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
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.
