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.

RavenCon Review!

I don't think I could have been anymore excited with all that RavenCon had to offer! I loved what all the dealers were selling, the costumes were great, and I got a ton of info on upcoming cons!

It was a three day Con, but I wasn't able to make it Friday- I went Saturday and Sunday. No let me tell you about Sunday- because that was an experience all within itself. I had a track meet that I had to wake up early for- I left that early to go to a Jazz Festival where, as an officer in Sci Fi club, I volunteered to represent by serving food. Here is the catch tho- I had to immediately level Jazz Festival to go to RavenCon- so I dressed in full Andorian Costume at Jazz Festival an served food. Needles to say I scared a few people impressed some others and in general was asked a lot of questions. Here is a selfie I took (that was apparently tweeted with the caption "But first, let me take a selfie")

The prosthetic for the Andorian was pretty awesome, though I did have one issue and that was that I couldn't get my antennae to do anything right. And I forgot to draw my eyebrows. But, if you still think it's cool and are impressed or think you could do it better then just go and check out the post I created about it: Trek Cosplay: Andorian Style!

Alright, less about me more about RavenCon! Like I said before, I really enjoyed the diversity of all the dealers! There was a really great T-shirt dealer where I got a firefly shirt and Jane's hat. There were a quite few jewelry/accessory tables (remember this Con was dedicated to females basically). At one table I bought two headpieces and at another I bought a beautiful hip scarf. And of course I bought cute art:

But alas, for it seems that out of all the friends I had join me at this con, I and maybe two others were the only one who were impressed. This Con was lacking in the anime department, and it also had a whole lot of Steam Punk (which I thought was awesome but others disagreed), and there also wasn't very much fan art to be sold. I think there were only two art tables and then there was one professional artist (I guess he was more professional than others. He was the guest of honor, he had some pretty rad but definitely expensive art).

So that was that- and then the Costume Contest/ Masquerade was pretty awesome as well, I didn't enter because there was a whole lot of rules, but those who did enter looked pretty awesome!

The last picture is of all the costumers entered into the contest. And the first two were my favorites that I had good pictures of (I had many more favorites but no good pictures of them)

And then here are me and my friends! (By the way, on Sunday I dressed as an Orion Star Fleet officer!)

So that was RavenCon! If you have any questions or comments just, you know, write a comment- especially if you were at RavenCon! Because I would love to hear your opinions- especially the opinions of people who really enjoyed RavenCon!