Paper-macheing the demogorgon brooch alone took me the first 4 episodes of Season 1 already,
I’m not yet finished marathoning Season 2,
I have 2 more Halloween makeup looks up my sleeve and I’m targeting to create another one tonight.
I was supposed to recreate Pigeon Pie’s look down to a tee (like I even looked forward to painting a vintage floral wallpaper pattern on my face), but then I realized that even I do not have the time (nor skills) for it sooo:
Demogorgonish brooch
Mold an aluminum foil into a flower-like shape
Cover with bits of tissue soaked in Elmer’s glue, air to dry
Add colors using grey, pink & red acrylic paint
Cry deep inside while you roll bits of white clay until they look like grains of rice because holy crap what have I gotten myself into, this is even more time-consuming than the White Walker look
Hate yourself even more when you realize that you gotta paint a thin layer of Elmer’s glue on the Demogorgon mouth surface AND THEN attach the clay bits piece by freakin piece.
Face
Cover your face with a layer of white Snazaroo clown paint (because yellow alone doesn’t show well on your Azn skintone)
Apply a layer of yellow facepaint from your Flash palette
Contour using a matte green eyeshadow from your Coastal Scents Creative Me palette
Add drama to your eyegame by creating a smoky effect using the matte black eyeshadow from your Lorac Pro Palette
Line your eyes and fill your brows and lips your lips with the black facepaint from your Flash palette
Use extra girly falsies with Nichido eyelash glue
Draw the letters and Christmas lights with a thin brush (still using the facepaint from your Flash palette)
Soak a piece of cotton in Graftobian liquid latex and stick that to your neck
Stick that demogorgon brooch to the cotton, add drops of fake blood, the end.
Now this is my attempt to make up for the akala-ko-ba-makeup-blog-eh-bat-Thought-Catalog-ata-to content I published as my last post by sharing a more detailed guide towards creating my Arrows In Her Eyes makeup look:
Two months ago, I used my August makeup look to fangirl over the Foo Fighters’ song, Gimme Stitches. Obviously I’m still not done fangirling since this makeup look was inspired by Concrete and Gold‘s “Arrows”, a brooding, it’s-good-but-it-gets-better-when-you’re-angsty kind of song that Dave wrote for his mom.
So without further ado:
EYES:
Rub a bit of eyeshadow primer (Lorac Behind The Scenes primer) to make the colors pop.
I couldn’t be arsed to use more than one palette so I settled on creating a subtle smoky eye using shades from my Urban Decay Shadow Box palette (Baked Cowboy for the lid, Lost along the crease, Sin under the browbone, and Blackout for the outer corners).
Tightline with NYX retractable black eyeliner.
Wing it with Maybelline Hypergloss black liquid eyeliner.
Use extra girly falsies with Nichido eyelash glue, set with your naturally short lashes with Benefit They’re Real black mascara.
Fill in your brows with Benefit Gimme Brow in 04.
LIPS: I wanted to use a color I haven’t used in a loooong time so I chose Revlonlipstick in Burnt Sienna.
ARROWS + WOUND:
For 3 consecutive work days, grab an extra plastic straw from Circle K whenever you’re buying your usual P35 peso Coke Zero lunch drink to make the cashiers believe that you can’t actually consume that amount of Coke Zero alone everyday (SPOILER ALERT: you can).
Consider buying a metallic gold spray paint to make the arrow look…well, metallic…but remember that you have Orly Luxe inside any of the 3 shoebox-sized nail polish stash (aka Timmi’s Addiction 2012). So yeah, I actually used an Orly nail polish to cover the plastic straws. Good thing they’re really pigmented so it wasn’t such a waste lels
Cut one end of the straw lengthwise so you can easily stick feathers into it. Cut the other end diagonally so it can stick better to a round cotton pad using Graftobian Liquid Latex.
Wait til the liquid latex dries.
Line around your eye socket using the cotton pad so you’d know where to apply the liquid latex later to attach the arrows + wound.
FACE:
Prep the face with bareMineralsPrime Timemakeup primer so it won’t look too obvious that you just had your supposedly monthly facial treatment two days prior.
Apply L’Oreal Infallible Liquid Foundation (yes I went back to L’Oreal; it’s still the most hiyang, matte-kung-matte full coverage liquid foundation for me) in Sable sand using a beauty sponge (I tried using my new silicone sponge but it was awful what a scaaaam SMH)
Add colors to your cheeks using bareMinerals blush in Tickled. Contour with NYX Sculpt & Highlight. Go #Extra by contouring with bareMinerals All Over Face Color in Warmth and highlighting with BenefitWatt’s Up.
Make dilig the eye you chose to look impaled with arrows using liquid latex. Attach the arrow wound, hold until dry, add more bits of cotton soaked in liquid latex to secure it.
Apply liquid foundation over the arrow wound so it can blend with your normal skintone…before taking the black facepaint & red facepaint in your Flash palette to make the wound look gruesome.
Dab runny fake blood (red food color + hair gel + cocoa powder) all over the wound.
Last but not the least,mag-inarte as if you don’t have plastic straws na ninenok mo sa Circle K at pininturahan using soshal na kyutiks glued to your eye socket. The end.
BONUS!!
Let me take this chance to say thanks to my team of hecklers “art directors”. Not only do they help me narrow down my kaya-kong-panindigang-iupload-to-sa-internet choices (which prevents me from uploading DOZENS of similar-looking selfies), they’ve also helped me develop a thicker skin when it comes to criticisms about my looks (basta looks lang a). I guess that’s another thing I learned at 30: If you really want to get better/stronger then put yourself at the mercy of people who can end you. If you can survive their comments, then you can survive (almost) anything lololol Exhibit A:
As I’ve mentioned in my last post, I lost the drive to execute my September birthday makeup look because I didn’t feel like the accompanying, cheesy “30 Things I Learned at 30” list was still applicable.
