Showing posts with label Hot Topic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hot Topic. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

Hades, Oh Wait, I Meant to Say "James Woods"

Sooooo, this is my second part of my Disney Villains series of looks, yaaaaaay.  I chose Hades from "Hercules" because I just had bought a great cheap turquoise eyeliner AND i was *gasp* watching Family Guy and one of the episodes with James Woods was on so obvi my series of thoughts would go James Woods->James Woods playing James Woods playing Hades playing James Woods, because honestly, that character is pretty much all Mr. Woods, haha.  Love it so much though and even though Meg is not teeechnically a "princess," she has one of the best songs.  I used to listen to it on tape during road trips over and over again, because we were going the distance, ahhhhhhh. 
 Wish I had some tooth coloring to do his creepy jagged teeth, alas, until a later day....
 This look was more of an.. "arty?" take on Hades using certain colors from his character and applying it not quite as literally as my Scar look.  After priming and prepping, I used MAC Eyeshadow in Forgery (silverish) as a base on my lid to brow and under my eye.  I marked out my brows a little with a Hot Topic Black Pencil and did just a mixture of blues from my Makeup Forever 12 Flash Color Case and a Hot Topic Turquoise Pencil.  My lip color was made in the same manner of mixing blues and some things were finished off with Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide on Eye Pencil in Ransom and Binge.  
Overall, I like the eye and the look, buuuuut I would and tried to take off the slightly awk glitter on the side of my cheekbones and such.  I mean, sometimes I look at it and really like it and sometimes I'm thinking I shouldn't have put it up because of the strange glitter.  But I was thinking Nyx Creme Glitter Palette in Ocean Breeze=similar to flames, yeaaah. 
~Shannon

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Be Prepared

Another lovely summer day at my volunteering/kind of job, haha.  I was listening to my ipod from my car to the Interact building and "Be Prepared" came on and I suddenly recalled my Scar makeup look I did this past weekend.  Scar has to be one of my favorite Disney villains (and not just because the love of my life, Jeremy Irons, did his voice).  I was, of course, very upset when Mufasa died but "Be Prepared" was my favorite "Lion King" song and I still loved Scar.  When I was little I called it "Scar's Tango" and literally watched it and rewatched it on VHS to a point of needing a new tape of the Lion King.  
So, I did a semi-literal approach to Scar makeup but not to the point of doing a lion's face :)
I wish the conturing I did on my face showed up better, but I did a lot of highlighting and shadowing to get a more feline (?) look by applying (with a sponge) Ben Nye Creme Highlight CH-0 Ultralite and Creme Shadow CS-3 Character Shadow.  BUT, as a base, I dusted my face with Urban Decay Baked Bronzer to get the whole tanner look, not that it worked on my uber pale skin :P.
 For the eyes, I followed the basic representation of scar in the movie with a dark black liner and filling in my eyebrows with black and then making a shape and filling in with a brown.  I used the Brown and Black from my Makeup Forever 12 Flash Color Case and filled in my lips with the same black.  I softened the  black out with some white on my lips, which was also there to kind of match the white beard-mane without an actual drawn beard.  The literal scar was drawn on with a mixture of Hot Topic Red Eye/Lip Pencil and the Coral color from the Flash Case.

 The song, actually one of the best Disney songs ever and fab in general.  Maybe I could wear it out on yourtube as well...
I teased my hair a bit to match Scar's mane, which is perfect because I have a slight widow's peak too! Has anyone noticed that grownup Simba has total 90's hair?

On another note...just a typical day at Interact, I love this place!
So, even though it now appears that there are a ton of Disney looks in the blog-o-sphere as of late I was thinking of doing a Disney villain theme of looks.  Sounds good?
~Shannon

Monday, July 4, 2011

Cause Baby, I'm Quite Literally a Firework

Happy 4th everyone! I decided to do a patriotic-looking makeup look today.  I started my day with the wayyy bottom look and then added on the "fireworks" for tonight's display of fireworks. 


 I first used my usual Neutrogena concealer and Urban Decay Translucent Powder for my face (combined with some SPF 110 :D).  I used UD's Primer Potion as a base and layered some of the red color from my EyesLipsFace 100-Color Palette on my lids and lightly blended a tiny bit of it into my brow-bone.  I used my UD Liquid Liner in Perversion to do a typical cat's eye and lined my waterline with UD's 24/7 Liner in Electric, with added white lines in Zero.  The fireworks at the corner of my eye was made using Zero and Electric and some of my Hot Topic Red Eye/Lips Pencil. I used UD's Heavy Metal Glitter Eyeliner in Midnight Cowboy to add some sparkle around the liner work and on my lips.  My lipstick had worn off a little when I added the glitter but the initial color is in the last picture and that's Makeup Forever Lipstick in 205.

 I used my new sample from Benefit for my cheeks! Benefit's Posietint.  I've never tried Benefit's tints and from the ah-dor-able sample, I can tell I find it simply smashing.  The color and consistency is very pretty and it seems to wear well.  Though, I really have my sights set on Givenchy's tint...so I guess my makeup desires will have to fight each other :)
Patriotic daywear.  Could be seen perhaps...not on the forth? Yes? No?
Soooo, I'm watching the show "Hoarders" right now and am most def having the desire to clean and maybe not look at my makeup in fear of becoming a makeup hoarder :P.  At least I know there are no mummified cats in my makeup.  Just my adorable dog trying to log into skype by stepping on my computer.  Oh, Lucy, what will I do with you?
15-years-old and reading the newspaper? Love my puppy!
~Shannon