Thursday 5 July 2012 Makeup Tutorial: Foliate Swirls Music, Arts, Crafts, Recipes and Fashion blogging from a Gothic/Dark Romantic perspective. You will need: ✥Primer and foundation to match your skin tone ✥Matt white eyeshadow ✥Black soft kohl pencil ✥Felt-tipped eyeliner pen ✥Silver liquid eyeliner ✥Metallic silver eyeshadow ✥Metallic pewter eyeshadow ✥Black eyeshadow. ✥Brush-tipped liquid liner. The first step is to prime and apply foundation. As this design itself is quite heavy, I have applied primer and a very sparing amount of foundation under my eyes to act as concealer, and a tad of actual concealer over the worst of the bags under my eyes. Too much foundation and heavy looks can appear caked. I'm relatively pale naturally, and am using tinted primer and foundation that approximately match my skin tone. Don't forget to set the nose and the rest of the face with powder, but don't set the foundation around the eyes. The next step is to add some strong matt white eye-shadow under the brow line, and then to dust some lightly across the cheeks and above the brow line, forming a 'C' shape around the outside of the eye on the bony parts of the face. This is basically for the purpose of highlighting the contours and to contrast better against the black that will be added later in this look. I use a matt white at this point because a shimmer or pearlescent white would have the wrong lustre for the highlights. The third stage is creating a shadowy effect under the eye. Firstly line below the lashes with a soft, smudgy kohl pencil, then with either a cotton-bud (q-tip) or the edge of your little finger, smudge the kohl outwards and downwards. Try to get it to fade out smoothly. Be careful at the point where you meet with the upper lid not to get black on the outward continuation of the crease of the upper lid. Afterwards, take a felt-tipped black eyeliner pen (NOT a felt-tip pen!) and go over the kohl right up against the lashes. Emphasises the extension of the upper lid's crease by drawing in the downward curve with the same liner. You want to be drawing in the crease, below the upper lid. The idea is to give the illusion of a longer upper lid and therefore longer eye. This stage is most fun! First of all cover the upper lid up to the crease formed by the curvature of the eyeball with liquid silver eyeliner. You want to pick a really metallic shade. I have gone over this with Rimmel metallic silver eyeshadow and then metallic pewter eyeshadow in the corner in order to set the liquid eyeshadow. Draw in the crease with the kohl pencil, and dab over it with black eyeshadow to set. Apply the pewter eyeshadow between the white from earlier and the black. Using a narrow but fluffy-ish brush, blend the outwards to the brow from the black. Begin pencilling in the eyebrow. The next step is fun when you get the hang of it, but requires practice. Take a liquid eyeliner with a brush tip and line the upper lid narrowly over the silver and draw in your swirls. Practice drawing swirls before going out with this. If you use a a brush-tipped liner you can get a variation in width of line when you change the angle. End a few of the lines with tapering ends, or with curls that form dots, practice drawing stylised leaves. I tend to have the swirls emerge from the lower lid line and the extension of the corner, and then have one emerging at the end of the crease following the curve of the lower lid. These swirls are going to have silver on them in the next step so I have included a few broad sections that look a little odd at this stage. You can stop at this stage if you want a sharper, more minimal set of swirls (my personal preference), or go onto the next for an extra level of fanciness. The last stage is adding the silver highlights on the black swirls in silver liner. If it bleeds out onto the black, then just line around it again carefully in more black. Just add small sections of silver on the broadest parts of the black swirls. I also added some dots in black liquid liner below the brow and tidied up the drawing in of the brow. I then applied white eyeliner to my lower waterline and applied mascara to both lower and upper lashes. Then you're done! Swirls with silver and snazzy metallic eyeshadow.

𝑢𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝜗𝜚 ✦ don't share your face towel and change it regularly ✦ take your time when cleansing your face. massage the cleanser for at least 60 seconds, so that the ingredients in the product have the time to work. that's how i finally achieved glass skin! i learned this from a korean youtuber. ✦ keep your phone clean, and change your sheets and pillow cases regularly ✦ if you struggle with hormonal acne, supplementing with shatavari will change your life. there aren't any documented side effects, or interactions with any illnesses or medications (advice from a certified ayurvedic practitioner... me!) ✦ use a washcloth in the shower. your skin will be soft and squeaky clean. just make sure you're washing it regularly, i wash mine with tea tree soap ✦ wash your make up brushes (i also use tea tree soap for this) and keep your skincare and makeup bottles clean, otherwise you'll end up rubbing dead skin cells, bacteria and dust all over your face! ✦ sleep! everyone always talks about how you need to drink water to achieve perfect skin, but i never see anyone mentioning sleep. i look crusty, grey and oily when i don't get enough sleep! ✦ never buy a skincare product without reading the ingredient list. unfortunately, a lot of hyped, extremely expensive products have harmful ingredients in their composition, like alcohol denat or sodium lauryl sulfate. i recommend checking paula's choice skincare dictionary if you want to know more about a certain ingredient. ✦ use your ring finger for delicate areas, like the skin around your eyes, and gently tap instead of rubbing the product 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟: 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦! ♡

ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 ୭ৎ ࣪ ׅ ♡ ✦ wash your hair. i use the black castor oil shampoo and masque from shea moisture. the scent is lovely, it smells natural and faintly of vanilla, and the shampoo is clarifying, so it cleans your scalp really well. ✦ use a body scrub. you can make your own using brown sugar, honey, almond oil, a couple of drops of lavender oil… you’ll feel like a newborn baby when you’re done. ✦ do some decluttering. donate or sell clothes you no longer wear, throw away old papers, receipts… clean and organize your makeup. throw away any products that are expired, wash your makeup brushes and use a wipe to clean dust and grime off makeup containers. keep in mind most makeup products only last six to twelve months. you can check the expiration date on the container, generally next to the ingredient list. ✦ clean and tidy your space. open the windows, change your sheets, clean your space and when you’re done, light a scented candle or incense. i like using vanilla incense and i love the shea butter yankee candle ♡ 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑢𝑠 ୭ৎ ࣪ ׅ ♡ the perfect time to do these things is now. you don’t have to wait until the new year, don’t tell yourself things like “i’ll start next week”. do it now. respect yourself enough to know you deserve to be clean and live in a tidy, comfortable space. and next time you’re shopping, ask yourself these questions: “will this bring value to my life?” “will this make my life easier?” “do i love this?” make sure you’re not going crazy with buying clothes, makeup, trinkets… be smart about your purchases so you don’t end up with a cluttered space all over again.

r/TwoSentenceHorror 5 hr. ago nohemi_trevino My friend was extremely grateful when I gifted her a huge pack of moisturizing lip balms for Christmas. Her mouths had been looking chapped recently, and if they felt uncomfortable at all, they might start eating her as punishment.

r/shortscarystories 4 yr. ago GuyAwks Take Her Swimming on the First Date Fake lips, fake eyelashes, fake brows, fake complexion, fake curves and fake hair. All that and no wonder blokes don’t trust women nowadays. I ring the doorbell and my date answers, looking just as stunning as when I’d asked her out at the pub. Anthea is a Mediterranean beauty, dark blondie hair framing her bandage dress, her olive skin radiant. But that’s just how she looks. Me and my mates know looks can be deceiving. The amount of foundation some of these stuck-up birds in our neighbourhood trowel on is atrocious. Who gave them the idea that vain cakefaces are what guys dig? Everyone always jokes about how, if you don’t want to wake up next to a 2, you need to take her swimming first. Well, I’m not joking tonight. “Where are we heading?” Anthea coyly asks from my passenger seat. “I hope I’m not overdressed.” “Hmm” I reply. “I was thinking we could take a walk by the shore, sit on the pier and...just relax.” “Sure, that sounds like a nice first date! Just...no swimming okay?” Typical princess, I think smugly as I nod. What Miss Perfect doesn’t know is that I’m actually planning a midnight dip in the sea for her. It’ll be the ultimate gag— of an ice queen melting after I’ve tossed her off the pier. “Tonight was wonderful, Alfie” Anthea swoons to me later that evening, dangling her legs over the jetty. Now it’s finally showtime. Interlocking my fingers with hers, I suddenly send the two of us lurching into the water. As I surface, I expect to see running mascara and waterlogged extensions. Indeed, my date’s form is beginning to melt away. But what I’m glimpsing is...skin shedding into scales...fingers melding into webbed claws. I can only tread water as the woman metamorphosizes into a serpentine monster before my eyes. Whatever illusion this creature had going, seawater has clearly broken it—and Anthea is not happy. “We could have had so much more fun together” she hisses, incensed. “This is premature.” With that, the sea siren viciously seizes me and drags me underneath the waves, her voice echoing on as water fills my lungs. “I only take men to sea on the last date.”