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How to Do Halloween Makeup with Kenneth Llambelis

Howcast — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:37:12 +0000

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Hi, I’m Kenneth Llambelis. I’m one of the head makeup artists at Abracadabra Super Store in the heart of New york City. It’s funny how I got into makeup. I went to an art-based high school for four years, and during that time, I got really competitive into Halloween costume contests. And I started working at Abracadabra about four years ago in my freshman year of college. During which time I started really expanding my expertise in makeup and really experimenting with some of the theatre brands like Ben Nye, Mehron and Kryolan, and still practicing on myself. But then about two years ago, Abracadabra hired a make up artist who started doing in house makeup at the store. They were showing artists and then asked me if I wanted to be a part of the team. And I was a little unsure about it. It was my first time doing makeup on anyone other than myself, but I became addicted and since then I started running the section previous years and continued on doing makeup for photo shoots, theatre, and film productions. You can learn more about me and our store Abracadabra at www.abracadabrasuperstore.com. And you can find me easily on Facebook. My name is Kenneth Llambelis.

How to Do Broken Barbie Doll Makeup

Howcast — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:33:33 +0000

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Hi, my name’s Kenneth Llambelis. I’m one of the head makeup artists at Abracadabra Superstore in the heart of New York City. You can find out more about me and the store Abracadabra at www.abracadabrasuperstore.com.

So, for the girls who want to take their more pretty looks, and take it a more kind of creepier, scary, I’m going to show you how to take a Barbie doll look, which we’ve just completed, and turn it into more of a broken doll.

I’m going to start by taking a white, cake base makeup. We’re using a Krylon aqua color kit. With the white, we’re going to extend the shape of her eye. Make it look like she has really big crazy doll eyes.

Now, after that’s done, we’re going to go in with a black color. Get a good amount of pigment on it. We’re going to outline that white circle.

And after that’s done, you’re going to want to start drawing on some fake eyelashes. The longer ones lean towards the center. The shorter ones to fade out at the ends. This will give you a really wide eye doll look.

Once that’s complete, you can start working on your cracks. We get more black paint on your brush, and for this, you can free-hand it anywhere you like. Let’s do one right across the forehead, and one big one right going down the cheek.

Start off very thin. Kind of make your way down, crack-like. Almost like a lightning bolt. Then you kind of want to go thicker, slightly towards the center. Then fade it to the ends.

After that, we’re going to take more black onto the brush. We’re going to do little semi-circles right under the bottom lids in the white. We’re just going to make her eyes look slightly larger. Also, again, using the black, I’m going to darken the brow a little bit. Just to give it more of a defined edge, and also round it out.

We’re going to go over that with a dark brown eye shadow. This is just going to go above the black line that we made on the brows.

The very, very final step, we’re going to go onto the lip, and we’re going to darken it with a black pencil. It doesn’t have to be perfect. We’re going to smudge it out a little bit.

Finally, when that’s blended out a little bit, we’re going to go in with a black cream pencil thickly and just blend the rest. And then you’ve turned your sexy, cute Barbie into a creepy, scary, broken doll.

