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How To: Create a No Makeup Makeup Look

A no makeup makeup look is perfect for when you are rushed for time, don't want to put in a ton of effort but still want to look good, or just like the bare beauty look overall. It's a young, youthful and fresh look. Essentially, you are just enhancing your natural beauty. Shape and lightly fill in sparse areas on your brows, use a light eyeshadow all over the lid similar to your skin tone (in my case it's porcelain), line your eyes with a thin line as close to the lashes as possible...browns...

How To: Remove fake nails

Find a good work area where you can sit down and be comfortable. A kitchen table works perfectly for this. Be sure to cover the surface of your table with a plastic garbage bags and a thick layer of newspaper to soak up spills and prevent damage to your table's surface. Get all your supplies ready at hand. You don't want to be hunting for them mid nail removal. Have them all spread out in front of you on the table. Using a pair of nail clippers, cut the acrylic nails down as short as possible...

How To: Make peanuts & ham

Learn to make boiled peanuts and hickory smoked ham in the deep Southern tradition. To make boiled peanuts you will need: Large stock pot filled with enough water for boiling, 3/4 - 1 1/4 cup salt, 1 - 5 bay leaves, 1 tbsp. Extra Hot powdered red pepper4 lbs. raw peanuts in shell3 - 4 lb. Lid (used to make kimchi or pickles). Combine all ingredients in the pot and place weighted lid on top. Bring water to a boil. Turn the heat off and allow the peanuts to absorb the salted water until there i...

How To: Do a double wing eyeliner inspired by anime

Start with a totally bare eyelid to create the base for the winged eye. It's important to go for a gel eyeliner. This allows you more precision than liquid eyeliners. Pull the skin taut at the outer eye, look down & using a flat brush, apply liner into lash line itself on top eyelid, in between root of lashes. Taking the line from the inner corner of the eye, put color in lash line all the way to outer corner of eye. Close eye; pull lid towards ear so skin is taut. Repeat base step; this time...

How To: Use aspirin to heal a pimple

Aspirin heals a pimple by reducing the inflammation and swelling when it is crushed up into a paste. Use aspirin to treat a pimple with tips from a professional makeup artist in this free instructional video on skin care. Good trick if a pesky pimple shows up before a big event.

How To: Alleviate puffy eyes

Alleviating puffy eyes requires getting plenty of sleep, drinking lots of water and applying cold compresses of cucumber slices and tea bags. Alleviate puffy eyes with tips from a professional makeup artist in this free instructional video on skin care. Remember - get your sleep & drink a whole bunch of water!

How To: Shrink the pores on your face

Do you have large pores? You can't actually make them smaller, but you can make them appear smaller. Shrinking pores involves using an alcohol-free toner daily, a clay mask twice a week and topical acne medication at night. Shrink pores on the face with tips from a professional makeup artist in this free video on skin care.

How To: Make your own exfoliating lip scrub

Shed those dead skin cells with homemade lip exfoliant. Using safe and natural ingredients, Roni Proter, host of Simply Beautiful, makes a gentle lip exfoliant. All you need is sugar and olive oil. Watch this how to video and you will have smoother, softer lips in no time.

How To: Install texture and skin packs for Minecraft

After playing Minecraft for a while, the old skins and textures can start to get old. But thanks to the internet, there's a LARGE community creating skins and textures that you can put right into the game! If you're wondering how to do this, this video will get you quick tutorial on how to quickly copy and paste your textures and skins right into the right folder and use them right away!

AHS Cult: How to Grow a Beehive Out of Your Skull for Halloween

The promotional images for American Horror Story: Cult have been some of the most arresting in recent memory. They mash coulrophobia, trypophobia, and body horror together with some serious economy into a succinct, colorful, image. It's like a bad car accident that you can't stop rubbernecking. Which makes it perfect for a Halloween costume — you'll be repulsive, but no one will be able to look away. While the beehive skull hasn't made an actual appearance in Cult yet, and probably won't sinc...

Save Money: Break Down Your Own Chicken

Here's a not-so-well-kept secret about the food industry: retailers love to take your money. And one of the ways they do that is by dividing food into smaller sizes and charging more. Have you ever noticed that a container of precut, washed broccoli costs more than a head of broccoli with the same amount of florets and stems?

How To: Keep Garlic from Sticking to Your Hands & Knife

It's a shame that one of the world's tastiest foods can be such a pain to prep. Most cooks are familiar with this conundrum: chopping or crushing garlic releases a pungent liquid that causes bits of garlic to stick your knife and hands, creating a messy affair. So what is going on here? The common assumption is that the garlic is releasing some kind of oil, but the truth is that this liquid rinses away easily in water. Yet one of the basic precepts of chemistry is that oil and water don't mix.

How To: Create colored anime or manga skin in Photoshop

This three-part video talks about manga coloring. If you have Adobe Photoshop and you love manga comics… and you love to draw… watch to see how to create colored anime or manga skin in Photoshop. Watch all three parts for the complete instructions, showing you which brushes to use, the razor tool, blur tool, burn tool, and dodge tool, among other things. You're manga and anime characters will have perfect skin color after learning all of these coloring steps in PS.

News: MIT's Temporary Tattoos Turn Your Skin into a Touchpad

We're inching closer towards the singularity—that point where technology advances to the steepest slope of the logistic function S-curve and simply skyrockets at a rate we've never seen before. Somewhere along the way, the line between humans and the tech we rely on will become blurred, and MIT's latest project might very well be a step in that direction.

How To: The Ultimate Potato Cheat Sheet: Which Potato Goes Best with What?

I've been a fan of potatoes ever since I can remember... but mainly because they weren't a big part of my daily diet (which usually consisted of rice). And because my experience with potatoes was so limited, I only knew of two varieties growing up: big, brown Russets and sinewy sweet potatoes. As for cooking with potatoes—well, I'm embarrassed to admit that the only time I cooked potatoes when I was a kid was with the instant kind.