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Inner Demon SFX Makeup

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I wanted to take it easy for my 6th (and probably last. I dunno pagod nako so many things left to dooo) Halloween makeup for 2019 (also becsuse I was running out of fake blood and I can’t be arsed to cook up a new batch from scratch), so I decided to go for a visual representation of who I really am:

Yep, I’m not used to seeing myself wear nude lip colors either.

What I did:

  1. I used all of my pent-up anger for all things stupid to obliterate one of those cheap childrens’ devil headbands (so I would’t need to make a horn from scratch). Then I covered a horn with bits of tissue and Elmer’s glue so the paint would stick later, then left it on a catproof area to dry, then colored it with black, red & brown acrylic paint.
  2. At this point I no longer cared about which product to use when mapping out the demon area of my face (because I knew the lines will be covered by skin wax anyway), so I simply took a tiny brush dipped in black facepaint (from my Flash Color Palette).
  3. For the Santa-Santitang Timmi’s face:
    • I dabbed a damp beauty sponge with L’Oreal Liquid Foundation in Golden Sand all over my face (except demon area), then drew an inverted triangle using L’Oreal True Match Concealer in Golden Beige under my left eye to hide my heavyweight eyebags. Blend.
    • Then I contoured (using Fashion 21 Contour Kit) and highlighted (using Benefit Watts Up Highlighter) my nose line & forehead and cheek and added blush (BareMinerals in Luxe Radiance). Blend. AND THEN I discovered a holy grail that’s been hiding in my arsenal AFTER ALL THIS TIME: Bare Minerals Illuminating Mineral Veil Finishing Powder. I’ve been avoiding it since it looks really glittery (compared to Ben Nye Finishing Powder) but holy crap, it literally brightened up my skin (to the point that you can hear porcelain Korean angels singing) with an airbrush finish!
    • As an added frou frou, I glued gem stickers (the kind used to bedazzle Blackberrys during Paris Hilton’s golden years) on the side of my face with liquid latex.
    • I filled up my left eyebrow with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread, then dabbed Graftobian Clown White Cream over my left eyelid (so the white can serve as a base that will make the eyeshadow colors pop), then created a quick blue smoky eyeshadow look (electric blue “Peace” and indigo “Ransom” eyeshadows from Urban Decay), then tightlined with a white NYX Retractable Eyeliner, then lined my lid with a black Lifeford Hi-Precise Eyeliner, then layered my eyelashes with Bokhtoh Falsies.
    • I wanted my Santa-Santita face to look completely different from my demon face so I went with a nude lip color (“Slayer” from Gloss Skin & Beyond). It’s a liquid matte lipstick, so I amplified the difference by layering it with a transparent, metallic lip gloss (BareMinerals Shimmer Glaze Lip Topcoat in Diamond Glaze)
  4. For the normal/malditang Timmi’s face
    • I filled it up with the red facepaint from my Flash Color Palette, then further amplified the color by dabbing Neon Red eyehadow all over.
    • I used ablack eyeshadow (from my Lorac Pro Palette) for contouring, a golden eyeshadow (from the same palette) to highlight my cheekbone and browbone, a black facepaint as my demon eyeshadow (that I blended outward with black eyeshadow) and demon eyebrow filler, a black NYX Retractable eyeliner to tightline my water line, and the remaining Bokhtoh Falsies to make my eyelashes thicker (who said demons can’t have lush lashes?!)
    • I wanted a really dark lip color so I went with an almost-maroon liquid matte lipstick (“Revenge” from Gloss Skin & Beyond).
    • I went back to the lined border of my demon face and covered it with DIY scar wax (petroleum jelly + flour + a few drops of liquid foundation), glued with Graftobian Liquid Latex, which is also the same item I used to stick my makeshift demon horn on my forehead.
    • I finished the look by lining the edges with Graftobian Blood Paste, before squeezing my remaining Graftobian Blood Gel until it drips down my face.
  5. Although I fell short because I won’t be able to surpass my record of 7 Halloween looks last year, I’m still relieved BECAUSE SA WAKAS HALLOWEEN 2019 IS FINALLY OUTTA MAH SYSTEM. #LetThePagmamalditaResume

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Jack-o’-lantern SFX Makeup

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For my 5th Halloween look, I recycled one of my concepts from last year. This one’s bloodier so we can all pretend that I’ve progressed so muchwhen it’s literally the same thing. Creating this was a very humbling moment for me, because I’ve finally accepted the truth: holy crap I AM getting old. I could’ve gone for a new idea or tried a new technique (like creating fake teeth from polymorph thermoplastic beads that I will then stick to my eye socket) but nope, let’s stick with the bloody usual…because I have responsibilities and priorities now. This is my 5th look already, and I doubt I can continue my tradition of one-upping the number of Halloween looks I created from the previous year (7 for 2018, 6 for 2017, and 5 for 2016), because alas, there are bills to be paid, work to be done, an apartment to keep free of hair and fur to prevent my cat from releasing a dangling poop train from her anus, and future plans to work on.

