Halloween Posts Five,Six, and Seven

Hello all my wonderful readers! How are all of you? I am still having camera troubles, but I am not giving up on posting the looks that I promised. I actually have a third look for you all, my criminal costume makeup look. They are all fairly easy, so I will make this 3 posts in one blog post, to make up for lost time. Technically, this is like 3 separate blog posts, just on one space. Stay on this page to see all the written instructions! Well, onto today's post!

 Look #1: The Vampire Look

 Vampire legends have been around for centuries. No matter how old the legend is, it seems to bring chills and excitement to anybody that hears them, though they may not believe in the idea of blood-sucking hooligans. I chose this look, as this was my original costume for Halloween, until I changed my idea another five million times. Oh well, at least this look will be put to good use. Let’s begin.

Step One: Find a sunscreen that makes you look really pale when applied, and put several layers on your face and any exposed skin. Tap a pale face powder over this to set the cream, and enhance the paleness.

Step Two: Skip prepping your eyes with any type of coverup, which includes foundation, concealer, and even powders. If you want to use coverup, nothing’s stopping you.

Step Three: Find the blackest eyeshadow you own with metallic flecks in it, to add a bit of dimension. Sweep this up all over your eyelids, all the way over your crease. Use a soft blending blush to blend, and drag a bit down into your lower lashline from the blending brush.

Step Four: Using a rich dark plum eyeshadow with gold flecks, lightly dust a small amount of the shadow into the center of the lids, and gently diffuse the colour outwards. Do not go past the outer or inner part of the eyelid.  Layer a light dusting of this shadow onto the lower lashline where the black shadow was placed. Gently blend it past the black. This will give you that sleepless look that is often associated with vampires.

Step Five: Find a jet black pencil liner meant for sensitive skin, and line the whole rim of your waterline.

Step Six: This step is optional, but you can use a deep shade of blush to contour the features of your face. If done the right way, you can look as if you are a true vampire.

Step Seven: If you have false lashes, now it the time to put them on. Seamlessly blend them into your natural lashes by curling your lashes, and then place the false lashes on. Finish this off with the blackest mascara you own.

There, look number one if finished! Scroll down to see the other looks.

Look #2: The 60-Second Cowgirl

 This look deserves the above title, as takes only that long to achieve this look. Read below for instructions.

 

Step One: Prep the eyes with a natural looking concealer. Blend it gently, by using your ring finger.

Step Two: We want to achieve a nice girly eyeshadow look, so grab a slightly sheer peach colour and put it all over your lids, and blend it a little bit over your crease.

Step Three: Using a light lavender eyeshadow, apply along the outer lid, following the natural contours of your eye socket. Gently blend it out, and apply another layer if you wish. Drag a bit of the colour down to your lower lashline, and blend it towards the center of your lashline.

Step Four: Finish by applying the darkest mascara you have on both the upper and lower lashes. If you like, quickly apply a thin layer of blush on the apples of your cheeks.

There you go, you are now ready to assemble the rest of your cowgirl costume, and enjoy Halloween!

Look #3: Criminal Fashion Makeup Look

 This look is sure to make you look like the stereotypical female criminal, but with a chic edge. Just as a note, I do not support this choice of lifestyle, or the choices individuals make to end up as criminals, this look is for fun, so please do not take it seriously. I only want you guys to have fun and be creative. Do not worry if your makeup is smudged too much, as you can always touch it up with a bit of face moisturizer to soften it up. Let’s start!

Step One: You will want to skip the concealer, as this look is supposed to suggest a lack of sleep, and exude a sense of roughness.

Step Two: Find a shimmery light-brown eyeshadow, and sweep it all over your lids a little bit over your crease. Extend the shadow around the outer lid, and blend into a “cat eye” shape, by rounding out the outer edges.

Step Three: Using a brownish-gold eyeshadow, sweep it into the outer part of your crease, and smoke out the shadow. Heavily apply it onto your lower lash line.

Step Four: Find a black pencil eyeliner, and draw on the back of your hand a few times to warm the product. This will make it easier to apply. Carefully draw yourself a cat-eye, making the line gradually thicker as your work your way from the inner part of your lashline to the outer. Flick out the end of the pencil to complete the cat-eye. Finish with mascara and you are now done.

There you have it! Three easy looks you can use for Halloween and maybe everyday wear if you tone it down. My next post might not be for a while, as November is always busy for me, so keep checking in for the next post. Thank you for reading!

Happy Halloween

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How to Make the Most of Your Lashes

Hello my patient readers how are you? This week is finally over, which means I can relax and stop worrying about all the deadlines I have to meet. I am unfortunately, having camera troubles, so you will have to make do without the photos for now, but they will be up as soon as possible. It’s as though every time I announce the next post, something happens, so from now on, I should stop announcing. The camera that I was going to use for the pictures of this post has screen troubles, but I will try to use my higher quality camera if I can. If that doesn’t work, then its my trusty old webcam. Well, onto today’s post!