But then I realized that: a) life goes on, b) I need to make the most out of this Halloween month c) what’s the use of writing for a living if I can’t revise and recycle my draft?
So scratch that. Let me post my “30 Things…” list with a different makeup look. It’s inspired by the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold called “Kintsukuroi” (or “Kintsugi”).
By this time I should hate everything associated with Japan thanks to that fateful video call that made everything unravel like instant ramen in hot water…but I don’t. First because I admire the philosophy behind Kintsukuroi: it treats breakage/ repair as part of the history of an object; it embraces the imperfections that make the object unique and intact instead of trying throw it away. #ThereIsBeautyInImperfection Second because to stay broken is soo unKintsukuroi yo.
These Kintsukuroi’d vases remind me of the Foo Fighters’ latest album called Concrete and Gold…
I don’t really know how I can elaborate about the process…because basically, I just:
mixed white & black facepaint from my Flash palette to create gray,
applied that all over my face with a beauty sponge,
used a matte black eyeshadow (Blackout from the Naked 2 palette) for contouring + smokey eyeshadow, used my black facepaint as lipstick + eyebrow tint,
ghetto airbrushed the specks using a wet toothbrush dipped in black & white facepaint for a concrete-looking texture,
then drew the broken lines with gold facepaint. Finished the look with falsies dipped in the same gold facepaint.
That’s it! Easy no? You should stop reading now if you came for the makeup look because I’m about to start yapping about my very pa-serious, very pa-grownup, Thought Catalog levels of:
30 Things I Learned/Still Trying To Learn As A 30yo
The world doesn’t owe you anything. I’ve encountered people who deserve better—from the most dedicated still struggling to make ends meet, to the healthiest suddenly inflicted with serious health conditions. I’m not saying that we should stop making an effort to lead a better life; we just need to keep moving forward without bombarding God/our parents/employers/significant others about how much they need to make up for our grief and even the score. In short: sh*t happens. If it doesn’t? Be grateful.
Believe in yourself. I’d like to say thank you to whoever made this statement. I actually have it saved in my phone because I, a fast-walking tornado of introversion and social anxiety, need to remind myself that there are times when I reaaally need to step up (which is how I managed to function during those times I served as a workshop host—I didn’t want to make people regret trusting/paying me for my work!)
“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater or lesser persons than yourself.”—from “some poem” I forced myself to memorize to avoid demerits in high school (yeah I like pretending that I can no longer recite nor remember “this poem” lol)
Follow your passion in your own way. I’ve learned that there’s no right or wrong path when it comes to pursuing your passion. Some do it by dedicating every moment of their life to it. I tried that, until I’ve realized that it only leads to me feeling even more burnout and uninterested about what I used to look forward to doing. Like, I can certainly pursue my passion for makeup, but I’m choosing to stick to my current dayjob (that’s waaay far from the cosmetics industry)…first for the stability, second for the new things I never would have learned if I allowed my world to revolve around makeup…and third because I want to continue seeing makeup as my hobby that excites me, and not as an obligation I have to perform. At the end of the day, knowing what you’re passionate about is what matters.
Find peace in your own company. I’ve only started taking solo trips 3 years ago, because I was so scared of people branding me as “too independent” “too antisocial” or even “emo”. It’s not because I hate socializing; it’s because I’ve learned that nothing feels more exhilarating than overcoming your anxieties and having the freedom to discover new places down to their last quirk. Besides if there’s a 90% chance you’re gonna live a life in a humble abode that smells of cat piss, you better learn how to be comfortable with yourself pronto…
Food is not the enemy. There was a time in my life when I religiously stuck to a half rice diet because I was scared of morphing back to my huffing-and-puffing-OMG-I’m-not-even-halfway-up-the-stairs-yet, 2012 self:This is what happens if you let yourself go just because somebody loves you anyway with regular midnight Pancit canton cravings because it was soo hard not to eat while performing gerlpren Skype duties for my then-boyfriend who eats his dinner 2am MY TIME.
But screw the half rice diet! Without full meals, I’d have no brainpower for the entire work day plus my gusto-ko-na-mapudpod-tong-sapatos-ko-so-i-can-start-anew nightly runs. Food isn’t my enemy; being a lazyass is.
Not fat =/= Healthy. While I still support the keto diet (aka THE BACON DIET that helped me trim down from my 160lbs [YEPPP!!] self 4 years ago), I don’t think I can do it again. Now I look forward to eating carbs + meat + what I used to call “rabbit food” whenever possible—not because veggies are diet-friendly, but because I see no point of not being fat if I feel sluggish/bloated all the time. Don’t forget your greens yo.
Trends come and go; remember to #BuyItForLife. If my 4-year-old olive green Northface backpack can talk, I bet it’s going to sound like a tired Kris Aquino doing a tell-all—from namedropping all the places and people we’ve visited, to complaining about the questionable items I’ve hidden in its compartments during my #EdgeLord phase. The point is, it still hasn’t lost its function (aka Why I Bought It In The First Place!) and the usual “Naglayas ka ba?” “Ang laki ng bag mo!” comments didn’t make the world end, soo…I don’t see the need to buy that olive green Kanken bag I’ve been eyeing yet as I’m more excited with the idea of adding country flag patches to my bag instead. #NextLevelNamaste
Money is important…but sometimes, memories are importanter. I’ve tamed myself down in a way that I can enter AND EXIT the mall without even a single tube of new lipstick (as someone who prefers makeup over clothes, THAT says a lot), but I’ve also learned to appreciate collecting memories. I can barely remember what happened on the days I purchased big ticket items, but I can still talk endlessly about my Bangkok trip like it hasn’t been two months since it happened. I guess what I’m saying is: remember to give yourself a break once in a while—and when you do, go for something you can look back on and brag to your future grandkids. “…and then since Thailand doesn’t offer OTC anti-histamines, your lola decided to sleep her allergies off, and then she woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom…without bringing her keycard so she got stuck in the hostel lobby until 5am, itching and scratching…” So yeah, we have the rest of our lives buying material things; don’t miss out on moments that may never happen again.
