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:
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.
For the normal person areas of my face, I did my usual, ay-may-event-kailangan-mukha-akong-mabango-at-kumpleto-ng-tulogpalitada 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
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
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)
OK so I wasn’t planning to use this blog unless it’s time for another round of Halloween posts. But in the weird turn of events last April, I met this stunning kid who filled me with envy. My thought process as I was conversing with her: “OMG I would have my toenails smashed until they’re dead if it means that I can go back to being a carefree 18-year-old with a very exciting social life! At bakit ganon ang haba ng pilik-mata nyaaa?!” Of course I knew that I’m no Avenger who can jump back in time. So I compensated by creating a new makeup project fit for the summer…and also so I can have an excuse to wear falsies and feel youthful again (what, I love it when my eyelashes look like elegant mutant spiders that are casting elegant shadows down my cheeks, fight me). But then, procrastinationcat obsession real life happened. And before I knew it, Unang Ulan ng Mayo arrived, so I decided to just shelve the project and delay writing about it until next summer (or until the temperature hits 36.6 Jesus-are-you-kidding-me degrees Celsius again.)
But in an even weirder and completely terrifying turn of events, this week gave us all a glimpse of how hellish the Philippines is going to be for the next three years. And then it hit me: oh shiii my Sunburn SFX makeup project from last April could be my way of expressing my pent-up anger (sa lagay na ‘to may nape-pent-up pa pala), making it the sequel to my Bullet In The Temperamental Brat’s Head SFX Makeup from THREE YEARS AGO! HAHANAPAN KO NA LANG NG TALI!! ANG SAYA-SAYA!!!! /s
Don’t cry in case you don’t have any idea about what you’ll be doing, or how you’re going to draw the shape of a pair of sunglasses on your face…it’s just simple tracing! Use a white eyeliner (I used NYX retractable white eyeliner) to trace your sunglasses. Just follow wherever that big shady bringer of darkness touches your face…and make sure the shade of your eyeliner isn’t too bright because it’s not as if you’ll need the lines to be visible for better results anyway.
Shape and fill your brows (I used Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread and Coastal Scents Brow Palette) para ‘di ka mukhang gulat at mas dama ang pagtaas ng kilay mo ‘pag nakikita yung laki ng tax na kinakaltas sayo pero di mo ramdam kung saan ba napupunta.
Draw an inverted triangle/tatsulok under each eye using a concealer (I used Maybelline Liquid Concealer in Medium) so you can cover up the darkness that is your eyebags, tricking people into seeing you as a whole new person–your stance on death penalty and lowering the minimum age for criminal responsibility included.
You can use an eyeshadow primer (like Lorac Behind The Scenes) prior to applying your eyeshadow, but I didn’t because it’s not like I wanted my eye makeup to steal the attention from the rest of my face. Lorac eyeshadow shades used: Gold all over my lids and lower lashline so I can feel as golden as someone who got away from pocketing more than P200 million, and a coal-gray shade like Slate over the crease and outer corners (use as much as you want, it’s not like the environment is more important than pushing for coal-fired power plants!) Blend.
Tightline your upper and lower waterline with a black eyeliner pencil (like NYX retractable white eyeliner), before wingin’ it with a liquid eyeliner (like Lifeford Hi-Precise Eye Pen). Don’t feel pressured if you can’t draw the wings to be sharp as the marksmanship of Leon Guerrero; it’s not as if skills really matter.
Forget all the expensive pink lipsticks in your stash. Rather, use the pink facepaint from your Flash palette for a really girly lip color. Before you say “eww!” at the idea of painting your lips with face freakin paint, remember, you’re one of the boys so you shouldn’t be maselanfor Federalism like that. Isn’t it so convenient how visually, the facepaint can pass-off as a legit lipstick, when, unlike lipsticks, it’s not really formulated to keep lips nourished? But hey at least you’re fit AND good-looking so people can’t see your inner Umbridge…
Now that you’re done with the lips and the eye area, Select Inverse and slather a thick amount of Elmer’s transparent (!) glue all over your face. Once that transparent (!) layer dries, cover it with an orangey red facepaint. Don’t be scared to really bring out the redness because that’s how your skin responds to sun damage–it really causes extra rednessto be splattered across the streets in the capillaries. And once the facepaint dries, pinch and poke random areas in your glue mask with a tweezer so you can make it appear as if your burned skin’s falling off like those who are too poor to defend themselves are falling off the face of the earth.
Place a bottle of Graftobian F/X Gelatin in a hot waters bath until the gelatin’s fluid enough to be squeezed out (and mixed with a bit of brownish-yellow facepaint). Then pretend like you’re a masochistic cake decorator who’s in love with a cannibal and decorate your face with blobs of gelatin for the blister burns. On your nose, on your cheek, and don’t ever forget to take advantage of your fivehead’s surface area, so that at first glance, the blister burn will look like iniputan ka lang sa ulo ng mga manok na may cancer.
Pray to all the gods that your third instalment three years from now won’t be as gory and passive-aggressive as the ones from 2016 and 2019; wonder if you’ll still be around when the time comes.
So, this is my seventh (and last!) Halloween makeup look for 2018. While it’s not as elaborate and excruciatingly detailed as my final Halloween makeup look last year, I’m still pleased with how this turned out (…and how my face turned out because maaan the placement of those cogs contoured the heck out of my big cheeks!!). After all, I’ve been wanting to create a steampunk makeup look for aaaages…or at least after I became fixated with BioShock Infinite!
