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Stepping Up Your Polish Game

And by “polish,” I mean for the nails, as opposed to tips on picking up Polish people. That is a WHOLE other article.

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Makeup for Rookies: Back to School Makeup Tutorial

I have newfound respect for YouTube makeup people. I spent all afternoon editing this bloody video, and now all my awesome jokes and hilarious facial expressions are gone. Boo.

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Photography

Picture This: ISO Settings

Adding to your already super-cool manual mode powers, we’re giving you a monkey wrench today: ISO settings.

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Photography

Picture This: DIY Lightbox

This week is a little different. Instead of explaining a technique or demonstrating a composition concept, we’re going make a lightbox.

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Photography

Picture This: No Training Wheels, We’re Going Manual!

Okay, Persephoneers! We’ve learned about composition, we’ve learned about types of cameras, we’ve tried editing photos, we’ve worked on being creative, and we’ve even had a little fun along the way (don’t tell anyone!), but now it’s time to bust off those training wheels and try going manual. “WHAT? HUH? I CAN’T DO THAT!” Why yes you […]

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DIY Gifts – Pretty, Pretty Vases

My love of spray paint is well-documented here (as well as my garage floor, which is covered in tons of outlines of items sprayed, and the garage walls, since my girlfriends and I may have tagged the crap out of them at one point), but sometimes even I can be surprised by it’s use on […]