HALLOWEEN.

I get so so excited about this time of year, I think the older I get the better it gets for me. This Halloween I had a few thoughts on what to be, and I actually ordered a Cheerleader outfit off the internet and wednesday came (a day before Halloween) and it still wasn't here so I had to have a plan B. My roomate, Kate and I were looking over what we had and we came across old leotards that we had. We then put some tights on, facepaint and a pair of ears and we were all ready and scary!

As you can see there was a lot of fake blood and we used liquid latex to make the wounds and bloody up the bunny ears and our arms to make us look like reeeeal zombie bunnies! The only thing I would say is that the make up tended to look quite messy when it came to the end of the night as dancing wore it off and we couldn't bring clutches to touch it all up! The make up we used a liquid facepaint in a tube which we thought we would put in a small dish and add with water as otherwise it became quite thick and hard to spread when it dries a little which makes it become patchy. This was applied with a small make up sponge.For the eyes we basically did the same but with the black paint and used a paint brush this time to do a circular shape around the eyes from the eyebrow bone to just above the cheekbone to give the 'dead' look. As we were meant to be 'dead bunnies'/'ware-bunnies' we wanted to do whisker type things but not in the usual way that bunnies have whiskers so we painted out top lip black with a thin paint brush and did a flick from it to half way up our cheeks with lines going horisontally from it to create the look of stitches. The little black bunny nose was also very easy to do by just marking out with a thin brush how big you would like it to be then colouring it in. To finish it we just put a line going down from our noses to our lip to also give the bunny look.

For the Saturday night we took another approach to the whole Halloween look. Although it was fun to be completely covered in facepaint we thought we would go for a bit of a tamer look and were leopards, original, I know. This one was really fun as I did our face paint and did some spots on one side of our face along with the usual nose and had massively long and thick fake eyelashes, which was a bit of a 'prettier' look to Halloween, especially as the majourity went all out on the Thursday. We felt a lot happier with the minimal look and a little more confident so maybe if you're not one to go all out this would be a better look for you.
For the actual costume side I felt you don't really need to do too much as the make up says it all and going overbpard with leopard print can be very risky! I went for a simple black dress from H&M for £7.99 a Gold pointy necklace from Primark (to resemble teeth) £4 and my Nude shoes also from H&M a coupple of years ago which I think were only around £15, so you don't need to spend lots to dress up! Make-up wise it wasnt as hard to do as it may look. It's a sort of one sided idea which my friend originally showed me a picture of and asked me to recreate. Face. I started with the foundation and lots of bronzer to give off the colour of a leopard so orange was acceptable for once! Then I moved on to the nose and the line going down from the nose as a rough divider. after that I put some white paint on one side of my mouth/lower nose area in a kind of oval(ish)shape and painted on the holes for the whiskers. After that I painted the top lip black, some fake blood streaming down one side and then went on to the spots. The spots were just black splodges really, as I think the normal dots look a bit naf so maybe its worth looking up an actual leopard and try and copy the spots as much as you can as they're all different(sizes and shapes)I did those for half of my face - avoiding the white paint and down half of my neck. Eyes. The last thing that was done was eyes, my favourite part. I bought a set of Eyelure false lashes that were quite thick and put a bit of eyeliner on both eyes. I flicked the eyeliner in on the side closest to the nose and out on the farther side, this created a cat look. On the side without the facepaint from the eyeliner up to brow bone and did tiny little leopard prints as I felt it was a little bare.

Looking very moody with the stanadard toilet picture- sorry!

Two Leopards

Kate

I think this was quite late on in the night..