Zombie make-up (how to do it)

It's Halloween soon guys!

I've been seeing so many stuff about it for the past week, it's only natural for me to contribute as well.

Tonight, there is this host noir cosplay party in my city, but I was unable to go so I was kinda sad about it. I actually never in my life cosplayed, and I would love to do so. I also love costuming and everything about it so after watching a few HW inspired videos on youtube, I came up with this little zombie look.

Basically, I was bored and alone at home, so I decided to try it out. It's the basic zombie look, nothing fancy or too complicated. I am a passionate amateur MUA so I don't have access to that much professional make-up as I would want to so I wanted to try out if I could pull it out without the fake blood and latex.

I haven't made a tutorial, but I will tell you what I used and how so you get the general idea.

So this is how it turned out in the end:

Is it good? I like how it turned out for the first try.

This is the home version, but I will put what you can use if you can get your hands on it. The reason it is a home version is because here we don't have Halloween themed shops, since we don't really celebrate HW and it's a lot harder to find fake blood etc and not to mention it is more expensive.

So this is what you will need:

• Liquid foundation
• Setting powder
• White powder
• Red, black, gray, purple, blue and green eyeshadow
• Red lipstick (I used it instead of red face-paint)
• Tissues
• Blush (if you have it - I didn't use it here)
• Eyelash adhesive (or liquid latex - I'll really try to get it next time, I bet it sticks a lot better)
• Sponges and/or brushes that you don't really use (since they will probably be messed up afterwards)
• Some random moisturizer cream 
• Scissors

I think that's it, I hope I didn't forget anything.

How to do it:

I have to say that I had leftover make-up on my face from uni, but that's not really important, since I painted over it. That's why I still have mascara on~ xD I guess you can go for the sexy version of a zombie, with more elaborate make-up, but this was done quickly so I didn't feel like doing that this time.

First use liquid foundation and put it all over your face. It will work as a base. You don't have to cover every little spot, since you're gonna look messed up in the end anyways.

Set it with some powder. Now I recommend to use white powder around your eyes, so that they look a lot whiter for the start.

Then take one tissue and separate it into two or three layers, depending of how many it has. Rip off uneven pieces, don't cut it, it's supposed to look ripped. the tissue is gonna be the ripped skin.

Take a brush or a sponge ( I used a brush) and place the eyelash glue on the spot you want to make the ripped skin. Put a part of the ripped tissue over it and let it dry. Put more glue over the tissue and tape another one. Do this until you have 3 or 4 layers (4 in my case). Try not to wrinkle it, but it's okay even so. It doesn't have to be completely glued at the ends, it will look more rotten that way, and it gives you artistic freedom :3

When it all dries out, take a sponge, or using your fingers put liquid foundation over the tissue. Since the tissue is white, this will give it a more "natural" feel, it will resemble skin a bit more. It will still look fake, but it's all good. Again, you might not cover all the white, but it's okay, you'll fix it later.

Next step is, take your scissors and carefully cut in the middle part of the tissues (look out, you don't want to scratch or cut your skin). Make the cut in any way and shape you want, but don't do it too wide. You can always expand it later.

Close up on the wound when it was finished.

But we're still far from what's on the picture. When you get the shape you want rip it a bit so it looks more natural. Then, we can start applying the colors.

You want to use the colors mentioned above, since they are the best for this look. Now, I didn't do it in this order, but it has the same effect. Use the green lightly with a powder brush and apply it all over your face to give it a "sickish" effect. Don't overdo it, or you will look like The Hulk.

Then take a small brush (I used an angled one) and apply the black inside the ripped "skin" (the tissue). The deepest part of the wound should be the darkest. Add black, gray, blue and a bit of green to your liking. Then cover the tissue skin with a strong red blush or red eye-shadow wish a powder brush (like above). Fill in the wound with red eye-shadow over the black and on the borders of the ripped "flesh". Do it on the outer borders where the tissue is ripped. When you think you had enough move onto the eyes.

Don't be afraid to go overboard with the eyes. Lots of black and gray, and red too, a bit of green and blue. Make huge bags under your eyes, and on the top lid too, make your eyes look hollow. Use red on your waterline so your eyes look more "bloody".

Use gray or black with a powder brush to add contour to your face. Under your cheeks, on sides of your nose, inner angles of your eyes, under your mouth. Do it wherever you find it necessary. 

Repeat these steps until you have the result you want.

Now to start off with the blood.