How to Do Mermaid Face Makeup

Howcast — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:32:14 +0000

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So for this look, we’re going to be working on an exotic mermaid. We’re gonna do it in a few quick easy steps, so if you’re going out to the mermaid parade or even just for Halloween, you can have some really awesome looking, fantabulous fish effects. We’ll start off with a ice gold loose pigment that has a little bit of glitter just to give you more of a glow. We’re going to do this all over the face. After that’s done, we’re gonna start working on the lips. We’re gonna take a deep purple lipliner, and just line the lips. After that’s done, you’re just gonna blend it out. So you’re taking your lip brush, and once you have this smoothed out, you’re gonna go over the inside with a deep purple lipstick. Just get a lot of the color onto the brush. And we’re gonna go right over that, blending in the lipliner with the lipstick. Once that’s complete, we’re gonna take a regular eye shadow brush and use an Aztec gold shimmer powder and you’re gonna go right into the center of the lip. Just blending it in with the brush. Only in the center, though. Then on the next step, we’re going to take a round fluffy brush, like so, and we’re gonna get some sun yellow pigment on there and we’re gonna use this as a forehead and nose highlight. So you’re gonna start right here in the center of the forehead, and transition out. Down the center of the nose. We’re gonna continue the face up with a blue loose pigment called Cosmic Blue by Ben Nye. And like the previous loose pigment we’re gonna use a fluffy brush, this time an angled one. And we’re just gonna blend that into the yellow. And now we’re gonna blend that with a large, fluffy brush. Once you have that done, using the same brush you used the blue pigment with, you’re gonna pick up a little bit of the dark grey. This is gonna go on the very outer edges of the blue just to contour it slightly darker. Finally when that’s all applied, we’re gonna start adding a little bit of scales. What I’ve done is I’ve mixed Mehron’s metallic loose powder with it’s waterproof mixing liquid. Nice bright, gold consistency as such. Once I’ve gotten it to the consistency that I wanted it, I’m gonna take the brush and stamp little scales on the side of her face. They don’t have to be perfect. We’re just gonna stamp them around. Little bit of a pattern. And the mermaid face is complete.

How to Do Mermaid Eye Makeup

Howcast — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:22:26 +0000

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Now for the final part of your mermaid look, we’re gonna work on the eyes. We’re going to take a lime green pressed shadow. This is going to go on the lid. Using the same purple pencil that we used before to line her lips, you’re gonna work with it to line her eyes as well. So we’re gonna go right into the lash line. We’re also gonna continue that right above the lid. We’re now gonna take a purple shadow, we’re gonna be using amethyst by Ben Nye. Get a lot of the pigment onto this angled smudge brush, and then go right over the line you just created. And connect it into that yellow bridge over the nose. On the final step, we’re just going to put a little more of the blue shadow. Just to connect the rest of the look. So we’re taking a fluffy brush, we’re gonna go in with the Ben Nye Cosmic Blue. Everywhere you see a little bit of this flesh tone, you’re gonna add the blue to. You just kind of connect everything and smudge it out. All that’s completed, you’re gonna take a large, fluffy brush. Just gonna smooth everything out.

How to Do Barbie Makeup on Your Face

Howcast — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:10:24 +0000

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For this look, we’re going to make a Barbie doll face. For the first step, I like to use a kind of primer to really smooth out the skin. And then when we start adding a foundation over it to kind of flatten it out a little bit to give it a kind of a doll-like look. So we start off with a light primer. Brush this all over the face. We’re just gonna do a nice even coat across the face. Then blend this with all out with a big fluffy brush. Once you have like a nice, smooth surface, we’re going to start our contour. Starting with the magnifying powder first, and powder this over the primer. After you have that on, you can start your contour. We use the darker color in the Sun Disk and the angle fluffy brush, tap out any excess, and do a light contour right on to the cheek. After that’s applied, we want to start on the highlight with another fluffy brush right into the light side of the Sun Disk. Highlight the center of the forehead, down the nose. Then we’re going to follow up with a small contour around the sides of the nose to kind of even it out a little more. And then again we’re going to blend out with a large brush. Now that that’s done, let’s move on to the blush. We’re going to use a bright pink, it’s called Doll Face by Tarte — Doll Face, perfect for a Barbie doll — right onto the apples of the cheeks. And you have your Barbie doll face.

How to Do Barbie Eye Makeup

Howcast — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:09:24 +0000

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So for the next part of our Barbie doll look, we’re going to start working on the eyes. The first step is to take a white cream pencil, and we’re going to line your water line. After you’ve gotten that on, you’re just going to extend it down a little bit more. This is going to create a very wide open, doll-like look for you. Just face me a little bit. And look up. And you continue the same on the other side. Face that way. So I’m going to use a small angled brush to just blend out some of the white line that we just created, so it gives it a nice, smooth shape. The next step is going to be to use a white kind of shimmery crayon pencil. This is Ben Nye’s Opal. We’re going to put this all over the top lid and connect it to the bottom lash line. Look towards me a little bit, and close. Then once you have that done, you’re going to go over that with a white, shimmery eye shadow. For our next step, we’re going to use a shimmery hot pink eye shadow and that’s going to go right on your brow bone. For this we’re going to use the color Azalea by Ben Nye. It’s a really highly-pigmented pink. After that’s done, we’re going to take another small shadow brush. We’re going to go into the crease with a blue. So right there in the crease, we’re going to add this blue color, and blend it up into the pink. After that’s done, you’re going to take a smudging brush and you’re just going to blend out the edges. And you have your Barbie doll look.

