterranean blue bracelet. The materials required for this project are: memory wire, Mediterranean Czech glass bead mix, 4mm sea side mix Czech fire polish round beads, wire cutter, super glue, bead stopper and 2 3mm memory wire end caps. Begin by cutting 3 1/2 clamps of wire and glue one memory wire end cap to the end of the wire. Then string the beads. Users may decide to make a repetitive pattern with the beads or randomly string the be...
In this video, we learn how to get super curls like Kim Kardashian. First, apply heat protector to your hair, then heat up your curling iron. Next, take small sections of your hair and place them into your curling iron. Leave the hair in the curling iron for several seconds, or until the hair is hot. Next, drop the hair out of the curling iron, then brush out with your fingers and spray hair spray onto it. Continue to do this in sections around your entire head until all your hair is curled. ...
In this video, we learn how to create bouncy curls with a flat iron. Start off by applying heat protector to your entire head of hair, then heat up your flat iron. Next, grab a small section of your hair (as small as you want to curls to be) and place the flat iron inside the top, then twist the iron 180 degrees and pull the hair straight down. When it reaches the bottom, the hair should be completely curled. To make a tighter curl, use smaller sections of hair and leave the iron in longer. C...
Be as lazy as you want the rest of your life when it comes to makeup and hair, but on your wedding day you better be amping it up in the style department. If you're looking for a not too hard hairstyle to sport on your big day, check out this elegant side twist updo. You've probably seen it on the likes of old Hollywood-inspired stars like Gwen Stefani and Rachel McAdams.
Compared to ladies of the '40s and '50s, we are damned lazy ladies today. Most of us wouldn't flinch to pull on some sweatpants to go the grocery store or even to go to school. And while we totally dig comfort, which is a good thing, it's nice to "put on your lady face" every once in a while an dress up a bit before you go out.
The prank is one of the most cherished traditional forms of expression around the world, from Japan to the Middle East to the good ol' US of A. Without them, how would people settle their disputes with one another while having a good laugh at the same time? Every time a new phenomenon enters our lives, new pranks emerge that can be performed with it. We at Wonderhowto love pranks as much as anybody, and to that end we've scoured the internet for videos demonstrating the proper setup and execu...
You've probably heard of cheetah print nails and even cheetah print eyeshadow (think the eyeshadow "rub-ons" at Sephora), but we can bet you've never heard of cheetah print hair. Your first question is probably whether or not this is even possible, but trust us, with a compressor doing cheetah prints on your hair is as easy as pie.
Installing a backsplash in your kitchen is a great way to add a certain sense of style to the space. It can also prevent any kind of stains of taking place on the walls as well and it's easy to clean up.
If your kitchen needs to a face lift, the most common, and expensive, area to work on are the cabinets. Cabinets can give a certain feel to the room depending on what the style may be. Taking out cabinets from an existing kitchen may be easy, but installing them can be a bit more difficult.
Long, curly layers look fabulous (we're thinking Beyoncé and Shakira here), but the hairstyle also presents two of the most difficult to manage hairstyling problems: Too much frizz and messy, uneven layers that don't lie flat. It may seem like a hairstylist's - and everyday gal's - nightmare, but long, curly layers can be styled with the right tools and technique.
In this video, we learn how to easily cut your bangs. First, you will want to take a shower and have your hair went and brushed out. Next, part your hair so that your bangs are in the front and the rest of your hair is tied back behind you. After this, grab your scissors that are for hair cutting, and then level your hair out in front of you. Be sure to hold your head up straight and don't look too far down or up. Next, cut the bottom of your bangs where you want them to be at, then continue ...
In this video, we learn how to thin and layer hair for a spiky look. To do this, start off in front of the mirror with sharp scissors and a razor over the sink. Grab the scissors first and brush your hair to the front of your face. Start off cutting different layers into your hair, making some longer and some shorter. Next, take a razor and run it through your hair to create a think layering of all the hair. After you are done cutting it to your desired length, add in hair gel or wax to your ...
In this video, we learn how to use different brush types and colors in water coloring. While you are creating a painting, you will notice that you need to use different types of brushes to create different effects on your canvas. There is nothing wrong with this! You can use many different strokes and brush sizes to achieve what you want on your painting. Pay attention to what stage of the painting you are in, as this will help you decide what types of brushes to use, depending on the style y...
