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Inner Demon SFX Makeup

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I wanted to take it easy for my 6th (and probably last. I dunno pagod nako so many things left to dooo) Halloween makeup for 2019 (also becsuse I was running out of fake blood and I can’t be arsed to cook up a new batch from scratch), so I decided to go for a visual representation of who I really am:

Yep, I’m not used to seeing myself wear nude lip colors either.

What I did:

  1. I used all of my pent-up anger for all things stupid to obliterate one of those cheap childrens’ devil headbands (so I would’t need to make a horn from scratch). Then I covered a horn with bits of tissue and Elmer’s glue so the paint would stick later, then left it on a catproof area to dry, then colored it with black, red & brown acrylic paint.
  2. At this point I no longer cared about which product to use when mapping out the demon area of my face (because I knew the lines will be covered by skin wax anyway), so I simply took a tiny brush dipped in black facepaint (from my Flash Color Palette).
  3. For the Santa-Santitang Timmi’s face:
    • I dabbed a damp beauty sponge with L’Oreal Liquid Foundation in Golden Sand all over my face (except demon area), then drew an inverted triangle using L’Oreal True Match Concealer in Golden Beige under my left eye to hide my heavyweight eyebags. Blend.
    • Then I contoured (using Fashion 21 Contour Kit) and highlighted (using Benefit Watts Up Highlighter) my nose line & forehead and cheek and added blush (BareMinerals in Luxe Radiance). Blend. AND THEN I discovered a holy grail that’s been hiding in my arsenal AFTER ALL THIS TIME: Bare Minerals Illuminating Mineral Veil Finishing Powder. I’ve been avoiding it since it looks really glittery (compared to Ben Nye Finishing Powder) but holy crap, it literally brightened up my skin (to the point that you can hear porcelain Korean angels singing) with an airbrush finish!
    • As an added frou frou, I glued gem stickers (the kind used to bedazzle Blackberrys during Paris Hilton’s golden years) on the side of my face with liquid latex.
    • I filled up my left eyebrow with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread, then dabbed Graftobian Clown White Cream over my left eyelid (so the white can serve as a base that will make the eyeshadow colors pop), then created a quick blue smoky eyeshadow look (electric blue “Peace” and indigo “Ransom” eyeshadows from Urban Decay), then tightlined with a white NYX Retractable Eyeliner, then lined my lid with a black Lifeford Hi-Precise Eyeliner, then layered my eyelashes with Bokhtoh Falsies.
    • I wanted my Santa-Santita face to look completely different from my demon face so I went with a nude lip color (“Slayer” from Gloss Skin & Beyond). It’s a liquid matte lipstick, so I amplified the difference by layering it with a transparent, metallic lip gloss (BareMinerals Shimmer Glaze Lip Topcoat in Diamond Glaze)
  4. For the normal/malditang Timmi’s face
    • I filled it up with the red facepaint from my Flash Color Palette, then further amplified the color by dabbing Neon Red eyehadow all over.
    • I used ablack eyeshadow (from my Lorac Pro Palette) for contouring, a golden eyeshadow (from the same palette) to highlight my cheekbone and browbone, a black facepaint as my demon eyeshadow (that I blended outward with black eyeshadow) and demon eyebrow filler, a black NYX Retractable eyeliner to tightline my water line, and the remaining Bokhtoh Falsies to make my eyelashes thicker (who said demons can’t have lush lashes?!)
    • I wanted a really dark lip color so I went with an almost-maroon liquid matte lipstick (“Revenge” from Gloss Skin & Beyond).
    • I went back to the lined border of my demon face and covered it with DIY scar wax (petroleum jelly + flour + a few drops of liquid foundation), glued with Graftobian Liquid Latex, which is also the same item I used to stick my makeshift demon horn on my forehead.
    • I finished the look by lining the edges with Graftobian Blood Paste, before squeezing my remaining Graftobian Blood Gel until it drips down my face.
  5. Although I fell short because I won’t be able to surpass my record of 7 Halloween looks last year, I’m still relieved BECAUSE SA WAKAS HALLOWEEN 2019 IS FINALLY OUTTA MAH SYSTEM. #LetThePagmamalditaResume

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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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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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Honey Beesh SFX Makeup

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So I’ve finally reached my 4th Halloween makeup for 2018 (3 more to go!!!), and this time, it was inspired by the gifts I received from Gloss Skin and Beyond, a local enterprise (owned by fashionista-turned-doting-mom, Mini) offering all-natural, cruelty-free, FDA-approved skincare and cosmetic products. Now this is the part where I’ll sound pretentious with a “Mini and I go way back…” statement, but let’s not go there; I’m already trying hard not to be the Jaclyn Hill to her Kim Kardashian. All I know is that she’s the popular girl two years my senior in Rural who, in a time when Duramo slides were the norm, sported that cute pair of Nike sandals I’ve been eyeing in Planet Sports for weeeeeks so yeah,I was too intimidated to even speak to her #fashuuun nature. So you can just imagine my disbelief when I unboxed the makeup haul she sent me last Monday:

(L-R) one sunflower soap & one shea butter + cocoa butter soap, one strawberry lip scrub (I’ve stopped exfoliating my lips with a toothbrush like a barbarian. Thanks Mini!), one Wonder Lash & Brow Grower serum, four (4) lip & cheek stains, and four (4) matte liquid lipsticks. Wowza.

