Inspired Look: 2ne1's CL and Kat Von D

I did an inspired look of both icons that I love but not on myself. There are times that I want to apply makeup on my face but the camera and my face itself were not in the mood, and I couldn't do it well. Sigh..

I asked my two cousins if I can paint their face for a day. First look is inspired by 2ne1's baddest female and their Leader CL. The photo is from their photo shoot from the famous designer Jeremy Scott and the inspired look for my cousin Shane.

  

I couldn't remember some of the stuffs I used coz as far as I remember we did this point and

shoot thing around August or September of last year, but what I precisely remember is that there's supposed to be a lip tattoo very much similar to CL's, but when I applied it on Shane's lower lip it looked pretty bad, the horizontal lines didn't go well and looked too big, 

so I used a white eyeliner, white eyeshadow and black gel liner instead.

Products Used:

Face

Revlon Colorstay Liquid Foundation

 mixed with

 Sugar Skull Cosmetics dark concealer

Origins pressed powder

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 15 concealer palette

Maybelline powder blush in Strawberry

Eyes

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 88 metal palette (silver eyeshadows)

Etude House Code B gel eyeliner in Strong Black

Elf black eyeshadow

Christian Dior pencil eyeliner in Noir

Avon Extralast Mascara in Black

Cheeks

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 10 blush palette (for contouring)

Lips

White eyeliner

White eyeshadow

Etude House Code B gel eyeliner in Strong Black

For Kim I tried to recreate and be inspired by what Kat Von D looked at 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. I've always been wanting to do a makeup look like hers but I failed to do so..Fortunately it looked good on my cousin, more importantly, her signature tattoo, the stars on her left temple.

Products Used:

Face

Revlon Colorstay Liquid Foundation

 mixed with

 Sugar Skull Cosmetics medium concealer

Origins pressed powder

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 15 concealer palette

Maybelline powder blush in Strawberry

Eyes

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 88 metal palette (used frosty pink and metallic gold)

Etude House Code B gel eyeliner in Strong Black

Elf black eyeshadow

Christian Dior pencil eyeliner in Noir

Avon Extralast Mascara in Black

Cheeks

Sugar Skull Cosmetics 10 blush palette (for contouring)

Lips

Mac Russian Red lipstick

I'll be posting more inspired looks soon from my favorite Kat Von D!!!

I love this Mi Vida Loca look and I'll be using 78 Color Block Palette.

Singapore ~ Malaysia Beauty Haven

I've been to Singapore and Malaysia late of last year, and found amazing cosmetics from different stores, both big and small. Singapore is such a beautiful country. Everything that I want and need in my life's in there. Convenience, clean and safe surroundings.. cosmetics stores that I love, insane fashion that I want, don't forget the crazy climate.

Whereas Malaysia and Philippines are so much alike when it comes to the climate and commercial places.

Though mostly Chinese, Malays and Indians reside in SG, they are so K-popped in everything. Most Korean cosmetics are admired by beautiful Singaporean women.

Everytime I ride the MRT I see busy gals from work, wearing their fashionable outfit and outrageous makeup look. Most Singaporean-Chinese gals have their hair dyed from medium to dark blonde, like a Himegyaru. Strong eyeliners and thick false eyelashes.. so falsies were everywhere. Eyes were glittery, some were smokey. Pale nude lips. Skirts, killer heels and a Louis Vuitton speedy bag, or Neverfull bag. For beautiful Indian women, they wear smokey eye makeups, contoured cheeks, darker lip shades.

The pretty Lioele Cosmetics Beauty Assistant testing the Lioele 3d powder and mosaic blush on my face.She couldn't speak English well so she talked to me in Chinese the whole time, but she nods to every question I ask her. She's really really pretty in person!! Unfortunately I didn't buy any from the store .

Most drugstores carry Korean cosmetics like Peripera, Lioele, Clio.There's Etude House, The Face Shop, Nature's Republic. For Japanese makeups there's Candy Doll and Dollywink.

Also there's Sally Girl, Canmake, Revlon, Za, SHeene, and so many brands I couldn't even remember! For luxurious ones there's Chanel, the beauty advisors were local, then Yves Saint Laurent where we met a Filipino beauty advisor who gave me a few tips and the contact number for L'Expertise where I can apply as a beauty advisor, like him.Unfortunately when Sephora gave me a call I'm already back in the Philippines.

Dewy look for foundations are in, they're even blessed with good skin, good genes and zero pores. Even Singaporean-Chinese men are so blessed.. and pretty..

My very realiable waterproof freezeproof shockproof dustproof digital camera blew off! now I coudn't do several FOTD's and makeup inspirations. If I have a chance I'm planning to do a look inspired by these sweet beautiful things I saw hanging when I went to Waterfront, Sentosa Island.