Stay away from people who are rude to waiters and cashiers. Sure, I’ve had my share of bitchfests with rude waiters, but if someone treats them badly with no justifiable cause (you know the type—the powertripping, give-me-five-star-treatment-or-I’ll-call-the-manager matapobre who probably leads a life so sad, he/she just has to get an ego boost by stepping on others), these are not the people you’d want in your life. You don’t need to be an extrovert to learn how to say “please”, “thank you”, or even joke around with people who make a living serving others.
Respect hard work. I’ve worked with enough creative professionals to know that I can’t just ask them to design my website or take my photo for friendship’s sake—and to do so is very nakakahiya because dude, that’s their bread and butter! If you really value your friendship then you would think twice before taking advantage of them because it’s not as if they can just create something out of thin air. Mahiya ka naman sa eyebags nila, lalo na ng mga nagfe-freelance na walang kasiguraduhan kung kailan mare-release ang TF. Make it worth their while by supporting the fruits of their labor (thus my choice to start purchasing games & apps that I find awesome. Thankfully I can always wait ‘til they’re on sale lololol), or by proposing an X-deal.
People follow different timelines. This is kinda similar to #3: do NOT compare yourself with others. A year ago, I found myself wallowing in self-pity: “Pakshet I was already 4 when my mom was 29. Now I’m 29 and I’m single, I just quit my job, I need to freelance like crazy if I want to survive, I need to find new housemates if I want to keep my place…at ni pusa wala ako!” I’m at that stage in my life where people are getting engaged/married and popping babies out left and right. Sure it can feel alienating at times…but then I’ve realized that even if I suddenly found myself switching bodies with them ala-Freaky Friday? I wouldn’t be happy.
Make the most out of what you have. I have lots of time-consuming hobbies/skills (from experimenting with creative makeup projects, translating stuff, shooping strangers’ photos for good deed/lulz/beer money, recording and editing my own VOs, to caring for rescued furbabies) that often make people say, “Ang dami mong time!”,“Ang lakas ng trip mo!” or the frustrating, “Bakit mo ginagawa yan?” (especially if I’m not getting monetary returns from said skill). But that’s the point—I’m not yet married nor do I have a kid, ergo I still have the time to focus on my own interests/well-being. Instead of obsessing about the things missing in your life and posting one hugot meme after another, keep yourself busy by developing your skills while you still caaan. Pramis that feeling of accomplishment is 10x more empowering than listening to Chaka Khan. Which brings me to…
…never let yourself go. Please refer to the screenshot in #6. I know it’s easy to ditch when the going gets tough, so if you have somebody who loves you at your worst, that’s fantastic! But that’s still not an excuse for you to become a bahala-na-si-Batman-basta-my-partner-loves-me slacker when it comes to your own future and overall well-being. Kumbaga, finding someone who loves you is not an excuse for you to stop loving yourself.
Accept the idea that everyone has his/her own blunder years. My blunder years happened in 2010-2013, when I was in my first relationship-turned-engagement-turned-heartbreak. I do NOT regret that it happened; I regret how I didn’t bother having my own foresight as soon as “we” and “us” were established, which left me scrambling to plan and prepare for my own future at 26. I’ve become the complete opposite of my blunder years self so I’d like to think that I still have the chance to turn things around after learning sooo many things from my experiences. Ay tenkyu baw.
Never stop trying to be Something From Nothing. I swear this is going somewhere, and not just because I wanna add a link to my life anthem: your life may suck now, but it’s not going to get better if you don’t do something. Besides, it feels sooo good when you look back on your Poorita Mirasol days and see how far you’ve come.
Let people have their own fun. Been there, done that—being a hater won’t make you any happier (except Musical.ly FFS I will never understand dat sh*t).
People outgrow people and it’s normal. I can’t hate the people who’ve outgrown me because I myself am guilty of outgrowing other people. Ganun talaga ang buhay, and the least I can do is be glad that we shared moments of iyakan, tawanan, blah blah that helped me become who I am now. So: Hello besh! I hope you know that I don’t hate you. In case I treated you poorly, I’m sorry. I’ll always be grateful that you became a part of my life and rest assured that I’m always rooting for your success even if I don’t fit in your life now. Salamat.
Choose your people because everything is temporary. Because life is too short to waste by seeking validation from people who obviously don’t care to show if they still exist/check if you still exist, learn how you, too, can choose your people and make a damn effort keeping them so you’ll never have to refer to #19.
Self-awareness is valuable. If you don’t want a fast-walking grumpy girl bitch about your being an inconsiderate pedestrian/MRT commuter/escalator rider in Facebook, DEVELOP SELF-AWARENESS. The world does not revolve around you, so try to always put yourself in other peoples’ shoes before acting like a prick in public.
Sometimes, it really is only words. As someone who vomits words for a living, I can testify that words can be cheap thus they should not cause you to overthink yourself til 4am. When words are used recklessly and waaay too often, they can lose their power. Remember to value actions, as well as the beauty of leaving some words unsaid.