My maturity level now: I say “Jack *pause* o’ *pause* lantern” (my teenage self would’ve turned this into a very inappropriate Pinoy pun).

What I did:

  1. I rummaged inside my office bag to look for tissue paper (Yes, I’ve become the type of Tita who saves and collects and recycles free tissue from different establishments now)
  2. I swiped a stick of Elmer’s Glue on my eyebrows to make the tissue stick and to protect my sparse-but-real eyebrows from the liquid latex and scar wax I’ll be using (and it’s what drag queens do as a pre-concealer measure in hiding their real eyebrows.
  3. I drew the triangles (over my eye sockets and nose) and the jagged mouth with a black NYX Retractable Eyeliner and filled them with black Snazaroo facepaint.
  4. I wanted to add a rough-looking texture for the gouged-out areas so I stuck little bits of cotton inside them with Graftobian liquid latex. Once the latex is dry, I painted the cotton bits with dark red facepaint (3 parts red facepaint + 1 part black) and red facepaint from my Flash Color Palette.
  5. I framed the gouged areas with little rolls of my DIY scar wax (equal parts of flour + petroleum jelly and a bit of liquid foundation) that I stuck to my face using mooore liquid latex.
  6. I veeery carefully applied L’Oreal Liquid Foundation in Golden Sande on my face with a damp beauty sponge, making sure that the sponge can also cover the scar wax’d areas so they’ll appear as if they’re my real skin…then dusted the stickiness away with Bare Minerals Mineral Foundation in Neutral Medium.
  7. I did my usual contour routine using Fashion 21’s Contour Kit (contour for the nose line and cheeks), focusing on my cheeks & nose area so my face can still look three dimensional.
  8. Dabbed a generous amount of Graftobian blood paste over the facepainted areas of my gouged-out face and let Graftobian blood gel drip all over my cheeks.
  9. I feel pretty pleased that I barely had to make an effort with this step-by-step outline; seeing as I simply revised last year’s how-to. Heh.

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Little Red Riding Hood SFX Makeup

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So for my third Halloween look for this year, I went for the Little Red Riding Hood, which happens to be one of the fairy tales I hate, hate, hated when I was a kid (I’m more confident butchering the fairy tale characters I hated like Snow White and the Little Mermaid, as I respect Mulan or Princess Jasmine too much). Come on, we give toddlers those multi-colored Tupperware toys so they can distinguish which color is which, and you can’t even tell your own grandma from a wolf?! But anyway, I still went with this look so it would appear as if I’ve improved from last year, somehow.

What big eyes you have!

Products Used:

  1. NYX Retractable Eyeliner in White (to draw the claw marks and tightline my left waterline)
  2. Elmer’s Glue stick (to shield my right eyebrow and glue a layer of tissue bit over it)
  3. L’Oreal Liquid Foundation in Golden Sand (applied with a damp beauty sponge)
  4. Fashion 21 Contour Kit (to reduce the surface area of my nose, cheeks and fivehead)
  5. Bare Minerals in Luxe Radiance (to add pink to my cheeks and later, to add a bit of red near the wounds)
  6. Benefit Watts Up Highlighter (to highlight cheekbones and browbones)
  7. Bare Minerals Translucent Finishing Power (to “bake” my fez)
  8. Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread (to fill my sparse brows)
  9. Lorac Behind The Scenes Eye Primer (to, well, prime my lids for the eyeshadow colors)
  10. Lorac Pro Palette (Pewter & Garnet shades for the kinda natural-but-rosy smoky eyeshadow)
  11. Lifeford Hi-Precise Eyeliner Pen (to draw the winged line above my left eyelid)
  12. Bokhtoh BT02 Falsies (it’s my favorite Bokhtoh to date)
  13. Homemade Scar Wax or any scar wax from specialty stores (to frame the scratches)
  14. Graftobian Liquid Latex (so the scar wax will stick to my skin)
  15. Bare Minerals Mineral Foundation in Medium (to make the scar wax blend into my natural skin)
  16. Flash Color Palette (the red+brown facepaint to color my right eyelid, red+black facepaint to fill the wounds)
  17. Nichido Tinted Brow Gel in Ash Blonde (my daily kilay item that I had to use with a tiny brush to draw my fake eyebrow on the scar wax)
  18. Graftobian Blood Paste (to fill the wounds; I also flicked a toothbrush dipped in blood paste in front of my face to get that bloody spatter)
  19. Crazy white contacts
  20. MAC red lipstick in Ruby Woo, mixed& lined with a dark red liquid lipstick called “Revenge” from Gloss Skin and Beyond (for an ombre and more 3D look as if my fish lips still need it ahahaha)
  21. a red scarf that came as a freebie from one of my Shopee purchases months ago (it still surprises me how random freebies can be, but hey, I’m not complaining!)

