October has been a great month for book releases. In anticipation of Ashley Poston’s Among the Beasts and Briars, I did a makeup look inspired by the cover.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab comes out this week, and I can’t wait. I wanted to celebrate by doing a makeup look inspired by the beautiful cover.
I started by doing my foundation and concealer before doing my eyebrows.
I applied eye shadow primer and grabbed an eye shadow palette I love that includes the right shade of gold.
I started by applying the gold shade all over my eyelid, and then I added some brown into the crease.
Then I added brown eyeliner to my waterline and a black wing to my lid.
I did a thin line of glitter primer right above my eyeliner and added gold glitter.
Then I added mascara to finish the eye look.
I contoured my cheeks and added some gold highlighter to make me look unforgettable. Heh see what I did there?
Then I drew the constellation from the cover using eyeliner. The eyeliner I used had a star stamp on the other end which was helpful, but you could also draw in the stars yourself.
I added dark lipstick. Mine is a dark purple-y brown, but any dark shade will do.
Finally to complete the look, I added gold lipstick on top.
I’ve been pretty big into skincare for a couple of years now, but COVID has definitely been an up-and-down time for skincare for me. I haven’t been going out, which means I haven’t been wearing makeup as often, which means that I haven’t been washing my face as often as I should. I’m pretty good about it in the morning, but by evening I’ve been getting lazy and just ignoring my face. Needless to say, my skin wasn’t doing very well.
With how long I’ve been stuck inside, I’m beginning to feel like Rapunzel at the beginning of Tangled. In fact, I’ve 100% gone around my house singing “When Will My Life Begin”. While I was doing that I couldn’t help but think this would be the perfect time to do a Rapunzel inspired makeup look. I’m in the process of moving during all of this and don’t have access to all my makeup, so I did the best I could with what I have.
As a glasses wearer and a makeup lover, I sometimes find it difficult to make the two work for me. Either you can’t see my awesome nerdy makeup behind my glasses, or I find mascara smudges all over said glasses instead. I still wear contacts a lot of the time if I’m going for a really dramatic eye or a cosplay look, but I’ve definitely learned some tips and tricks to help make my makeup pop (and also keep it off my glasses).
I tend to go slightly overboard when it comes to movie premieres. If I’m not in full cosplay, I definitely geek bound to the max and make sure my makeup is inspired by the movie I’m going to see. Obviously, I was going to go all out for The Rise of Skywalker. I knew I was wearing my Galactic Commander dress from Elhoffer Designs, but what was I going to do with my makeup? Clearly, the answer was R2D2 inspired makeup. I love all the Star Wars droids (I relate to D-O so hard), but R2 is always going to be my favourite.
Disney+ launched this month which has a lot of us rewatching our favorite Disney classics. As a child my favorite was Cinderella. I watched it so many times that I wore out more than one VHS tape of it and had to wait for it to come out of the vault again before we could get another one. Along with Cinderella, my other favorite princess was—and still is—Princess Leia.
Halloween is coming up. That means it’s the perfect time to dress up all month long. In case you don’t want to wear a full-blown costume every day in October (though why wouldn’t you?) there’s always Disneybounding. I love coming up with a good Disneybound and piecing together the perfect outfit pieces and accessories. However, you know what I love even more? Coming up with the perfect Disneybound makeup.