Cat

Everybody wants to be a cat...

You'll Need:

Primer

Light brown eyeshadow

Brown eyeshadow

Rust/brownish red eyeshadow

Foundation

Black eyeliner

Brown eyeliner

Pink lip crayon

Start with a clean face

1) apply primer and foundation

2) use rust eyeshadow on lid, extending it up and out past the crease 

3) use black eye liner to create a cat eye, extending the outer corner and inner corner. Line bottom lash line

4) use light brown eyeshadow to feather the eyebrows up onto the forehead. 

5) drag brown eye shadow from the start of the eye brow down the bridge of the nose. This line should be balanced between the top of the nose and the side, extending lightly past the black eye liner.

6) drag light brown eye shadow from the inner corner of the black liner to where the bridge of the nose and the nostril meet.

7) use brown eye shaddow to color the tip of the nose, around the nostrils and avoiding the actual top of the nose tip.

8) use light brown eye shaddow to deepen the area between the bottom of the nose and the cuspids bow.

9) line top lip with brown eye liner and fill in. Set with brown eyeshadow if needed.

10) fill bottom lip with pink lip crayon. Avoid smacking lips together to keep the colors from blending.

11) use brown eyeliner to create the whisker dots above your mouth.

Costume:

There's a couple of ways to wear this look. You can wear it with regular people clothes, with pajamas (cats pajamas.. Get it?) or you could buy a cat costume at your local costume shop. Either way I'd add a pair of cat ears. 

I LOVED this makeup! I didn't want to wash this one off I was having so much fun making funny faces in the mirror. It made me feel sassy. Haha! 

Classic Vampire

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

Remember the old days when Vampires didn't sparkle? Vampires who stalked at night and were fabulously dressed despite the fact they couldn't see their own reflection.  When being an Italian vampire was worse than death? (Garlic joke) Then you've come to the right place, my friend. 

You'll Need:

Primer

Foundation (that matches your skin tone)

White clown face paint

Black eye shadow

Brown eye shadow

Black lipstick

Red lipstick

Fake blood

Fangs

1) start with a clean face and apply primer

2) mix foundation and white face paint and apply thinly over face and neck.

3) brush black eye shadow through eyebrows creating a point 

4) darken eye sockets with brown eyeshadow, 

 

5) trace frown lines with black eyeshadow and rub in until it blends in with the white "skin"

6) outline lips in black eye liner (I over drew mine for effect), fill in top lip with black. Fill bottom lip with red.

7) insert fangs and apply fake blood

COSTUME IDEAS

White long sleeve shirt, button up recommended

Black pants

Black shoes

Black vest (optional)

Red bow tie

Black cape

Thrift store Halloween costume? Yes please!

Modern Frankenstein's Monster

Modern Monster is an interesting concept. These types of characters look more like humans than the monster which is fascinating to me. I think our culture is obsessed with the idea that monsters don't always look like monsters. Which is why concepts like Frozen and Beastly are popular. This look is inspired by the makeup from I,Frankenstein and also the idea that a person is made up of little pieces from every other person and situation it encounters in its life time. 

You'll Need

Primer

Pink lip pencil 

Scar wax or creepy skin wax

Brown eyeshadow

Purple eyeshadow

Black eyeshadow

Pink lip gloss

Red lipstick

Liquid eyeliner

Fake blood

As always begin with a clean face and apply primer

1) using pink lip pencil draw lines where you want your scars to go. They can be thin or thick, you just need a rough draft before you roll wax onto your skin.

2) press your wax onto your skin. Mine came in a Halloween makeup kit. It gets everywhere. I ended up scraping it out of its little tub with the back of a makeup brush and used the back of the brush to press and roll it into my skin. I used the back of another brush to help blend the edges into the skin.

DO NOT put the wax on your eyelids or very close to your eyes. 

-- for the scars on my neck I simply skipped the wax and used the pink pencil and brown eyeshadow.

You can set the wax with baby powder if you'd like before you move on.

3) using your brown eye shaddow, lightly shade around the scars. This will help give it the effect that the scar is thick and raised up from your normal skin.

4) in parts of the wax that are thicker, pull out some of the wax in the middle of the scar. The back of a makeup brush will do the trick. You do not have to blend the new edges.

5) fill the open scar with a mix of the purple and black eyeshadow. Black in the center and purple toward the edges.

6) fill in open scars with fake blood.

6.5) use pink lip gloss over the closed scar for the shinny effect of new skin.

7) using the liquid liner, create stitches. I went for big and sloppy as I was very impatient at this point. 

