Halloween Recipe!

Heya Stylistas!

Happy Halloween. This is another recipe and frankly, everyone loves food so who cares if you make it after Halloween? My last strawberry recipe was really, REALLY popular :) So this is another variation on what you can do with strawberries. As strawberries are yummy! And chocolate is yummy! So it's a win, win situation when there's chocolate covered strawberries involved. Before we begin, this recipe is for the novice chef in everyone. If you can handle a microwave, you can cook these!

Ingredients/Equipment

• Baking white chocolate (can use chips as long as they melt like a witch)
• Fresh strawberries
• Baking milk chocolate (to be piped, or you could use frosting)
• Heatproof bowl
• Microwave
• Spatula or wooden spoon
• Piping bag

Yes just 3 ingredients

Method:

1. Firstly, crumble up your white chocolate bar and place into a heatproof bowl. Then put the bowl into your microwave for around 2 minutes. Stop the microwave every 30 seconds to mix the chocolate up, using a spatula or wooden spoon. 
2. While you're waiting for the chocolate to melt (like the wicked witch) wash and dry your strawberries, using a sieve. Once the chocolate is ready move onto the next step. 
3. Now the best part, dunking the chocolate! Hold the stalk and dip it into the white chocolate. Make you coat one side of the chocolate. Carry this on for all of your strawberries, then let the chocolate set in the fridge.
4. While you're waiting for the chocolate to set, melt the milk chocolate via the microwave. Let this cool before you fill a piping bag with this. 
5. Next, once the chocolate has set, coat the other half of the strawberry in white chocolate. Let this set again.
6. Lastly, use the piping bag to draw on two eyes and a mouth to the strawberry.
7. Enjoy :)

Halloween Nail Art!

Ghost Nails!

Are you afraid of ghosts? Well I don't think you'll be scared of these ghosts! Some people may be scared by the concept of ghosts following you around all day... but with these scarily accurate ghost nails, will it be a trick or a treat?

Materials:

• White nail varnish
• Black nail varnish
• Toothpick (or a bobby pin)
• Matte top coat
• Clear base coat

Method:

1. Firstly, apply a base coat to your nails then paint your nails with your black nail varnish.
2. Make ordinary black nails, black matte nails with a layer of your matte top coat.
3. Next, paint a dot of white nail varnish on the tip of your nail. Keep developing the shape until you have a good ghost shape on your fingertips. Or you may find it easier to make a ghost by tipping your toothpick in white nail varnish.
4. Time to add the eyes and the mouth to your little monster! Once your nails have dried, dip your toothpick (or bobbypin) into black nail varnish and dot on its facial features.
5. Let your fingers dry before tearing into those Halloween treats!

Products used in this tutorial:

Pimp my Pumpkin!

Pimp my Pumpkin!

I saw this show last night about how they farm pumpkins and let's be honest, the plain, orange pumpkin is a bit last year. Am I right? So how about this year we make a pumpkin that even Dracula would applaud? This one is black and silver themed, but I think a pink one would be awesome! As always my tutorials are only a guide and you can go wild with how you want yours to look like. Feel free to paint yours in different ways, Halloween doesn't always have to be creepy :)

Materials:

• A pumpkin (bit obvious)
• Black spray paint
• PVA glue
• Paintbrush
• Gems/Jewels (or sequins or maybe stick on bats would be cool)
• Newspaper (to put around your surface to avoid mess!)
• Silver paint

Method:

1. Firstly, put some newspaper down around your work surface. It always gets messy when you've got paint out!
2. Get that pumpkin out and it's time to pimp it out! With this tutorial you use black spray paint to cover the whole pumpkin- you could always use paint but spray paint takes less time. You may want to paint it to a minimum of 2/3 layers, make sure it's all covered and evenly done.
3. For the stalk of the pumpkin (the top part) use your paintbrush to paint it all silver. You could spray paint this, but make sure it doesn't overlap onto your whole pumpkin.
4. Time to start sticking your jewels onto your masterpiece! I recommend having a lot around the top and having the jewels 'drip' down the side of the pumpkin, like a necklace would drape around someone's neck.

P.s: I understand my picture looks messy, but who cares :)

Products you need to complete this tutorial:

Happy Halloween 2013!

Hiya Stylistas!

Okay so I know that I have barely blogged the amount as I would want to blog these last few months; especially with Halloween. The few Halloween posts I have released have been popular. As I should be studying at the moment... I figured I could post some Halloween ideas for you this evening when you get all dressed up! Plus most of my readers are from abroad, so by the time they wake up they'll see my posts and to the crafts :) If not, well Halloween rarely lasts one day and no-one says no to yummy food!

