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What you’ll need:

• Two tea bags (I find green and black tea bags containing caffeine to be the most effective)
• A mug of hot water
• A plate, container, or plastic sandwich bag

How to:

Step One

Step Two

Step Three

How It Works:

What Do You Think?

What you’ll need:

 Black t-shirt
 Fabric Paint
 Sponge brushes
 Old toothbrush
 Plastic plate
 Cardboard
 Optional: Glitter

How to:

1. Prepare your materials by choosing your paints. I suggest choosing a color scheme based on 3 colors that touch each other on the color wheel. (I chose blue, pink, and purple.) This way, when you’re making your shirt, you can easily mix the colors without creating brown or grey paint from the mix. You will also need white paint to create the stars. I also added white and black glitter so parts of my shirt would sparkle.
To start, squirt your paints onto the plate to make a palette, then place your piece of cardboard inside your shirt to prevent the paint from bleeding through both sides.

2. Begin dabbing paint onto your shirt. This part takes time – you have to make sure it looks like clouds, so a mixture of techniques is best. Use less paint to start, then build from there! I suggest dabbing the paint on, smearing a little, then twisting (as shown above). This well give you the best distribution of paint and most natural looking strokes. It takes some time and practice, so start small.

3. Continue adding paint until you get the shape and brightness you want. You may have to go over some sections several times to make them opaque enough. The most natural looking shape will be very irregular; I tried making a small circle at first, but I ended up spreading it so it didn’t look overly perfect! Just keep adding paint until you get the look you want. There is not really a “right” way to do it.

4. Add stars to your galaxy! Dip your toothbrush into the white paint, then flick the paint onto the shirt. This can be messy, so if you’re worried about the surface you’re working on, you may want to put down newspaper or do this outside. It helps if you fling the toothbrush at the same time you flick it (this will give you bigger splatters). Continue flicking until you get the amount of stars you want.

5. Let your shirt dry. Once it dries, you may find you want to add more paint. I added more color and glitter to mine once it dried. The second coat goes on much thicker since you already have paint on the part you’re painting, so the shirt doesn’t absorb as much. Just repeat the same process. Make sure you let your paint dry the full time that the package asks so you don’t smear any paint.

Voila! There you have it – your very own galaxy shirt, at a very affordable price. This DIY does take some patience when you’re learning how to apply the paint, but once you get the hang of it, you’re golden. You can apply this technique to shorts, a skirt, or even a scarf – it’s up to you!

As a Tumblr user, you've probably come across a variety of the coolest teen rooms, and you want one for yourself, but you're not quite sure where to start. Keep reading for a step-by-step guide on how to transform your room into a tumblr worthy hangout!

1. Clear your walls of any existing hanging pictures. You will need to replace these with other types of wall attire

2. Buy Christmas lights (fairy lights), Cotton lamp or other kinds of indoor-use string lights. Hang these all around your room- over your bed, lining your ceiling, whatever you think looks nice.

3. Print out lots of regular sized pictures. They can be things you saw on Tumblr, pictures of your friends, anything that you think describes you. Then, pick one or two empty walls, and fill these walls with pictures hung up with wall tack (also known as puddy.

4. Get lots of band posters or posters that you enjoy. What ever you like, just purchase lots and lots of posters (often magazines have a bunch of posters in them). Now use one or two walls to dedicate as your poster wall. Once again use wall track to hang these all neatly up. Don't mix your picture walls and poster walls unless you've neatly divided the wall- otherwise it just looks trashy.

5. Buy a cool bedspread. Recommended are tribal patterns like Aztec- just something hip and interesting. Use LOTS of pillows on your bed. If your bed is against the wall, pile all the pillows in the corner.

6. Obtain some Toms bags. Everyone on Tumblr LOVES toms- and every pair comes with a cute blue bag. Some stuff the bags and use them as pillows, others hang them on walls. A row of Toms bags looks great between rows of pictures.

7. Make handmade artwork. If you can paint and draw, do it! Use a wall to display all your artwork, or incorporate it with your picture wall. A VERY popular style of art on Tumblr are crayon melts. This is when you melt crayons onto a canvas. If you get a chance, look up a tutorial on how to do that.

8. Buy scrapbook paper. Recommended styles are sheet music, floral, or whatever you think looks nice. Cut out inspirational quotes from the scrapbook paper, and hang these quotes on your walls. They look nice on pretty much any wall, as long as it is neatly done and the location is well thought out.

9. Buy records. Most Tumblr rooms have a row of vinyl records on the wall somewhere. You can buy them very cheap at most antique stores. If you're willing to do it all, find a record player too. These can be found at most Goodwills and at Urban Outfitters
10. Fill up shelves. Many Tumblr rooms have a shelf filled with vintage cameras, picture frames, and other artsy objects.

11. Buy a dream catcher. 99% of Tumblr rooms have at least one dream catcher hanging on the wall or ceiling. These can be found at hippie or you can buy it at online shop which sell dream catcher.

12. Have different types of jars. Common on Tumblr are memory jars (used to write down memories throughout one year) wish jars (used to fill with wishes written down), and glitter jars (jars filled with glitter

13. Have a desk. Organize it neatly with art supplies and notebooks. If you have any jars, place these somewhere on the desk (with a small stack of paper next to it if it's a memory/wish jar.)

14. Add some wall art. Most Tumblr bedrooms have some inspiring quotes on their walls.

15. Add candles. You can get some really nice smelling candles that will just make you room smell like a dream!!! And ENJOY IT XX

• Water
• A clear plastic bottle
• Vegetable oil
• Food coloring
• Alka-Seltzer (or other tablets that fizz)

1. Pour water into the plastic bottle until it is around one quarter full (you might want to use a funnel when filling the bottle so you don't spill anything).
2. Pour in vegetable oil until the bottle is nearly full.
3. Wait until the oil and water have separated.
4. Add around a dozen drops of food coloring to the bottle (choose any color you like).
5. Watch as the food coloring falls through the oil and mixes with the water.
6. Cut an Alka-Seltzer tablet into smaller pieces (around 5 or 6) and drop one of them into the bottle, things should start getting a little crazy, just like a real lava lamp!
7. When the bubbling stops, add another piece of Alka-Seltzer and enjoy the show!

2PM (투피엠)

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