8) fill lips with lipstick

Optional: color different sections of your face with different shades of foundation and bare skin. Add white face paint to a bit of foundation to alter it just enough. 

Funny story about this look, I answered the door while wearing it and scared the postal worker. Highlight of my day haha.

Costume:

Modern monster. Wear whatever you want. I think jeans, sneaks, and a hoodie would be fine. 

Holloween 2015!!

October 2015 marks the Thrid Year of this blog and also the beginning of Holloween! I'm so excited you guys! My life is crazy bananas right now. I've moved away from my family, I live in a new state, I got a job, and now it's my favorite month of the year. 

I am so stoked right now that I can be found skipping down the four sections of Halloween paradise (in any store) singing "it's the most wonderful time of the year!" Why? because it Halloween which means it is Hollow-een! It's slightly more acceptable to spend hours of your day slapping paint on your face to look like the monsters under your bed. You can walk around in a costume and though people might question your sanity it's Halloween so who cares. Isn't October magical? 

(If you are wondering what Hollow-een is it is pretty simple. It is a month of Halloween content but we call it Holloween because of the name of the blog)

In the month of Holloween I share tutorials and favorites lists, maybe a recipe or two - this year is no exception. This year I'm focusing on classic Halloween favorites.

Vampires

Witches

Creatures 

Undead

Stop right there. Yes I do know that vampires are traditionally grouped in the undead category. However, the undead category is dedicated to zombies, mummy's, and Frankenstien monsters. As you can see there is a difference between those and vampires. Besides I'd rather enrage a zombie than a vampire. Zombies will just eat your brains. Vampires will turn you and make you their blood lusting slave for the rest of eternity... Wait what? 

If there is a category that you are more interested in, comment down bellow or tweet me. I'll make sure to push that category forward. Your feedback is always welcome :) 

Does anyone else know what they are going as for Halloween? I'm torn between Liv from iZombie and Thorn from the Hex Girls.

Happy Holloween!

-Kat

October

Well friends, October has now passed. 12 months till October comes back around! Boo yah! Haha just kidding. I'm not really counting down for the next 12 months, there is plenty of things I'm looking forward to between now and then. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, my birthday... Lots of big things and lots of little things. Thank you for hanging out with me all month long. I believe that Hollow-een was a success and on top of that it was extremely fun. I can't wait to do this again next year. But until next then we'll always have this October. 

Electro - The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Okay y'all. I promised you one more character makeup before Halloween. I rushed through this and I don't like how it turned out. I may redo it down the road and redeem myself. But until then this is my current take on Electro. Enjoy! 

What You'll Need:

Bald cap

Spirit gum or other skin safe glue

Blue face paint 

White face pait

Fake blood

Baby powder

Makeup:

1. By some miracle get the bald cap on and secured with glue

2. Apply blue paint everywhere

3. Mix fake blood and baby powder until it turns orange, apply in random areas

4. Use white paint to create "lightning veins"

5. Highlight veins with  light blue (blue and white paint mixed)

 (I think it's obvious that I can't act)

Costume:

You can either go super villain route:

 

Leather jacket

Leather pants

Gloves

Boots

Or 

You can go the 'I woke up in a morgue and my skin is blue' route:

Black hoodie

Jeans

Sneakers

Those light up mouth pieces you can get around Halloween would be a great addition.

Sorry this looks like crap. Definitely going to redo this one at some point.

-Awel

Abaddon - Supernatural

Supernatural is a guilty pleasure of mine I guess you could say. I'm currently working on season 9, about halfway through, and had this wild idea to recreate something from the show. Abaddon is my third fav female from the show (Meg 2.0 being my first and Sheriff Jody being my second). The character has a killer look and I just couldn't help myself.

Now I know wearing a Demi lovato tshirt and a split throat makeup at the same time sends a bad message. But it was the only rock n roll tshirt I had. If there are any lovatics reading this please please don't kill me.

What you'll need: 

(A basic beauty makeup already applied)

Brown eye shaddow

Black eye shaddow

Purple eyeshaddow

Pink eyeshaddow

Orange/gold shaddow

Red blush

Red lipstick (use a cheap costume one)

Red lip liner

Fake blood

Black eyeliner

Mascara 

Makeup:

1. Use the purple, pink, orange, and brown shadows to create the look of puffy, baggy under eyes. 

2.Drag brown eye shaddow from the bottom of the eye brow, in the inner bridge of the nose and down to where the bag would begin. 