First Step: The whole point of this quick post is to maximize your lashes, without having to invest in expensive treatments or tricky extensions. We are going to use the most common route, which is mascara. This post is not to help you make your lashes become humongous, but help you apply mascara in a more effective way. Applying mascara may not be a difficult task for many of you, but there are people who are interested, as they have trouble getting their mascara right. Pick out a great combination of a reliable mascara formula, and a great brush. Mascara as a whole is practically useless unless these two parts work together.

Step Two: After you figure out what mascara you want to use, curl your lashes in three places; starting close to the root, in the middle, and close to the tips. This ensures you curl your lashes in a way that it appears both natural, and smoothly lifted.

Step Three: Apply the mascara at the root, and wiggle the brush side to side quickly, while simultaneously turning the brush inwards. This technique works best when you hold the mascara wand parallel to the floor.

Step Four: Apply a bit more mascara on the outer most lashes, which will give the illusion of having wider eyes, and longer lashes overall.

Step Five: Apply mascara on the bottom lashes the same way, gently pat your mascara brush onto a tissue so the bottom lashes will not clump together, from having too much product on it.

Step Six: This step is optional, but you can carefully build up another thin layer of mascara to your lashes. If you followed the steps correctly, a second layer should not be an issue.

There you have it! A quick tutorial on how you can make the most of your lashes. Though this was a fairly simple post, I hope you learned something new. I know a lot of people are fine with the blinking method for their mascara, as well as just quickly putting it on, but this method offers more control and more definition, which will make your lashes stand out a bit better. I hope this post helped you out with your Halloween makeup looks. Take care, and thank you for reading.

Happy Mascara-trying

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Third post of the Halloween Series

Hello my wonderful readers! How are all of you? Have you bought all of your candy for the kids (and sometimes adults), and put together your costumes yet?  I was panicking today because I still did not have a costume. I was going to be Alice in Wonderland/Malice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood, or something else. Well, those plans did not turn out well. I should have bought a costume earlier, from the costume store in town, but I was not sure whether I should dress up this year or not. Luckily, I went to one of the Shoppers Drugmart stores in my area, and found a pair of vampire fangs and fake blood. I was looking around for any possible costumes, but most of them were basically just a leotard and maybe a wand and some sort of headband. Its way to cold where I live, and a really small is not exactly what I usually walk around in. I don’t know about you readers, but I feel a tutorial about to be posted tomorrow. Not on the leotard, but a modern vampire look.

If you guys would like it, I shall post a cowgirl makeup tutorial for you tomorrow as well, for you last minute costume people. Halloween is so exciting I might burst. Maybe that was a tad dramatic, but hey, the spirit never dies. Well, keep watching for the next post in the next little while, and I hope you all have fun picking out your costumes. Thank you for reading.

Happy Scrambling (for costumes)

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Halloween Makeup Tips

Hello my marvellous readers! How are your costumes going? I hope you are having fun putting them together. As I said before, this post is part of a seven post series that is just for Halloween. This one is going to be just for some tips I came up with that should help out a lot of you during kid-scaring season (please don’t scare them too much ).Well, onto today`s post!

Halloween is one of my favourite times of the year. I am planning on going out on Halloween, so it should be really fun. When I was younger, I remember putting on a million layers of clothing, and a puffy winter jacket under my costume. Why? I live in a place where winter weather arrives quickly after “autumn” (still pretty cold), and snow usually starts in the last weeks of October. A few of the people that gave out candy had trouble figuring out all the kids’ costumes because of all the bulk. Hopefully, none of you will have to deal with that issue. If you are planning on dressing up this year, try using any of the following tips:

Tip #1: If you cannot find the perfect shade of “living-dead” white for face paints, try using a sunscreen with a high SPF. From experience, I can tell you that applying thick layers of sunscreen can make your skin appear unnaturally pale, so pile it on until you reach the perfect shade.

Tip #2: To get the extreme smudged eyeliner look, use mascara, and dab a few dots all around your upper eyelids and lower part of your eyes. Blend slightly, and add another layer. Spritz a bit of water all over your eyes, to make the mascara run. Lastly, gently dab the smudged “liner” with a tissue, and pat a bit of matte black eyeshadow over it. Blend the eyeshadow and you’re all set.

Tip #3: If you want to make your facial features stand out or not stand out as much, try contouring your face with a matte light chocolate eyeshadow. Gently swirl a blending brush into the colour, and begin contouring your face. Use a sponge or a blush brush to gently blend the colour into your skin, but do not over blend. A general guideline for skin tones is to use a brown eyeshadow that is a few shades darker than your skin.

