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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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Stranger Things FX makeup

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K so this post is gonna be super brief because:

I’m on your side…mouth breather.
  1. Paper-macheing the demogorgon brooch alone took me the first 4 episodes of Season 1 already,
  2. I’m not yet finished marathoning Season 2,
  3. 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

  1. Mold an aluminum foil into a flower-like shape
  2. Cover with bits of tissue soaked in Elmer’s glue, air to dry
  3. Add colors using grey, pink & red acrylic paint
  4. 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
  5. 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

  1. Cover your face with a layer of white Snazaroo clown paint (because yellow alone doesn’t show well on your Azn skintone)
  2. Apply a layer of yellow facepaint from your Flash palette
  3. Contour using a matte green eyeshadow from your Coastal Scents Creative Me palette
  4. Add drama to your eyegame by creating a smoky effect using the matte black eyeshadow from your Lorac Pro Palette
  5. Line your eyes and fill your brows and lips your lips with the black facepaint from your Flash palette
  6. Use extra girly falsies with Nichido eyelash glue
  7. Draw the letters and Christmas lights with a thin brush (still using the facepaint from your Flash palette)
  8. Soak a piece of cotton in Graftobian liquid latex and stick that to your neck
  9.  Stick that demogorgon brooch to the cotton, add drops of fake blood, the end.
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Arrows In Her Eyes FX makeup

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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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Retokada SFX makeup

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ONCE AGAIN I’ve failed this blog by letting an entire month go by without a single post…to think that back in July, I even mentioned having my August & September posts “figured out”. I already knew what to do; I just lost the drive to actually execute my September look. It would’ve involved a photo of myself with a birthday candle sticking out of my forehead like I’m a mutant candyland unicorn accompanied by a cheesy “30 Things I Learned At 30” list…but due to unforeseen circumstances that happened when I was supposed to create it (a week before my BKK trip), huwag na lang!!

So now I’m gonna make up for it by aiming to post a makeup look every freakin week for the entire month of October. First because I don’t want to lose the street cred I’ve gained from friends who remember to tag me whenever they find makeup videos in Facebook (more recall=more raket opportunities).

Second because I need to match my Halloween output last year, which was fueled by my desire to avenge myself from a chicken pox phase and my then-unemployment/free-spirited freelancer days:

October 24, 2016

 

October 26, 2016

 

October 28, 2016

 

October 29, 2016

 

October 31, 2016

Yep, I had five different Halloween makeup looks for 2016. SYET BA’T BA KASE AKO NAG-ADIKKKK

Anyway, this makeup look was obviously inspired by the Marlou-is-now-Xander brouhaha that has taken the internet by storm. I didn’t follow it closely (but I do know that I love the PR people behind that diabolically brilliant move to cover up the…basta. Galing!) because my feelings for Marlou/Xander hasn’t changed. I still don’t like him…as much as I DO NOT like every teenager who does all of those cringey, pa-cute hugot sh*t. Now, I’m not going to pretend that I’m one of those, “Dapat pag-aaral ang inaatupag nyo!” types since I wasn’t exactly the studious type during my teenage years…but I do know that my teenage interests were more injury-prone than soul-crushing. Man, I don’t even know how teenagers do it nowadays—I’m so thankful NOT to be one, in a time when my crazy fits of immaturity can be watched, saved and shared by the mapanghusgang lipunan ng social media.

But as much as I tend to be the judgmental Tita who hates basic teenage cringefest, I can’t help but feel sad for Xander. Here’s a boy who, aside from being more “aesthetically-challenged” & bully-magnet than I was during my elementary years (when I barely had an ounce of self-esteem because I was teased for my fish lips) or during my 2012 Michelin Man metamorphosis, obviously doesn’t know any better. I feel agitated whenever I see him do things that’ll make the internet salivate because he’s like that oblivious victim in a slasher flick—why are you doing this to yourself?!! Better, run run run run, run run run away!!!! (<–Internet high five if you sang that) Not gonna lie, I know beauty is a huuuuge commodity, but to put yourself at the mercy of people who’ll surely tear your self-esteem into pieces just for the chance to be rich and sikat, is both foolish and masochistic. I mean, there are other ways to be rich and famous besides becoming a performing monkey for the public. And it’s even more frustrating to see brainless keyboard warriors (read: those who opt for “Pakamatay ka na” kind of comments like woooow really? You’re really going to wish that another human being kills himself just because you find him ugly and annoying?!) make extra efforts to destroy him even after his transformation sickens me. T*ngina naman, when will this boy get a break? Are we really going to push him until he kills himself?