3. Use brown shaddow in the crease of your eyelid to create a hollow effect.

4. Create a cat eye liner and apply mascara.

5. Use brown shaddow in laugh lines 

6. Apply red lipstick. Take your finger and smudge it to one side.

7. Draw a line around your neck with the lip liner. 

8. Smudge pink, purple, and blush over line

9. Smudge brown shaddow on the outside of the pink smudge

10. Smudge orange shaddow outside brown

11. Use eyeliner to create stitches

12. Redraw line with red lipstick

13. Use a Qtip to apply fake blood over lipstick line.

14. Use makeup wedge to apply fake blood on the neck. Don't go overboard by covering up all your hard work.

 

Costume: 

Leather jacket

Band tee

Jeans

Black boots

Red wig

Black contacts (if you're willing)

So now that I'm a knight of hell what should I do? Steal the Impala or mess with Crowley? 

Happy hunting!

-Awel

Blink - Xmen Days of Future Past

Mutant and proud? I thought so. 

Things You'll Need:

Primer

Black eyeliner (sharpened)

Purple eye shaddow

Mascara

Black eye shaddow

Brushes (or you can use your fingers)

Setting spray

 

Makeup:

1. Start with a clean face and primer.

2. Use eye liner to outline the markings. I did them backwards. You'll need three triangles above the left eyebrow, one triangle above the right, one triangle below right eye, and the diamond in the middle.

3. Fill in the outlines with purple eyeshaddow.

4. Line eyes with black eyeliner.

5. Pat black eye shaddow over the eyeliner to keep it in place.

6.  Mascara on top and bottom lashes.

7. Fill in brows with black eyeshaddow.

8. Line and fill lips with the black eyeliner (or black lip liner if you've got that).

10. Pat purple eye shaddow in the middle of the lips, top and bottom.

11. Set with setting spray.

(Feel free to wear foundation or bb cream beneath this makeup if you want to)

Costume Basics:

Leather jacket

Black jeans

Black boots

Purple wig 

This is a really fun makeup. I was supposed to knock out three different looks today and I'm still wearing this one because I love it so much. 

As always if you have any questions or just want to chat, the comment section is below and my twitter link is to the right. I'd love to hear from you.

-Awel

Gamora - Guardians of the Galaxy makeup

SPOILERS AHEAD 

(sorry)

Guardians of the Galaxy is the latest release in the Marvel movie universe and may be the funniest movie of summer 2014. The movie features a cast of misfit bandits from different reaches of the galaxy.  The female lead Gamora is portrayed by Zoe Saldana. This character is an independent female alien who doesn't end up in a relationship with the male lead at the end of the movie! Did I mention that she is green?

I wanted to focus more on marvel characters this year for Hollow-een and I also wanted to do a makeup from this movie. Gamora seemed like the perfect fit. I sat down one afternoon and began my transformation. I didn't take step by step pictures (sorry) but it's pretty simple. If you get lost along the way or have any questions the comment section is your best friend.

Things you'll need:

Face primer

School grade glue stick

Green eye shaddow

Dark green eye shaddow

Yellow eye shaddow

Silver eye shaddow

Black eyeliner

Concealer brush

Lip brush

Setting spray

1. Start with a clean face.

2. Use a primer all over your face. Let dry.

3. Use a glue stick to keep your eyebrows in place. Let dry.

4. Use a concealer brush to apply the green eyeshaddow own all over your face and eye brows.

5. Use concealer brush and dark green shaddow to contour under the cheek bones, eye crease, jaw line, side of nose, and temples.

6. Use concealer brush and yellow shaddow to highlight: cheek, center or nose, center of chin, cuspids bow, forehead.

7. Take black eyeliner and create new eye brows (a single line from your natural brow, gliding in a slightly upward arch).

7.5 add a yellow highlight under new arch.

8. Line eyes with liner and also line and fill lips with liner.

9. Use lip brush and silver eye shaddow to make the markings. 

10. Spray with makeup sealer and let it dry.

(If you want to paint your arms green to match I recomend a green grease paint and a friend. Try to match your lighter green eye shaddow with the grease paint in this case)

I like making funny faces when I'm in character makeup XD

COSTUME BASICS

Black vest

Black jeans

Black boots

Purple wig

Now put on a mix tape and go save the galaxy!

-Awel

ps - I wasn't wearing a wig in these pics, that's my actual hair. 

Centerpied Super Soldier - SHIELD costume

Hollow-een 2014 post número 3 and we're getting off to a good start. This is the first costume post of the season so HOORAY.