I’ve thought about making myself look like Elizabeth…
…but that only involved wearing my eyebrows thin and painting my lips red (because I sure as hell kennaaaat venture into the cosplay territory, given my sewing skills!) Not very groundbreaking makeup-wise, no? I could’ve made fake wounds as if someone aimed a Skyhook on my face…but how many times will my face get scratched, really?! Painting cogs on my face was not an option either, since I’m the type who can’t draw a symmetrical flower on the first try…so, I just let my steampunk makeup idea stew inside my head…for years…until my Shopee addiction (and my newfound, I-wanna-buy-a-casting-kit-so-I-can-mold-my-face-and-make-it-easier-for-me-to-do-DIY-prosthetics obsession) recently led me to this super sweet online shop that sells teeny tiny metal cogs and aaaall the glitters I can use for a unicorn makeup look (once I’ve molded the perfect horn that is). Oh, it is so ON.
I’m just another cog in the machine. With a stiff neck.
What I did…
…for the face:
I prepped my face with Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer, then applied Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige with a damp beauty sponge, then drew inverted triangles under my eyes with Maybelline Liquid Concealer in Medium. Bleeeend. Then I dusted a bit of bareMinerals Mineral Veil Finishing Powder to really make my skin seem poreless as hell.
I didn’t go crazy with the contouring since my cheeks will be covered with bloody junk anyway so I just defined my nose with the lighter brown shade from Fashion 21’s Contour Kit. But I did try adding a hint of pink to my cheeks (Gloss Skin and Beyond’s lip & cheek tint in Sangria) just so my skin won’t look too one-dimensional since hey, I’m not a mestiza who flushes pink naturally lol. Highlighting game is still extra af with Sleek’s Highlighting Palette in Precious Metals over Benefit’s watts up highlighter used on my nose, browbone, and cupid’s bow.
…for the eyes:
I shaped and groomed and filled my brows with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread and Coastal Scents Brow Palette. Then I defined it further by dabbing liquid concealer around my brows. Bleeend.
For the eyeshadow, I started with bareMinerals cream eyeshadow in Soft Shell as the primer because it already has that rosy shade. Then I dabbed Garnet (a shimmery rose-gold shade) all over my lids (and lower lashline), Deep Purple (a shimmery purple-gray shade) over the crease, and Gold on the center of my lids–all from the Lorac Pro Palette.
I tightlined using a black NYX Retractable Eyeliner, created a winged eye using LifeFord Hi-Precise Eye Pen, and finished that off with #BT03 Bohktoh falsies that I applied using my favorite Nichido eyelash glue.
…for the lips:
This was a trial-and-error thing. First I applied Urban Decay’s Blackmail lipstick, which is a reaaaally reaaaaaaally dark purple shade that made me look like a Linkin Park-listening emo kid. So I pressed my lips on a tissue paper to remove some of its color (some of it anyway since Urban Decay matte lipsticks are dry as hell) then layered my darkened lips with a creamier and redder lipstick (Loreal’s Pure Brick). I was satisfied with the shade I created but I wanted my lips to look more bronze-y so I carefully dabbed a gold lipstick (Loreal’s Pure Gold) on the center of my lips.
…for the cheeks:
PROTIP: If you want to hide your chubby cheeks, stick some bloody junk all over them. #ExtremeContouring
I drew the curvy rectangles on my cheeks using a white NYX Retractable Eyeliner (because it’s easier to erase and blend out the mistake if you’re using white).
I filled the curvy rectangles with a layer of tissue paper, applied with Graftobian Liquid Latex (because the cogs will stick better to the tissue than your actual skin).
Once the liquid latex is dry, I painted the tissue papered layer with black Snazaroo facepaint. And once the black facepaint has set, I dusted a bit of metallic orange, metallic brown, and metallic green eyeshadow shades from the Coastal Scents Creative Me #2 palette so that area won’t just look flat and black.
I hurt my neck while trying to arrange and stick the metal cogs with more Graftobian liquid latex…oh and if you’re missing a Family Mart retractable pen, please let me know so I can replace it since I also stuck the pen’s spring on my face lel
Then I carefully highlighted the border of the curved rectangles with the white eyeliner so they will look more three dimensional.
I finished the look by dabbing Graftobian Blood Paste on the cogs, and letting Graftobian Blood Gel drip from my cheeks.
I’ve finally done my 6th Halloween makeup (which makes this set up to par with the amount of Halloween makeup looks I made last year huzzaaah), and tbh, I’m not really happy with this one. See, I was planning a melted face SFX look (think skin dripping as if I’m made of wax), but unfortunately, my college years of making jello shots did not prepare me for the DIY gelatin prosthetics scene. For THREE DAYS I’ve scoured the bowels of Youtube for a recipe that will work (like I even tried cooking in May’s place in Hellmouth) without sliding off my face and I’ve even Googled for local online stores selling Mehron 3D gel just to save me from my DIY misery (result: there is none), but alas, it’s not meant to be.
So since I’ve already borrowed a crown for this look (LOL #effort), I went ahead and did it anyway (sans the skin dripping) just so I can claim that I’ve already done 6 Halloween makeup looks (…and I can peacefully obsess about how the heck am I going to execute my 7th/last one):
I drew a line in the middle of my face using my black NYX Retractable Eyeliner, and shielded my left eyebrow for the liquid latex later on with Elmer’s Glue Stick (I like using the purple variant that smells like grapes because the color change from purple-to-clear lets you know that the glue has dried)
Prepped the right side of my face using Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer, then applied Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige with a damp beauty sponge all over this area. I also used a cooopious amount of Maybelline Liquid Concealer in Medium to hide my eyebags.
