AnimeShow 2015 Day Two Outfit & Makeup

On Saturday my dopamine levels took a major plunge and, well, I spend more time getting ready than actually present at the con. Nevertheless my efforts have been documented :)

The phone camera couldn't handle the stripes, sorry about the picture.

 I wore a New Yorker skater dress, an off-brand 'Beetlejuice' jacket, a neck corset and lace gloves purchased online (probably resold eBay items) and grey tights with velour skulls which to my great disappointment ripped majorly and had to go to a better place.

I wear green eyeshadow and brown lips with all-black or b/w outfits a lot for some reason. 

Spiderweb eyeliner thingie? Check. Because I can.

How do you cope on super bad days?

AnimeShow 2015 Day One Outfit & Makeup

I am attending a con this weekend! I know extremely little about anime but there are fantasy&sci-fi sections as well, which are more my thing, and obviously all the wonderful attendees in their spectacular costumes.

Today I wore black on black: a thrifted ruffled shirt, a thrifted H&M waistcoat, a brocade patterned circle skirt I got for Christmas and some fancy tights. 

I wish I had some more extravagant winter shoes but my regular heeled boots will have to do.

I did my makeup using the Makeup Revolution Salvation Eyeshadow Palette in Give them Nightmares (since the day it arrived in the mail I haven't touched another palette, it has virtually every colour/finish combination I need and is essential to my m akeup routine, though I do wish it had one or two very light shimmers) and my lipstick is a combination of MUR Depraved in the bullet formula on top of the lip lacquer (sadly the liquid lipstick is too drying to wear on its own for extended periods of time).

Closeup eyeshadow pictures were simply not happening today, sorry about that.

Have a lovely weekend! xo

What is your most versatile beauty product?

Christmas Eve makeup

Hello!

I apologize for the odd shadows but I am visiting my 'proper' home for the holidays and I could not find a spot with decent light conditions.
I do love to look all fancy up for Christmas Eve dinner (I get my presents on the 24th, ha!) even if I'm wearing slippers under the table :) I've been feeling cool purples a lot lately and all my brushes are dirty with purple shadow  . The matted magenta lip was a bit out of my comfort zone but I warmed up to it.

I hope that your December has been great. I ate tons of things I shudder to think about (while binge-watching seasons 3 & 4 of Once Upon a Time) and that is absolutely fine since I had fun times and pleasantly slow days. I've also read a bit into Die Herren von Winterfell (Game of Thrones) in German and I am extremely proud of myself for that.

Have you tried something new and scary this year?

Devil costume makeup

I volunteered to play a she-devil for my department's St Nicholas Day's party. (Allegedly St Nicholas comes to children while they sleep accompanied by an angel and a devil and leaves them treats if they behaved well in that particular year. We were doing this as a goof for the first year students.)

I only have group photos where my costume is visible but it featured a very cheap red wig and a horned headband :) 

Makeup-wise I went for heavy red facial contouring, some painted-on undereye circles, a few inconspicuous pairs of facial horns and a gradient lip. I never ever wear red lipstick as I feel it should match an article of clothing and I have no red clothes (except this one blouse) becase that would clash with my hair.. oh well.

While I felt quite extravagant and out-there creating this look, most people didn't even realize I was in costume from afar ;)

IstroCon makeup

Last weekend I went to IstroCon & ComicSalon 2014 in Bratislava, Slovakia ^^

The event was fantastic with over 12 000 guests from all over the country and some seriously amazing cosplay artists. Sadly the official pictures haven't been published yet and I wouldn't have felt comfortable asking people to pose for me. Everyone was incredibly nice, polite and beautiful and lots of time was spent exchanging compliments.

I wenť as myself :)

The confusion of the uninformed civilians' faces as several hundred people donning face- and bodypaint, DIY armour, green wigs, prosthetic horns and wings and brandishing giant (although harmless) battleaxes stormed to the nearby mall for a quick lunch was almost as spectacular as the attendees themselves :)