Today you, tomorrow me.Nowadays kindness is even more elusive than that freakin pack of Korean spicy noodles, so if someone performs an act of kindness, remember to pay it forward.
Life’s shitty moments will fertilize your growth. In a few months you will look back on your lugmok-sa-putikan moments and even initiate the mockery of it all while gigglegroaning. You’ll be fine; be thankful that soon, you’ll know AND be better.
People are smart. In the real world, your alma mater doesn’t matter, because there are thousands of people who are as smart as you are (…or even smarter!), in their own special areas.
Enjoy idleness. Tengga moments rarely happen to adults who deal with never-ending deliverables, priorities and obligations so if you find yourself “bored” and restless…congratulations for being able to afford boredom! Make the most out of it.
Research, research, research. Google is continuously innovating their features to make sure that you can school yourself faster and easier–use that to your advantage so you can avoid being a victim of hearsays. Dyusko, sa internet all it takes is a few clicks for you to get second (and third and fourth…) opinion. To remain inutil at this time and age is cancerous.
Everyone has his/her own problems. Worrying about what other people will say becomes useless because they’re preoccupied, dealing with their own lives…unless you’re a celebrity who needs to protect his/her every move because the stakes are higher, of course.
Think long-term. “This palette can probably pay for a 5-night stay in a comfy hostel abroad on February.” (because again, memories stay foreeever!!)
It’s okay to wait. That’s what #s 12, 13 & 14 are for. 🙂
If you can read this then it means that I’ve arrived safely in this really quaint, millennial capsule place called The Cube Hostel (that I managed to book for THB400/day so super nice, super suliiit!), the first of the four I’ll be staying in for the next few days (aaand it means that they’ve got wifi since I managed to publish this draft from my phone)…and by the time that you’re reading this after it popped up into your FB newsfeed, I’m probably on my way, looking for harem pants bargains for instant Namaste before Singha-ing myself to sleep because I’m gonna scream or cry (or both) my head off to Foo Fighters tomorrow night.
I’ve seen white people wear harem pants when they travel to Asia, so I’ll buy harem pants because I’m traveling to, well, still Asia.
TBH I wasn’t planning for this trip when this year started, nor did I think that I’d have the guts to Learn To Fly to Thailand (my first!) just to catch a concert alone (another first, because even in my commuting-to-Manila-after-my-last-class-to-watch-a-local-gig phase 12 years ago, I had fellow fans from the same Yahoo Group to cling to lololol Yahoo Groups was the shiiiiz man #ThoseWereTheDays)
But Honestly, it’s not just an ordinary concert. It’s the #FooThaiNang Foo Fighters concert and everyone who knows me have probably heard me vent my frustration for years now (I even mentioned it last April, when I made my A Sky Full of Stars-inspired makeup look for the Coldplay concert). Can you blame me? The first and last time the Foos went to Manila was in 1996. I was 9 then–still very much into boy bands, still very ignorant that in the Next Year, they’d release some random song I’ll forever bury and never associate with someone because it’s reserved for the moment I get married or have my first cat (whichever comes first).
So when I found out that they were coming to Singapore and Thailand (but not the Philippines, probably much to the dismay of the people from this FB page), I knew I had no other choice but to postpone my original Treat-Yo-Self plan for the year (postponement has turned into full-blown cancellation). I’m sure there are older fans who’ve been waiting for the Foo Fighters to return to Manila for the past 21 years, so in Times Like These, why should I continue waiting when I can simply accept that life is full of surprises so Stranger Things Have Happened, work my ass off with rakets left and right so my travel funds can be Something From Nothing, and use this chance to Namastay (typo and it stays) in Bee Kay Kay?
So anyway, here’s GimmeTimmi’s Gimme Stitches makeup aka Pangtawid Content Masabi Lang Na May Post This August:
Revlon PhotoReady Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige
L’Oreal True Match Crayon Concealer in I-kennat-remember
NYX Sculpt & Highlight duo PLUS bareMinerals soft focus in Warmth PLUS Benefit’s Watt’s Up for the contouring/highlighting
black, white, red, blue, purple, & yellow shades from the Flash Color Palette for the bruise, stitches, and FF logo.
red food color + hair gel + cocoa powder for last-minute fake blood (red food color can stain like a b*tcccch; I actually went to work with red marks on my face myghad)
Eyes:
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in white as eyeshadow base
Nude (for the browbone highlight) & Black (for the smokey eye) from Lorac Pro palette, Electric Blue from Coastal Scents Creative Me palette for the, well, blue. Oh and I dabbed Vega (glittery blue from Urban Decay Moondust palette) over Electric Blue.
NYXretractable black eyeliner for tightlining
Maybelline Hyperglossblackliquid eyeliner for the winging
Benefit They’re Real Tinted Primer Mascara + Benefit Roller Gal Mascara
Benefit Gimme Brow in 04 Medium for the brows
Lips: Maybelline in Nude Nuance
Directions:
I don’t know what to tell you. I simply recreated the Foo Fighters logo on my face using my shirt as reference. I was winging it since my plan to use my DIY scarwax for this look failed so I just added the bruise, stitches (I was planning to use an actual metal cord for the stitching for a 3D look) using facepaint–things I learned from Youtube tutorials. #KumaCalligraphy #GMG
HERE comes my most pretentious post yet!! Because unlike my other makeup looks (usually inspired by songs/movies/pop culture characters that I actually love to death), this makeup look was done simply so I can finally stop obsessing about my July makeup project, since I’ve already got my August & September projects all figured out. Kudos to my colleague Dan for (once again!) having the tendency to inquire about the stuff he sees on my computer screen lololol (it’s actually my pet peeve as an introvert [that I’ve been trying to work on…!] which is why this is my only professional ambition, but hey, at least it resulted to something!) So yeah, I’m not a huge Game of Thrones (or fantasy stuff, for that matter) fan, but the hype is sooo stroooong and the materials are soo simple, I couldn’t resist taking advantage of it.
