Vampy purple eyes tutorial

So I did this for my vampire halloween costume and thought at least one of you might be interested.

Products used (obviously you can use whatever you want or have on hand):
- Lush Feeling Younger illuminator
- MAC Crush Metal Pigment 1 (a dark purple and pinky lilac)
- Lush Eyes Right mascara
- Benefit Benetint cheek and lip tint
- MAC Fluidline eyeliner in Blacktrack
- MAC Carbon eyeshadow
- MAC Painterly paint pot
- Revlon Colorstay eyeliner in Black

You're going to want to start with a base or primer of some sort, to keep the shadow from creasing, fading, making sure it's as vibrant as possible, etc.

Apply Painterly (or something similar) all over the lid and brow bone. Wait a minute for it to set.

I bought these from AllCosmeticsWholesale.com here. And so far all that I've bought from them has been real, so I'd recommend this website for cheap and discontinued makeup.

Anyhow, apply a shimmery lilac eye shadow to the lid and a little bit above the crease. Then apply a dark purple in and above the crease in a sideways v (so the purple is in the crease as well as going towards the outer corner), there should be some colourless space between the shadow and eyebrow. Apply some MAC carbon to the outer corner of the v to darken it. Take a fluffy brush with no colour on it and blend the dark purple outwards to get rid of any harsh lines.

Line the upper lid thickly with a black gel eyeliner (MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack) getting thinner towards the inner corner. Then line the upper and lower waterlines with a black waterproof pencil eyeliner (Revlon Colorstay) 3/4 of the way in.

Apply whichever mascara you like, waterproof is best, but I really like Lush's Eyes Right because when I wash it off it doesn't take any of my eyelashes with it.

Apply a red cheek tint (Benefit Benetint) to the apples of your cheeks and an illuminator (Lush Feeling Younger) to your cheekbones and cupid's bow

Then apply a dark lipstick if you want it extra vampy.

So apparently everyone had imaginary friends except me

I think this may be the reason why I'm so messed up. Everyone talks about imaginary friends like 'oh yeah, I totally had those' and I'm starting to realise that I never had one, or at least I have no recollection whatsoever of having one.

Are imaginary friends an important part of childhood?

Totally just bought 4 500ml bottles of Lush's limited edition Twilight shower gel

I love this shower gel so much. It came out about a year ago (for like a week because it was so popular) and I bought an itsy little 100ml bottle, which I have regretted ever since. It would have been better to get none over that tiny bottle. I love it so much that it has ruined my shower gel life. This is the only shower gel I want to use, but I can't use it all the time or it'll be gone.

It's friggin' delicious smelling, I wish I could drink it. I'm not a huge lavender fan, only when it's dried, but this shower gel smells so good. Its like lavender and musk and malty deliciousness.

Also it leaves my skin soft and doesn't dry it out.

So you should go buy it before it's not available anymore. It's awesome. I don't think it's available in Australia, not sure if it will be, it is available in the UK and US. I'd recommend buying it online from the UK website because it's a bunch cheaper than anywhere else.

Spidergate

Yet another spider has ventured into my room. This one is quite a lot larger than the rest.

He was hiding behind my laundry basket and scared the bajeesus out of me. This was three days ago...I haven't seen him since, I've been scared of touching anything I can't clearly see ever since.


In other news, my dog keeps on looking at me like this:

And I don't know what he wants.

A creepy guy on the bus creeped me out and that makes me mad

So this guy on the bus yesterday morning was being generally creepy, asking for my number, trying to get my home address, telling me that I smelled nice, etc. and it made me really uncomfortable and I'm pissed off about that.

I'm a feminist, so I'm pretty well versed in women's issues, specifically rape. I keep on reading all these stories about women being harassed and followed home and stalked and such and it freaks me out a lot. I've never had this kind of thing happen to me before, this is the first time a guy has hit on me and I've felt trapped. Usually it'll be at a party or something, they'll say whatever and I'll walk away. But on a bus I didn't have the option and that scared me.

This guy was sitting behind me, he introduced himself when I got on and asked if he could sit next to me, I said "...okay" and I now know that that was a bad response because he didn't take that as, 'she obviously doesn't want me to sit next to her, I should leave her alone.' he took it as me saying 'Okay! I would love for you to sit next to me.' So he sits next to me and I'm like, 'Oh shit, what do I do now?' He asks me all sorts of questions, all of which I give fake answers to, except when he asks me if I have a boyfriend. Stupidly, I say that I don't have a boyfriend. I could have ended all of this by saying that I had a boyfriend, I'm sure he would have left me alone if I had.

It makes me so mad that someone is allowed to make me so uncomfortable to the point that I feel like I have to lie in answer to all of his questions. I shouldn't have to worry about whether this guy will somehow find out where I live or that he'll stalk me and maybe rape me. It's complete bullshit that I have to feel so paranoid and anxious on a bus. I was literally shaking in my seat terrified of what was going to happen next.

He got off at the same stop that I did, walked next to me for a while even when I went an unconventional route. Eventually he had to go in a different direction to me. What makes me even madder was that he tried to kiss me, I turned my head so he just got my cheek, but it makes me so mad that someone feels that they have the right to do that without my permission.

The rest of the day I couldn't stop looking around me. It pissed me off that that ruined my day, I still had a nice time shopping with my friend, but I was paranoid and anxious all day.

Oh God, what did I just do to myself?!

I just drank two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in a cup of water. The internet told me it would cure me of my sinusitis (yeah, I'm sick yet again), but half way through drinking this cup of death a thought occurred to me. From my understanding, my stomach is in no way connected with my sinuses. I may have just drunken that horrible concoction for no reason.

Drinking apple cider vinegar, even diluted in water, is the worst thing ever. I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect it to taste quite as bad. Maybe because I saw "apple" and thought, 'hey, I like apples'. Let me tell you, it does not taste like apples. It tastes like it will make me worse than make me better.

I'm worried that apple cider vinegar is supposed to cure the sore throat that can accompany sinusitis, but I don't have a sore throat.

If this doesn't cure me I am going to be so mad.

There's a cat in my garden so I fed it tuna

Sounds like the opening line of a storybook, right? Nope, there's a cat in my herb garden and it scared the bajeesus out of me.

There I was, weeding my garden, growing increasingly frustrated that the taps around my garden don't work and therefore I can't water my plants. When suddenly I hear a growling sound as I reach over the other pots to pull some weeds from around my chives plant. I pause like, "what the truck was that?", realise that something is growling at me from the bushes and jump back, my hand at my throat. Not even kidding, I had a flash of that scene in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban where there's a wolf thing growling at Harry from the bushes as he waits for the Knight Bus.

Anyway, it turns out it was cat. A very angry cat from having me disturb its hiding place. Well it shouldn't have been hiding in my garden, now should it?

So I brought it some tuna hoping to make a new animal friend, but that just seemed to make it angrier.