It was such a sweet gesture that kinda left me in a panic: how the heck can I use any of these without hurting Gloss Skin and Beyond’s pretty sweet brand image? We all know what kind of image I possess! And so I wondered, hmm since I’m the type of gullible who takes things almost always literally, then let’s create a makeup look that’s literally sweet, honey-and-bees sweet…with a dash of trypophobia:

WHAT I DID

…FOR THE FACE:

  1. I rubbed a bit of Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer on my face to make the liquid foundation + heavy contouring look more flawless, avoiding my left eye socket area because really, why would I waste my fancy primer on an area I’ll cover with a DIY eye patch later?
  2. I applied Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige using a damp beauty sponge. Added more coverage by applying bareMinerals Mineral Foundation in Neutral Medium with a huge foundation brush. Slathered an inverted triangle of Maybelline’s liquid concealer in Medium under each eye and blended that out with my middle finger.
  3.  I used the two brown shades from Fashion 21’s Contour Kit–the lighter brown to define my nose and cheeks, the darker brown to cast a shadow that can slim down the outer area of my cheeks and make my forehead less Rihanna-ish. This is the part where I reaaally wanted to use one of Gloss Skin and Beyond’s lip and cheek stains to add color to my cheeks, but alas, I’ll be using the very sticky modeling wax on my left cheek, so a powder-based blush like that from Sleek’s Contour Kit is needed. Then I illuminated my nose bridge, cheekbones, cupid’s bow and browbone with Sleek’s Highlighting Palette in Precious Metals over Benefit’s watts up highlighter (yeah I’m a highlighter junkie so wat)
  4. Dusted a bit of bareminerals Mineral Veil Finishing Powder with a huge fluffy brush for that airbrushed look.

…FOR THE EYES:

  1. I shaped my brows with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread. Went a bit #extra and rubbed a bit of concealer around my eyebrows to make them eeeeven more defined.
  2. I dabbed a bit of Nyx Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk over my lids so the white will make the eyeshadow colors pop.
  3. For the eyeshadow: the neon pink shade from the Coastal Scents Creative Me palette over my lids and below my lower lash line, then the bright purple from the same palette over the crease and the outer corners of my lids. Topped them with the glitter light pink, pink & purple shades from the Urban Decay Moondust palette (applied with a wet finger so the glitters will really stick)
  4. 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) that I used with my favorite, holy-grail-of-an-eyelash-glue from Nichido.

…FOR THE LIPS (MADE SMOOTH & SOFT THANKS TO THE STRAWBERRY LIP SCRUB I USED EARLIER THAT DAY #NAKS):

I chose Gloss Skin and Beyond’s matte liquid lipstick in Go Girl (which I can describe as a Mocha Neutral Pink: “Ang pink po nya! Grabeng pink. Ah hindi naman po masyadong pink kasi neutral yung dating nya sa skin kaya sakto lang po. Parang pink na mas neutral po.”) so the color would go well with my ultra-mega-girly eyeshadow combo. When I swatched it, it reminded me of Revlon’s Ultra HD Matte Lipcolor…but unlike Revlon’s, Go Girl really delivered its lightweight & transfer-proof promise once applied on the lips. Oh, and its smell reminds me of my cat (but that’s because I bathe my cat with a honeydew-melon-yogurt scented cleansing syrup from Snoe so beh!)

…FOR THE “BEES”:

I decided to unearth the Great Nail Art Stash of 2013 for the unused, fake stick-on nails sent by my mom, which I then painted with a yellow nail polish (China Glaze’s Happy Go Lucky) and a black nail polish (Orly’s Liquid Vinyl). I let them dry while creating the beehive’d patch for my left eye…and if you’re wondering where the heck are their wings, well, “A bee’s wings move so rapidly that studying them, even seeing them, has proved difficult.” #YeaaahScienceBtch

…FOR THE BEEHIVE’D EYE PATCH:

  1. I framed a round cotton pad (which already fits my eye socket area) with tissue paper bits and Elmer’s Glue.
  2. I covered the cotton pad with my DIY scar wax (equal amounts of flour + petroleum jelly and a bit of liquid foundation) that I fashioned into a tiny pizza dough…because my DIY scar wax is easier to mold than the ever-sticky Graftobian modeling wax (plus it’s already pigmented thanks to the liquid foundation included in its ingredients).
  3. I lined my actual eye socket area with Graftobian liquid latex, pressed the tissue paper frame of my eye patch over it, and sandwiched it with more liquid latex. I didn’t want to challenge gravity while the liquid latex is still wet so I just faced the ceiling while trying to send a text with one eye. 😉
  4. Once the liquid latex’d frame of my eyepatch is dry, I smoothened out the edges and blended them to my real skin using Graftobian modeling wax. Used the same liquid foundation and mineral foundation I applied to the rest of my face earlier so the eye patch can match my actual skin…plus the mineral veil powder too, so both my DIY scar wax and Graftobian modeling wax can lose their sticky-icky nature.
  5. To create the 3D holes, I pressed the tip of an eyeshadow makeup brush onto the waxy, fake skin surface of my eye patch; I even rolled the brush like my eye socket was one big pencil sharpener until I was satisfied that the holes were big enough. #InsertDirtyJokeHere
  6. Then I filled the holes with black facepaint from my Flash palette and glued my fake bees with more liquid latex.

…AND FOR THE HONEY:

I’m pretty proud of this because this was a total, last-minute moment of eureka (after an hour of mixing Elmer’s Glue and hair gel and yellow facepaint to no avail!) I simply opened a pack of Garnier’s Lightening Peel Off Mask (which already comes in a translucent yellow shade) and mixed it with a few drops of yellow food coloring.

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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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