This costume comes from the Marvel movie/tv universe. If you've never seen a Marvel movie (avengers, iron man, guardians of the galaxy, etc...) or seen the hit tv show Marvel's Agents of SHIELD I recomend netflixing them right now because you are missing out. And once you come back from a marathon of awesomeness you can return to this page and continue on.

Now I will do my best to not post spoilers because I don't know where everyone is on their marvel journey so here's a basic background to fill you in. Centerpied super soldiers are the bad guys. They make their first appearance in Agents of SHIELD season one. A centerpied is a piece of technology that is bonded to the human body to give super powers or enhance super powers if the volunteer is already super. 

Here is all you need to make this character come to life:

Centerpied 

Clothes

This costume is so cool because you can literally pick clothes out of your closet, throw them on, apply the centerpied, and you're done. That's it. These super soldiers are creepy because they blend in to the rest of the human race. You could wear camouflage pants and a black shirt to really sell the super soldier theme or you could go as normal you but be super you... Oh, oh! I know! A hipster super soldier... Too much? 

Moving on.

I wrote about how to make, apply, and remove the centerpied a couple days ago. As soon as I figure out how to integrate links I will add it to this post. But until then check out the tag Hollow-een and you should be able to find it pretty easily.

I will see you in a couple of days with another costume idea. Let me know how you're marathon of awesomeness went in the comments below or tweet me. The blog twitter feed is over there -> somewheres. 

-Awel

Centerpied 101

Hello boys and girls and welcome to the wonderfull and wacky world known as Awel's Hollow. At least I hope it's wonderful and wacky. If it's not then we are definitely over thinking this whole thing.

Any way it is day two of Hollow-een and I have some awesome stuff to share with you. I have made my own prosthetic... Gasp. I know! So cool. Basically I used elements glue and nail polish to create what I wanted. I will say this. The prosthetic is very flat because the glue spreads so if you're hoping to achieve a 3D prosthetic masterpiece with Elmer's glue I don't think it will work but go a head with your bad self and prove me wrong.

I'm using this process to create a centerpied appliance from SHIELD. A post on how to create the rest of the costume will be up shortly. 

CREATE:

Okay to get started you're going to need a patern. I wanted to create a Centerpied appliance from SHIELD. I google searched it and drew a rough draft on a plank piece of computer paper. I then put the paper in a large plastic bag making sure it is flat. Take your Elmer's glue and gently trace your pattern on top of the plastic bag. Wait five minutes and fill in the outline, using a paint brush to apply if needed. Let it dry over night. In the morning you should have a milky plastic replica of your drawing. Carefully peel off plastic bag. Use nail polish to color plastic prosthetic. Let dry at least 24 hours before applying to skin.

Simple right? 

APPLY:

So after you've made this cool looking thing you're probably going to want to attach it to your skin. I  used spirit gum.  Make sure you aren't allergic to the spirit gum. Do a patch test on your wrist by putting a tiny drop of it on your skin and wait 24hrs. If you start having an allergic reaction wash it off and seek medical attention if necessary. (Please don't hold me responsible for allergic reactions) Spirit Gum is time consuming to apply yourself so if you can have a friend who isn't afraid to get glue everywhere help you with this one ask. Also I don't recommend applying to your face, neck, or any other sensitive areas where the sensation of ripping off a bandaid would be extremely painful. As you can imagine if you have body hair in the area you are applying the centerpied you may want to shave it as removing the prosthetic is painful as it is without pulling your hair out of its follicles.

Basically if the idea of applying this to your arm and the prospect of ripping it off later hasn't deterred you from continuing you will then apply a layer of spirit gum to your arm and a seperate layer to the back of the centerpied. Wait until they become tacky and place the centerpied on your arm and hold down. The legs of the centerpied are going to be tricky. Have patience, add more spirit gum, and they will eventually stick.

I'd say give yourself at least thirty minutes to apply.

REMOVING:

So you've made it through the night, it is by some miracle still attached to your skin and it's time to take it off. Don't worry it's not as deadly as it is in the film. Simply take the bottle of spirit gum remover and apply to skin. If it isn't budging grab a bottle of non acetone nail polish remover and keep trying. I recommend removing the legs first and then work on the body of the centerpied. You might get down to the end and have to slowly pull it from your skin. Painful. Residue from the spirit gum will remain and it will take a few scrubs to get it off. 

As for wear time, once mine was stuck on I went and walked around the grocery store and did other things for an two and a half hours and it was still very much stuck to my skin by the time I came home. My guess is that it will stay put for as long as you need it to for a party, trick or treating, or cosplaying. 

Happy to report there were neither hydra nor shield agents at my local grocery store. Guess I don't live in a hotspot.

-Awel

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