I shaped and groomed and filled in my right eyebrow using Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread and Coastal Scents Brow Palette until you can see my eyebrow from Mars because I was aiming for that Brooke Shields-in-the-80s look. Then I defined it further by dabbing liquid concealer around that eyebrow. Bleeend.
I defined my nose and my cheek using Fashion 21’s Contour Kit, highlighted my browbone, cheekbone and cupid’s bow using Sleek’s Highlighting Palette in Precious Metals over Benefit’s watt’s up, and colored my cheek with the blush powder from Sleek’s Contour Kit until it looks like I was slapped in a backstage catfight.
I dabbed a bit of NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk over my lid because I’ll need a white base to make the super bright eyeshadow colors pop. Then I mixed blue and pink facepaint from my Flash palette to create the purple I applied on the crease, and applied the sky blue facepaint from the same palette on my lid. I made the colors pop out even more by dabbing a shimmery sky blue eyeshadow called Peace over my lid, and a shimmery purplish pink eyeshadow called Fishnet over the crease (both from the Urban Decay Deluxe Shadowbox Palette). I used the same colors for my lower lashline, then blend. Blend to infinity and beyond.
I tightlined using the same black eyeliner I used to divide the areas of my face earlier, created a winged eye using LifeFord Hi-Precise Eye Pen, and finished that off with #BT03 Bohktoh falsies that I applied using my favorite Nichido eyelash glue.
Because I was aiming for that 80’s look (thus the thick Brooke Shields eyebrow), aka the time when nobody batted an eye if you match a BLUE! and PURPLE! eyeshadow combo with PINK! cheeks and a RED! lipstick, I used Gloss Skin and Beyond’s Diva matte liquid lippie.
…for the left side of my face:
The rough texture is composed of uneven bits and pieces of dried tissue paper that were dipped in Elmers Glue.
Sooo basically I just covered my left face with Graftobian liquid latex and attached those bits of tissue paper to my skin. I covered my eyesocket with a round cotton pad so the liquid latex (and tissue) won’t get to my left eye, and then sandwiched that with another layer of tissue paper and liquid latex.
I traced the middle line (that I drew with my eyeliner earlier) with liquid latex, which I then covered with a thin roll of DIY scar wax (equal amounts of petroleum jelly and flour with a few drops of your liquid foundation)…which I then pressed and blended to my real skin.
Once everything’s dry, I painted my paper mache’d face and scar wax with the same liquid foundation, blush, eyeshadow and lipstick that I used on my real skin–the wonkier the better since I want the left side of my face to be disintegrating (if not melting!), and hey, I’m freakin doing this step with only one seeing eye.
Added some black drips (for the mascara) and even glued the other half of my falsies to make it look a bit more “real” (heh).
Because I’m running out of doable ideas (and because my supposed 5th Halloween makeup look should’ve involved DIY prosthetic!) I settled with another makeup look that’s a little too literal. Now, I’m just gonna go straight to the What I Did’s because I’m running out of time and I still promised to facepaint some of my colleagues for today’s kid-friendly, non-gory Halloween office party so I’ll just let my imaginary childhood boyfriends Nick and Landon explain why the idealist in me still believes in “love is blind”.
Makuha ka sa tingin.
What I Did:
I swiped a stick of Elmer’s Glue on my eyebrows to protect them 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).
I drew the lines and hearts over my eye sockets with a black NYX Retractable Eyeliner and filled them with black Snazaroo facepaint.
I wanted to add a rough-looking texture for the gouged-out eye sockets so I stuck little bits of cotton inside the black hearts with Graftobian liquid latex. Once the latex is dry, I painted the cotton bits with black facepaint too.
I framed the hearts with little rolls of myDIY scar wax (equal parts of flour + petroleum jelly and a bit of liquid foundation) that I stuck to my face using mooore liquid latex. Once they’re in place, I gently rubbed and blended the scar wax to my actual skin.
I veeery carefully applied Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige 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.
Did my usual contour-highlight routine using Fashion 21’s Contour Kit (contour for the nose line and cheeks), Sleek’s Contour Kit (blush), Sleek’s Highlighting Palette in Precious Metals and Benefit’s watts up highlighter (for the nose and cupid’s bow).
Added a bruising effect to the frames of my gouged-out eyes using red and purple eyeshadow from the Coastal Scents Creative Me palette.
Covered my lips with a very sinister-looking, velvety dark red matte liquid lippie appropriately called Revenge from Gloss Skin and Beyond.
Dabbed a generous amount of Graftobian blood paste over the black facepainted areas of my gouged-out eyes and let Graftobian blood gel drip all over my cheeks.
Stuck bits of wire to the scar wax frame to make it appear as if the wires are holding my face together.
