Kryolan Aquacolor - 5 different ways to use it!

Helloes ^^

As promised before, here's the Kryolan Aquacolor cream 'pot' post! I'll have to call it 'pot' because honestly I can't say it's a cream eyeshadow or eyeliner or whatever, because it can be pretty much anything you want!

I'll use my aquacolor R27, which is a pretty purple, as an example to show you how versatile this product can be. I also have a black one, a white, a red and a frankenstein green and I'm pretty happy with all of them. I bought them for around 6€ each, which is pretty reasonable considering how big and functional they are. You can also mix this with water to get a more intense color with a slightly different shade.

I use the purple one everyday to draw my eyebrows and it still looks full, so I'm pretty sure this product will last me for a loooong time.

Note: I didn't use any kind of foundation or primer for this pics. The product was directly applied on my skin.

1. Lips

 Because you can get different shades depedning on the amount of water you mix with your Aquacolor, you can get multiple results on your lips. I will warn you tho', your lips can get pretty dry, specially if you apply a thick coat with water, so I recommend you use some lip balm first and then apply the aquacolor (or you can try and mix both!)

2. Eyebrows

As I said previously I use this color everyday for my eyebrows ^^ There are some ocasions that I may draw them in black, but mostly I think this purple shade is a perfect combination with my hair :)

It might seem a bit too ligh or too pinkish sometimes, so to set it (less likely to smudge) and to make the color a little deeper, I put a bit of  (a darker) purple eyeshadow on top of it.

 

 

3. Eyeliner

I don't use this method quite as often, since I like to wear mostly black eyeliner, but it's an awesome alternative to colorful cream eyeliners. Apply it with a wet brush, but not as much as you would for your lips, you still want it to have a pretty thick consistency.

 

4. Eyeshadow

This method doesn't work that well by itself, at least with this shade of purple, and the reason for that is: you're gonna look like you got punched in the eye :D It really has that bruise tone, and although I think it's a pretty neet effect - and I use this often for special effects make-up - for your daily basis is not the best look, so what you can do is using it as an eyeshadow base. If you want some purple eyeshadow to really pop, just use the R27 underneath. 

In the pics I used the R27 only, no eyeshadow. It looks darker in the corner because I applied it with a wet brush, and it looks pinkish in the areas I applied (and smudged) with my finger.

 

 

5. Blush/Conturing

And finally! You can use this as a blush and conturing so it kinda counts as 2 :)

You really only need a tiny amount of product for the full drama effect. Use it dry obviously, unless you are going for a face paint makeup 

And that's it! That was a long post :D Hope you find it helpful! ^^

Forest spirit/Faun costume - It's Carnival! :D

Carnival is a celebration that originated in Greece between 600-520 BC. In this celebration the Greeks worshiped their gods and thanked them for soil fertility and production. It became a celebration adopted by the Catholic Church in 590 AD. It occurs immediately before Lent and that period was marked by the period of "farewell to meat" or the Latin "carne vale" originating the term "carnival". During that time there was a large concentration of popular festivities. Each city played in its own way, according to their customs. The modern carnival, parades and costumes are a product of nineteenth-century Victorian society.

Nowadays Carnival has pretty much no connection to religious views and it's just an excuse for people to get drunk and party in costumes like crazy :D 

And now that I have bored you with some cultural and historical trivia, here's the costume I wore this year! ^^

 I was a Forest spirit! Or some fantasy-like-deer-faun-creature if you will :P The headpiece was self made including the antlers :) They were made with white clay and then painted with acrylics (the structure was made with tin foil). I attached them to a pretty thick head band, to support the weight (they weren't super heavy, but weren't that light either) and then added some artificial flowers ^^ 

To complete the costume I wore a big faux fur stole. The makeup unfortunatly had to be done in a hurry, I had very little time to do it so it looks a little bit rushed, but I was happy with it either way ^^

This is the only decent pic I have of the complete look :( I should have taken pics BEFORE going out, but I didn't. So by the end of the night with all the dancing and drinking my headpiece had taken a real beating -I lost half of the flowers, my antlers were all crooked and my makeup already smudging ^^'

 

 Was able to take a decent pic of my makeup ^^

 

And a shot of my headband (without the flowers). Unbelivably the flowers were by far the most expensive element of my costume :X

Fun, fun night!