I don’t care if people go under the knife because at the end of the day, it’s not my face, it’s not my money, and it’s not my life at stake. So if Marlou has chosen the plastic surgery route (which is a sad proof of how much he has suffered), and if we’re really incapable of feeling remorseful for the actions he has taken, the least we can do is leave him the fcuk alone so he can finally be happy.

But anyways. Here are the products I used for my #Retokada makeup look. #LousySegueIsLousy

The nose bridge that launched a thousand Aviators. Salamat po, DIY modeling scar wax!!!

EYES:

  1. Rub a bit of eyeshadow primer (Lorac Behind The Scenes primer) to make the colors pop.
  2. Create a smoky eye look with: a glittery blue eyeshadow (Vega from the Urban Decay Moon Dust palette) as the base color of your lids, matte light brown eyeshadow (Taupe from the Lorac Pro palette) as the transition color along the crease, shimmery purple eyeshadow (Flash from the Urban Decay Shadow Box palette) as the second color of your lids, glittery green eyeshadow (Lightyear from the same Moon Dust palette) on the center, and a matte black eyeshadow (Blackout from Urban Decay Naked2 palette).
  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:

  1. I used the most nude color in my stash (NYX Liquid Suede in Soft-spoken)—I don’t have a lot of nude shades because they tend to make my lips look. Even. Bigger.
  2. Topped it off with a really shiny, really sticky lip gloss (bare Minerals lip shimmer in Diamond Glaze) to make my lips look plasticky. God, even with the fake burned skin glued to my face, this lip gloss was still the most uncomfortable part of this look for me.

FACE:

  1. Line your face with Graftobian liquid latex to make the scar wax (which will serve as the damaged skin) adhere to your skin.
  2. I WOULD HAVE used Graftobian modeling scar wax for the damaged skin if it was available when I was looking for it. The good news is, I’ve checked Pure Beauty Glorietta and they’ve got stocks of it now that the Halloween season has started. But if you don’t want to pay P295 for a little pot of scar wax, you can make your own by mixing equal amounts of petroleum jelly, flour and a few drops of your liquid foundation until you feel like you’re 8yo again, trying (and failing) to mold Sailormoon’s head with PlayDoh.
  3. Roll bits of scar wax until they look like flesh-colored leeches and stick them to the liquid latex trail you made earlier. Smoothen the scar wax until they start to look as if it’s part of your face…then mangle the outer part to make it appear as if your face was sliced by a rusty pizza cutter while you’re being transported on a bumpy road. Cover your face (and scar wax) with liquid foundation (Revlon PhotoReady Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige).
  4. Use an eyeshadow brush to smear fake blood (red food color + hair gel + cocoa powder) on top of your mangled skin. Dab a bit of purple and yellow matte eyeshadow (from the Coastal Scents Creative Me palette) under your eyes for a bruising effect.
  5. Finish your look with a gauze scarf wrapped around your head. #GauzeCouture
Wans agen wans more: side view for dat nose bridge yoooo
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White Walker SFX Makeup

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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 hangry
What I did:

  1. Start with a clean face. No primer this time, since I was scared it was gonna reduce the adhesion of My Graftobian liquid latex.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 😛
  4. 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)
  5. 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.
  6. Once everything’s dry and secure, cover your face (and neck and hair) with Snazaroo clown white face paint.
  7. 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.
  8. 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)
  9. Feel good about yourself. You know you’ve managed to do a pretty neat job kahit ‘di ka naman fan. #OMGImLikeSoInSaUso

 

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