So I’ve finally reached my 4th Halloween makeup for 2018 (3 more to go!!!), and this time, it was inspired by the gifts I received from Gloss Skin and Beyond, a local enterprise (owned by fashionista-turned-doting-mom, Mini) offering all-natural, cruelty-free, FDA-approved skincare and cosmetic products. Now this is the part where I’ll sound pretentious with a “Mini and I go way back…” statement, but let’s not go there; I’m already trying hard not to be the Jaclyn Hill to her Kim Kardashian. All I know is that she’s the popular girl two years my senior in Rural who, in a time when Duramo slides were the norm, sported that cute pair of Nike sandals I’ve been eyeing in Planet Sports for weeeeeks so yeah,I was too intimidated to even speak to her #fashuuun nature. So you can just imagine my disbelief when I unboxed the makeup haul she sent me last Monday:
(L-R) one sunflower soap & one shea butter + cocoa butter soap, one strawberry lip scrub (I’ve stopped exfoliating my lips with a toothbrush like a barbarian. Thanks Mini!), one Wonder Lash & Brow Grower serum, four (4) lip & cheek stains, and four (4) matte liquid lipsticks. Wowza.
It was such a sweet gesture that kinda left me in a panic: how the heck can I use any of these without hurting Gloss Skin and Beyond’s pretty sweet brand image? We all know what kind of image I possess! And so I wondered, hmm since I’m the type of gullible who takes things almost always literally, then let’s create a makeup look that’s literally sweet, honey-and-bees sweet…with a dash of trypophobia:
WHAT I DID
…FOR THE FACE:
I rubbed a bit of Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer on my face to make the liquid foundation + heavy contouring look more flawless, avoiding my left eye socket area because really, why would I waste my fancy primer on an area I’ll cover with a DIY eye patch later?
I applied Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige using a damp beauty sponge. Added more coverage by applying bareMinerals Mineral Foundation in Neutral Medium with a huge foundation brush. Slathered an inverted triangle of Maybelline’s liquid concealer in Medium under each eye and blended that out with my middle finger.
I used the two brown shades from Fashion 21’s Contour Kit–the lighter brown to define my nose and cheeks, the darker brown to cast a shadow that can slim down the outer area of my cheeks and make my forehead less Rihanna-ish. This is the part where I reaaally wanted to use one of Gloss Skin and Beyond’s lip and cheek stains to add color to my cheeks, but alas, I’ll be using the very sticky modeling wax on my left cheek, so a powder-based blush like that from Sleek’s Contour Kit is needed. Then I illuminated my nose bridge, cheekbones, cupid’s bow and browbone with Sleek’s Highlighting Palette in Precious Metals over Benefit’s watts up highlighter (yeah I’m a highlighter junkie so wat)
Dusted a bit of bareminerals Mineral Veil Finishing Powder with a huge fluffy brush for that airbrushed look.
…FOR THE EYES:
I shaped my brows with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread. Went a bit #extra and rubbed a bit of concealer around my eyebrows to make them eeeeven more defined.
I dabbed a bit of Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk over my lids so the white will make the eyeshadow colors pop.
For the eyeshadow: the neon pink shade from the Coastal Scents Creative Me palette over my lids and below my lower lash line, then the bright purple from the same palette over the crease and the outer corners of my lids. Topped them with the glitter light pink, pink & purple shades from the Urban Decay Moondust palette (applied with a wet finger so the glitters will really stick)
Tightlined with NYXRetractable black eyeliner, created my cat eyeliner look with my black, Lifeford Hi-Precise Eye Pen, and finished that off with my new favorite falsies (#BT03 Bohktoh false eyelashes) that I used with my favorite, holy-grail-of-an-eyelash-glue from Nichido.
…FOR THE LIPS (MADE SMOOTH & SOFT THANKS TO THE STRAWBERRY LIP SCRUB I USED EARLIER THAT DAY #NAKS):
I chose Gloss Skin and Beyond’s matte liquid lipstick in Go Girl (which I can describe as a Mocha Neutral Pink: “Ang pink po nya! Grabeng pink. Ah hindi naman po masyadong pink kasi neutral yung dating nya sa skin kaya sakto lang po. Parang pink na mas neutral po.”) so the color would go well with my ultra-mega-girly eyeshadow combo. When I swatched it, it reminded me of Revlon’s Ultra HD Matte Lipcolor…but unlike Revlon’s, Go Girl really delivered its lightweight & transfer-proof promise once applied on the lips. Oh, and its smell reminds me of my cat (but that’s because I bathe my cat with a honeydew-melon-yogurt scented cleansing syrup from Snoe so beh!)
…FOR THE “BEES”:
I decided to unearth the Great Nail Art Stash of 2013 for the unused, fake stick-on nails sent by my mom, which I then painted with a yellow nail polish (China Glaze’s Happy Go Lucky) and a black nail polish (Orly’s Liquid Vinyl). I let them dry while creating the beehive’d patch for my left eye…and if you’re wondering where the heck are their wings, well, “A bee’s wings move so rapidly that studying them, even seeing them, has proved difficult.” #YeaaahScienceBtch
…FOR THE BEEHIVE’D EYE PATCH:
I framed a round cotton pad (which already fits my eye socket area) with tissue paper bits and Elmer’s Glue.
I covered the cotton pad with my DIY scar wax (equal amounts of flour + petroleum jelly and a bit of liquid foundation) that I fashioned into a tiny pizza dough…because my DIY scar wax is easier to mold than the ever-sticky Graftobian modeling wax (plus it’s already pigmented thanks to the liquid foundation included in its ingredients).
