Helloween is just around the corner and it's time to start thinking of wounderful ideas!
Some tutorials I have coming up include:
Bride of Frankinstine makeup
Bride of Frankinstine hair
Pin Up Zombie girl
Pop Art Boy
Sugar Skull (-yes I know its been done before, but i love them so much I just have to do one.)
Marie Antoinette - dead
Terminator - revamped (- this may wait until next year...)
Drowned Victom
And a few others I'll leave as a suprise ;)
Please excuse this blog. I'm writting away on my phone. Spelling and gramour is bound to be off.
More than normal.
This is the first in a series (well actually if I'm being perfectly honest, it's the second. The first was filmed around 2 months ago, but I haven't edited it or up loaded it yet) in a new series that I decided to do. I've been thinking about it for a while, but I've been so busy working on film and other projects that I haven't actually got very far yet. But here we go!
This is a look inspired by House Lannister from the Song of Fire and Ice Game of Thrones series. If you haven't read the book or watched the TV series, I highly recommend it. It's a bit grim in places, but well worth it. Fantastic storey line. The books are beautifully written and it is so easy to pick it up and start reading and not realise that a few hours have gone past. The TV series is brilliant. I can't even imagen the budget they must have for that show.
The set's, the costumes, the wigs - everything about it is so beautifully put together and done that it's so easy to get lost in the world they have so stunningly created.
The Lannister colours are Red and Gold, and they are associated with all things opulent, rich and powerful. While the family motto is "Hear me Roar" it is more comment to hear "A Lannister always pays his depts". And indeed they do. Whatever you maybe rewarded for helping a Lannister, you can expect double if you betray them.
Powerful and rich and filled to the brim with cunning, if you get on the wrong side of a Lannister, no expense will be speared in making sure they pay you back for it.
I don't want to give anything away for those who haven't read the book or see the show, so I wo't say anything more about it, but please enjoy the look.
In keeping with the rich and opulant nature of the Lannister's I used all golds and bronzes on the eye, keeping the lip red. I did use a lot of different colours for this look, but you don't have to use every single product I used. Skiping out one or two of the bronze colours won't have a huge impact on the look.
Please check out the youtube video here:
Enjoy!
Products used: Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Inglot #355 Inglot #30 Inglot #27 Inglot #430 Inglot #606 Inglot #605 Inglot #607 Inglot #55 Inglot #107R Inglot #329 and #363 Inglot #189 - loose pigment Revlon Colour Stay Liquid Linder Mascara Inglot AMC #66 - Face and Body Illuminator Mac Minteralized Skin Finish Natural - Medium Plus Inglot 107R in brows with an angle brush Inglot #27 Blush Illamasqua Powdered Metal #Thalia Illamasqua Bronzing Duo #Glint and Writhe (dark colour) White liner on water line Illamasqua #Torment lip liner Inglot #63 Lip colour
Until next time xox
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Ok. Let's be honest.
I'm not amazingly good at keeping up with my blog. 2 post's in a year. That's ok right?
Mostly because I'm not sure how to work it and make it user friendly. But I'ma try and sort that stuff out. But it's confusing business this Blogging and I'm still trying to work it out.
I shall endeavor to do better! And if anybody out there on the big wide web has some tips they would like to share with me, I shell gladly receive it :)
I'd also love it if you could follow me on my Facebook page under my buiness name under "Alchemy Makeup Artistry" I keep up to date with that, and post photos and updates all the time.
Go there and check it out! Here's a link :)
Actually this is just a test, but there are great things to come! New videos and tuts -might even do some reviews of products iv tried that I like/don't like. Sounds niffty yes? Stay tuned! :) x
So I've been out of the loop completely for a little while, and the reasons for this is that I am currently studying Diploma of Specialist Makeup Services. I am loving every second of it, and learning so much, but it is pretty full on.
On top of this I also hooked up with a fantastic Photographer whom I absolutely love to pieces and am so lucky and blessed to know. Her and the team have been doing a lot of shoots lately so, to the point that last month we were doing 2 shoots a week. Often the shoots start at 6.30 and will go until 2-3 in the morning and then I have to get up and go to school or work, so I have been totally swamped with School/work/photo shoots/homework and assignments, as well as helping out a friend with makeup for a short film she was shooting for part of her 3 year course. Busy busy, but totally loving it!
Would love to get back into blogging and youtubing but it may not be for a while. Would also really love for people to send me requests as I have a million ideas in my head, but no way I can work through them all, so if I know what people want, it will give me somewhere to start! Here is a quick look at some of the work I have done with Shami and the Caveboy crew.
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Arg I had so many plans for more halloween looks this year, and I just haven't had time to do them! I just started work (after moving back to Australia), its been about 3 months of not working since I left the UK (there was a lot of traveling and spending time with both my, and my partners folks in New Zealand before moving back here) and the it's taken it out of me.
So I am enjoying my new job, although there is sooo so much to learn, and I have had alot of homework and things to do after work, and I haven't had much time until now. I am starting to get the hang of things a lot more now, and now have more time to do things after work (and more energy! Do you know how much work takes out of you when you haven't worked for a while? I never did until now! I think that is the longest in my life I have been without a job since I left school haha) That last few weeks I have been trying to organise all of my aplications and everything I need to apply for school next year (makeup school! Wish me luck! I am up to stage 3! what a mission haha) Last week was devoted to sorting out my costume for myself and my boyfriend for the Boho Ball last weekend. Sooooo *this* week I had planned to do as many more halloween tutorials as I could, and get some of the requests I had done .... and now I have been struck down with the lurgy! I have spend 2 days in bed, and another off work, and everday after I got home I have gone straight to bed, and now the weekend is 2 days ago and I haven't had a chance to do anything! I am so dissapointed with myself and I feel like I have been a let down. So I am realllllly sorry, and I am really going to make an effort to set aside more time for any requests that I may get from now on, if I decide to do them. Anyway I hope you all have a wonderful halloween anyway! love and laughs, Manda xx
Luis Royo has some dark and sometimes disturping images, but they are never the less very beauiful. A lot of his work features woman wearing not much, but they are often strone worrors.
A lot of them have strange body and serface peircings, and tattoos and markings as well. I think they are really beautiful though.
This is my take on one of the Dark Moon 2010 images. You can see the one I used above.
I don't know if that flash of read down the side was there, but I wanted to add it in, because other wise the look is very black and white. You can decide for youself what you would like to do. I think it would be cool to add a bit of red just above the eye and at the top of the brow from the arch to the end. That to me would give it more of a Maiko feel.
From the research I have done, Maiko tend to wear more red than a Geisha. Products used:
Luis Royo has some dark and sometimes disturping images, but they are never the less very beauiful. A lot of his work features woman wearing not much, but they are often strone worrors.
This is my take on one of the Dark Moon 2010 images. You can see the one I used above.
