Seven Deadly Sins: Greed

Oh it's been a while since I've done a deadly sin. I guess I've just been a good girl. hah nope not me. I've just been really busy with school etc. Enough excuses, this is greed!

Greed is one of the sins with a deadly desire. In this case the desire to possess an excess of wealth and valuable objects. You have no intentions of making anything of your possessions, you just need to know they're yours. And that you own more than others. It's funny how this applies to almost everyone nowadays. Except nuns...
This is the one that's been the biggest bitch to me int the past. Not anymore though.

Originally I was going to paint my entire face gold, as if I had been touched by King Midas... Didn't work though. Just made me look extremely sweaty. So I went for my second option: the two faces of greed. You have your polished, pretty face, only showing a bit of the glam you own. And the "real you", reflecting the thirst for money you really have. 

I ended up only liking the "polished" side of my face. So that's what I'm showing you now! :)

I photoshopped the shit out of my eyes to make them look like gold.

Everything is shimmery or straight on glitter, resembling the life of the greedy. The green element underneath the eye is supposed to represent money (bills, you know). And I couldn't not add the lashes and the rhinestones. I mean, if you're going for glam you gotta go all the way.

You can kind of see that half of my face is in fact golden, but just think of that as the dark, secret identity of a greedy person.

Until next sin!


Ps. I didn't dye my entire head orange, just the front with a super permanent dye. The rest of the hair is basically my natural color but shinier.

Sugar Skull

Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, All Souls day, call it whatever you want. I had to at least attempt to do a sugar skull around this time of the year.

They are so pretty and always very personal and unique.

I think mine turned out pretty good considering I don't do masks that often :]

Yeeees I used the same white lenses to add a bit of hollowness to the eyes.

Looking back though, I wish would have added a few more decorations. But hey, maybe next time.

The lips are my favorite part ^^

Until later sugarbutts!

Death by Spiders

I went to our school's Halloween party as dead/covered in spiders and lace.

(I had originally planned to go as Emily from Corpse Bride. I even got a blue wig. But decided at the last moment that it was a bit overkill.)

Alright, so we got pale face, dark eyes, white contact lenses, eyelashes, spiderwebs and spiders. I did do some patterned stuff on my temples and neck but you can't see them in this picture. 

And this is a pretty lace dress I'd gotten from a friend, with some fishnet stockings and lace gloves.

Am I now a slut on Halloween? A dead slut :D

The party pretty much sucked, so we decided that scaring people at McDonald's would be a lot more fun.

^^

Bat wings

I bought a bat shirt.

So I did bat wings on my eyes.

A Clockwork Orange: Alex

Listen to this.

Alrighty. This was my costume for the theme day at school. I was Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Sure he is a rapist and murderer but that's not what makes him scary/bad. He is incurable. He'll never be good. 
Nobody has seen that movie, so nobody got me. I was actually boring myself out quite a bit too, since the makeup was so minimal. But I'm going to a Halloween party tomorrow where I'll go all out with the makeup! (think "dead")

The only thing I needed for this was a pair of false lashes that I glued to one of my eyes.

and a stick and a hat.

Here's a picture of me and my friend at school. She was Wolverine's girlfriend... ;)

Seven Deadly Sins: Envy

I want her hair. I want her boyfriend. I wanna be as pretty as she is. Maybe if I made her uglier, people would see me as pretty too?

Next one in the series is envy. Envy is, similarly to Lust, a sin of desire. The desire of another person's possessions or qualities.

"Sorrow for another's good"

This is one of the most dangerous deadly sins, because envious people usually take out their jealousy on them whom they are jealous of. You want something that belongs to someone else so bad, that you'd hurt them to get it.

Envy, to me, is lying, cheating, using every poisonous method you know to get what you want from the other person. Therefore the color of envy is green. Also snakes are often associated with envy (plotting behind someone's back).

I used around 8 different greens to create the lid and brow, all from my Coastal Scents palette. I wanted the eye shadow to go pretty far away from the eye, spreading like the venom that jealousy is. 
Green eyebrows, green cheek contour and green on the lips. Basically, I just wanted as much green as possible on my face without looking like an alien. :D

Details: I didn't want false lashes with this one. I felt like they would have glamed up the look too much, made it too pretty when it's supposed to be ugly, reflecting the thoughts of the envious.
The concentration of color underneath the brows gives it a more serious, dangerous look. 
The criss-cross pattern going out from the brow represents the snake element as well as the shadow/venom spreading.

Until next sin ;)

PUMPKIN NAILS!!!!

Guys, I'm in love with my nails. Can I keep them?