I lined my actual eye socket area with Graftobian liquid latex, pressed the tissue paper frame of my eye patch over it, and sandwiched it with more liquid latex. I didn’t want to challenge gravity while the liquid latex is still wet so I just faced the ceiling while trying to send a text with one eye. 😉
Once the liquid latex’d frame of my eyepatch is dry, I smoothened out the edges and blended them to my real skin using Graftobian modeling wax. Used the same liquid foundation and mineral foundation I applied to the rest of my face earlier so the eye patch can match my actual skin…plus the mineral veil powder too, so both my DIY scar wax and Graftobian modeling wax can lose their sticky-icky nature.
To create the 3D holes, I pressed the tip of an eyeshadow makeup brush onto the waxy, fake skin surface of my eye patch; I even rolled the brush like my eye socket was one big pencil sharpener until I was satisfied that the holes were big enough. #InsertDirtyJokeHere
Then I filled the holes with black facepaint from my Flash palette and glued my fake bees with more liquid latex.
…AND FOR THE HONEY:
I’m pretty proud of this because this was a total, last-minute moment of eureka (after an hour of mixing Elmer’s Glue and hair gel and yellow facepaint to no avail!) I simply opened a pack of Garnier’s Lightening Peel Off Mask (which already comes in a translucent yellow shade) and mixed it with a few drops of yellow food coloring.
Because it ain’t Halloween without making yourself look crazy fugly, my 3rd Halloween makeup is based on the masks from The Purge (2013), an American horror movie (turned franchise!) wherein crime rates and unemployment became almost non-existent because for 12 hours a year, it’s legal for the citizens to unleash their angst by committing the most heinous of crimes (oftentimes towards those who are poor or weak…so it’s like the modern-day Philippines and the poor people who are being slayed because they had the misfortune of fitting the Drug Pusher Starter Pack, but I digress).
What I used:
Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer
Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige
Maybelline’s Liquid Concealer in Medium
The brown and gray-brown shades in Fashion 21’s Contour Kit
LifeFord Hi-Precise Eye Pen in black
bareMinerals soft focus in Warmth
Patience. Lots and lots of patience.
Garnier Micellar Water & a handful of cotton ballsfor the eventual screw-ups because my God do I suck at drawing thin lines steadily
Facepaint! Brown, black, dark coral, and white from the Flash Palette.
Graftobian Blood Pastesprayed using a toothbrush.
My housemates’ big-ass knife (already an upgrade compared to this LOL)
What I did:
This is the part where I’ll admit that this makeup look will make it seem as if I cheated since all I had to do was follow Madeyewlook’s The Purge Makeup tutorial to a T. And AY DONUT KERR, because this Purge Mask facepaint makeup took me looooooonger than my first two Halloween makeup looks (like I had to redo my facepainted lips four freakin times!!), and Madeyewlook is pretty much the Youtuber who’s responsible why I’ve managed to create facepaint-based looks before. She’s a kickass teacher and I love her.
So if you wanna create this look, just watch Madeyewlook’s tutorial and leave me alone this was so traumatizingly exhausting lemme just move on to my next makeup look because I prefer SFX-based makeup looks over facepaint-based ones okthx.
To be honest, I wasn’t so hot about this makeup look. But like I said, I’m aiming to create 7 Halloween makeup looks this year so I can’t really afford to be picky. All I know is that when I saw this makeup look in Instagram ages ago, I thought, “Hmm looks doable enough, I’ll just have to substitute the melted skin with rolls of tissue bits like the last time.”
I’m not even going to yap about Snow White because she’s my least favorite Disney princess (#MulanPaDinMgaOlol), so I’ll just go straight to the step-by-step:
WHAT I DID…
…FOR THE FACE, PART 1:
I prayed to the makeup gods above that I can still squeeze out an ample amount of Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer because I don’t want to splurge on a new bottle any time soon just so my face can look flawless and make-up ready. Then I breathed a sigh of relief when I discovered that I just have a faulty pump.
I covered my face with Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beigeusing a damp beauty sponge. Added more coverage by applying bareMinerals Mineral Foundation in Neutral Medium with a huge foundation brush. Raged and told myself another lie about getting more sleep when I realized that I’m three products in (primer + liquid foundation + mineral foundation) and yeeeet, my eyebags were still visible. Slathered an inverted triangle of Maybelline’s liquid concealer in Medium under each eye and blended that out with my middle finger.
I defined my cheeks and made my noseline pop like it’s for Josh Groban with the powder blush & powder contour from Sleek’s Face Contour Kit, then illuminated my browbone and cheekbones with Benefit’s watts up highlighter because I like goin extra with my highlighters.
…FOR THE EYES:
I shaped my eyebrows and filled in the sparse areas with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread, which has been a cheaper, guilt-free-everyday-tool for me compared to Benefit’s Gimme Brow.
I Primed my eyelids with Lorac Behind The Scenes eyeshadow primer because I need the yellow & blue colors to reaaally stick (yeah, poor choice of color combination but they were supposed to represent Snow White’s Ikea-inspired dress).
Dabbed a bit of white facepaint from my Flash palette over my lids (or else the yellow will barely show on my Azn skin). Added a layer of yellow facepaint over the white lids, then I used a lemon yellow powder eyeshadow my Creative Me palette as their setting powder, and theeen lined the crease and my lower lids with the Facebook- blue eyeshadow (also from the Creative Me palette).
Suck at blending two neon colors together, decided to just screw it and leave them looking raw rather than end up with a green eyeshadow look.
Tightlined with Nyx Retractable black eyeliner, created my cat eyeliner look with my black, Lifeford Hi-Precise Eye Pen, and finished that off with my new favorite falsies (#BT03 Bohktoh false eyelashes #ObligatoryHelloThailandILoveYouForThis), used with my favorite, holy-grail-of-an-eyelash-glue from Nichido.
