Mermaid

Halloween seems like forever ago yet it has not even been a week yet! I thought I would share some photos. As you can probably tell I dressed up as a mermaid or rather a drowning mermaid as I had a horrific cough/disappearing voice. After pinteresting some ideas I came across mermaid make up with scales. Simple and easy for someone who lacks any artistic skills. The trick is to use fishnet tights over your head! I ended up using a wig cap, the first fishnets I bought were too thick and a practice run showed they wouldn't work. I struggled to find thin fishnets that were under £5. A wig cap at 99p was a much better idea and more comfortable to wear over your face. 

I started by applying foundation normally and giving it a little while to settle. Starting with the eye area I applied blue Seventeen eye shadow with a brush then purple Revolution shadow for definition. I attempted to contour my nose with the purple but it didn't look right instead of starting again I piled on more blue which seemed to work better. It was time to pull the cap over my face, mixed the blue shadow with some primer and applied with a cheap sponge that can be thrown out after all that shimmer will be tough to get out a beauty blender. Using the purple eye shadow to definite then used  silver Illamasqua liquid metal shadow as a highlight. Removed the cap with help of extra hands to avoid smudging to reveal the scales. Filled in brows, added liner and mascara then loaded on Revolution purple lipstick and dabbing liquid metal to the centre of the lips. I used Bleach London's hair crayons in Bruised Violet and Washed Up Mermaid in random sections which was hard to get the colour pay off and ended up giving up due to running out of time. Perhaps hair chalk would have been easier and quicker. I didn't go for whole the shell top and fish tail costume because any plus size costumes are a fortune and wouldn't have arrived on time, plus this is Scotland in October which means it's a better idea to stay warm. I already had the shell print dress and purple tights and bought the starfish clip from Ebay.

What did you get up to for Halloween? 

Salem the Cat

 In case the title of this post didn't give it away, I dressed up as Salem from Sabrina The Teenage Witch for a Halloween party. There had been talks of making plans for Halloween which is when I decided to use my Crown and Glory cat ears as I had yet to find an excuse to wear. A friend decided she was going to have a sci-fi and fantasy Tv show themed party. There went my cat idea until it dawned on me that Sabrina counted as fantasy and Salem was a cat! after some googling to see how to make a Salem costume different from your average cat, I decided to go with this as it was pretty easy to do. It is a very loose interpretation of him but I wasn't going to wear a furry skin tight catsuit as it's not something I would have felt comfortable in. I couldn't get creative with face paints as I have no talents in that department plus apparently I'm allergic to face paint so good old black eyeliner, eyeshadow and lipstick it was. I thought I would have a practice and take some photos as I'm forever running late when getting ready for parties (who doesn't?!). On the night I made the eyes sharper but the completely mucked up my whiskers so they ended up much thicker than I would have liked. In the end I think that made them show up in photos better. 

 

Hope you all had a good Halloween! What did you dress up as?

This Is Was Halloween

 I am late in posting about Halloween but better late than never. This year was the first year I could ever remember being so excited for Halloween in since June! The reason for my excitement so early on was that one of my all time favourite bands, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, had got back together and annouced a tour, as soon as I found out they were playing in London on Halloween I knew me and my sister HAD to be there! Their Halloween gigs have always been a thing of legend and I knew that this gig would be the one to be at. I was right, it was one of the most insane gigs I've ever been to (and that takes some doing let me tell you!), I'm just glad we were at the barrier to have something to hold on to! I have also never been in so much pain the next day. Muscles I did not even know existed felt like they were on fire, I'm sure I complained to my sister about how my hair hurt haha. I had narrowly escaped some nastier injuries such as spliting my eyebrow open, broken wrist and broken ribs escaped with bruises and some swelling. To perhaps give you an idea of how crazy Eighties Matchbox crowds are; They played a free show in London before the Halloween gig and a guy broke his leg! As I always seem to do when I'm in London is that I never take photos. I think it's cause everything always seems so rushed and don't feel like I can stand in the middle of the street to stop for photos without being knocked into by all the people. I did take some photos but only on my phone so forgive the poor quality.

Pre-gig. 

We had plans to put on loads of black eye make up and fake blood to be zombies but were gonna wait til we were at the venue, which fell through when there was a toilet attendant in the ladies, It always makes me feel like I can't touch up my make up never mind stand and zombify myself. Turns out it would have been a waste of time I had only had my eye make up on by the end with some down my face. I wish I had got my sister to do before and after photos. 

 

The morning after. 

Feeling tender, not even from a hangover I had only had two and a half ciders the whole night, we went to The Big Chilli House for breakfast. I loved the way it designed and now regret only having a photo of these rather cool lamps. I had the french toast (below) and it was definately the sugar fix to give me some much needed energy.

We went to Oxford Street, where I bought NOTHING, this is unheard of. It was really down to me being disappointed with the stores. I thought that with some of them being flagship stores there would be different things. I was particularly disappointed with Evans as my local store is now closed and I had expectations on the flagship store being filled with the brands they stock online, such as Lovedrobe and Sienna Couture but there was none to be seen. The store in Glasgow has them so I would have thought the store on the busiest shopping street in Europe would have a larger choice. The same goes for all the stores we went in, with the exception of Selfridges and Forever 21 only because I've never been in them before. I wish we had went down Camden High Street instead at least the stuff I wouldn't have seen before. Here's a photo of outside and inside of Selfridges all decorated for Christmas on November 1st!

After getting successfully getting the tube on my own for the first time and not getting lost I thought I would reward myself with trying my first Kripsy Kreme doughnut. I got a strawberry gloss, it was very nice but not the "oh my god it's amazing" reaction that everyone else seems to have with them. Not that I am saying if there was one near me I would never go in it ;) 

The weekend after Halloween my friend was having a Tim Burton themed party. I was very excited for it and had bought a new blonde wig, underskirt and hairbow. Typically after being all ready and about to leave I very suddenly became pretty ill :(. Attempts to stop feeling ill were unsuccessful, after dropping in to the party to see everyone in their outfits I was taken home to remove my costume and makeup was to curl up in bed with a hot water bottle and sleep. I must have picked up some kind of bug. The past few days have involved sleeping and attempting eating plain things. At least I managed to capture my outfit on camera. I really liked the blonde wig as it was much better than previous curly one, think it's pretty easy to tell who I was with the new wig and bow.

What did you do for Halloween?