DECLUTTER: Plastic Bag Storage

My boyfriend calls me a hoarder when it comes to plastic bags. I would show you my pile but it's simply too inconvenient for me to take our everything. Haha.

I have 3 stacks: lousy plastic bags (i.e. popular, daiso, orange plastic bags), generic paper bags (harder to store) and good paper bags (pretty ones!)

My mum keeps hers like this. Just stuff them all into a bag. Horrible way.

Or maybe you pack your plastic bags likes me! Fold the up into squares but have a hard time finding the right size and folding them back into the triangle 99% of the time.

Let me introduce you to a new way I found!

A bag to store your bags!

I bet you never thought of using a drawstring bag like this! It's like a bolster case for your bags~~

What's great about it is all you have to do is stuff the plastic bags from the top (no need for folding) and pull out from the bottom! If you get the wrong size, just stuff it back from the top! :)

Here is all you need:

1. 2 pieces of 45x27cm fabric

2. Piece of elastic (about 20cm)

3. Piece of cotton tape (about 60cm)

4. Safety Pin

Step 1: Sew the long sides and pin the two short sides in.

Step 2: Place the cloth inside out like shown below and sew the long sides. Do not sew past the stitch across along the short sides. Your drawstring will be put through there.

Step 3: Pin a safety pin at the end of the cotton tape so you can put through the short side.

Step 4: Continue on and take out the safety pin. Tie a knot to finish up your drawstring.

Step 5: On the other end of the bag, pin the safety pin to the elastic and put it through the hole on the other short side.

Step 6: Sew it and cut it! This will be your bottom end :)

And viola! Your very own plastic bag holder for easy access and easy storage! Absolutely love this because it hides all the disgusting and unsightly plastic bags!

And when you pull it out, its so easy because you will be stacking the bags on top one another, so you won't pull two at the same time.

You can hang it or put it lying down in your cupboard, takes up sooo little space! Have fun!

Hair: Pink to Blonde

I've been wanting to change my pink hair to a lovely shade of teal, but since I would have to go blonde first, so why not enjoy it while it last before going green!

I'm going to try and DIY it myself!

STORY BEHIND MY DIY JOURNEY:

I went down to a salon at Thomson Plaza and the hair stylists were SUPER reluctant to do my hair (honestly, I think they just don't have experiences with bleaching/don't have confidence in their products). They were saying it is harmful to me and asking me to reconsider. In Europe/America, it is soo common to bleach their hair/maintain blonde.

So I called my old salon and they ROSE THEIR PRICE BY LIKE HALF. 2 months ago, I did my entire head for $180. Now to do my entire head, $340. What.

So here I am, recording my journey. Be it a success/mistake, let this be enlightening!

Here is my hair. I have pink hair for 2 months, maintaining it with Manic Panic's Hot Hot Pink! (Psst, I have a new tub of 1 Hot Hot Pink and 1 New Rose for sale at $15 each! Click here to see how to use!)

Here I used a box of Revlon Colorsilk, started from the bottom of my hair. Didn't have enough for the top sadly :( But the pink came off IMMEDIATELY. No bleaching at all!

So if you dip-dyed your hair with any funky colours, just grab a box from the supermarket and blob it on!

 Here is after the second box! I bleached my roots with Palty (didn't work so well because my sis and I suck at full coverage). I only let my hair rest for 1 day but the condition of it is WAY better than if you bleach it!

I will be looking for Colorsilk's Ultra Light Sun Blonde to continue lightening it! I can't seem to find it anywhere :( Will go lighter until I feel it's light enough for green!

Salon Cost: $300+ with bleaching

DIY Cost: $40+ with NO bleaching

Easy DIY basic denim shorts!!

So... I've decided to upload early because I have found my perfect denim highwaist!

What so great about it you say?

Well, I'm somewhat a plus-size at my bottom :( I have huge thighs (like seriously huge) and calves :'( I have to wear shorts thats are 17" across. Most shorts from F21 are too tight around my thighs, though everywhere else is perfect.

So I was at NTUC Extra and I saw them selling men's jeans for like $10+ only. IT WAS SUPER CHEAP OK. I think its quite comparable to some of the more expensive shorts out there and the fit is PERFECT. Hahaha.

REASONS TO CUT HIGHWAISTS OUT OF MEN'S JEANS

1. Perfect highwaist length!!
2. More loose around thighs due to straight fit cut, instead of skinny jeans cut!
3. They have my size! (I'm fat, so it's a plus point for me!)

So I went home to slice it, handwash it, tumble dry in dryer and it looks like this below!

 It frayed quite nicely even when I didn't do much! Just scrub at the area more to fray as much as you want! However, the white threads look weird, so I went to dye it black! You're able to get the fabric dye at a Home-fix store for $6+, able to dye 2-3 highwaists!

And tada! It didn't turn out black, more of a super dark greenish blue. But it was good enough!

You can dye it another colour to give it an OOMPH! But I wanted a basic denim shorts.

This is just a simple starting post! :) But shorts like these are so easy to make and you can customise the length too! I make mine longer because it looks fine for my body proportion. My sister wore it and it looked too long. Haha.