Here's a tip I discovered while I was in SG.. If you want to catch men's attention without doing anything. WEAR A BRIGHT RED LIPSTICK. I dunno, it works every freaking time!

I wonder where's Memeth and Louis, british-american guys we met in Sentosa

who offered us a few drinks but April felt scared we didn't entertain them.

They were nice though, and Louise reminds me of Brody Jenner, it's just his hair's curly.

How do you love Singapore lovelies? Any fashion and beauty finds in there?

Share it with me.

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!

Mac Cosmetics at SM Mall of Asia

Last Saturday has been one of the longest day for me. As soon as I woke up I've been to different places and got home at 4:30am. The next day has got to be one of the shortest coz I just slept all day. Prior to Saturday, I've been an insomniac so all of the tiredness and sleeplessness has taken its toll after I got home from a long day of enjoying, laughing and.. getting mad.

I went to SM Mall of Asia with mom, cousins and aunt. We spent our night there while waiting for my cousin as she's attending an annual Young Hoteliers and Restaurateurs Power Conference at the SMX Convention center, which ended around 11pm.

To kill time while waiting, I went to different stores. As I was walking past through the Yamaha Exhibit, I accidentally raised my head and saw the new boutique at the 2nd floor. I was exhilirated!

I felt sad when I found out that my favorite big sanctuary Marrionnaud's gone, but still I'm so happy to see a new solo Mac Cosmetics Store.

I've been hearing and reading comments  from female forums from the Philippines that some Beauty Advisors from Mac Cosmetics at the Marrionnaud Mall of Asia  were a bit snobbish and not so nice..Based from my experience, I've encountered one that day as soon as I entered the store. Coz of her, I remembered this Sales Advisor who was really nice and did my makeup when I bought a Mac Studiotech foundation way back 2008.

Whenever I go to Marionnaud I look for her but I guess she stays at Mac Cosmetics in Glorietta, so I haven't seen her since.

 Marionnaud way back 2008

I brought along my 13 year old cousin, who's never a fan of cosmetics but loves to see what's in there.

The moment I entered the store I've seen 3 Beauty Advisors and one of them if I'm not mistaken is a lady guard wearing white. I tried to check almost all the makeup displays coz

I just wanted to explore the store since it's new and I have to kill time. I asked one B.A. about the latest price of their Studio tech foundations and tested a few powders like Careblend powder and Studiofix powder. She's nice and kind.

Well then, some of them were nice, but one has offended me a bit coz of her attitude, 

the way she approaches customers were not good as well. Maybe if I bought something she'll be nice to me & to my cousin, she doesn't want to entertain questions unless I'll really buy omg you know how you are. I've posted her picture here before but since I'm kind enough I deleted it.

Anyways, imagine the smile on my face when I saw the store. :) It's heaven!!! ^_^

Purr by Katy Perry Inspired Eyes and Future Cosmetics Business Update

So a few days ago I posted my nails inspired by my Purr bottle, and now I'll be posting my Purr perfume inspired eyes, using my 78 Color Block Palette from my most awaited (or is it just me? lol) cosmetic line.. I'm getting more and more impatient.. Everything is settled now, but I still have to work on the logo. I need a good printing shop, all I can find are lame shitty shops who are too expensive but can't get any of my demands right.

So here's the look, most of the colors are basically pink blue and purple only.

This is the palette that I used and I'm so in-love with this one. I think I should have every palette that my future store will offer, coz I myself is addicted to it. It's the 78 Color Block palette. I'm naming my cosmetics line as Sugar Skull Cosmetics.

The palette is so pigmented. Too bright indeed. It's a mixture of matte and shimmer eye shadows. There are lip creams that are opaque, powder blushes and contouring powders.

Color pops out more under white base, easily blendable by fingers, but it is less messy if we use a flat eyeshadow brush!

What makes me more excited is that I sent a message to my favorite artist Callowlily, I asked her if she can do a portrait for my store. I asked for price quotations and mode of payments... She sent me a personal message.

I'M FREEEEAAAAKKIINNNG EXCITEEEEED CAN YOUUU EVEN TELLLLLL??!!

 

Now my main problem is I don't have paypal, so I might ask for a help from friends.

She's the artist behind these wonderful artworks that I really really love.

She also made the logos for these cosmetic lines:

Kupcake Kutie Kosmetics

  

Bitch-Slap! Cosmetics

Ruthless Cosmetics 

and accessory lines Sugar Mafia

 Torture Couture

 

Seeing her artworks makes me wanna puke rainbows. She's such a good artist, and I'm so excited for my own lil business. I didn't know that establishing something although it's small could be this hard.