…FOR THE FACE, PART 2:
I rolled bits of tissue paper into little cocoons. THEN I use the same liquid foundation I used on my face to paint all over them so they can appear as the same shade as my skin. Set to dry.
I used one of my random brown eyeliner pencils lying around to create an outline of my bloody mouth (visualize Ronald McDonald’s mouth while you’re at it).
I lined my Ronald McDonald mouth with a layer of pinky-sized tissue paper using Graftobian liquid latex. This will serve as the frame of the melted skin bits.
I mixed red, black and brown facepaint from my Flash palette and painted my Ronald McDonald mouth outline so it will appear as if it’s one gaping hole of a mouth.
Once the liquid foundation-doused tissue cocoons are dry, I started sticking them to the tissue frame of my Ronald McDonald Mouth using more liquid latex and smoothened the creases with Graftobian Modelling Wax. Oh and I also kept an o-face during this whole ordeal to make sure that the tissue cocoons/melted skin will fit nicely haha
Painted the tissue frame of my mouth with the same liquid foundation, then dabbed a geneeerous amount of Graftobian Blood Paste on the painted gaping hole.
Find a red hairband and hold an apple. Pose for a selfie and make your nosy cat wish you’re not her hooman.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the latest DRAMUH concerning the BGC community cats, particularly those that have been living in the ever-so-fancy, Two Serendra. Actually, you might’ve forgotten it already, since this has been going on for almost two months now and the management probably feels that it is beneath them to respond (unlike a Filipino senator who had the initiative to release this I-was-a-dog-lover-but-now-I-love-jail-cats-shame-on-you statement but nah let’s not get political shall we?) I’ll let this article clue you in so I can just focus on sharing a step-by-step guide for this SFX makeup look. I’ll reaaally try to just focus on my makeup. I’ll try.
OH NO I’ve been scratched after playing with this cheese grater! *scratches head* Guess I’ll just throw this poor, unassuming cheese grater away; it doesn’t deserve to co-exist with me…#StupidAnalogyForAStupidDrama
What I did:
For the face, I used Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer. It’s supposed to make your skin look flawless and perfect—an optical illusion like the beauty of Two Serendra because underneath the fancy, expat-friendly facade (“Oh sh*t, that place is brimming with expats? That must be such a 1st world haven in our 3rd world nation!”–says every clueless Juan) is a management which, unfortunately, has money that couldn’t buy them class nor the animal welfare awareness of 1st world nations. What a haven indeed!
Then I used a makeup sponge to apply Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige, which resonates with what I imagine to be the Serendra management’s thought process in dealing with the community cats. “Hmmm we better set a rule that forces our residents to pay P10,000 ($185) for feeding those cats…and the retail area should probably set up a DO NOT FEED THE CATS sign so we can join High Street’s kitty bandwagon regardless if, unlike High Street, we haven’t set up a proper feeding program with the ever-willing volunteers…I mean, these cats are sooo cheap, always lounging and flaunting their bellies for the rays of sunlight that should be exclusive to us Serendra folks…Santo Dios, they don’t even have the right breed for our brand of lifestyle! So yeah, let’s make this money-grubbing penalty happen because it’s never gonna apply to me…it fits me.” #LongBuildupIsLong
Then I used Maybelline Liquid Concealer in Medium to cover my eyebags which can probably compete with the eyebags of the cat-loving, Two Serendra residents—you get caught feeding the cats and that’s $185 down the drain, hostile treatment optional. Who could sleep in peace at night?!
TIME FOR CONTOURING, BLUSH & HIGHLIGHTING! I used two products for this step. First is Sleek’s Face Contour Kit, which includes a powdered blush (which can give your cheeks a rosy effect, just like Serendra’s attempt to make things look cute and rosy lol hashtag “Fluffies of Serendra” nga daw check ittt) and a brown powder contour (that you’ll use to make your cheeks and nose look slimmer and more defined, kinda like the bone structure of the Serendra cats if they starve to death). Then of course I’m not going to forget my favorite creamy highlighter of all time which can brighten up your cheekbones, browbone, and your cupid’s bow: Benefit watts up…so, what’s up Serendra? Any updates? Since, you know, it’s been weeks and you haven’t responded to the invitations nor sent a representative to (wo)man up and digest all of the efforts of the people who are WILLING to create a humane Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNVR) Program for the Serendra cats—with no funding or labor needed from y’all whatsoever. They are offering solutions that can keep the Serendra cat population healthy and stable so you won’t have to experience the Vaccuum Effect. Watts up???
To shape and define my eyebrows that seem to be perpetually raised thanks to Serendra’s haughty lack of action, I used the no-fuss, Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread.
For my simple smoky eyeshadow, I used Bootycall (browbone & lower inner corner my eyes), Chopper (lids) & Tease (crease) from the Naked 2 palette of Urban Decay. Urban Decay…Urban Decay!!! Hahahaha I don’t even need to write this joke anymore. #BestOfLuckWithYourRatInfestation
I used two different eyeliners, both as black as the hearts of the cat haters of Serendra: Nyx Retractable Eyeliner for my lower waterline, and Lifeford Hi-Precise Eye Pen for the obligatory cat eyeliner look.
