Simple Batgirl Halloween Costume/Makeup Tutorial

So Halloween is coming up quick and I know there's people like me out there who love Halloween but have the hardest time coming up with a costume or making one happen... For as much as I love the holiday, I'm usually super lazy about the costumes I wear.

A few years ago I was a bum Yoshi (aka me in a green hoodie, green sweatpants and a tail sewn on...). The next year I just wore a pin up dress I owned and did my hair and my boyfriend was trying to go as Larry King but looked more like Colonel Sanders.... And last year I just went out in my normal clothes with a slit throat haha

So this year I put a real effort in to my costume, but I'm honestly not a huge fan of the costume sets sold in most Halloween stores. I didn't want to be a "sexy" batgirl or really "sexy" anything. C'mon, It'll be late October in Minnesota, I need my ass covered! So I put together this costume from a few things at the Halloween store and a few things I had at home.

 

I did all my actual shopping at the Spirit Halloween Store on a weekend when everything was 30% off. I got the tank top/cape for $23 (+ the discount) and the gloves/mask for $10 (I believe...). The shorts were $9. I had the thick sparkle tights, combat boots and yellow belt already. And that's the costume! I curled up my hair and did some pin up-esque makeup and transformed in to vintage

Batgirl!

 

 

 

So there you have it, my ultra geeky, simple Batgirl look! I hope everyone has a fun, safe Halloween!!!

XOXOXO

 

Effie Trinket Hunger Games Inspired Makeup Tutorial

Here's my Hunger Games Effie Trinket inspired makeup tutorial! I bought this crazy dress the other day and once I put it on, I knew I had to do a Hunger Games look with it. It was waaaay too gaudy to do nothing with ;)

Enjoy!

Look of the Day!

So it's my day off work and I basically spent it watching movies and getting cute! Hurray for free days!!!

I look like a school teacher with the glasses on :D

Titanic Inspired Makeup Tutorial

To celebrate my faaaavorite movie Titanic coming back to theatres in 3D this April, I decided to create my own Titanic inspired tutorial. Enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIE!!!!!!!!!!!

So its my best friend Marie's birthday today, and she  let me do her hair and makeup for her big bash!

She wanted a fun, retro but not too crazy look, so I went with red shadow to match her dress over the black, winged liner.

AND! I had some lovely bejeweled fake lashes for her to wear : )

Her hair is always an adventure.  Its LONG and super super thick, so I had to divide it all in a few pony's then curled and wrapped them around to create a lot of messy curls.

And I had to give her a little curl in the bangs!

Sort of a barbarella-esque look, and she rocked it!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOME SLICE!!!!!!!!!!

A Few Styles

My friends are going to get sick of me in class! I hound them every Saturday to let me do their hair!

The lovely Kelsey....

We Have a Winner!!

So I finally figured out what I'm going to do for my school's Salon Fair.  As I said in my last post, my model Mollie's hair was less than accepting of curl.  I originally wanted to do a full fingerwave look on her, but every time I tried the product would either not hold, or the style would flop from the weight of whatever lotion I used.

Then I tried a fingerwave in the front, pincurl in the back look.  Same result, and it just looked disconnected with the fingerwaves not brushed out.

As a last effort, I pincurled her bangs to create a pomp-curl look, and used white perm rods to wrap the rest of her hair in a rectangle wrap.  I stuck her under the dryer for 45 minutes (she was not pleased! She cannot sit still!) and low and behold, it worked!  I just used water for the perm rod wrapped hair and used a little setting lotion for the pincurls.

After brushing it out, she got kind of an ice cream sunday look to her bangs, and I poofed out the rest of the curls to give it a "gothic lolita" doll-ish look.  That's what we decided to go with. 

For the final look, we're going to make everything bolder and give her some nice fake eyelashes for her upper and lower lids, to really make her eyes pop.

All together, I'm extremely pleased and I can't wait to get the entire look put together next Wednesday!!! I'll post pictures!