Hey Folks!

For all you out there who love having your nails looking great, today I have for you my DIY Nail Wrap tutorial.

I’ve been planning out showing you all this for so long now and am finally getting to it. I’ve started to see other people figuring it out for themselves, so I figure there’s no better time to get this tutorial to you all! This truly will revolutionize doing your own nails and getting really cute designs on them with ease. You know how hard it is to work on your nails using your non-dominant hand? This helps with that too and it makes creating straight lines much easier! 

Scroll below the video to see additional tips for making these DIY Nail Wraps and without further ado, here is the video:

DIY Sea Salt Spray for Awesome Beachy Waves!

Well… it’s a little gloomy and rainy here today, but hopefully you all have sunshine and warm weather where ever you’re tuning in from! I say this because today I am showing you all how to make your own Sea Salt Spray to get those sought after effortless looking beachy waves in your hair!

Even if you’ve got rain like I do here, we’ll still get a little more nice weather so you can rock that beachy hair look. On the other hand, if you’re planning a tropical vacation, this spray will be perfect for that. It makes quick work of getting decent hair when you’d rather be laying in the sun, going on an excursion, or participating in activities rather than spending the time doing your hair.

This really is the best sea salt spray I’ve used in my hair. I’ve tried many others and only found one that compared to this, which has been discontinued – isn’t that the way it often goes? Other sprays leave your hair feeling too crunchy or don’t do much to enhance the natural wave and texture  in your hair. That being said, it is sea salt spray so your hair will feel a bit like there is stuff in it, there’s no getting away from it completely, but the other nurturing ingredients in this concoction really help to reduce those icky results. 

I'm Still Here! Promise!

Hi guys!

I just wanted to do a quick little post for any of you who are following me here on my blog but may not be following on Facebook to address where I have been hiding for the last little while... and just a side note, if you're not following me on Facebook yet, why not? Come on over and hit that little like button. I'm always updating what's going on with The Creative Glow over there. Here's the link: Facebook.com/thecreativeglow .

Okay, so now that I've dealt with that, where have I been? Well, I am still here, so don't you guys worry. The reason I have been MIA on my blog recently is that we've just gone through a huge move. If you are following me on Facebook then you probably already know this, but what you might not know is that we've had to deal with a lot of crazy shenanigans throughout this move and it's just made things a little bit difficult in getting back to my blog. But now that we've got all of our stuff moved in, we've got things semi-organized, and things are starting to look more and more like a home each day, I am finally ready to get back to regular blogging. Yay! 

Art Series - Post #9 - "Nanny" in Graphite

Heeeyyy!

In this installment of my Art Series posts I wanted to share with you all a graphite portrait drawing I did of my grandmother as a gift to my mother on her birthday this past April! 

I saw a picture of my grandmother’s huge family from when she was a little younger :)… I think maybe 16 or 17 years old (she just had her 74th birthday this past May), and thought how beautiful she was. I immediately knew I wanted to draw her. With my mom’s birthday coming up, I figured it would be a meaningful gift! Here she is:

Drawing a portrait of someone you know and someone you love and respect so much is difficult because you want it to be just perfect. I’m a perfectionist as it is!! He he. You just want to make sure it does look like them so you need to get certain features just right. This one is still hard for me… it really does look like her and I am quite proud of it… but there are things I’d like to fix. Maybe I’ll do another one. :)

Monthly Beauty Buys for June & Yay or Nay Video!

Bonjour, everyone! So, today I am starting this new Series called Monthly Beauty Buys! This one is for all my peeps who love being creative when it comes to Beauty Products or, like me, love being creative in ALL aspects!! I will be doing these posts once a month (duh, he he) and I’ll be showing you some beauty items I have bought and am liking each month. I may, from time to time, like I have in this post, do a “Yay or Nay” video for that Series I have started on YouTube where I give my first impressions of a new (or new for me ) product. Hopefully you guys will like this series and, if so, I will keep doing them! :D So, let’s get started!

So, I’ve got 3 items to show you guys that I am liking… I probably bought more than that in June… but I narrowed it down to 3 for this post. :)