And now, for the grated skin (recreated from @rubymediamakeup) that resembles an exaggerated cat scratch aka The Most Overused Argument As To Why We Should Just Eliminate The Serendra Cats Year After Year When Eliminating The TNVR’d Cats Will Attract New Unvaccinated Ferals To Claim The Territory Who Are More Likely To Scratch Or Bite Unsupervised Children So It’s Like One Expensive Roofie Circle: I applied a thick layer of Graftobian Modeling Wax all over my cheek, carefully brushed a bit of setting powder & blush powder over it to make it stay put and look infected, dragged the tip of my gel eyeliner brush on the surface of the waxed area to create the 3D wound effects, filled those strips with the brown facepaint from my Flash palette, and dabbed Graftobian Blood Paste on the brown strips. Graftobian modeling wax is too sticky to be molded so I just rolled strips of my DIY scar wax (discussed here) for the strips of skin on the bloody cheese grater.
This post is dedicated to my Sandra who was an abandoned kitten discovered, fostered & spayed by some of Two Serendra’s compassionate residents. See, you Two Serendra hotshots are blessed with people who actually care about a keeping a well-maintained cat population in your vicinity. They’ve been using their own time & resources just to keep those pest-killing cats happy and healthy…but what have you done in return?
2018 is the Year of the Dog so I decided to make my first post for this year about…cats. #CozImEdgylLiekDat
“I’m not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.”
This makeup look was inspired by the Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland–nothing too detailed or special effectsy. First because I wasn’t really planning to create this look; I’ve turned 30 last September and I want to try doing more elaborate SFX makeup looks in my free time (like my White Walker look that made me murder loads of tissue paper), than patweetums shiz like this kitty look that forced me to buy my own kitty headband (I’ve borrowed A LOT of my cousins’ toys and headbands as my props before and I’d like to limit that so I won’t weird them out too much with my paki-Lalamove po bukas sa office yung toy nila ha favors hahahaaa).
Second because I need to pick up the slack after taking a two-month hiatus from this blog because I’ve been busy AS FCUK with work and occasional waldas-peraraket and new hobbies and responsibilities (no joke I haven’t even picked up a freakin makeup brush since my friend’s wedding last December!)
Third because I realized that if I can create content using my mukap and amateur blogging skillz…maybe I can use it to promote the Cats of BGC? What am I waiting for and what the hell is stopping me? It’s inexcusable for someone like me who: writes for a living (hello to the people of HARI who may have noticed that I always have a Facebook tab open–thank you for turning a blind eye!), renewed this domain last October, and was asked by fellow crazy BGC cat ladies to manage the Facebook page. #SupportYourOwn #ButIShallNotAbuseMyFacebookPagePowerToPromoteThisBlogAndExploitTheNeedsOfOurCats #PussiesBeforePageViews
Before I proceed with my Cheshire Cat makeup look how-to’s, lemme talk about the Cats of BGC first. I’ve been working in BGC for a year now, and I remember walking home from OT, stumbling upon what appeared to be a kitty haven around July:
These friendly free-roamers immediately stole my heart for being great lap warmers every time I’m late from OT, tired from running, or impatient while waiting/texting. :3
After joining a TNR (Trap, Neuter & Release) activity to get some of the BGC cats fixed (because neutering cats can prevent them from overpopulating AND THERE ARE LOADS OF HOMELESS KITTIES ALREADY) around September, I got to meet fellow BGC cat ladies who all dream of giving FURever homes to the cats. Sure our kitties can be cuddly and entertaining for people who frequent their hangouts but did you ever think about what happens to them when you come home after using them as your furry, purring, stress-relieving machine? There might be other independent kitty feeders (which is why ang taba talaga nila compared to other homeless kitties), but even they can’t comfort the cats especially when it rains. I’m just glad that since they’ve become used to playing with people and they “can” (involves a very pain-in-the-neck process IMHO) receive medical attention (thanks to generous cat lovers who also have their own lives so utang na loob, please don’t dump your cats. Hindi kami rich, empleyado lang din ang karamihan samin!!!), our cats are more adapted to…well, being adopted.
At the moment, the hoomans behind the Cats of BGC has the variety of a 90’s boyband: there’s Claire (who’s been feeding and fixing and fostering the BGC cats for around 10 years now using her own resources IMAGINE THAT TAPOS MAGTATAPON KAYO NG PUSA?! FOR SHAME!!!), there’s May (who, aside from fostering kitties Claire can no longer take in [haha!], has a no-BS attitude when it comes to interviewing potential adopters and EVEN delivering our kitties), there’s Leslie who uses her photography skillz to supply and update us with all the raw cat photos I try to meme-ify and helps me with the PMs when I kennat handle people-personning…and then there’s me:
That’s if I’m not chasing after kitties during TNRs. Cardio din yun yo.
So far, so good I guess! Fortunately I was able to bully my favorite OT homeguuurl Keith Magnaye (the same person I guilt-tripped into making my Gimme Timmi logo and joining Hyundai’s first Digital Arts Competition where bitch won 2nd place based on our heads’ scoring) into making the the Cats of BGC logo(Me: Keithyyyy gawan mo kami ng logo…gusto ko Bonifacio ket na may katipunero scarf…pero modern huhu. Keithy: Sige mumshie *sends logo of an adorable cat with a tied-over sweater the next day*) so content-wise, that’s one less thing for me to deal with since I suck at illustrating. And if you’re wondering how you can help our struggling, crazy cat ladies team, please consider:
Adopting our #CatsOfBGC and giving them their FURever homes. No, there’s no actual “Tinpurr” app. But since people keep saying “Okay ang Tinder matches sa BGC a” (I wouldn’t know since I was an OKC type of girl lol), I decided to fashion our cat bios after the app interface because you know, even these kitties have their own personalities. See, we see ourselves more as a matchmaking bunch than a rescue group that has the power to take in all the cats we see–we want our cats to live better lives away from the streets, not keep them happy, healthy BUT homeless.