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Pennywise SFX Makeup

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If you can read this, then it means that hooraaaaay, I’ve finally decided to keep my domain running after all (Thanks for the patience, Robert!) and that hoooraaaay, I finally found the time to create more content for myself even if I’m not yet free to go home. After all, this blog might come in handy, should I decide to become a parlorista or a politically-incorrect, self-deprecating female stand-up (minus the vagina jokes).

TBH, I wasn’t planning to post this today, but then again, I don’t wanna give my trusted coworker the satisfaction of claiming that it was his Pennywise suggestion that gave me the idea to create a Pennywise look for Halloween mwehehe. So anyway, here’s how I recreated makeuproger‘s Pennywise Halloween look:

Tasty, tasty, beautiful fear…
  1. I sketched out the Pennywise area of my face using a white NYX Retractable Eyeliner because it’s easier to erase or paint over white lines. I had to do this first so I wouldn’t have to bother/waste liquid foundation on the areas that will be covered by clown facepaint anyway. Then I used my ever reliable, Elmer’s Glue stick to prep/protect my right eyebrow from the facepaint it will have to endure later.
  2. For the normal person areas of my face, I did my usual, ay-may-event-kailangan-mukha-akong-mabango-at-kumpleto-ng-tulog palitada routine:
    • apply L’Oreal Liquid Foundation in Golden Sand thickly all over my blemishes with a damp beauty sponge,
    • brush the lighter brown shade from my Fashion 21 Contour Kit to dechubbyfy my cheeks and fivehead,
    • use Bare Minerals in Luxe Radiance to very very cautiously add pink to my cheeks (fun fact: blush is the makeup item I fear the most–not liquid latex, not eyeliners, but blush.)
    • slather Benefit Watts Up Highlighter above my cheekbones, browbones 
    • bake the visible lines and pores away with Bare Minerals Translucent Finishing Power
  3. For my eyes: 
    • I filled up my very very sparse left eyebrow with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread
    • I tightlined with the same white eyeliner I used earlier (so the contrast with Pennywise’s eye is more obvious)
    • I winged it with a black Lifeford Hi-Precise Eyeliner Pen
    • I hid my naturally short lashes with Bokhtoh BT02 Falsies
  4. Now for the fun but kinda time-consuming part:
    • I went back to the lined area for Pennywise’s face and covered the lines I drew with itty bitty rolls of DIY Scar Wax (although I have a jar of Graftobian Scar Wax, I’ve always found it easier to use the one I make from scratch)–glued with Graftobian Liquid Latex. Then I colored the scar waxy areas with the same liquid foundation I’ve used on the rest of my face.
    • I painted Pennywise’s skin with Graftobian Clown White Cream, added some contours around the nose line and laugh line with Lorac Black eyeshadow, then painted my eyelids with black facepaint from my Flash Color Palette, THEN went back to the black eyeshadow to blend out my black painted eyelids.
    • I used the red facepaint from my Flash Color Palette to draw the clown nose and clown lips (baby pink facepaint for the normal person lips, never forgetting to draw it over the fake skin as well). Medyo na-OC pa ako sa shading so I lined the edges of my lips with black facepaint, then mixed the remaining red & black facepaint on my wrist to draw the line across Pennywise’s cheek.
    • For the minor but important details, I used a teeny tiny brush dipped in white facepaint to highlight the edges of my fake scar waxy skin, then used another teeny tiny brush to line the inner edge with Graftobian Blood Paste, then bit a Graftobian Blood Gel Pack open so the fake blood can stain my mouth, then wore two different colors of contact lenses. 
    • Done. (Obviously I’ve rushed writing this outline because oo nga pala hindi pa ako umuuwi lel)

 

 

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