HALLOWEEN!

Halloween is by far one of my favorite holidays! This year, I was a little too short on cash to buy a Halloween costume (saving up for a car and all that noise), so I used my make-up talents and some youtube tutorials to help me dress up instead. :)

This was my work make-up look! Andrei the Kitty Kat :)

This look is taken almost step for step from StephBusta's Halloween Tutorial: Kitty Cat. Mine is a little different, because I don't own gel liner, and she uses that a lot, but it came out just fine. Instead of black lipstick, I used black cream eyeshadow, and instead of the oily black eye shadow she uses, I just did a simple black smokey eye.

This was my Halloween night look! Andrei the Black Widow :)

This look was adapted from MissChievious's Spider Queen Black Widow Make-up. I decided to use red eyeshadow instead of blue, because black widows are red and black, not black and blue. (I love MissChievious, but I thought it was stupid to use blue for a black widow. Maybe I'm too nit-picky.) These pictures aren't the best, but it was a rather glittery look, because I used black glitter from the craft store under the arches of my eyebrows. I used two different dark red lipsticks blended in with the red eyeshadow to make the color pop as well. I think my favorite little touch was that I used red lip liner as an eye liner, and rimmed my waterline with it. Red really makes the whites of your eyes pop, and gave me a creepy, zombie look, too.

By the way, speaking of red lipsticks.... Recently, I purchased a bright red lipstick from Target, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! It's the Sonia Kashuk line. I bought the lipstick in Sheer Rosebud, and matching lip liner in China Red. There's also a really pretty, dark red called Bordeaux, which would have been perfect for both make-up looks I did.(You can find it here: Sonia Kashuk Luxury Lip Color - Bordeaux) The lipstick leaves your mouth glossy without any added lip gloss, was super comfortable, and didn't chap my lips, like some other lipsticks do. Used with the lip liner as a base, the color lasted me all day! I would seriously recommend it :)

Both of these looks took me about forty minutes to do. Not too shabby, huh? I was pretty proud of myself for my adaptations, especially since Halloween cost me $0 this year because of them. Yay for celebrating in style and on a dime! Hahahaha.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Love, Andrei