How to Do Barbie Lip Makeup

Howcast — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:08:08 +0000

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So for Barbie lips, it’s really simple. We’re going to start off with a magenta colored lip pencil, and I’m just going to outline the shape of her lips, slightly going a little bit over. Once that’s lined, we’re going to blend it out with a stiff lip brush. We’re going to go over that with a bright bubblegum pink lipstick. For this, we’ll be using Max Candy Yum-Yum. It’s a nice candy, bubblegum pink. Then I’m going to put this on top of the lip and blend it into the magenta. And again, we’re just blending it in to the magenta lipliner that we had added prior. And once that’s all applied, we’re going to go over that with clear lipgloss. We’ll be using Max lipgloss. We’re just coating both top and bottom lips with that. Give it a small little smack, and you have your Barbie lips.

How to Use Concealer & Highlighter for Drag Queen Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:38:20 +0000

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So after you have your brows blocked and covered, you’re gonna start working on the face. You’re gonna use the same color that we used for the brow highlight to cover the brows, which is the ultra white concealer. And we’re gonna start working it into the top of the forehead and into the sides of the cheek. This is gonna be your highlight. Another important step is you’re gonna wanna do a highlight right down the center of the nose and one at the very base of the chin. Another trick to making the face a little bit more feminine is if you take the highlight and bring it up and make the face slightly more oval. Our next step is we’re gonna take a kind medium tone and start working it into the rest of the face. For this color I’m gonna work with Olive Sand by Ben Nye. We’re gonna get some of the warm sand foundation onto the brush and just fill in the other areas. We’re now gonna take a larger brush, and we’re gonna smooth out all the edges. So any type of large powder brush will do the job. Again, we’re just smoothing out all the edges. We’re now gonna set this with mattifying powder. And I’ll be using the Sundisk by Sephora. So, again, the same powder brush, we’re just gonna run across this color right here in the center. After that’s applied, we’re gonna start working on contouring the face even more using powders.

How to Contour Your Drag Queen Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:37:20 +0000

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After that’s applied, we will start working on contouring the face even more using powders. Take another soft, fluffy brush, we will go in with the highlight of this color. We’ll do it down the nose, then center of the forehead, apples of the cheek. We’ll do a highlight on the chin and the shape that we created before with the cream highlighters, right on the upper lip where the Cupid’s bow is. So now that we have the highlight, we’re going to go in with the contour. We’re gonna go where it says “”sun”” right here and just pick up some of that darker bronze color. And this is gonna go right here under the hollow of the cheek, temples of the forehead, and right under the chin highlight. Make it really dark here just to over up the face. So after that I’m gonna go in with a smaller brush. Again, still continuing with the contour. The contour, right under this highlight, just to make the cheek pop a little bit more. Also we’re going to take the same small contour brush and go right into the nose, just on the sides. You want to make the highlight that you put over it before pop a little bit more. It’s gonna give you a slimmer, more pronounced nose.

Our next step is we’re just going to darken the contours even more by taking this darker brown pressed shadow. Just get it onto a little fluffy brush. Just spread there, really bringing out that jawbone. We’re going to continue it down onto the jaw line. Just gonna blend it out with your large fluffy brush. And now we’re going to go in for another round of highlighting, but this time, the white shimmery pressed shadow. This is only going to go right on the cheeks and smooth out the nose. Right on the upper cheekbone, going down. Going to go down the front of the nose, a little on the forehead, and little on the chin. Blend that out, again with a large brush. And on the last step, we’re going to add a little bit of pink blush to the cheeks. It’s going to go right on the apples of the cheek. And then your drag face is complete.

