Drag tastic! Lycanthropica does Drag Make up

So I am back after a while away. I will post about that later, right now I am too excited and want to post about the Drag make up class I attended last weekend!!

It was held at 3 Arts Make Up College in Sydney (which is luckily a 10 min walk from my house) and is also where I did my beauty and fashion make up course.

This was my teacher!!!! Philmah Bocks! She was amazing!

She makes all these wigs herself, from foam they are super light and super amazing looking and completely drenched in glitter!

The main reason I wanted to do this course was to be able to use the skills I learned here on girls. Most goths / lolitas are into having biiiiggggg eyes and HUGE eye make up. Not to mention drawn on eyebrows. So covering up existing eyebrows was a big thing I wanted to learn here.

I initially wanted to do this class on my own face but my teacher at 3 arts said that it would be in my best interest to use a model so I could really see what I was doing, to be less influenced by my normal make up routine and also because it is harder to do make up on other people as you are not used to their face shapes.

Hmmmmm, This was going to be difficult to choose, most of my friends who are boys have beards or are REALLY feminine looking goth guys. I didn't want to use either of those as it would be too hard or too easy.

So I think, hmm who has an sexy male face without face hair who would be willing to be my victim?!

Mr Reptilian, jaw line to kill for.

This guy! My awesome friend, lets call him Mr Reptilian (to protect his identity) I constantly catch myself staring at his jaw, lips and INSANE eyelashes!

Seriously his bottom eyelashes are bigger than my top lashes! Also Mr Reptilian has quite manly eyebrows which will be a challenge to cover which is what I am after. Yay!

The class was in my favourite sort of format, the teacher shows you each step on a model and talks about it, you go do it and the teacher walks around asking if you need help and giving you tips.

Philma was in drag while teaching the class but had a neat goatee and was a lil bit masculine so we were told to refer to her/him as Bocks which is apparently the more masculine side of the persona.

I was trying to be pretty delicate applying make up to Mr Reptilian as I have been told that I can be a bit heavy handed, Bocks came over and told me I am was being too delicate and that I should be a bit harder and use mroe product, he grabbed Mr Reptilians face and smeared it with paint stick foundation, Hahahaha it was pretty funny and awesome seeing him being man handled.

Covering the eyebrows was done with spirit gum and SFX wax which was awesome. I had used wax before but never used spirit gum, it really makes the difference, letting the wax set is also important. What you cover the wax with is SUPER important and I would suggest a thick oil based foundation, like the paint stick. I used Ben Nye Cream foundation which is pretty thick and I only wear for going out and dancing as it is quite thick but it was not thick enough to cover the wax on Mr Reptilians face!

This stage is after the foundation, contouring and eye shadow is finished

Here is Bocks model Vince, I was wondering where he found such a normal 'blokey' looking guy for a model and it turns out that Vince and Bocks are married. Wish I was married to an amazing make up artist!! Bocks did use his hands to apply make up which terrified my teachers who were also doing the class haahahha, but it's his husband so meh hahaha! He was very happy to share his products if you didn't have the correct ones in your own kit which was great. Most of my kit is Ben Nye as that is what 3 Arts mostly sells but Bocks used almost exclusively Kryolan, man was I jealous!!! So getting some of their oil based foundation colours for contouring!!

I am not going to go into the whole class but there are a few main tips fot this sort of thing which I will write a post about for each one. These aren't just drag concepts, they are just pretty much fashion make up taken to the extreme.

1. Heavy contouring to create the face shape (high cheekbones, soften jaw etc)

2. Creating a false eye socket (this will be higher than your normal one, requiring you to cover your eyebrows) This makes your eyes look MASSIVE yay!

3. Using fake eyelashes on the new lash line you created rather than your actual lash line

4. Creating amazing eyebrows

5. The type of lighting you apply this type of make up in (esp if you are using this for stage)

6. Making your lips big but not clown face.

Bocks used all browns and neutrals on Vince and did a lot of soft shading on the eye shadow (which you can see in the picture) I have never really been in to 'soft' things and don't really own many neutrals (on purpose so I don't feel tempted to use them) so mine was a little more extreme and Mr Reptilian decided it would be cool to be egyptian or a geisha so I did a bit of egyptian eyes with smaller geisha lips. So mine does not exactly reflect the teachers look but it certainly does use the concepts :)

I will say for these sorts of looks you need MASSSSIIIIVVEEEE fake eyelashes.
I was using sort of big ones on Mr Reptilian but his natural eyelashes are SO HUGE that they just looked the same length :/

Also as he is a boy who has never worn make up it was IMPOSSIBLE to get near his bottom waterline and even hard to apply make up to his bottom eyelid, later on in the night he claimed to have flash backs to this 'traumatising pokeage' which gave him phantom flinches hahahaha!

What do you think?

Breaking all the make up rules - BLUE!

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!! WOOOHOOOO!!
I can't believe I am 27! It all seems down hill from 25 if you ask me.