I don't have the fancy fake blood as I already said, so I was thinking what I could use instead of it. Nothing in my kitchen could do the trick (but you can find some cool recipes for making your own fake blood) so on a whim I used a random cream I had (Balea) and mixed with my red Inglot eye-shadow. The cream is not too thick nor too liquid so it will stay on your face, but it's a bit harder to put it if you want to make it look realistic (like blood is dripping from your ching for example). So use a good thin brush and apply with caution. Apply it inside the wound generously, and let it drip a bit so it looks all gory. Use the red lipstick to make the tissue around the wound look more bloody and sticky. Keep applying the fake blood around your wound(s) and corners of your lips, put it on your neck or under your eyes, wherever you find it best. 

Use the red lipstick on your lips, but don't apply it like you normally would, make it messy. Then use the darker red eye-shadow and with a small brush give it more depth. In my case, I extended it a bit, so it would kinda blend out with the wound. Unconsciously I think I tried to make a "chelsea smile" but I don't think this is the right way to do it. This type of make-up is more for the rotten bloody zombie look. 

Use black eye-shadow on the inner side of your lips, so it looks a bit more decayed. Add more blood where you want it and that's basically it. You can shade out you nostrils with the gray and/or red.

In the end (or at the beginning) add contact lenses in red, white, yellow, pale green or blue or even sclera black or white lenses if you have them. I obviously used my red vampire lenses, since they are the only one I own that go with this look.

Mess up your hair and voila, we're done!

I hope you understand that this is not a professional way to do this, but it's good if you don't have enough money or resources to get the pro products. It's a good Halloween idea, at least for me. Zombies are always in~ ^^

It took me around an hour or more to do this, but if you want to add more wounds ( I only had one + two random red spots) it will take more time, since you have to do all this mentioned about multiple times. You need more tissues, more adhesive and more fake blood.

I hope you enjoyed and that it helps you with making your Zombie look or at least for inspiring you to create one in your own way.

Thank you for reading~ ^^

(critiques and reviews are very welcome)

xoxo

Tattoo

Hello everyone~!

I'm so sorry for not updating for such a long time. A lot happened, my uni started, I was a bit stressed about the application etc, but everything is okay. I'm studying more this year, I really wanna know more and learn Japanese ♥ 

As I said, a lot happened, one of the most important thing being - getting my first tattoo!

I'm so happy how it turned out!

Here you go:

This pic was taken on the day I got the tattoo, a few hours after so it was still reddish and swollen. It's looking much better now. 

It is a japanese kanji for love, it's read "Ai".

I decided to add the purple fire for a few reasons. 

• Because I really like purple
• Because love is like fire, it can go both ways, meaning it can be warm and protective, but can also burn you and cause you pain

I am very happy with the results.

As for the pain, it was bearable, but after an hour or so it was starting to hurt a lot. I'm not gonna lie, it's a pain, but it's totally worth it. Shading hurts more and the white was the worse. It took a bit less than 3 hours to finish it. It is placed between my shoulder blades and goes up to my neck.

Taking care of the tattoo:

• Wash it multiple times during the day with medicine or baby soap (I used the latter)
• Don't touch it a lot
• Use some sort of creme on it (I was recommended to use Panthenol, but I used Flogocit - these can be found in my country, if you get a tattoo and you're not from Serbia, ask your tattoo artist to tell you which one to get)
• Put the creme on as much as you can, meaning, don't let the tattoo be dry for the first few days
• While at home, let the tattoo breathe, tie your hair up 
• When you need to go out, use plastic foil ( I don't know the exact term - this) to wrap it before putting your clothes over it, so it doesn't irritate it more
• When it starts to peel off (yes, tattoos start peeling off some time after being done, it's a completely normal process) don't try to peel it off yourself, just leave it alone and keep putting the cream
• It's not recommended to use the foil after 24h have passed from tattooing. I used it for two days.
• Don't sleep on the part of the body that is tattooed, for first few nights use the foil to cover it, so it doesn't rip off on your sheets or pajama
• Even after it peels off (mine is still) keep using the cream

These are most of the steps. Of, check in with your tattoo artist if you have any problems or you're concerned about anything. And don't be afraid if it itches, just don't scratch it.

So this is a little update about a big thing that happened to me, and it will be followed by a Halloween post right away.

xoxo

Recent byings and random make-up

This post is just to show you what I recently added to my ever-growing collection of make-up and some random make-up I did few days ago. I was to lazy to upload it then.