How to Hide Your Natural Eyebrows for Drag Queen Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:36:18 +0000

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For this look, we’ll be working on doing a drag look. One of the most important things for any drag queen is getting the proper eyebrow. One of the top used products for most drag queens is the purple washable Elmer’s glue stick. I’m gonna start of by brushing his brow hair up and out, and starting off with a thin layer. Just gonna brush it back down. And then add another coat. After you have the first coat sown, you’re gonna want to powder it just to speed up the drying process. Tap off the excess. And graze it over the brows. After you have the first layer done, you’re gonna now wanna start layering up a little bit more. Just take a little sliver of the glue off. You can use your fingernail or a metal spatula. And then work your way out. The reason most drag queens prefer using the purple washable glue stick is because when it dries, it turns clear, so you’ll know when it’s ready to apply another coat. So your goal with this is to get a smooth texture surface over where the brow sits. And then just powder that with more powder. So once the Elmer’s glue on your brows has dried — it usually takes arounds two to four minutes — you’re gonna wanna take a really light-colored concealer and then do another layer over that. So you’ve got your first heavy layer down. We’re gonna powder it down, and then do another layer on top of this. Pressing into the brow helps to flatten out some of the groove edges. After that ste’s complete, you’re going to go back in with one more coat, again using the light, Ben Nye concealer, pressing it in so every strand of hair is covered. Once that step’s complete, your brows are blocked, and you’re on to moving into the face.

How to Make Up Your Mouth to Look like a Cat

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:35:00 +0000

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Once you’ve finished your cat face and nose looks, we’re going to now move on to the mouth. The mouth is really simple. We’re just gonna, again, back in with your white cake makeup by Kryolan. It’s their aqua color palette. Then we’re gonna go back into the area of the mouth that we had left open before when working on the face. And we’re gonna fill that in with a bright white. Gonna round its shape coming from the lip. You’re gonna wanna come down to more of kind of like a diamond shape when you’re working with the white on the chin part. Just to give kind of a more pointed feline look. Once you have that shape filled in, cover any of the corner edges back with the grey base color that we used before. Again, back to the streaking motions that we used prior, just gonna wanna go through that bottom piece, adding some grey streaks of fur. Then a little bit, too, in the mouth corners. Once you have that set up, you’re gonna go in with the black pressed shadow, and we’re going to contour that area around as well. This is gonna add more definition and make her mouth pop. So for the next step we’re gonna connect the nose to the upper lip. And we’re gonna go in with a black cake makeup. We’re gonna try to do a very skinny line going straight from the nose to the upper lip. After you have that, we’re gonna curve that edge of the point where it ends at the upper lip into a curve to give more of kind of like a rounded “”W”” shape on her upper lip. We’re gonna continue to cross the very edge of the upper lip and back down. Once you have that shape, we’re gonna color the inside of the upper lip with a black cream as well and then curve it out. Once you have that completed, it’s time for the whiskers. Using the same brush, do small spontaneous dots here and there, then long, skinny streaks out. If some of your whiskers came out too thick, you can go back in with the white base makeup. And just thin them out a little bit more. And after you’re done with whiskers, you’re done with the cat mouth.

How to Make Up Your Lashes to Look like a Cat

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:33:58 +0000

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And after that, on to lashes. For this look I’m gonna go with an angled lash. Just to go with the curve of the cat eye shape. So, you’re just gonna peel them off. Then I like to add a little bit of the eyelash adhesive on the back of my wrist. Just to give me some control over the amount that comes out. Then you’re gonna lightly graze it across. You don’t want too much lash glue on this, just enough. Now, the trick with eyelash adhesive is you want to kind of give it some time to dry on the lash before actually applying it. And while it’s drying, you want to curve it a little bit so it curves to the natural shape of the eye. You wanna do this for about thirty seconds. It depends on the glue. Some glues take a little longer than others. And then while you’re doing it, blow on it, and it will help speed dry the process. Once you have that ready, close your eyes. You’re gonna line it up with the top shape of her top lash line, and just lightly press it in. Also, it usually helps working with a thin brush that has like a tight point, because then you can just press them down. And open.