[SPOILER]………………This is how I look when I’m hangryWhat I did:
Start with a clean face. No primer this time, since I was scared it was gonna reduce the adhesion of My Graftobian liquid latex.
PROTECT YOUR HAIR AND EYEBROWS BECAUSE LIQUID LATEX WILL CLING TO YOUR HAIR LIKE AN OVERBEARING PARENT ON HER SON’S FIRST DAY AT KINDERGARTEN. Use a headband and stick a thin layer of tissue all over your brows with Elmer’s Glue if you don’t have scar wax (which, I’ve learned after regularly dropping by cosmetic specialty stores like Pure Beauty, is very hard to find in the Philippines if it’s not the Halloween season yet!). Elmer’s Glue is a lot more forgiving to hair–unlike liquid latex, which has made me demote my Naked 2 brush into one of my facepainting brush after I accidentally dipped it in liquid latex when I was creating this look.
For the White walker’s wrinkly skin, rip & roll tiny bits of one-ply tissue until they look like anorexic cocoons. This was the most time-consuming part for me (because I like to make sure they all have the same size), so I suggest you get a cat who can shred your tissue for you.
If you want your own smug-looking, tissue-shredding monster of destruction, I heard you can adopt one from CARA. I heard, ha. 😛
Draw the White walker skin wrinkles on your face using an eyeliner pencil (color doesn’t matter since you’ll be using facepaint later anyway)
Trace the lines you just drew with liquid latex, which is what’ll get those tissue wrinkles to stick to your face. Do it one at a time because the latex dries faaast. I even added a layer of tissue over my nose to give it more definition.
Once everything’s dry and secure, cover your face (and neck and hair) with Snazaroo clown white face paint.
Use an angled eyeliner brush to do the shading: gray facepaint for your strips of real skin, and black facepaint to define the nose and make your face look like an albino bitter gourd (aka ampalaya but since I’m already being pretentious by making this makeup look, why stop at that?). I lined my waterline with NYX Retractable Black liner as if it’s 2006 and I’m pretending to like My Chemical Romance all over again.
Form a pathetic-looking beard with cotton & mooore liquid latex, use a beauty app for fake blue eyes (because I’m too stingy to buy blue contacts I’d barely get to use…and I have just recovered from a really mean eye stye so nope nope noooope)
Feel good about yourself. You know you’ve managed to do a pretty neat job kahit ‘di ka naman fan. #OMGImLikeSoInSaUso
I’ve been putting this off for 2 weeks now, that I’m no longer sure if Wonder Woman is still showing in the cinemas. But just like what people who subjected themselves to dodgy forms of contraception say once they know they’re in the clear: “It’s better late than never.”
I know I’ve been kinda slacking off which is why I didn’t get to post anything last month. Emphasis on “kinda”, because despite the makeup hiatus, I was still exercising my “creativity”…through Android themes customization. #ExcusesExcuses
IF you have a launcher app (I’m using Nova Prime) and the Zooper Widget Pro running in your Android phone, you can use my themes (or not, su telefono es no mi freakin telefono IDGAF) by downloading the resources above (originally uploaded all for the sake of Reddit upvotes lel).
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Now that I’ve gotten that outta my system, I can finally blabber on about my Wonder Woman comic book makeup look (which is why…you know, I have this makeup blog in the first place)…or at least, my attempt to look like the comic book version of Wonder Woman–an entire month of not holding a makeup brush made me rusty af.
I mean, I am aware that I am no Paolo Ballesteros and there’s not enough makeup in the world that will allow me to look as good as the bunions Gal Gadot (who used to be That Stunning Chick Who Made Me Rewind Her Bikini Scene In Fast & Furious 5 Because Ghad I Kennat With Dat Bone Structure…so you can just imagine my reaction when she resurfaced as the new Wonder Woman) probably acquired from hours of wearing those wicked Wonder Woman boots. So I settled on making myself look comical instead.
Face:
bareMinerals Prime Time makeup primer
Revlon PhotoReady Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige
L’Oreal True Match Crayon Concealer in I-kennat-remember
NYX Sculpt & Highlight duo PLUS bareMinerals soft focus in Warmth PLUS Benefit’s Watt’s Up for the extreme contouring/highlighting
the gold, red & white shades from the Flash Color Palette for the headband, Snazaroo black face paint for the lines (I find Snazaroo creamier/more pigmented)
Rihanna size of forehead as your canvas
Eyes:
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in white as eyeshadow base
White, Nude, Taupe, Sable, & Espresso from the Lorac Pro palette for the smokey eye
NYXretractable black eyeliner for tightlining
Maybelline Hyperglossblackliquid eyeliner for the winging
Nichido False Eyelashes + the holy grail that is Nichido Eyelash Glue
Benefit Roller Gal Mascara
Lips: Urban Decaycomfort matte lipstick in Doubt
Directions:
Ehhh who am I kidding, I simply recreated Shonagh Scott’s makeup look. Easier said than done though–yes I can manage drawing an upside down nose or an extra set of eyes–but a perfectly-symmetrical, 5-pointed star?! Took me 2 Thor movies to finish.