Tip #4: Stock up on drugstore eyeshadows during October. Matte colours are the most versatile for Halloween makeup, as you can create realistic looking cuts, bruises, contour your face as mentioned, and also create numerous zombie looks. If you are on a tight budget, I would recommend either Revlon’s matte eyeshadows, or Annabelle. They both have a large range of mate shadows ad should last throughout the night.

Tip #5: Halloween is also the best time to shop for false lashes, in my opinion; they always have the best designs around Halloween. If you are in a hurry to find the right makeup look, grab a pair of feather lashes, and a few crisscross lashes, and layer them however you like. I am sure you will like the effect.

Tip #6: The last makeup tip of this post is to look in your kitchen cupboard for anything that you can use. Just make sure it is safe to use in skin. If you are not sure, just stick with food colouring, flour, and Kool-aid. 

There you have it, a few tips that I hope can help you for your costumes. Even if you do not plan on dressing up this year, why not give them a try? I’m still deciding on my costume, but I’ll find something. Well, stay tuned for the other post. Thanks for reading.

 

Happy Experimenting

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Happy Diwali :)

Hello my amazing readers. how are you doing? Well, Diwali just ended about 20 minutes ago ( as I am typing this it is 12:20 am), and I decided not to post yesterday. Today will be a double post, however. I could hear fireworks going off my my house, but that's normal. How many of you celebrate Diwali? Even if you don't nothing to worry about. Well, I better get to bed, I have school in the morning. I wish you all well, and Happy Diwali to those that celebrate it.Thank you for reading, goodnight!

Happy Dreaming



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Eye of Horus Inspired Look

Hello my wonderful readers! How are you? This is the first post in the seven post series I will be having on Halloween tips and looks, so read on! The rest of the photos will come, I am still deciding between a few that I really thought that I would post, but my mind has changed once again. Well, onto the post!

The Eye of Horus originates from ancient Egypt, as it was an important symbol in the religion and daily life of the ancient Egyptian people. I was reading a fictional novel about Nefertiti’s childhood, and I got inspiration from the way they used to line their eyes. I am only using two colours in this tutorial, but feel free to add more if you want to. Let’s Start!

 

Step One: Prep your eyes with a good concealer. I prefer cream concealers because of their versatility and the naturally matte finish.here I amusing my NARS concealer in Ginger. Skip this step if you do not like using concealers.

Step Two: With a brush, evenly cover your eyelid all the way to the brow bone with a sheer white colour. The eyeshadow used was Sephora: Sephora Collection Mono colourful Eyeshadow, in Alpine Summit (23). Blend the colour down to your lower lash line, and keep adding layers of eyeshadow until you reach your desired effect. This way, you can control how intense you want the eyeliner to be in the end.

 

Step Three: Taking a nice electric green pencil liner, line your upper lid, while thickening the line as you go outwards. Wing out the line slightly, you want to keep the line nice and sharp. This eyeliner is Sephora: Sephora Collection Flashy Liner Waterproof in Flashy Ultra Green(12).

Step Four: Completely line you lower lash line, and connect the line to the one on the upper lid on the outer corner of your eye, and also connecting around the tear ducts

Step Five: On the lower lash line, draw a line parallel to the winged out portion of the liner. You will draw on this new line about a third of the way from the outer part of your eye.

 

Step Six: Draw a line connecting the ends of the other liner segments.

Step Seven: Add a bit of flair to the new shape by slightly curving the ends of the lines, like in the picture below. Make a line that is diagonal from the outer eye like so, and colour in the outer half of the diamond-like shape.

Step Eight: Lastly, draw a swift tapered line from the bottom of your tear duct towards your nose, as it is shown in the picture. Wipe up the white eyeshadow around your eyes to make it cleaner, and finish with your choice of mascara.

here's a final shot of the look, I decreased the amount of light in the room for this effect

There you have it! A very quick eye makeup tutorial for all you Halloween people. I hope you enjoyed the look. Thank you for reading, and be sure not to miss part two of this series.

Happy Eyelining

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The Seven Posts of Halloween :)

Hello my wonderful  readers! How are you? I am finally back on track with blogging, and I have a few exciting looks that I would like to share with you soon. As the title says, I am going to do a whole week of Halloween posts, which will not be in any planned arrangement, just which ever post I feel is the one I want to show you all. I hope you enjoy these posts, as they really do come in handy. I am starting today, which means I will different posts ready for you, as I am posting the last on Halloween. That makes seven posts, don't think that I  forgot that it is a Tuesday today :). Well, stay tuned, as I will be back in a bit with a new post. Thank you for being so patient!

Happy Waiting

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