Last night my super best friend ex boyfriend Aaron took me out for dinner.
I decided to break some beauty rules and wear only blue eye shadow with blue eyes :o

Gah! My fringe (bangs) soo long!

Aaron gave me the best present in the world! I was so excited I screamed and jumped up and down in the car!

Yes! 7 lady Gaga 7 inch picture disc records!

Some people hate Lady Gaga and some people love her. A bunch of my goth friends and I are bbiiiggg Gaga fans, one of these fans is a DJ so we often get to dance to Gaga/Metallica mash up techno songs at goth clubs hahahaha!

Here are some more make up pictures, blue makes me look a bit like a zombie (not in a cool way)
so I will be wearing pink and purple tonight(my actual birthday)
I do like the blue with the gold liner tho :)
Also an excuse to wear that blue MAC peacocky lipgloss

I figured I should post some with glasses because I wear them almost constantly.

Here is a great example of my crazy crimped hair!
My colour is washing out and I have been too busy/lazy to recolour
I love this new shiny headband from ebay.

As it is Friday night, my birthday and I am excited, I am now off to go to a metal show. YAY
Lots of people from interstate are coming to Sydney, which is exciting because Australia is HUGE and we have to travel ages to hang out with eachother.
Have a nice weekend people!
What are you doing on the weekend?

You don't know the power of the dark side, I must obey my master.

...I had been meaning to do some posts about make up that doesn't get blogged about much and so when Ana a reader of Greys awesome blog asked for Yellow swatches I had to obey!

There was some discussion on Grey's blog about Inglot. I love Inglot and think they are totally unappreciated in the make up blog world so was happy to show some swatches of their stuff compared to other yellows.

So below you will find some yellow swatches and a bit about the products.

So the pressed shadows are over TFSS and the loose are over Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy.

The colours in the swatches are:
Pressed shadows:
Sugarpill - Buttercupcake
Inglot- AMC eyeshadow - #60 (this is the pressed eyeshadow)
The Make Up Store -Cybershadow - Ra

Loose Shadows:
HiFi Cosmetics - Rise to fame
Inglot - AMC Pure Pigment - #29
Ben Nye - pigment - Sun Yellow
Shiro Cosmetics - Weepinbell
Spectrum Cosmetics(the one on etsy) - Submarine

A bit about them:

Well originally Ana posted that she wanted a yellow off with Mac, Inglot and Sugarpill.
I don't have any Mac yellows and I think that Make Up Store is not represented enough on the blog scene, they are great! So I threw in Ra cybershadow and some other yellows I had lying around.

Sugarpill - Buttercupcake: What can you say about it? It is SO yellow. Matte-ish with tiny tiny sparkle. This goes on amazing even without primer.

Inglot- AMC eyeshadow - #60: This again is just very yellow but in the container is looks like it has more sparkle to it by a long way. This sparkle doesn't really come out on your skin at all.
I have to use a good primer or base to get this colour out without looking sheer and is it not nearly as blend able as Sugarpill or Make up Store, I put this down to it's sheerness. I guess it's not as pigmented as it seems, would be good if you wanted a subtle yellow but not a light yellow.

The Make Up Store -Cybershadow - Ra: If this was food I would eat it for every meal! Really this is as good as Sugarpill and sugarpill is as good as this one. The only difference is that Ra is way more shimmery. SO blendalicious and yellow and strong *luv*

HiFi Cosmetics - Rise to fame: I threw this one is as it was a cool yellow I had. It is slightly lighter and cooler than the other three above and very very shimmery/sparkly, I think it would go great in a chartreuse / green look. It is very strong over PE and blends well.

Inglot - AMC Pure Pigment - #29: Over PE this is like a yellow punch in your face. I love it. It's very true yellow, very shimmery and very very pigmented.

Ben Nye - pigment - Sun Yellow: Everyone knows these pigments are good and plain and what they say they are really. This is a plain sun yellow very strong pigment, works well with PE.

Shiro Cosmetics - Weepinbell: I threw this one in because it's new and I am excited about it.
I love Pokemon. (Remember when that weepinbell kept eating James head?!)
This is a light cool yellow that would probably go awesome with the HiFi shadow or any green look. Very shimmery nomnomnom!

Spectrum Cosmetics(the one on etsy) - Submarine: This is so yellow that sometimes when I put it on it looks more of a cool colour some how, I'm not sure how that happens. It's a plain matte yellow loose shadow. The Payoff over PE is so different to just normal base. You must use PE with this!


For a pure yellow pressed shadow I would have to vote for Buttercupcake or Ra, depending on what level of shimmer you want.



Here they are in the containers
(top, left to right) Inglot #60, Sugarpill Buttercupcake, Shiro Weepinbell.
(bottom, left to right) Make Up Store Ra, Inglot #29, Ben Nye Sun Yellow, Spectrum Submarine.
oops I left out Rise to Fame sorry!