How to Do Your Eyes & Eyebrows for Drag Queen Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:33:10 +0000

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So now were going to start with the eyes. We’re going to start off by adding a kind of champagne color shimmery shadow, and we’re going to put this right on to the lid and little bit on to his brow bone. Now we’re going to start with the liner. First you do the water line to extend out. We are going to draw out the shape we want. This one I’m going to do more of the diamond shape, starting at the bridge of the nose, And extend out, and shape back over. We’re now going to use a gold crème-based makeup, and coat that all on the inside of the shape we just made. When that’s applied, we’re going to go in with a crushed shadow of a similar color. Get a little bit of the shadow on the brush and color in all that area we just did. Now we’re going to go in with the black, with a small round brush, we’re going to go in with a black crushed shadow. We’re going to blend it into the outline of where the liner is into the gold. Go back in a little more with the gold. And also a little bit more with the eye gold. And blend it a little bit more. And give it more of like a solid shape. To keep this more of a dramatic look, we’re going to give him kind of arched eyebrows. Start about a centimeter above where the eye makeup ends. We’re going to do two dots to kind of level out where the beginning of the brow is going to be. I’m using a brow pencil. Or even just a basic eyeliner just for the shape. Just going to draw out. Then I’m going to take a flat brush with a little bit of a brown/black shadow onto it, and I’m going to press that into the shape we just created. And once those are on, your drag look is complete.

How to Do Your Lips for Drag Queen Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:31:56 +0000

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Once you have your drag face complete, it’s time to move on to the lips. We’re going to take a magenta colored lip pencil. We’re going to outline the lips slightly larger than their natural shape. Again, we’re just making them slightly fuller than their natural shape. Then, taking a stiff lip pencil, we’re going to blend it towards the center. After you’ve done that, you’re going to take a red lipstick. We’ll be using Russian Red by MAC and then just getting a little bit of that color onto the lip brush. And you’re gonna blend that into the magenta color that we used prior. After that, you’re gonna do a little tiny bit of concealer around the edges just to give it a sharp crisp edge. And we’ll be working again with the Ultra White. After that, smooth it out so the makeups match. And after all that’s smoothed out, we’re gonna go onto my favorite step, the glitter. We’re going to take a clear gloss, we’ll be using lip glass by MAC and put a little bit on the back of my wrist and a little bit on the brush we’ve been working with, and then paint this over all the area that we just painted. The gloss is gonna act as a kind of stickiness to adhere the glitter that we’re about to apply to it. We’re then gonna take this red glitter that I have by Ben Nye. With the gloss still on the brush, we’re going to dip into the glitter and it will adhere to the gloss and we’ll then push it onto the lips. You can just follow in the shape that we created before, just pressing the glitter into the gloss. If you’re not happy with the outline color you chose for your lip, it’s so totally easy to just go back in and redo it with another color. So I’ve decided I’m gonna go with a red lip pencil instead and just lightly outline the shape of the lips, blending back in again into the glitter. And your drag lips are done.

How to Contour & Highlight for Vampire Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:30:51 +0000

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Usually for a vampire, I like to work with a dark gray for a contour. And in this case, since it’s a more kind of a Twilight vampire, we use a white for a highlight, but with a little bit of shimmer so he’ll have that kind of “”glistening in the sunlight”” look. I’m going to take an angled blush brush and go in with a dark gray press shadow, starting from right here by the ear and making your way down towards the hollow of his cheek. It’s kind of smoothing out and blending it into the foundation color that we had used prior. Face me. I just want to check both sides and make sure that it’s even on each, and maybe bring it up a little into the hairline. Also you’re going to want to contour, same color, a little bit around the forehead area. You’re now going to want to work on your highlight. Take a kind of shimmery pearlescent white, and I’m using “”Ice”” by Ben Nye, which is a very shimmery, bright press shadow. Get a little bit on the blush brush over here, and you’re just going to apply that right on the top of the cheek bone. Blend it right into that contour. You can also do it a little across the jaw line just to kind of make your jaw more pronounced. Also to add a little bit more grimace, we’re going to just kind of slightly contour the top of the bridge area of his nose. Everything’s applied. I’m just going to take a large fluffy brush like so and just blend everything out evenly. And then you’re set with your vampire face and skin combination.

