INPUT ARTICLE: Article: or buy a green leotard. If you know how to sew, use a stretch fabric and a pattern to make a green leotard. Otherwise, check out a gymnastics, ballet, or theater specialty shop to find a leotard. Choose or create a lighter green leotard to mirror Poison Ivy's own suit. Cotton, nylon, polyester, spandex and x-static all make excellent leotard materials. Poison Ivy's costume is traditionally sleeveless, but you may add short or long sleeves depending on your comfort level. You will need enough green leaves to decorate your leotard as well as a pair of shoes. Decide beforehand whether you want to cover your leotard or make a design with the leaves. Purchase enough leaves to decorate accordingly Start with one or two bags of green leaves, and buy more if you run out. If your leaves came on a plastic branch, this will get them ready to put on your costume. Discard the stalk, as you will not need it for this costume. Paint the leaves with green or white glitter glue before you attach them to your costume if you want an extra shine. Let the glitter glue dry if you use it before attaching the leaves to your costume. or glue the leaves onto your leotard. Hand stitching the leaves on is more secure, but you can use fabric glue or a glue gun if you've never sewn before. You can cover the entire leotard or shape the leaves in a design, like a curve. Attach leaves over one leotard strap. Pay special attention to the neckline, and attach leaves along the edge. Heels are more traditional, but choose a pair of sensible boots if you plan to walk extensively in this costume. Use a hot glue gun to cover the heels entirely in leaves. Add a pair of green tights under your shoes to complete the look. Choose a shade of green lighter than your leotard to add contrast. Ideally, your shoes should be green, red, or black to match your costume.

SUMMARY: Sew Purchase plastic green leaves from a craft store. Pull the leaves off of the plastic stalk. Stitch Glue the leaves to a pair of boots or heels.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you want to dive straight into the most modern technology and start becoming one of the DJs illuminating by the glow of a Macbook on stage, then you're going to need to start with a good pair of CD turntables. The good news? These are incredibly versatile, useful, and can hold an incredible amount of music. You'll have literally thousands of songs at your fingertips, ready to mash-up beats and verses in crazy combinations, as opposed to being stuck with the crate-full of heavy vinyl you'll have to drag to the club with an old-school set up. The bad news? These are expensive. At the low-end, a single CD turntable can cost up to $700, making an investment for a pair neighboring on the ridiculous. For this reason, many digital DJs prefer to line-in a laptop and play sound files directly, or use Ableton Live. Serato Scratch Live or Traktor Scratch are typical digital DJ packages that allow you to do everything that a vinyl DJ does on his mixer and turntables on your computer. You won't be able to have the same kind of touch available to tactile records, but you can still approximate a lot of the same distinctive sounds and effects, especially if you have a digital turntable or some other way of mixing the sounds manually. There are also devices called DJ controllers, which are almost exactly like video game controllers (in that you use them to plug into your computer, basically). They don't actually play music in and of themselves, but you can use them to simulate the action of mixing on real turntables, but while playing MP3s or other sound files from your computer set-up. At the most basic, being a digital DJ might mean hooking your computer up to a set of good-quality speakers and pushing play on your pre-mixed set lists. It's not the most fun way of playing a DJ set, because it doesn't allow you to read the crowd or acquire any of the skills and touches that an analog DJ has, but it's a popular option, increasingly. Regardless of what kind of turntables you're using, if you want to use any kind of software while you're on stage, you're going to need to invest in some kind of digital interface that connects the RCA-style ports on your hardware with the USB ports on your computer. A lot of these will also come with DJ software, like the Traktor brand. It's good to have your tunes backed up on an external hard drive that you can carry around with you and not bog down any of your hardware, or your computer. A Seagate One Terabyte hard drive is almost impossible to fill up, and super-compact and easy to set-up, making it a good investment for digital audio files.

SUMMARY: Get some CD turntables. Get some DJ software. Consider a digital turntable controller. Just line your computer into some speakers. Get a digital interface. Get an external hard drive.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: First, use a volumizing shampoo to add body. Try to avoid conditioner: it weighs the hair down, and can impact your hair's ability to retain a certain shape. If you really want to use a conditioner, use a light one. Towel dry slightly so that it is not soaking but still wet. Apply a volumizing hair mousse throughout all of your hair. Focus on the roots. Then, twist your fingers and scrunch your hair with the rest. Towel dry the hair to proceed. Split your hair into two sections, dividing them down the middle. Spray a heat protection spray all over your hair. Heat up the curling iron and curl your hair. If you want a looser wave curl, curl larger sections at once. If you want a tightly tousled look, curl with smaller pieces of hair. If you don't want to use heat, use mousse instead of curling your hair. Flip and scrunch your hair. Then, apply a bit of mousse or hair paste to help hold the tousled hair in place. Be careful: scrunching can cause frizz! Use an anti-frizz spray if you find it helps. Apply a shine serum, if you want. Apply a small amount onto your hands and work it through your hair. If you need a stronger holdsay, for a dinner or partydon't be afraid to finish off with some hairspray.

SUMMARY: Prepare your hair. Add mousse. Curl your hair. Consider using mousse. Finish.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Add the ginger, pepper flakes, and garlic, and cook for about one minute, stirring occasionally. Mix well. Spoon this mixture into the pot and mix well. Break the angel hair pasta in half and add it to the pot. Reduce the heat to low and let the soup simmer for 4-5 minutes. The pasta should be cooked al dente and the carrots slightly tender. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the shrimp is pink and opaque. Stir in the lime juice and season with salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with green onions and serve hot.

SUMMARY:
Heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the coconut milk, carrots, and 3 cups of water to the saucepan. Combine the cornstarch and two tablespoons of water in a small bowl. Bring the ingredients in the saucepan to a boil. Add the shrimp to the pot. Remove the pot from heat.