I bought this amazing gel eyeliner by Essence and I'm really satisfied after using it. And my fav Falsies Volume Express mascara by Maybelline, I couldn't find it for some time.

Here are the random looks:

This look was when I was going out with a friend.

This yellow look turned out after me messing with my Beauty's Factory palette. I don't really like yellow, but sometimes it can turn out pretty good. I didn't wear it anywhere, I was messing around the house.

I hope you enjoyed this little update. Stay well ♥

Sasha The Martyr (tutorial)

Sasha the Martyr

(Seikon No Qwaser)

- anime make-up tutorial -

So I started watching this very weird and perverted anime called Seikon No Qwaser (don't ask) and I am really obsessed with the main male protagonist - Alexander Nikolaevich Hell - Sasha. So today I decided to do a random anime make up of him, since he has this red scar across his face. It's nothing hard to do, nothing special, I just felt like doing it. I am sorry for the quality of photos, my camera is messing with me a lot and my face decided to be extra ugly today. And I did only one eye in anime make up, bcz of the scar. Here's the picture I used as a reference so you know what I'm talking about.

He is so pretty and dreamy and he's only 13 years old! (lol I'm turning into a pedo-girl xD)

I fist thought of making a video tutorial, but I hate editing videos. Maybe I'll do a video slide-show later and put it up on youtube. For now, enjoy this little tutorial in pictures.

(and yes, I'm aware that I don't have his hair etc, it was just face make-up that I was messing with.)

Again, excuse my face. ^^

First take any pale foundation and put it on your face. Then use pressed powder as close to white as you can find. You don't want to look like a ghost, but Sasha does have very fair skin. I'm using Maybelline Affinitone in 16 Vanilla Rose and Claire's White Powder.

 Put in your contact lenses. (I'm using just the red one for the left eye, unfortunately I don't have green lenses so the other one is my natural, and I'm showing only the left eye so it doesn't matter ^^).

 Then add white eyeshadow. Put it all over your lids, and under it. I'm using Claire's powder for that too.

Take your liquid eye liner and line your eye so it looks more like Sasha's. I'm using Essence Gel Liner with a Miss Sporty eyeliner brush. 

Like this:

Sasha has eyes curved at the end so make sure to extend the eyeliner line beyond your eye to make it bigger.

 Also Sasha's lower eyelids are oval, so use your eyeliner to make it look rounder.

If necessary, extend the wing on the eye some more to give them a sharper look until it looks something like this:

 Extend the inner corver of the eye.

 Now off to the scar.

Since it's red, use a red liquid liner, face paint or gel, whatever you have. I'll be using Inglot's red eyeshadow. Also prepare a pale red eyeshadow to make a stencil of the scar before you line it in. I'll be using the same eyeshadow, without and with water. 

Take a thin brush of your choice and draw the stencil on. Make sure to use a reference picture. Do it lightly, so that you don't have to worry about messing up.

The scar goes down the his yawline, but you decide how low you wanna go. I drew it just like in the reference picture I used.

The lowest horizontal line is lined up with his mouth, so that's the place you wanna put it. Curv it a little so it looks more natural on the face.

Also, if it's hard for you to follow the lines on his face while looking inteh mirror (since you see it opposite on your face) just flip the reference pic. ^^

I reccomend you to draw the lines a bit thinner than the original while stenciling, it will be easier to fix any mistakes when you paint over it later.

 It's okay if it's messy, it's just the stencil. When you're done, check for mistakes and wipe off excess color if anywhere needed.

Take a thin, pointy brush and start filling in the stencil. Now you must be careful, just follow the line and then fix anything that seems out of place.

Mine turned out looking like this:

 (I would've done a much better job if my mom hadn't kept interrupting me, asking me to take the dogs for a walk.)

When you're done, you can add mascara oy you don't you don't have to, since his eyelashes aren't visible. I didn't add it since I didn't have time.

And this is the final result:

 

(lol attempt at a creepy face - fail)

 Close up on the nose line.

Again, I'm sorry for teh quality of the photos, this was the best I could do. Most of them are heavily edited since the lightning was awful in my room and the camera flash kept dying.

This look is good for cosplayers, if you don't have money to buy expensive make-up or if you just wanna mess around with your pictures or with your friends. I'll probably do a better one in the future and the stage two of his scar. Here's a picture:

This one is more elaborate so I'll study it more, I did this one on a whim with no previous preparations.

I hope you like it~ ^_^