MUOTD 6 - Starry night Makeup

Went to the club last Friday and this was the sparkly look I wore ^^ I used only one item for pretty much the whole look, my Kryolan purple cream pot which I'm completely in love with. Kryolan is one of my fav make-up brands, it has super affordable products, CRUELTY FREE, and they are super multi-functional! I can use the same cream pot as an eyeliner, eyeshadow, blush, lipstick and even to do my eyebrows! :D And you can mix it with water for an even stronger color and slightly different shade ^^

I'll do another post with the different ways you can use this product, cause it's defenitly worth it ^^

For this look I only had to throw some sparkles on it to "fairy" it up ^^ The gem in my forehead was glued with glitter-glue (not the best one, I admit) I was almost sure I was going to lose it in the club, but I didn't ^^ Well.. it fell once, but I was lucky enough to find it, even if it was pitch-black.

*Nose-chain was self made*

Gift from Delyria and Iva Insane

Uff, It's been a while since my last post, I should get this blog updated at least once a week, but I'm just lazeeh.

Anyway! A couple of weeks ago I was watching some videos by Amelie (a.k.a Delyria, you can see her youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/DelyriaPhoto), she does some beautiful make-up tutorials and some helpful videos with beauty tricks, and she's beautiful to look at also, so I'm a follower :P 

She made a video organizing a little contest with Jenni (a.k.a Iva Insane, her blog: http://ivainsane.wordpress.com/), a gorgeous alternative model and hairdresser, you might also know her as Adora Batbrat's sister. So basically, the contest was a combination of this two ladies talents, Iva Insane modeling and Delyria photography (yes, I forgot to mention she's a photographer also). They made a beautiful photo session inspired by clowns, and Delyria was giving away 3 photos in high quality print of the mentioned photography session. You could win the photos by creating a piece of art that was related to clowns, and by a matter of chance I was working on my Le Petit Pierrot drawing at the time, remember? ^^ So I thought to myself "why not?" and sent my drawing to Delyria.

Maybe a week after, she sent me an email telling me that she and Iva Insane loved my work :) They picked me as the winner and she sent me the photos right away, she was super fast and super nice ^^

I got the photos with a little note from Delyria.

The prints have awesome quality, super thick paper with a little shine to it. My favourite is defenitly the one with the "metal clown nose". They are super creepy and adorable, just the way I like it :D

MUOTD 5 - Black black heart makeup

First makeup look of 2013 ^^

B&W eye - powder eyeshadow on top of cream eyeshadow to create a whiter white and a blacker black. Eyeliner and natural fluffy lashes. 

For the lips - greyish purple lipstick on top and bottom corners smudged to the middle. And of course, to finish it of, for a whimsical look you just have to draw some little hearts or dots or bats or spiderwebs... uuuh, I'll be doing some of those for the next posts ^^

Le Petit Pierrot

 

I'm super happy with my fast improvement with coloring with the "traditional" brushes at PS, such as the watercolor brush and airbrush ^^ This is only my second try with this coloring style and I already think it looks MUCH better then my first try ^^ 

My "cartoonish" style always had very harsh lines because I never removed the lineart, not that doing that is necesseraly a bad thing, but this way I can bring my character to a whole new level of creepiness and adorableness at the same time and it has that nice texture of a real oil or acrylic painting :) 

Here's the WIP. I changed the color scheme nearly the end, I think her eyes and little hat are much more noticable now. What do you think?

Why do the Harry Potter movies suck so bad?