How to Create a Base & Foundation for Vampire Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:29:37 +0000

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For this look, we’ll be working on a vampire. Not your classic Bela Lugosi, but more kind of the modern True Blood, Twilight kind of vampire. You’re going to start off using a really, really light skin foundation. I’ll be working with a Ben Nye Special White. You kind of want to just press it in with a wedged sponge. You want to press because if you kind of go in a stroking manner, you’ll probably leave a streak. Then you’re just going to do this all over the entire face. Just going to continue down from the forehead down to the cheek area. You kind of want to make sure you have a completely smooth complexion, not too streaky. For the hard to reach areas, you could just use any kind of regular foundation brush and just again, go in with the lighter foundation. And right on the eyebrows. After you have everything all applied and everything looks a little bit more even, then you can start going in and setting it with a translucent powder. I’m just emptying out some of the powder into a small cap that it comes with and any kind of fluffy powder brushes will do fine. Just get a little bit of the powder on it and then tap it so any like excess comes off. Just going to go in and again just tap the powder on top of all the surface area that’s been painted. I’m currently working with Kryolan’s Pro-face Translucent Powder. The good thing about this one is it comes with a antiperspirant, so any sweating at all, it will help diminish. This is also going to help set the makeup, so you don’t have any problems with it smudging or running off later on.

How to Do Vampire Eye Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:28:46 +0000

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So for when working with the vampire eye look, you want to make it look like he’s dead. And I give it a more dramatic look, but at the same time again not wearing too much makeup, kind of like rockerish, but the day after when everything is all smudged up. It’s kind of the more where you want to go. For the eyes, I’m going to take a deep purple liner. This is a purple dash lilac, and I’m going to start by going into the water line of his eyes. Again, it doesn’t have to be perfect, I’m just adding a bit of a dimension to it, and then you’re going to put a little bit on the top, there you don’t need that much because you’ll be covering it with another color. You’re then going to go in with a kind of like a light brown shadow, using a mixed tone by Benni. You can just get the product on there and then tap all the excess off, so you don’t get powder everywhere. I’m just going to go right over the bottom line created, then upwards and out. I think I’m going to take a round, fluffy brush and just blend outward. Okay, and you don’t want any harsh lines, because we’re trying to make him look like he’s not wearing makeup. Then you have your vampire eyes.

How to Do Vampire Lip Makeup

Howcast — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:27:44 +0000

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So once you have your vampire face done, next step would be to do the lips. For the lips we are going to start with a deep red lipstick. Today I will be using Mac color of Russian Red. And you are going to take a small lip brush, put a little bit of the red on there. I am just going to apply it towards the center of the lips, very center of the bottom and the very center of the top. Doesn’t matter how neat or clean it is. This is just going to give the effect of him as having just eaten. This is all going to be blended out later. After you got your red on, you are going to take another lip brush and just going to blend it outwards. Don’t want it to look like he is actually wearing lipstick. You are then going to take a deep plum purple color. I will be using a Faithfully Yours by Mac. Again, just coat the lip brush with the lipstick. After you got a good amount on there, you are just going to go right over the red. The purple is going to add to that more dead effect. After you got the color on, I am going to take a white sponge and then just going to smudge it out of it. Again you don’t want it too heavy so it doesn’t look like he is wearing lipstick. After the colors are applied, you are going to want to go back a little bit with the foundation that you used for his flesh tone, then lightly go over the area around the lips and again just blend in. After you have the color to the right kind of opacity that you like it, you are going to go in and add just a little bit of fake blood and you have your vampire lips.

