How To: Poison Ivy Eyes

How to: Poison Ivy Eyes

So! Hello, my name is Goldie, and I'm writing a little blog entry today! This makeup tutorial couples with the Poison Ivy outfit that is also on this blog. This tutorial was also not in any way professionally done or anything... at all. It basically consisted of things that I found in my medicine cabinet, and my little amount of skill (earned by just being a teenage girl) I have with makeup.Without further ado, here it is!

So this is my eye without any makeup on. I didn't use primer beforehand, but looking at my photos after, I probably should of.

Step 1: Apply eyelid primer.

Step 2: I used Mary Kay At Play eyeshadow. First, apply the lightest color to your entire eyelid. This will help the blending and overall coverage.

Step 3: In your mind, split your eyelid into three sections: Light brown, dark brown, and green. After the light brown is applied to your entire eyelid, apply the darker brown to two-thirds of your eyelid, starting from the middle out.

Step 3: Use the green to fill in the remaining third of your eyelid. Make sure to reach the color all the way up to the leafy eyebrows (if your choose to make them, that is) because it just looks like a nice way to tie the makeup into them. Make sure all three colors are blended well into each other, so that there isn't a harsh line separating each color. I also used an angular brush to underline my eyes with the green.

Step 4: Use liquid eyeliner to line your eyes (I prefer winged as opposed to regular liner for a more sassy effect).

Step 5: Apply your favorite mascara to complete the look!

If you liked this tutorial and you want to see more makeup tutorials like this one then leave a comment!

Wizard Con Review!

I know this is really late, but remember Wizard Con? Sadly I do not because I wasnt able to make it. But my friend Chris went, and he had a whole different experience than I expected. I go to Cons for the Cosplay, he goes for the games. So here is his experience (And remember I am late posting this... very very late) :

Last weekend I attended Wizard Con Richmond at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. I attended on both Friday and Saturday, so I have two wildly different stories to tell about my quest to see Bruce Campbell.

    Friday. Opening day. Everyone just coming off of work comes down to the Con to get a glimpse of the scheduled celebrity appearances and festivities, right? That explains why I saw at most three dozen people at the entire convention. It was seriously a ghost town. None of the celebrities even showed up at the times listed on the program.

No big deal, I said. I’ll just do what I came to do: go to the tabletop gaming area (sponsored by Game Nite), and participate in the scheduled Magic draft. I showed at the right time and headed to the bedreadlocked girl at the front desk to sign up only to discover that I was the first person who even mentioned the event the entire day. So I packed up my stuff, headed home, and made sure to keep my three-day pass wristband.

Now it would have been easy to give up at this point, but I was really determined to see Bruce Campbell. So I headed out again on Saturday, this time bright and early, to see if I’d have better luck. Fortunately, the place was packed and all the events were in full swing. Unfortunately, this meant that the best glimpse of Bruce Campbell I could get was on the other side of the convention floor over the shoulders of the convention guards. When 4:00 rolled around, the nerd-herd shuffled over to the conference room where we got to see Bruce up close (~200 feet) and personal.

So I was now free to enjoy the actual meet of the convention. I got merchandise signed, and sold some of my own stuff to one of the many collectors. I was finally content and ready to head home. That’s when I was stopped by dreadlock girl. Apparently she remembered how the Magic event fell through the day before, so she introduced me to seven attendees who were looking to play.

I won’t bore you too much with the details of how horribly run this event was. In my 11 years of playing this children’s card game, I had never been to an event where the organizers hand out cards and just let the players figure it out for themselves. Three people dropped out of the event before the games even started, so I took my not-to-impressive victory and left a few bucks richer.

So if anyone else is interested in the fan-art, collecting, or cosplay aspects of Wizard Con, by all means, buy discount tickets as soon as you can for one near you. If you’re a fan of tabletop RPG’s, boardgames, or card games, save your $75 and use it to play at your local game store. Not only will the games be run more competently, but your opponents won’t forfeit so they can go catch a glimpse of Lou Ferrigno.

If you liked what Chris had to say and you agree with him then totally comment!

VA Comicon August 31 REVIEW

Woah, I have totally missed Comicon! Can we just all get together and make sure there is a Comicon every weekend because THIS COMICON was SO AWESOME! There were the coolest cosplays and some seriously great vendors! I got to see my two favorite artists Bert and Lee Lacy! Love them! Even though one of them couldn't name my costume ;)

(I was an Orion Slave Woman from Star Trek Enterprise. Gosh)

https://www.facebook.com/strikeandhide/photos/pcb.706860286062891/706859989396254/?type=1&theater

I also got to know Matt Slay who does really fantastic illustration and design! I got this really cool maleficent poster from him. Here is a photo of myself and my two friends Kendall and Goldie checking out all the art this guy had.

https://www.facebook.com/strikeandhide/photos/pcb.706860286062891/706859806062939/?type=1&theater

And just in case you were wondering, yes the 501st Legion was there. They are so cool, and that is coming from a die-hard Trekkie! I really need to get some photos with them!

SPEAKING OF PHOTOS lets talk about the photogrophers! Strike and Hide and Howell's Visions Photography were both there and were both taking some serious awesome pictures! So here are some photos from both of these guys Facebook pages, but really check out there Flickr pages because they have so many cool photos!

https://www.facebook.com/strikeandhide/photos/pcb.706861592729427/706861112729475/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/strikeandhide/photos/pcb.706861592729427/706861436062776/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/strikeandhide/photos/pcb.706860286062891/706859596062960/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/HowellsVisionsPhotography/photos/a.766999213339121.1073741902.328879103817803/766999496672426/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/HowellsVisionsPhotography/photos/a.766999213339121.1073741902.328879103817803/767017156670660/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/HowellsVisionsPhotography/photos/a.766999213339121.1073741902.328879103817803/767005376671838/?type=1&theater

And then here are some photos of me and my friends, some were taken my these lovely professional photographers and the others were just the amateur messing around! Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/HowellsVisionsPhotography/photos/a.766999213339121.1073741902.328879103817803/766999386672437/?type=1&theater

 

 

So this Comicon was great and I heard something about a Wizard Con? I will keep you updated! 

How To: Smokey Eyes

So Comicon is tomorrow and I am going to be an Orion Slave Woman from Star Trek Enterprise. To be a sultry and irresistible slave woman you need the right eyes, I figured that smokey eyes were the best chance I had to have no mortal man be able to resist me. 

Ha.

Anyways, this is how I started out before I created my smokey eye look.

 To get the right shading I used e.l.f. Flawless Eyeshadow.

First, I used the lighter grey above the crease but not all the way up to the eyebrow.

Then I used the darker grey on the crease of my eyelid and about halfway down onto the middle of my lid.

Next, I used the black. I drew a V shape to outline the outer corner of my eye.

 

Then I did the same, using the black to outline the inner corners of my eye.

Next I used the black to fill in the rest of my lid.

Then I used the black to trace the under side of my eye.

I like to use a black pencil eyeliner before I use a liquid liner, and all I did was trace my eye right above my upper eyelashes and right below my lower eyelashes.

I use Revlon Colorstay Liquid Eye Pen.

I use the Liquid Eyeliner Pen to outline my eyes and I added a winged tip as well.

Then I used black mascara make my eyelashes look more full. You could also do this with fake eyelashes but I have never really been good at using those so I am just going to stick to the black mascara.  

AND THIS is what it looks like in the end! Ta- Da!

So I hope that was somehow helpful, now both there is a simple smokey eye tutorial to follow that is both human and alien friendly.

:)

We come in peace.