Completly different from my last posts, but hey! I'm a movie and literature lover, so I felt the need to discuss this subject.

The question that hunts my mind from time to time is: Why do the Harry Potter movies suck so bad?

I think it is wise to remind you that this is my opinion and yours may differ. Just to avoid enraged fans ^^

When I was 11 years old, I had already read the 4 HP books that existed so far, and I LOVED them, I still do actually ^^, it was the year of 2000, and one year after that I was anxiously anticipating the new book, but instead we got a movie. "Alright, a movie!" I was super excited! I went to the premiere here in Portugal, and I was prepared to watch one of the most awesome movies ever created! - Girl, was I wrong - I almost cried with disappointment when I left the theatre.
 I know, I know, you can't expect a movie to be better than the book and I really wasn't, but the movie didn't even tried! It didn't even made the book the tiniest little justice. It was and IS horrid. 

I was sure it was gonna be a flop. Who in they're right mind would like the movie after reading the book which was FAR superior? Oh yeah, I forgot... most kids of my age didn't read that much and they didn't even know that the books existed, so many loved the movie, because let's face it, it is an immature movie, whereas the book isn't.

After the movie I got a bit "angry" at the HP fandom, 'cause I almost felt as a personal offense from JK Rowling letting my favourite book, at the time, be butchered like that :(

Many years after! We're in 2012, last week to be exact, and I decided to give the movies another try. I though - maybe the first movies were the worst, cause the cast was still young and unexperienced, yadda, yadda (which doesn't really matter 'cause the problem is not really the cast, cause there are GREAT actors in it, but yeah). Anyway, I decided to watch the Order of Phoenix (I ended up watching the previous movies too, when they aired on tv). 

First of all, how can you even expect a consistent saga when the director isn't even the same?  Let's see:

Sorcerer's Stone: Chris Columbus

Chamber of Secrets: Chris Columbus

Prisioner of Azkaban: Alfonso Cuarón

Goblet of Fire: Mike Newell

Order of Phoenix and so forth: David Yates

HP was actually David Yates first grand production (he had done some TV movies and mini-series only), I wish I could say it was also his last, but unfortunatelly it has been rumoured that he's been working on new projects, including a Tarzan movie (ouch).

I'll be talking about the Order of Phoenix only, for now, since it was the last one I've watched. 

I can honestly say it's one of the worst directing and screenplay I've seen, besides B movies. 

The story evolves in hyper-speed, you just want to shout "SLOW THE FUCK DOWN" at the screen. The way the scenes are connected, oh lawdy, it looks like Yates had a list of scenes he had to include from the book and how they connect to each other is completely overrated. It is also ironic how fast-paced the movie is and still.. incredibly boring.

Side Note:  Did you know that the Sorcerer's Stone book has 310 pages and the Order of Phoenix has 870, but the first HP movie has 152 minutes while the fifth has 138? I mean, really?! So the book is almost triple the size, but the movie is shorter.. makes sense. It explains why it looks so freakin rushed and chopped.

In the book the character of Harry gets much more moody and complex, you realize he's not the perfect hero, neither was he's father, who was kinda douchebaggy actually. You get none of that in the movie, it's just good ol' Harry with that stale personality of his and no character development.

The only good parts were the few minutes Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman or Helena Boham Carter were on screen.

Now that I've shown my discontentment about the movies, I would really like to hear from people that love them and why. We all have different perspectives and opinions, but it intrigues me how one can love equally both books and movies. In some cases people are so obssessed about HP that they will love everything about it blindly (that's the bad thing about fandoms), so they can't have a objective perception of the movies. And there are some people that have never read the books and love the movies  - Those I can't really understand :| Cause if you thought that shit was good, if you read the books your brain will freakin' explode! 

And I'm not even sure if there are people that have read the books and seen the movies and prefer the movies O_O But if there are, I'd love to hear from you and hear your opinion :D

And to end this post here's a drawing of me as a Ravenclaw student :D