How to Do Cat Eye Makeup

Howcast — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:15:57 +0000

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So now on to the most important part of your cat look — cat eyes. It’s gonna be what’s gonna add the drama and pizazz to your final look. I’m gonna start off by getting a silver cream color with a little bit of shimmer to it. I’m gonna place this right on your lid. After you have that on you’re going to go over it with a silver shimmer eyeshadow. So I’ll be working with the silver lumière color by Ben Nye. Getting right up to the crease. Once you have that applied, we’re gonna start working on the lower lash line with a black liner. And we’re gonna give you that dramatic cat shape. First we’re gonna fill in the water line. Now for the cat eye shape we’re gonna do almost like a “”S”” formation starting with a point right here coming up and coming out. You want this edge to come up right below the brow. And once you have the shape, you’re gonna start working on the top again. Close. Again connecting the tip of the point at the inner point of the eye. Up, then into the crease. I’m gonna go in a little bit and add a little bit more of a sharper edge by going over the black line with a little bit of the black cake make up by Kryolon. Blending a little bit more of the black into the silver, leaving the middle the brightest. So now you’re just gonna go in and make sure all the edges of your cat eye are crisp and sharp. Do this by taking the black pressed shadow and doing one thick swoop across the entire shape. We’re gonna now add a little bit of grey right above the black. And open. And you have your cat look.

How to Make Up Your Nose to Look like a Cat

Howcast — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:15:03 +0000

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Now that you have a white base over the nose, now we’re going to start the contour and add the actual shape of the black cat nose. We’re gonna go in with a rounded brush, something very similar to this. Add a little bit of water to it, and then go in with a black cake makeup. First we will start with the shape. I want to start it with a rounded curve and then continue it back over the nostrils. And extend it a little bit further out. Want to go with the natural shape of the person’s nose. Once you have the shape done, now we’re going to start to contour the sides. Take a flat wide eye shadow brush and then go in with a dark gray shadow. Just flick off any excess powder. Close your eyes. Right where that line is where the light meets the gray, just going to contour. It’s going to create a more kinda box-like shape to give you that kind of feline nose. I’m gonna blend it slightly over. Awesome. Now you have your cat nose.

How to Do Cat Face Makeup

Howcast — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:14:08 +0000

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So for this look, we’ll be working on a cat face. There’s three main areas of the face that we’re gonna be focusing on today. It’s gonna be the nose/bridge area, the cheeks, and then the chin. That’s what we’re gonna highlight and kind of pull out more to give you like a feline look. We’re gonna start with a base coat. And for the base coat, we’re gonna start with a grey cake makeup. Just add a little bit of water. Don’t want to add too much — the less water you add to it, the thicker it will be. And then you’re just going to apply it to the cheek area. In this area right around the mouth, you wanna kind of curve it out. This is where your highlight is gonna go and kind of push the face out a little bit more. Give it more of a cat look. Right where her eyebrow begins, right here we’re just gonna do a straight line down. And this is where the bridge of the nose is gonna be, where we’re eventually gonna give her more of a cat like nose. The eyes you can leave bare because we’re gonna be adding makeup on top of that later. If you see any areas that have streaks, what you wanna do is just press the color into it so it gives it a nice, solid shape. Once you have the grey complete, you’re gonna now start going in with a white. So use another similar brush to the one you were using the grey base for. Just put a little bit of water on there, and just get some white cake makeup on the brush as well. We’re gonna start on the forehead, kind of in a diamond shape up here. And just gonna blend right into the grey. You wanna make sure it’s a straight line going through. This is what’s gonna give it that kind of like box-like, feline shape to the nose. Then when you have the nose ready, we’re gonna start working on the cheeks. We’re gonna add a little bit of a cheek highlight. Just to kind of pull the face up like so. Now we’re gonna start adding the contour. I’m gonna use a black pressed shadow on a fluffy blush brush and kind of go right under the highlighted cheekbone we just created. You’re gonna do the same thing around the temple of her head. So we’re gonna emphasis the cheekbones a little bit further. Just giving it light strokes to give it the appearance of fur. A little bit more this way. And you wanna fade it out towards the back. And you have your cat face.