Arrows In Her Eyes FX makeup

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:

♫Arrows in her eyesss!! Fear where her heart should beeee! War in her mind, Shame in her crieeees…♫

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:

  1. Rub a bit of eyeshadow primer (Lorac Behind The Scenes primer) to make the colors pop.
  2. 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).
  3. Tightline with NYX retractable black eyeliner.
  4. Wing it with Maybelline Hypergloss black liquid eyeliner.
  5. Use extra girly falsies with Nichido eyelash glue, set with your naturally short lashes with Benefit They’re Real black mascara.
  6. 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 Revlon lipstick in Burnt Sienna.

ARROWS + WOUND:

  1. 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).
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. Wait til the liquid latex dries.
  5. 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:

  1. Prep the face with bareMinerals Prime Time makeup primer so it won’t look too obvious that you just had your supposedly monthly facial treatment two days prior.
  2. 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)
  3. 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 Benefit Watt’s Up. 
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Dab runny fake blood (red food color + hair gel + cocoa powder) all over the wound.
  7. 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:

#SmugNaEwan #StrictNaTeacher #MadrengIna #MatandangDalagaSmile

 

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Gimme Stitches Makeup

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:

DRESS ME UP IN STITCHES IT’S NOW OR NEVER, TIRED OF WEARING BLACK AND BLUE

Face:

  1. bareMinerals Prime Time makeup primer
  2. Revlon PhotoReady Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige
  3. L’Oreal True Match Crayon Concealer in I-kennat-remember
  4. NYX Sculpt & Highlight duo PLUS bareMinerals soft focus in Warmth PLUS Benefit’s Watt’s Up for the contouring/highlighting
  5. black, white, red, blue, purple, & yellow shades from the Flash Color Palette for the bruise, stitches, and FF logo.
  6. 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:

  1. NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in white as eyeshadow base
  2. 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.
  3. NYX retractable black eyeliner for tightlining
  4. Maybelline Hypergloss black liquid eyeliner for the winging
  5. Benefit They’re Real Tinted Primer Mascara + Benefit Roller Gal Mascara
  6. Benefit Gimme Brow in 04 Medium for the brows

Lips: Maybelline in Nude Nuance

Directions:

  1. 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
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