Liquorice is pretty popular for his ‘stache but he’s still waiting for hoomans who won’t mind his vanity/mirror-staring habit.
Before being spayed (thanks to Claire), Mama gave birth to the other BGC cats like Caramel, Fudge, Liquorice & Eleven…so nope, she ain’t pregnant. She’s just permanently manas.
Nibbles is the type who’d trot towards you as soon as you start shaking your bag of cat food. 😀
Belo is…sakto lang. Haha she’s playful and can get really clingy (come feeding time) but she’s cool enough to stare at you contentedly while you’re having the time of your life with her friends. So parang ako.
Oh where do I even start with this gerl?! Meghan can be princess-like with a mine-mine-mine attitude but she’s one of the sweetest cats who’d try to trip you with her markings/cuddle with her friends. I love her.
(The others not shown here have been adopted/up for adoption. Man I love people sometimes.)
Attending to a sickly BGC cat you encounter. As much as we’d love to be the James Deakin or Top Gear of every BGC cat in need of help, I’m pretty sure that we cat ladies are like normal human beings: we have our own lives…careers…hopes…and dreams. We may not have reached the stage of asking for monetary donations yet (as much as we’d appreciate that since you know, we don’t have unlimited funds!), but we’d definitely need help when it comes to attending to sickly cats AND NEVER DUMPING MORE CATS. Please keep your money or your cellphone or your laptop, and please inform us should you encounter someone asking for those–if we need it na, you’d definitely learn about it from our FB page. Baka nga i-unfollow mo pa sa sobrang hard sell ng We Need Money posts ko if ever–EVEN WORSE THAN THIS lol)
Spaying/neutering your own cat so you’ll never have to dump unwanted kitties elsewhere. Especially in BGC, where my dinner will be more likely spent on more catfood because of your rejected furbabies who will then give our current adoptables less chances of getting adopted dahil biglang nagiging survival of the fittest ang peg–both for the cats and hoomans letse
Spreading awareness because who knows, someone in your circle might be looking for a furbaby…or a serious bitchslap to unlearn his/her kitty-abandoning ways. Learn more by Liking https://www.facebook.com/bgccatsph/.
Right. Now that I’ve taken that outta my system, let me bore you with my Mukhang Pusa (literally, this time):
WHAT I DID:
Prep your face with bareMinerals Prime Time makeup primer so it won’t appear as if your breakouts don’t make your face as smooth as a cat’s tongue.
Apply L’Oreal Infallible Liquid Foundation in Sable Sand using a damp beauty sponge from Daiso (berate me all you want for not using a Beauty Blender but I ain’t gonna use a thousand-peso sponge to create a quick makeup look I’m gonna wash off after an hour!)
Give up your membership to the Contour Cream Club by contouring and de-chubbying your face with Fashion 21 Contour Kit–this is in powder form so it’s easier for me to blend and build-up the color without looking like I fell asleep resting my cheeks on a V-shaped steel bar covered in grease.
Level-up your highlighting game by applying your favorite highlighter (Benefit Watt’s Up)on your browbone, nose bridge, cheekbone…and then dabbing Platinum from your new Sleek Highlighting Palette over those areas. #PagNamanDiPaKuminangAngBoneStructureKoSaHighlightEwanKoNa
Fill in your brows with Benefit Gimme Brow in 04.
Rub a bit of eyeshadow primer (Lorac Behind The Scenes) all over your lids because you’re gonna need to make the Cheshire Cat pink pop.
Do another one of your life’s smoky eye: Tease (from Urban Decay Naked 2) over the crease for transition color, Magenta facepaint (from Flash Palette) on your lids, Neon Bright Pink (from Coastal Scents Creative Me) over Magenta to reaaally make the pink appear pigmented af, Flash (the shimmery Ultra Violet dupe from Urban Decay Shadow Box) for the outer corners, and Black (from Lorac Pro) to define the outer corners/make them look smokier.
Tightline with NYX retractable eyeliner (black on the upper lash line, white on the lower lash line)
Dab a bit of white facepaint (Flash Palette) on the inner corner of your eyes, then wing it dramatically with Maybelline Hypergloss black liquid eyeliner–note that I even used it under my lower lash line to trace my kitty eyes. Use this same black liquid eyeliner for your whiskers.
Use extra girly falsies with the holy grail that is Nichido eyelash glue, set with your naturally short lashes with Benefit They’re Real black mascara.
Draw your Cheshire kitty nose, mouth and neck using different types of makeup brushes (gel liner brush for the nose and mouth, and a flat blending brush for the neck) with the pink, black and white facepaint from Flash palette.
Complete the look with an eighty peso kitty headband and a beauty app for your fake yellow kitty eyes because you’re still too kuripot to hoard weird contact lenses.
Hate yourself for the next few days because you completely forgot how pink and red facepaint/eyeshadows can stain your skin no. matter. how. you. scrub. Avoid outdoorsy activities that require you to tie your hair up, fearing that people would find you weirder than ever because the pink striped marks on your neck were probably from some crazy BDSM choking mechanism (pass!)
