Halloween

Did everyone have a good Halloween? I had a great one. 

I was working on Friday and Saturday night and I saw some great costumes at work; a digger with a working arm, a bedside dresser complete with socks, an alarm clock and a lamp, lego blocks, an in the box Barbie and a myriad of zombies. 

Thankfully there didn't seem to be as many 'sexy' costumes about this year (you know, 'sexy nurse', 'sexy firewoman', 'sexy chinese takeout' and all that ridiculousness) and there were an awful lot of original, well thought out costumes. 

I went as Space on Saturday to work and as Lady Gaga to go out on Sunday. My Gaga costume was very last minute so it wasn't fantastic (a lot of people thought I was meant to be David Bowie) but it was a fun costume to put togethere. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of my outfits but I got a few of my makeup. 

Space

I wore this with my Black Milk Galaxy leggings, a pair of metallic green Topshop hot pants, silver Dr Martens and an oversized black Topshop jumper with stars and moons. 

Face: 

Kryolan White Aquacolour

MAC Grape Pigment (cheeks)

MAC Hipness Blush

Kryolan Gold Aquacolour (highlight)

 

Eyes: 

UDPP

Kryolan Yellow, Gold, Orange, Red, Blue, Turquoise and Purple Aquacolours

MAC Chrome Yellow e/s

Lips: 

Natural Collection Apple Blossom lipstick

This was my original plan of what makeup to do, but I changed it around. You see I wanted to get the yellows and oranges in there to represent the sun, as well as the darker colours for space. Since I had to work I didn't want to do this lip, as I wouldn't have had time for touch ups and it would have looked crap quickly, so I had to incorporate the dark colours into my eye makeup instead. It's a pity because I really liked this lip. 

Yes the orange brows look weird, I was just trying some stuff out really quickly.

Lady Gaga

With this I wore my Black Milk leggings again and the same hotpants. I also wore pink Dr Martens, a printed dress (top? It was kind of inbeween) with sheer sleeves and my leather jacket. 

In my hair I used Claire's Accessories Blond hairspray which I don't reccommend, it was more gold than blonde and there wasn't enough in the can to cover my whole head. I put my hair in a fauxhawk which was surprisingly easy and I might do a tutorial on it and used TIGI Rockaholic hairspray to hold it up. 

Face: 

Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation

Kryolan White Aquacolour

MAC MSFN Medium (contour)

MAC Hipness blush

Bourjois Rose D'or blush

Bourjois Highlight Powder

 

Eyes:

UDPP

Kryolan Pink Aquacolour (lid)

Pixie Epoxy 

Barry M DD85 Neon Pink (lid)

GOSH Rosewood Effect Powder (crease and outer lid)

Kryolan Turquoise Aquacolour (bottom lasline)

MAC Aquadisiac (inner bottom lashline) and Electric Eel (outer bottom lashline)

UD Yeyo 24/7 liner (inner eye highlight) 

MAC Nanogold e/s (over Yeyo)

MAC Orb and Shore Leave (browbone highlight)

MAC Spiced Chocolate e/s (brows)

Kryolan Orange and Red Aquacolours (lightning bolt)

Aldi Lacura falsies

Essence Multi Action Mascara

In my hair I wore this 50c flower hairband from Penneys

Lips: 

Revlon Black Cherry lipstick

And I wore this studded hairband (2 for 50c, also from Penneys) and the same cardboard stars I wore for my space costume.

 

Did anyone see any good costumes on Halloween?

FOTD 27 Aug 10

So today I decided to use my new Lacura lashes. I don't usually wear false lashes, before this I'd only ever worn the weird ones with feathers and glitter and stuff for fancy dress. Considering I'm not used to applying them I don't think I did too bad, although they're not quite close enough to my lashline.

Wow these pictures make me realise how badly I need a haircut. I can't decide though if I want to keep it long(ish) or get it cut short again.

I used: 

Face

Bourjois 10 Hour Sleep Effect foundation

17 Translucent Loose Powder

MAC Hipness blush

MAC MSFN

Bourjois highlighter

 

Eyes

UDPP

Ruby and Millie Gold Cream e/s

MAC Time & Space, Nanogold, Orb, Spiced Chocolate & Shore Leave e/s

UD X e/s

UD Bourbon 24/7 liner

MAC Blacktrack Fluidline

Lacura lashes

 Maybelline The Collossal mascara

Lips

17 Balmy Beige lipstick

And a black and white photo, I'm trying to get some nice black and white pictures to put in my portfolio for my interview, since I'm sure I'll have to do makeyp for black and white photography in my course. If I get it, fingers crossed! 

I went shopping today, got a few bargains. 

The dress was €2 from Penneys, the falsies were 50c from there too. 

I got this 17 Bronze palette a few days ago, my sister was buying some nail varnish from 17 and this came free. It's got 2 eyeshadows, a brown and a cream. A golden bronzer and a gold-brown lipgloss. 

The other two items are a 17 nail polish, on clearance for €1.50, which I was going to buy for €5 a few weeks ago, and a Revlon lipstick, Black Cherry, which was €3 reduced from €10.50. The polish is black with silver sparkle and is gorgeous! The lipstick is a dark cherry-plum and very nice and creamy. I'll post swatches tomorrow, the light's too bad now. 

Lacura Falsies

This week Aldi have false lashes on offer, I bought some yesterday and I'm going to write a little review. 

But before that let me tell you about a blog I've found with a fairly great giveaway going on. Lora Does Makeup is having a giveaway to celebrate getting 50 followers. There's some great stuff in the giveaway- lashes, nail polish, mascara and more- so check it out here and enter it before tomorrow.

Now onto the Aldi lashes.

They have 6 different styles for €2.99 each. Some of the styles are lovely and full, the others are a bit rubbish looking. I bought the two which I thought looked best

The lashes themselves are lovely, I don't often wear falsies but these are the nicest cheap ones I've seen. The only problem with them is the glue. If you buy these, take the glue and chuck it straight in the bin. I know the glue that comes with lashes is usually not great, but this was awful! Firstly the tubes are tiny, so even if it had been any good there was barely enough to apply one lash, never mind two. One of the tubes I got was dried up, so it wouldn't come out of the tube. The other was still liquid, but just barely. 

I'm going to buy some decent lash glue tomorrow so I'll update with pictures of the lashes when they're applied. Can anyone reccemmend me a good but not too pricey lash glue?

These lashes are €2.99 a set in Aldi, available until stocks last.