A Vampire Inspired Shoot & A Spooky Photo

I'm a lover of anything vampy, gothic, dark, spooky, freaky and skulls,but I never knew that I wasn't ready to encounter such scary things in real life.I've always loved to have my photos taken with some dark,vintage, vampy effect and one time I've decided to have a vampire themed amateur photoshoot with friends. We got the ideas from the promotional photos of Vampire Diaries,Breaking Dawn 2, Pretty Little Liars and Secret Circle.

I didn't expect that this shoot will turn out to be the freakiest and the most unforgettable one.

Maybe I'll do it again indoors..but still I'm having goosebumps all over my body.

It started last Sunday afternoon while hanging out with friends. We usually hang out and eat at Edward's place. It's one of the most accommodating and comfy house. He lives in a big village, houses far apart from each other, and it's really dark at night. You have to pass through trees, vacant lots, grasses and abandoned houses. The village used to be where my workplace at. At night it's freaky. I've heard a lot of spooky stories both from the actual homeowners and friends of friends. But I worked there for 2 years, and no paranormal activities and strange encounters so far. That day, it was gloomy and rainy.

We ordered some foods, started to do the fun shots after we finished doing our makeup.

Edward showed us a place across their street which is really beautiful. It's just a vacant lot with a narrow road filled with tall green grasses and a white grass that I don't know what to call it, but we refer to it as a "wish plant".

Since Edward has a photo like this, it looks so beautiful.

We were using 2 cameras, 1 Nikon Dslr and 1 Sony TX5 with no flash. While taking some photos, we've been horsing around, being noisy, laughing, playing, flashes are everywhere.. mosquitos biting our legs... something's pricking my back.. noticed it was just a grass..

still terrified coz it feels like I was pricked by a metal or something.. like a very thick metal wire, it even made me cringe and yell "AAAWWW!!" :( Then we talked about the Acacia tree. It's so tall. Maybe it will take 25 steps from our place to that place.

Edward told us the story of their former housemaid who lost her senses after picking something up from that tree. Nobody knows or can tell what exactly had happened but Edward's family, including him, are all terrified about the housemaid's behavior.

Enough of scary stories!! Goin' back to our preparation, it's nothing special, just used a few makeups to make us look vampy. But the after effect of the makeup in the photos are seriously freaky, especially for my friend Antoniette.

Before the vampy makeup, here's my baby faced friend. :)

and then with my magic wand we turned ourselves into a bad-ass vampire ^^

Vampire Makeup How to:

Use a pale foundation.

Vampires have pale, cold, marbled skin

Contour the cheeks and hollow of the eyes.

Vampires have eyes that looks like it has bruises

so use dark brown, brown and plum colored eyeshadows
I used 88 earth palette from Sugar Skull Cosmetics

Skip the blush application,

just contour the hollow of the cheeks heavily. 
Vampires have heavily contoured cheeks, corpse-like

Use berry stained lip tints, plum or wine colored lipsticks

only to the center of the lips, trying to spread outward,

more of like a dried blood I-just-sucked-someone- effect.

For turning pictures into dark, vampy like, photo editing tools are also very important.

It brings out the colors of the makeup used intensely. It can lighten your skin tone, or make it cooler, and even make it luminous like this one.

I love using Cross Process. But for some pictures here I used Cinemarama, and just decreased the temperatures.

Using some of Edward's ipad apps, luminizing the skin and changing the eye colors are possible too. ^^ He did it for me. YEY!!

Using more from his app, giving more effects and see the differences:

 

I would like to share one photo that gave me sleepless nights, back aches and headache,

but I think it's not appropriate to share it anymore. I have this fear that something wrong might happen if I continue sharing it.It came from my Sony TX5 camera, flash removed.

Upon seeing this one photo, I noticed that there's something. I tried to adjust it's brightness then BAHHM!!! I saw an image of a man!!!!

A man with sharp facial features and pointy nose. But then he's not the only creature there..

There are several entities captured that I couldn't see with my naked eyes,

but then some people with third eye can. I've never had this kind of goose bump in my life.

But anyways, Halloween is just around the corner, and I want to be in a Halloween party.

I wish I could see the Day of the Dead event in Mexico, but I also want to see the beauty of Autumn in South Korea.

I don't know where will I be a month from now. Kinda Worried.

I love this photo of mine captured from my digital camera.

Do you have spooky stories and entities captured from your pictures,
I might share with you the pic, c'mon let's share spooky stuffs!

The Cullens Inspired Look and some reviews about Breaking Dawn Part 1

I'm not a Twihard and to tell you honestly I used to think it sucks.

While my friends were busy talking and swooning about Edward Cullen,
 I was too busy googling all day and listening to my beloved Korean pop stars.

I didn't get into the hype easily coz first of all, I don't read books,

and when I saw the movie, I didn't like it.
 It looks so low quality and experimental.

The Twilight movie itself,
which is first directed by Catherine Hardwicke,

is obviously low budget, more of like an indie film. 

