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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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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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Sunburn SFX Makeup

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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, procrastination cat 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

So without further ado

♫ I need to get away, GOTTA GET AWAY♫

What I did:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Now, my favorite makeup item: FALSIES!!! It doesn’t matter if you were born with inadequate eyelashes; you don’t even need to work hard for them to grow because you can simply FAKE EVERY LITTLE BIT by using a pair of falsies (my personal favorite: Bohktoh BT-02). I swear everyone should try wearing falsies; they’re so empowering, you’d feel as if you can control wherever your eyes land on: a student activist who was tortured to death after humiliating you during an open forum, your daddy so he can cancel PAL flights and order their planes to transport your breastmilk back to your son while you frolic abroad…or you can even make the majority voters forget the decades of atrocities caused by your family and actually vote you back into power, konting kindat lang ang katapat. So nice noh.
  7. 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 maselan for 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…
  8. 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 redness to 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Congrats! You’ve made it! Celebrate by doing what you do best: take a selfie, but don’t smile too hard, since you still need to appear like the lapdog humble hero who’s #shookt for winning even if hundreds of millions of pesos were spent for your campaign ads. 
  11.  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.

 

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Cog In The Machine SFX Makeup

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3.  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

  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. Then I carefully highlighted the border of the curved rectangles with the white eyeliner so they will look more three dimensional.
  6. I finished the look by dabbing Graftobian Blood Paste on the cogs, and letting Graftobian Blood Gel drip from my cheeks.

 

 

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Under Pressure SFX Makeup

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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):

Judge: And now, for your final round question: If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
Me:

What I did…

…for the right side of my face:

  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6.  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.
  7. 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:

  1. The rough texture is composed of uneven bits and pieces of dried tissue paper that were dipped in Elmers Glue.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
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Love Is Blind SFX Makeup

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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:

  1. 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).
  2. I drew the lines and hearts over my eye sockets with a black NYX Retractable Eyeliner and filled them with black Snazaroo facepaint.
  3. 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.
  4. I framed the hearts 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. Once they’re in place, I gently rubbed and blended the scar wax to my actual skin.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. Added a bruising effect to the frames of my gouged-out eyes using red and purple eyeshadow from the Coastal Scents Creative Me palette.
  8. Covered my lips with a very sinister-looking, velvety dark red matte liquid lippie appropriately called Revenge from Gloss Skin and Beyond.
  9. 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.
  10. Stuck bits of wire to the scar wax frame to make it appear as if the wires are holding my face together.
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The Purge Mask Makeup

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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:

  1. Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer 
  2. Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige 
  3. Maybelline’s Liquid Concealer in Medium
  4. The brown and gray-brown shades in Fashion 21’s Contour Kit
  5. LifeFord Hi-Precise Eye Pen in black
  6. bareMinerals soft focus in Warmth
  7. Patience. Lots and lots of patience.
  8. Garnier Micellar Water & a handful of cotton balls for the eventual screw-ups because my God do I suck at drawing thin lines steadily
  9. Facepaint! Brown, black, dark coral, and white from the Flash Palette.
  10. Graftobian Blood Pastesprayed using a toothbrush.
  11. 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.

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Snow Why?! SFX Makeup

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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.”

Bet the apple was planted by Banksy (…I wish!)

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:

  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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. Find a red hairband and hold an apple. Pose for a selfie and make your nosy cat wish you’re not her hooman.
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Mermaid Makeup

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For my 6th (and final) Halloween makeup (yep I reaaaally forced myself to level up from my 5 Halloween makeup looks last year Dios mio sawang-sawa na ako humawak ng makeup brush), I decided to go as a mermaid. I was actually planning to do a mermaid look last year, but a good friend of mine whose name rhymes with cat told me to wait AFTER my inaanak‘s mermaid-themed, 2nd birthday party last December. I of course obliged because apparently, things like that are crucial in girl world.

Man I’m such a good friend.

What I love about the mermaid makeup look is that it seems so otherworldly, when it’s really not that difficult…if you have the right materials though. Of course, the first challenge was to find a freakin mermaid crown in Manila. Unlike flower crowns, I haven’t seen any mermaid crown that’s mass-produced so I knew I was gonna DIY this thing. 

Googling for references can be disheartening…

Where on earth are these ladies getting all of those pretty jewels and shells…and are those starfish?!!? #RhetoricalQuestion #IKnowTheyreFromTheOceanOkay

…but then I realized, why do I need to overload my mermaid crown with jewels and pretty seashells and dead starfish? IMMA GO REALISTIC ON DIS BISH. Soo:

♫ Look at this stuff, isn’t it sh*t? Wouldn’t you think my destruction’s complete? Wouldn’t you think I’m a girl, a girl losing everythingggg…♫

What I did:

    1. Tagay ka muna. 

      DO NOT THROW THIS VERY SPECIAL WRAPPER AWAY

      You’ll need it because the next 2 hours will be spent gluegunning a mermaid crown together, facepainting and taking selfies.