Now I'm off to hunt for my Halloween costume for the theme day at school. Does anyone own a walking cane with a built in knife that I can borrow?

Glittery Smoke

This may come as a shock to some of you but I do do stuff outside of the internet. Not very often, but still. Last Friday, I wore this glittery smoky look to a friend's birthday party, where the dress code was black and white. I was forbidden to use any colorful eye shadow, so I added the lashes and glitter instead. ^^

I know I've been using the same pair of false lashes for a long time now. But they're so prettyyyy!!!

Until next time ^^

Bloody face & nails

Guys, there isn't gonna be too many makeup looks in the following weeks. I fell with my bike on some wet autumn leafs and hit my face really bad on the ground. I had to get a few stitches and the doctor said that I can't apply makeup on them. I took this photo before I went to get sewn up, so this is a bit bloodier.  

I'm sorry for the inconvenience with Halloween coming up and all :(

Obviously that is a gigantic lie. I was just playing around with face paint and fake blood. 

Hope I fooled some of you ;)

As I am trying to get into the Halloween spirit, I also twisted up the classic french manicure a bit by doing the bloody version of it.

Until next time! ;)

Seven Deadly Sins: Lust

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Here are a few really good descriptions of lust.

"Lust or Lechery is the intense desire of the body. It is usually thought of as excessive sexual wants, however the word was originally a general term for desire. Therefore Lust could involve the intense desire of money, fame or power as well"

I had the sexy part in mind when creating this look. ^^ Lust is easily confused with love. In love you want whats best for them, in lust you want what feels best for you. But how is lust a deadly sin, you may wonder? Well, if you think about it, this is how a lot of relationships end. In someone giving in to the temptation of lust and cheating. When only thinking about their own wants and not other's needs.

When I think of "lust" I think passion, sweat and fire (hot, burning blood...). 

And someone whispering "I want you right now."

The main part being the desire of the blood. Therefore the colors of lust for me, are pink and dark red. 

The main thing to keep in mind, is to keep everything soft yet strong, smoky but not too dark. 

Dark eyebrows are easier to flirt with, so if your eyebrows are invisible like mine, feel free to fill them in with a darker color. False lashes are a must. You are trying to seduce someone here, you have to go all the way if you want to get some. ;)

For the rest of the face, in addition to the diffused, sultry eyes, I did pink lips and a lot of pink blush to give the face a bit of a glow.

So um, I have the house to myself tonight... 

;]

I love the filters of a webcam. Although I feel like a facebook slut/attention whore posting this picture...

Until next sin...

^^

The Circus Makes Everything Stranger

Marylin Monroe look

So last week was 50 years since Marylin Monroe died. As the make-up junkie I am I decided to mimic her look for  one night.

Here's my inspirational pictures. She wears the same very classic 50s look in almost every picture. So that was ofcourse what I went for. Here are some things to think of if you wanna do the same thing :)

You need the most extreme false lashes that you can find. And an eyeliner that you'll wing out. That's it for the eyes really. If you want to you can do some contouring in the crease and under the eye and highlight the inner corner and waterline. 

I recommend darkening your eyebrows quite a bit too. The flash is washing out some color off mine.

For the lips, any red works. If you have thinner lips you need to line outside of your natural lips, cause she had really full lips. Even I went a bit over on the upper lip and I have fairly full lips..

The hair needs to be well styled. Either curls or big waves. If you have very long hair you could pin half of it up under the rest of your hair. And I'm sorry brown haired girls (or boys!) You're gonna have to get hold of some blond hair cuz the Marylin look aint gonna work without that.

And a very important detail is the beauty spot over the lip on the cheek. I recommend using an eyeliner pencil. Mainly brown and just a tiny bit of black, so if you mess up it won't be all over the place.

Sorry to ruin the tease in the first pic, but I am wearing a shirt. I just pushed the sleeves down ;)

Earth

So here we have the last element: EARTH. Originally I was going to do something more green, but then figured that the majority of earth isn't actually green but brown. So I did something inbetween. :)

I was really indecisive when doing this. So if you're having a hard time putting a finger on the lid color, it's because there's at least five different ones on it (brown, grey, green, moss, dark brown). The crease is a darker version of all of the lid colors = black. I pulled down the green underneath the eye pretty far so that it would give a dramatic smoky effect.

There was so much brown and grey going on that I had to add the glitter liner.

No full face picture this time. This pink hair might really intersect with the greenyness of this look.

I love this look and I hope you do too. :]

This is the Chinese symbol for earth/harvest.

Until next time

RAINBOW LIPS!!!

Is it wrong that I'm in love with my lips?

Do you wanna know how I did them? With face paint. That's how.