Malice in Wonderland

This weekend I played around with some more costume makeup. I developed my own mad hatter costume and makeup, consisting of a very sparkley top hat, a green dress, some rad tights and shoes, and a suit jackets. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the ensemble. I did get a picture of my makeup though! (I apologize in advance for the awful photos)

 We're all a little bit mad here

My theme for this was clearly black and green. I lined my eyes in black and dusted green eyeshadow around, and blended. I filled in my eyebrows, and added a highlight. Then I applied black lipstick, and dabbed the same green eyeshadow onto the center of my bottom lip and the underside of my top lip. Oh yeah, and I had fake eyelashes on my top and bottom eyelids. Talk about itchy!

Oh, and I had cool green nails too!

 Bloodhail

I began with the teeth face painting for this one, using my band new Wolfe Brothers palette! Then I added bits of tissue around the exposed teeth using a glue stick. Then I applied black cream makeup on top of and around the tissue. I then went over this with thick fake blood. I dotted some of the blood around my mouth and the gash, and did small strokes on my cheeks. Then I applied yellow and green cream makeup around the whole mouth to make it appear infected. Dabbed bruise like colors onto my mouth, and extended it out to make it look like the other side of my mouth was cut. I cut pieces of thread and glued them in an x pattern over my over my lips. I then applied black and red cream makeup

Don't feel, create!

     I haven't quite felt myself lately, nothing really feels right to me anymore. Just some winter..uh fall..blues, maybe? I've had a gut wrenching feeling in my stomach for a couple days now, and my anxiety has been pretty bad. I just feel nervous, I don't really know. It'll pass I'm sure, it's just going to be rough to ride this one out. Once again, I've been painting my face this week. I'm also working on a new painting on canvas. There's one thing I've still got under control, my creativity. That never fails to aid me through some hard times.

Grotesque 

To do this, I paled out my face with white cream makeup, and a sponge. Then I created fine lines, wrinkles, and crevices around my eyes, cheeks, eyebrows, and nose.  I went back in with a brush to blend it out, and make shadows. I also made dark circles around my eyes using a black eye shadow. For the mouth I used cream makeup to draw my mouth extending towards my cheek and filled it in black. Afterwards, I used a brush and gel blood. I applied it all over the black areas and layered it, blending it with the black towards the corner, then taking the blood out further away from the mouth.

 Eddie

This one really is hard to explain. I used regular old face paint, and a fine brush, and really just went at it. Blending, blending, and more blending on this one! I'm noticing I have a thing for only painting half my face..not so much 'cause it looks cool...more 'cause I'm lazy. Ha!

After I finished up the second look, I kinda felt like I looked like this guy! Eddie, from Iron Maiden.