So Coldplay’s gonna hold their first Manila concert tonight. I’m sure everyone–even the most internet-challenged, anti-social mold under a rock–knows it, seeing as 8000 Coldplay tickets were sold in 6 freakin minutes, and people have been bitching about the difficulties of scoring tickets ever since. I won’t bother discussing my shock (…upon seeing hoy-nangungutang-ka-lang-nung-isang-araw-diba people suddenly capable of acquiring tickets) further since I’m trying to be less of a basag-trip, and I don’t want to appear bitter since I won’t be attending the event.
Sure I like Coldplay (and yes I’ve listened to their albums and I can name other songs aside from Yellow or The Scientist), but not to the point that I’d actually make an effort to score an overpriced ticket or find people to hang out with (as much as I’m used to doing things solo, going to a concert still scares the living crap out of me and I don’t want to wait around for friends–out of town trips nga ang hirap na matuloy, concert pa with hard-to-find-and-afford tickets?!). And anyway, ever since I let the chance to attend the 2015 National Convention of Titas (the Backstreet Boys concert which was a dream come true for my 12-year-old self; I could’ve gotten a ticket for “free” but the stakes were too high/I wasn’t willing to sell my soul lol) slip out of my fingers, I figured I’d survive missing out on this one. I’d rather wait and choose my battles which include: Foo Fighters (P*NYETA NAMAN DAVE KAHIT ISANG GABI LANG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I STILL HAVEN’T UNLIKED THIS FB PAGE), Daft Punk, Radiohead, Spice Girls (still debatable), and IF they finally bring Miss Saigon back to Manila (SH*T LANG SH*T LANG TALAGA PLEAAASE).
Anyway, here’s the A-Sky-Full-of-Stars-inspired makeup look I created last November (?), as soon as I heard the news. If I remember correctly, this look just took a little over an hour for me to create–still longer than the time it took for Coldplay tickets to get sold out. Ayus.
♫ I don’t care go on and tear me apart…I don’t care if you do, ooh…cause in a sky, ’cause in a sky full of stars I think I saw your fly open you ♫
For the galaxy face:
Rub a bit of makeup primer (bareMinerals Prime Time) all over your face to the foundation and face paint appear as if it’s applied on an acne-free canvas.
Use an eyeliner pencil to draw an inverted triangle on your face.
Fill that triangle with black face paint (like Snazaroo).
Release your pent-up frustration for missing Coldplay by tearing cheap beauty sponges into pieces or until they look like coral reefs. Use these sponges with white facepaint (I still used Snazaroo) to add random white cloud marks on that black triangle, so you can have more shades/dimensions when you start filling everything with galaxy-colored eyeshadow colors. (I went even further by using the same sponges with blue, purple and pink facepaint.)
Make the triangle look more space-y and go crazy with the eyeshadow. Gather all the pink, purple, blue, dark blue, green, silver, gold, metallic, glittery eyeshadow pans you own and apply them randomly all over the triangle with different types of makeup brush. I used these palettes: Urban Decay Deluxe Shadow Box, Urban Decay Moondust, Coastal Scents Creative Me 1 & Coastal Scents Creative Me 2.
Create the stars/white spatter using an old toothbrush dipped in diluted white face paint. Flick the head 6 inches away from your face until you’re happy (get yer mind out of the gutter I’m talking about the toothbrush!!)
Trace the outside area of your space triangle with streak of liquid latex (I’m using Graftobian and I’m impressed with its stickiness). Stick a zipper along the liquid latexed area before it dries.
For the rest of the face, I used L’Oreal Infallible liquid foundation and NYX Sculpt & Highlight for contouring.
For the eyes:
Fill and shape the brows using the darkest shade from Coastal Scents brow kit.
(For the life of me I cannot remember the exact eyeshadow colors I used for the normal eye it’s been months since I made this look huhuh.)
Line your lids with a black eyeliner pen from K-Palette. Tightline with a black retractable eyeliner from Nyx (because, you know, I don’t wanna go blind if I use an eyeliner pen on my waterline).
Make your eyelashes seem longer than your patience with Benefit’s They’re Real tinted eyelash primer +Benefit’s Roller Gal mascara.
For my lips, I used my BYS Viva Violetta lipstick. It’s one of the makeup freebies my good friend, Gus Villa received from an event he attended months ago–so syempre sino pa bang gagamit? 😀 #IHaveTheMostSupportiveFriends #LordPleaseGetHimInvitedToMoreEventsWithKikayFreebies
Once again, it’s Hallmark Consumerism Day. Though I’m not a big fan of flowers and chocolates and shiz, I don’t hate it since it IS the day when it’s acceptable to act like a damn foo. YES I act foolish most of the time but not in the cheesy, lovey-dovey sense. And since I suck at expressing my feeeelingz when it comes to looove, I’d rather do it through makeup. (There’s a chance I will regret this later but life is too short for me to keep playing it safe–that’s something I learned recently!)
This makeup look was inspired by Rico Blanco’s song called Your Universe. Sure it sounds cheesy but I will never be ashamed of my weakness for the local artists I grew up listening to (Ely, Ebe, & Armi, you’re next on my list!!) I know this makeup look would’ve worked for certain Coldplay songs but don’t worry, I already have another look for them wahahaha. Besides, I think it’s just appropriate for me to post an OPM-inspired makeup look today…because I believe, that OPM (Original Pilipino Music) is a lot like love: IT AIN’T DEAD. #MakonekLang
♫…you can thank your stars all you want but I’ll always be the lucky one. ♫
I’m not gonna bother with the details since I just can’t be arsed to deal with makeup today but I will hate myself if I continue taking this blog for granted I simply followed this galaxy makeup tutorial by ItsJustJune. The only things I added were: applying white facepaint with a damp beauty sponge over my cheeks as a base for the galaxy colors, and drawing the star sign I hold dear to my heart (lol) using stick-on rhinestones and Nyx silver eyeliner pencil. Oh and I used OCC lip tars in Pretty Boy & Hoochie for a supposed pink-and-purple ombre lips but my lousy camera phone just couldn’t capture it.