Here are the links to this years tutorials (note there may be a delay on when the links are up):

Hell-raising Hair = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-crafts.html
Boo-tastic Decor = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-craft.html
Ghost Nails = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/halloween-nail-art.html
Pimped out Pumpkin = http://arrayostyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/pimp-my-pumpkin.html

And if you create something Halloween ish do email it in to arrayostyle@hotmail.co.uk or tweet @ArrayOStyle or just tag us in your photo on Facebook :)

Halloween Crafts!

Halloween Paper Wigs!

Okay so in case anyone has a bat hair day (see what I did there?), create some hair-raising masterpieces to cover up that mess. What's awesome about this tutorial is that- the wigs are made from everyday objects around the house. So part of your costume is made for free!

Materials:

• Plastic carrier/grocery bag
• Newspaper
• Masking tape
• Round object to use as a head form (maybe a cabbage or pumpkin)
• Newspaper (or if you don't have any thin coloured paper can work)
• Double sided tape

Method:

1. Firstly, cut up the grocery bag to create a single sheet of plastic. Place this plastic sheet over the cabbage.
2. Secondly, take the masking tape and apply strips of it to the plastic sheet, overlapping each slightly. Till you have created the shape of the skull cap. Carry on adding masking tape to the cabbage for 2-3 layers, so you end up with a sturdy wig base.
3. Next, remove the cap from the cabbage, use the scissors to trim the excess plastic around the cap. To fully support the cap, you can add more strips of masking tape around the edge and inside the skull cap.
4. Now, place the cap back onto the cabbage model and start styling your wig. Cut up coloured paper and newspaper to 1/2 inch strips. Curl your hair by dragging the strip against the closed blade of the scissors (like you used to do in school!).
5. Finally, add 4 to 6-inch strips of double sided tape to the bottom rim of the cap and start to add hair to the cap. Continue this process until the crown of the cap and the wig is full up. 

Halloween craft!

Boo-tastic decor!

This next tutorial is really cute and the technique could be used for bedroom decoration or Christmas decoration- not just Halloween :)
Materials:

• Cardboard or wooden letters
• Fabric scraps (or you could print off Halloween pictures and use them instead)
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• Strong glue (Not a glue stick)

Method:

1. Cut up your pictures/fabric strips into strips. If you are using fabric strips, you will need to wrap each strip around the letter using the glue. If using paper/printed off pictures you will need to cover the letters in the papers by gluing them on normally.
2. Using the paintbrush, slather on some glue over your letters. Leave this to dry overnight over a radiator.
3. Proudly display once the glue has dried up :)

Plus you don't always have to use the word 'BOO' you could have 'Trick or Treat' written, so it decorates the entrance to your house. Or the word 'Wicked' if you like the musical :) 

Here are some links to Halloween scrapbook papers for this tutorial:

http://stampindamour.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/free-digital-scrapbook-paper-halloween.html

http://tadcarpenter.com/work/design/halloween-scrap-book-line/

Products used in this tutorial:

What did Cara Delevingne say this week?

Queen Delevingne said she wants to try a singing career!

Model, Cara Delevingne will be releasing her inner Beyonce as early as next year! To Rita Ora's disgust. (Well they haven't been chummy lately with Rita working with DKNY too 'by coincidence' pfft). 

Back in May it was rumoured that twenty-one year old Cara had been writing lyrics and testing our her vocals when she wasn't strutting down those catwalks; all hoping to become a recording artist. It was then rumoured that Cara was in talks with P Diddy about her singing career, well it definitely worked!

In 2014 model Cara may no longer exist as she could be trading make-up trailers for the tourbus, in the run up to her solo debut. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a fun tourbus! Where can I sign up to be Cara's tour assistant?! Imagine the look on Harry Style's face; maybe a 1D and Delevingne colab could be in the future. After all, they constantly seem to be having an 'on/off relationship'.

"Cara loves singing," a source close to the model told Sunday People. "When she was younger, she would sit at home and mess about but recently she has started to take it more seriously."

"She is a very busy girl at the moment, with a couple of movies lined up as well as her modelling. Now it looks like things will be kicking off for her musically next year." 

With featuring on Will Heard's cover of Sonnntanz's Sun Don't Shine and performing on stage with Rita Ora at the DKNY party- it's not the first time we've heard those vocals and certainly won't be the last. But, with the film 'Kids in Love' and a part in the new Amanda Knox biopic- we're surprised she has time to be recording!

Fair to say, Harry Style's is probably gutted he's not with her and will probably ring her up when she's a popstar.

Toodles oh and here's her singing: