Twilight inspired jewellery

Check out the tutorial for this Twilight inspired bracelet from Rings & Things! The red and black beaded bits are easy charms to make – we’ll be making these in our class on September 17th – and you can make the bracelet itself with some 10 mm and 5 mm jump rings (although we’ll be...

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Lipstick: Modifying lip balm – adding iron oxides

On the left – today’s ruby lipstick with iron oxides. On the right – yesterday’s ruby lip shimmer without iron oxide. You can see the colour is very similar, only today’s lipstick is much darker and doesn’t have the same glitter as yesterday’s.Creating a more opaque lipstick is as easy as adding a few ingredients...

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Lip shimmer sticks (updated)

You can easily make your own lipstick using mineral make-up ingredients like iron oxides and micas (but not chromium greens or ultramarines) and your favourite lip balm recipe.   If you’ve never made a lip balm before, you have to check out this page on Majestic Mountain Sage for a basic recipe! We adapt a...

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Using Ronaspheres in anhydrous products: Concealer sticks

Please note: I have no idea where to get Ronaspheres any more. I used to get them at Voyageur, now no one carries them. You can try using sericite mica or another type of filler when you are working with oil or oil-in-water products.  Concealer sticks are intended to be used as a spot concealer,...

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Hydrovance vs. urea (updated)

Jelena posted the following question: Do you know what is the difference between Hydrovance (INCI: Hydroxyethyl Urea) and Urea (INCI: Urea)? Which one is more moisturizing?   The short answer? I think the Hydrovance. Now for the long answer… Urea is a good humectant, found in the stratum corneum of our skin. It is a...

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