Truth be told, I was supposed to post this on the first week of January so I can welcome the New Year with bullsh*t (read: Thought Catalog-level of “deep” reflections that make me feel disgusted with myself sometimes). Unfortunately, real life got in the way, and I had to make some time for the more important things like career blah blah dealing with a new distraction blah blah having my phone fixed for the second time blah. This isn’t one of my favorite makeup looks but then I won’t be able to post the others without getting this out of the way first sayang naman dahil nagawa ko na ugh
See, January is the time for making (and pretending to keep) a New Year’s resolution. I didn’t bother creating one, because I’d like to think that my self-awareness (bordering on overthinking!) is already a proof that
a) I know my flaws
b) I constantly make an effort improving those flaws (despite being a wanker according to Tyler Durden).
While I’m rallying for those who wish to improve their lives this 2017, I’m also hoping that this will be a year for us to have a little more respect for each other. I know that’s a bit rich coming from someone who has a potty mouth and social anxiety…but whenever I look back at my 2016, I feel like I spent majority of that year stewing in anger. Can you really blame me? 2016 was such a shitf*ck of a year filled with disrespectful savage pricks who think we can just revise history and forget okay tama na a little respect a little respecttttt So yeah, my only wish for 2017 is for a little respect for everyone. Notice how I used “wish” and not “resolution”? I doubt I can keep that as a resolution anyway, for I still think that respect begets respect. So if we respect each other or at least just agree to disagree and live peacefully, ok cool su vida no es mi vida. But if someone commits an act that attacks other people, I sure as hell will not be quiet about it because I wasn’t raised to be a doormat and you shouldn’t be one too.
So, here’s the makeup look that’s the visual representation of how I interpreted the song “A Little Respect” by Erasure (which, as 2000ish tweens would know, was famously covered by the band Wheatus but I still prefer the original because the video is hilarious af):
♫…we can make love not war, and live with peace in our hearts. I’m so in love with you, I’ll be forever blueeee…♫
Rub a bit of makeup primer (bareMinerals Prime Time) all over your face to make the face paint look like they’re applied on a flawless, acne-free canvas.
Stick two pieces of painter’s tape diagonally on your face. Use white eyeliner (NYX Retractable White Liner) to trace the lines. You don’t have to make the same pattern I used; I just wanted to make sure that I won’t have to do eye makeup on my left eye because it takes me forever to line dat bitch.
Glam up the middle part of your face by doing the usual pretty-girl makeup. For the eye makeup, I used the following: an eyeshadow primer (Lorac Behind The Scenes Eye Primer) to make the eyeshadow colors pop, light brown eyeshadow (Lorac Pro’s Taupe) as transition color over my crease, shimmery cream eyeshadow (Lorac Pro’s Nude) to highlight my browbone, NYX Jumbo pencil in Milk all over my lid to make the blue colors pop later, cyan eyeshadow (Urban Decay’s Peace) for the inner lid corner & bright blue eyeshadow (Coastal Scents’ Electric Blue) for the outer lid corner, champagne eyeliner pencil (Jordana’s Just Pearly) on the lower waterline to make my eye look bigger, Benefit They’re Real Push-up eyeliner & Benefit Roller Lash mascara to make my left eyelashes appear thicker. I filled both my eyebrows using the darkest brown shade from Coastal Scents brow kit. For the rest of the face, I used a beauty sponge to apply liquid foundation (L’Oreal Infallible) to even out my skin tone/achieve better contrast with the camouflage pattern, and a blue lipcolor (OCC lip tar in RX).
Create a camouflage pattern on the rest of your face by summoning the fingerpainting skills of an infant—there’s no “right” way of creating a camouflage pattern after all. But instead of dipping my fingers into my poopy diaper I used and mixed green, brown and black face paints from my Snazaroo kit.
Hate yourself for not having the energy to write this post with justice because you’re preoccupied with something that’s not even work-related and it’s making you feel blue. Arte.
(Warning: Long-ass post ahead since this is about Charet AND the makeup look inspired by her song. What can I say, I’m a grateful fan, for she encouraged me to finally invest time pursuing the things that make me happy)
It’s easy for me to write about myself since I’ve had enough practice, thanks to my 4th grade diaries filled with fantasies about Nick Carter and Tuxedo Mask. But when it involves writing about someone I care about, I feel lost for words. I’ve done this makeup look more than a month ago, but I’ve been delaying the writing part since it’s supposed to be a #FanAhrt for my rakstar friend, Zsaris (aka “Charet” for Elbi pips). But I’m running out of time since I already have a few materials set to be posted so screw it, I’ll try my best and just hope Charet would forgive me for my TMI ramblings.
Why Charet
Charet is special because she’s talented, perky, smart, perky, charismatic, AND DID I SAY PERKY? To be honest I never thought that she’d be my friend, since I’m an introvert and she got me in trouble on the day that we first met (by chatting me up in the middle of our entrance exam at the Hogwarts-like exclusive art school up in Mt. Makiling). We were high school freshmen when we met for the second time…and I still didn’t feel comfortable being around her perky self. How could I, when she served as the choreographer of our entire class who forced us to dance to S Club 7’s Bring It All Back for our mandatory Acquaintance Party performance?! (Diyos na mahabagin salamat po’t wala pang smartphones noon Lord God tenkyuuu)
Then I realized what a good friend Charet is when she started playing football for our high school Intramurals. Yes she’s perky pero hindi sya nakakapagod kasama na tipong ang sarap nang sipain sa mukha.