    2. For the mermaid crown: Find a thin plastic headband. Use a glue gun to attach the pendant & loose ends of a beaded necklace (I can’t remember where I got this because I’m not a huge fan of burloloys) to the headband’s center and ends. Find a house that decorated for Christmas way too early and swipe one of these glittery, coral-looking ornaments they’ve stuck to the Christmas tree. Cut into bits, stick to the center of your crown. Cover the headband with seashells (find a Filipino store that sells sungka and you’ll get your seashells). Hang the remnants of your dinner around the glittery corals of your crown–candy wrapper, ketchup sachet, plastic bag that carried your lumpia, etc. (I told you Tagay was needed and no, I didn’t eat a cotton bud, it’s for erasing makeup mishaps!)
    3.  For the face: Use a damp brush to cover your face with the Rural blue facepaint (aka Cerulean if you have to be Miranda Priestly all about it) from the Flash palette. Wear a hair net over your face before contouring scales to your forehead and cheekbones with a matte purple eyeshadow from the Coastal Scents Creative Me palette, and a shimmery purple eyeshadow from the Urban Decay Shadow Box palette.
    4. For the lips: Mix a bit of blue with two bits of pink from your Flash palette. Use your new purple facepaint as your lipstick. Dab a bit of glittery purple eyeshadow from the Urban Decay Moondust palette all over your purple lips.
    5. For the eyes: Use the same purple facepaint you mixed for your lips to draw your eyebrows, add transition shade for your smokey eye makeup, and define your lower lash line. Use a matte black eyeshadow (also from the Urban Decay Shadow Box) to cover your lids and lower lash line. Blend blend blend blend blend. Wing it with Maybelline Hypergloss black liquid eyeliner, use reaaally long falsies with Nichido eyelash glue, then set the falsies with your naturally short lashes with Benefit They’re Real black mascara.
    6. For the extra stuff: Do you remember the jewel stickers people used to stick to their Blackberry phones that’d make Paris Hilton say, “That’s hot”? Yeah, use a few pearl-looking ones and stick them to your face. Feel glad that you made a mistake the other night by mixing a batch of DIY fake blood (hair gel + a pinch of cocoa powder + food coloring) that’s way too runny and had too much blue food coloring when you were preparing for your Stranger Things makeup look so you might as well use that green blood by attaching a plastic lid to your neck with Graftobian Liquid Latex and let your green fake blood drip all over it.
    7. Borrow your housemates’ plastic fork and take a selfie.
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Train to Baclaran Zombie Makeup

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Because it ain’t Halloween without zombies, I decided to update my last year’s zombie look. First because it’s been a year and there’s still nothing scarier than being a daily commuter in the Philippines…so yeah I am dedicating this look to the Philippines’ favorite Tito for defending us commuters, and my commuter friends who’ve learned how to ninja-do their makeup WHILE commuting liek watdahel?!!? Kayo ang tunay na #Petmalu!!!

Susmaryosep

Second because it only took me an hour max. I mean, the goal isn’t to look good after all… 

Train to Busan? More like Train to Baclaran! #PumasokNaEmpleyadoLumabasGustongMangainNgTao  

Third because I was inspired to create something messy and disgusting thanks to Make Up Pro‘s #MUPFREAKYFACE Halloween contest (they’re giving away P30,000 worth of make up yo; can you just imagine how much can that haul help me?!)

What I did:

  1. Cover your face (and lips!) with a thin layer of white + blue + green facepaint (from the Flash palette). I didn’t want it to be too matte because I just wanted make myself appear like I’m running out of blood.
  2. Flaunt your natural eyebags! I tightlined my eyes with red facepaint, blended that out with a bit of blue and brown. I did this using my fingers because again, the goal of this look is to appear as gross as possible. Just use your Before photo as a reference of what you should NOT look like (BTW my pa-candid, Before photo was made possible by my crispy-pata-loving housemate whose name I would rather not mention due to the addition of unnecessary letter H to the spelling, and his very patient wife. Both have gotten used to seeing me walk around the common area with crazy makeup looks so I salute the patience of these two!!)
  3. Use a veeery thin brush to draw the veins using green, brown and red facepaint. At this point I was getting sleepy so I didn’t bother making sure the veins look more, err, veiny.
  4. Fill in your brows like usual with Benefit Gimme Brow in 04.
  5. Soak a cotton ball in Graftobian liquid latex, flatten it onto your neck (this will serve as the zombie bite); do the same with a smaller cotton ball for the eyebrow pencil. Roll cotton balls until they’re long enough to have the same length as your plastic shards, dip them in liquid latex, then attach to your face.
  6. Attach the shards and brow pencil to the latexed cotton bruises, hold onto place until dry.
  7. Paint the bruises with your usual liquid foundation, then top with red and black facepaint.
  8. Go crazy with your fake blood (hair gel + pinch of cocoa powder + red food dye); add streaks of brown and black facepaint to appear messier.
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