The wardrobes were not stylish, makeup sucks (not blended well)

and it's more of like HAPPY FOUNDATION day to the Cullens.

It's really sad coz when I tried to read the book

I realized that it's really awesome but the movie just killed it.

When they changed the director of New Moon to Bill Condon,
the movie started to look better.
For the movie New Moon,
of course the story from the first movie Twilight's better,
but for the effects, makeups and styling I give props to New Moon.

I started to like the saga after watching Eclipse.

The effects and casts were amazing.

It's Boo Boo Stewart's first appearance too!

He plays as Seth Clearwater.

If some of you don't know,

he is of Japanese,

Chinese and Korean descent

from his mother’s side,

and Russian, Scottish and Native American

from his father's side.

KORRREEAAAN Blooood..

Breaking Dawn Part 1 hands down is such a good movie.

Most of the scenes are exactly what I pictured and imagined,

especially Island Esme and swimming at the moonlight scene.

Also, it's the only book that I read from cover to cover.

I read a few pages from Twilight and maybe two pages from New Moon.

The movie itself is really good.
The story is really grown up,

and of course it's the wedding scene
that drove every girls and women frenzy!!

That's the only reason why I'm so excited to see it too.

Every woman's dream is to get married,

and have a spectacular wedding.

First few seconds of the movie is like this.

What are my expectations from the wedding scene?

Kinda like the wedding that I wanted for myself.

A simple but dark, meadow or forest wedding.

Crimson colored roses are everywhere.

 In the movie there are two wedding scenes.

One is a nightmare and one is the real thing.

I prefer the nightmare.

That's the hardcore vampire wedding that I was really expecting.

 Also, I don't like Bella Swan's hair on the real wedding scene.

and doesn't she looked

too haggard and sleepless?

According to the book she looks really pretty

and not even a single hair is out of place.

Hell yeah in the movie her hair's a mess.

The movie is really moving.

You'll really appreciate the sanctity of marriage,

and how important to marry the right person.

It will make you feel how important it is to love and be loved,

and the nerve wracking feeling of your first night together.

yeah he broke the bed.

So people, please marry the right person.

That fantastic whirlwhind feeling is rare.

My favorite soundtrack called
"Flightless Bird / Iron and Wine"

also played when they were exhanging vows

 and it gave me goosebumps. 

Bella's gown looks simple in front,

but it screams

party at the back..

Wedding Dress from Carolina Herrera

 The birthing scene is really scary.

When Bella turned into a bony creature

it was scary as shit!!!!

She even broke her spine!
I knew it will happen but not hardcore!

It's really freaky!!
She didn't even close her eyes.. oh lordy..

To feel the vampire vibes going on as it is expected

that Bella Swan will open her eyes like an avatar and

will turn into a vampire,

I tried to do a Cullen Inspired look before seeing the movie.

Of course I need to see the movie with my boyfriend, and I invited my cousins as well.

We really did enjoy the last full show at the nearest mall. Too bad everyone's busy, we could've seen it in a better mall.

**PRODUCTS USED**

Face:

NYX HD primer

Revlon Colorstay Liquid Foundation in Sand Beige

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 15 concealer palette

Revlon Age Defying powder foundation

Eyes:

Elf eyelid primer and eyeliner sealer

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 88 Earth Palette

Nyx Smokey Look Kit

Avon glimmersticks eyeliner in black

Avon Extralast Mascara in black

Avon Extralast Eyeliner in Shimmering black

Cheeks:

Maybelline powder blush in Strawberry

Nars Orgasm blush

Lips:

Kirkland Borghese dual ended lipliner in Ruby and Maple

Nyx Black Label lipstick in Dusty Rose

I really love the makeups used on her!!!

Still trying my best to figure out

which eyeshadow and lippie shades

will turn out to be like this.

According to the movie Vampires Suck,

it's now the era of vampires.

  

Everything dark, gothic, pale, bloody and freaky are in.
Werevolves, crimes, witches, that's the trend nowadays.

I personally like this concept,
since black is my favorite color of all time.

I remember back in the day
when I used to match
my black eyeshadow

with my plum lipstick.

If there's one vampire series that I particularly like,

it's Vampire Diaries.

Ian Somerhalder is one hot Vampire.

In my honest opinion,
Vampire Diaries is more mature.
Twilight's more on teen romance.

I'm not a teenager anymore so
I prefer mature storylines.

I just hope Harry Potter fans should
stop feeling bitter

about Twihards especially on Tumblr.
Both movies and books were good.

Actually,
Harry Potter is very much appreciated by elementary students
and Twilight Saga are for highschool students.

Both were good but I think bashing online must stop.

Too bad we have to wait for a year for the second part.

I already knew what will happend for part 2.

Since the wedding and honeymoon's over

I'm not excited anymore.

Trivia: The baby used in the movie is Charlie Swan's real son.

Yup, it's a baby boy ^_^