Then we took up the same course in UPLB (where she later graduated with honors!)
Then I found myself tagging along to their band practices so she can teach me how to play the drums. And as a true friend (who just discovered the wonders of Adobe Photoshop), I shamelessly attended one of their gigs carrying a reaaaally “cool” band poster (using Cocaine Sans for the font style of course!!!) that probably made others think “F.A.T. (Friday At Tristan’s)” was the dollar bin Linkin Park of UPLB. #EdgyEvahSince
Then she became my recruit for our college writing org.
So yeah, that’s the Charet that I know—she can dance, she can excel academically, she can play various instruments, she can play sports, she can write…she just can. The fact that we can still call her “Charet” even when her fellow artists and her fans know her as “Z” or “Zsaris”, is what makes everyone I know shamelessly flaunt the #CharetPride even more. She’s still as sweet and as Elbi as a heart-shaped Mernel’s chocolate cake (one without the yema filling para hindi nakakasuya but to each his own). We may not have played major roles in her triumphs, but we’ve been her fans even in her struggling years, for she’s “Do What You Love And Success Will Follow” personified. No Pinterest board filled with hundreds of overly-filtered inspirational crap will ever come close.
Last November, Charet released her original song Alangan on Spotify. Being the nosy friend, I just had to ask her what the song is all about.
So…it’s about someone stupid who realized how much he/she has screwed up after all?
Stupid, screwed up…my three favorite words. Save me a seat because DIS GON B EASY.
Of course I had to press her further since it’s her song and I wanted to, you know, make sure that I can give justice to it by enhancing or fake-mutilating my face with makeup properly.
I guess I can compare the feeling to something as mild as how this loser feels?
As much as I’d love to do something gruesome for my Alangan makeup look, I don’t have the right sfx makeup skills (and materials) for the job. And I’m not gonna shoot my head #ForAhrtsSake or for my love for Charet…
♫ Ngayon ko lang naramdaman, Bakit ngayon lang? Ganito pala ang pakiramdam ♫
…so I went with a look that makes me appear “as if” I’m a stone-cold b*tch with a hard facade, but the truth is, there’s a warm-blooded, sensitive and feelz-feeling girl inside. Yak.
What I did:
Start with a clean face. Don’t take Charet’s song seriously during the entire process because tears will not work well with your water-activated facepaint (like Snazaroo).
Choose which facial feature to use for the Wuss Sensitive You. I chose to leave my left eye facepaint-free to signify that I’ve started seeing the truth that I’m not always right (Bullsh*t lol I just struggle when it comes to sticking a lens up my left eye). Trace an outline using NYX Retractable White Liner so you can easily avoid facepainting this area.
Accept that life is full of grey areas because you’re not Michael Jackson, so embrace the grey and cover the rest of your b*tch face with grey facepaint.
Use a big fluffy brush and dip it into a metallic grey eyeshadow that’ll serve as your setting powder for the areas of your b*tch face, like bareMinerals Mineral Eyeshadow in 1980’s.
Embrace your ilusyonada ways by creating the illusion of sharper cheekbones and a more prominent nose bridge by contouring with a matte black eyeshadow like Urban Decay’s Blackout. This way your face won’t look as flat as your heart after you had those foolish feelings huhubelz.
Nobody likes a flawless b*tch, so since your shiny grey skin can give Venus de Milo a run for her money, be like The Narrator and wreck it up by using a black liquid eyeliner for the cracks. In this case I used black facepaint so it’ll be easier for me to erase mistakes.
Make the cracks look more realistic by adding highlights along the sides using a thin brush dipped in white facepaint. You can even give your face a more “concrete” texture by lightly spraying your face with an old toothbrush dipped in diluted white facepaint for the white specks.
For your right eye, you can use the same matte black eyeshadow you used for contouring to fill in your right eyebrow, and dab a shimmery grey-brown eyeshadow (like Urban Decay’s Mushroom) on your crease and lower lashline.
For your left eye, fill in your left eyebrow with K-Palette Tattoo Real Lasting Eyebrow Liner in 01-Natural Brown, and create a brown-green smokey eye using: a shimmery cream eyeshadow (like Lorac Pro’s Nude) along your browbone, matte brown eyeshadows (like Lorac Pro’s Taupe & Sable) for the transition color along your crease and lower lashline, and a bright green eyeshadow (like Urban Decay Lightyears over Urban Decay Indo) on your lid.
Tightline both eyes with Nyx Retractable Black Liner. At this point I was starting to get tired. I obviously did a horrible blending job on my left eye makeup soo I just settled on drawing two different eyeliner wing shapes weh di mo lang napantay(done with my Benefit They’re Real Push-up Liner) and wearing a grey contact lens on my right eye to emphasize the contrast between Sensitive Me and B*tch Me. 5/6 of my entire face is covered in a mixture of gray facepaint and silver eyeshadow—what more do you want from me?! Oo na ako na yung walang follow through ako na lang lagiii anong gusto mo umiyak ako ng dugo?
Umiyak ka ng dugo by letting fake blood drip down your left eye.
Have fun with your makeup look while you can because clean-up’s gonna be a b*tch. Make sure you don’t leave silver stains on your bathroom fixtures that’ll make your housemates assume you finally invited a guest but you were too scared for proper introductions because it’s the creepy, panhandling mime from the mall.
mag-inarte as if you don’t have plastic straws na ninenok mo sa Circle K at pininturahan using soshal na kyutiks glued to your eye socket. The end.
