Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Gore-less wounds

Okay, this time around I'm going to share with you an easy way to make good looking wounds for Halloween, without the use of fake blood, fake skin or anything like that. Its great for costumes where you want to have some wounds but don't want to be messy or scary.

What you need is:
Red eyeshadow, facepaint, lipstain or marker
Black liquid liner or pencil liner
Black eyeshadow

How-to:

First, I drew some lines of red. narrow at the ends and a little wider in the middle. (For 2 of these, I used a red lipstain marker that I covered with eyeshadow, for the bottom right wound I used just red eyeshadow mixed with mixing medium. You can use water, mixing medium or eyedrops, but I prefer to have the base down, the color is darker).

Then trace around the red with black. For 2 I used a liquid eyeliner 'marker' and the bottom right an eyeliner pencil. I find liquid eyeliner works much better for this (but I don't have any of the normal kind).

Next, I used some black eyeshadow to blend. Darker along the black edges and a darker still in the corners.

Finally, draw in your 'stitches' any way you would like. Again, liquid eyeliner works better for this because the line is much sharper.

And there you have it! Simple wounds without all the ick. Just make sure its not on an area that's going to get too sweaty or rubbed up against things as it is only makeup :P

I would love to see your version if you do this!

Easy Halloween Costumes & Accessories.

For the people who want simple, easy or comfy costumes, to the people who who want a great accessory to top everything off, I've got a list of 10 items for you.

Big Brain Necklace.

HP Dark Mark temporary tattoos.

Blood Drip necklace.

Vampire bite necklace.

Cleaver earrings.

Silver Bullet necklace.

Surprise zombie tshirt.

Red and Black tutu.

Jack Skellington Skeleton hair clips.

Zombie Cameo necklace.

Halloween How-to: Spooky Skeleton Makeup

Hi guys! I wanted to share a halloween makeup look with you for a creepy undead/skeleton costume. I only did half my face in the pictures but you can do the other side easily enough for a full skeleton.

1: cover half your face in white face paint (I'm using stuff from the dollar store.. Works alright, but if you have a powder to cover it or something thicker, I'd use that)

2: Use a black eyeliner to draw a jaggedy line down your face, seperating the white and the normal. 

3: Use some red eyeshadow to color in your eye socket, then go over it in black.

4: Draw a line coming from the corner of your mouth, and draw vertical lines for teeth. (Make sure your pencil is very sharp or use liquid eye liner, you want a thin sharp line.) Add some red in between the 'teeth' if you wish.

5: Do your makeup however you want to on the other side of your face. (I only had the makeup for the creepy side with me so I had to make due.)

6: Using red and black, add some gore to the skull side of the face where the jaggedy line is. Thats where the skin is 'seperated'. blend it well, but have it messy!

7 (Not shown): This is where I would also add fake blood if I had any. Down the face in the split and on the mouth/down the chin. Have fun with it!

(Note: I feel like this looks a little half assed, and I apologise. This is actually the second time I've taken pictures for this tutorial!) 

Recipes for Halloween

Planning on having a party for Halloween, or just want to bake some holiday themed snacks? Heres a list of recipes for whatever you have planned.

Caramel Apples: This recipe reminds me of the best caramel apples you will ever eat in your life, from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Caramel, white chocolate, and cinnamon (I would add the sugar and brown sugar to make it exactly the same :P)

Pumpkin Spice Syrup: for adding to hot drinks

Brain Jello Mold: Okay, not a recipe, but its as simple as making jello in this mold and having jellied brains! (Add gummy worms to the jello?)

Eyeball cookies: No bake recipe only requiring a microwave.

Brain cupcakes with cherry insides!

If you want other meal, dessert and dip recipes, you can go here to my collection of recipes online.

Mani-Monday & Exploring Ottawa

Here's my new nails and the How-to DIY.

I used an awesome acid green color and 2 glitter ;Stripe Rite' colors by So Easy, which you can buy from Sally Beauty.

Instructions:
Put down 2 layers of your base color.
Using Stripe Rite (Or any polish and a super thing brush) draw across lines at random. Once the first color is set, do the same thing with the second color.
Add a top coat.

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We've been doing some exploring in the city still, taking backroads around and walking into town to see how far everything is away.

Yesterday we ended up walking down the Rideau Centre (and silly me forgot to take the last 2 fortune cookie charms I have left to hide, I will do this tomorrow!) and went downtown again at night for some night photography.

On the roof of the Rideau Centre

My point and shoot can hold its own in the day, but its nothing compared to Threeark's night pictures. You should check it out!

Moreos & My cookie dough recipe

I love pinterest. Its full of all sorts of ideas and recipes. I kept seeing this one and after mentioning it to my brother he went out and bought the ingredients and we tried it.

We call it 'the moreo'

Its an oreo wrapped in chocolate chip cookie dough and cooked, and its not for the faint of heart! In the end it doesn't really taste like an oreo anymore, which is strange, but it was still pretty good.

Our kitchen wasn't really stocked to make real cookie dough so we used storebought stuff. The store bought only had enough to wrap 9 cookies, one of which we ate raw.. (a blessing and a curse.. you can really only eat one of these in a sitting. And that's coming from someone who can eat cookies like its going out of style!)

sorry for the cruddy photo

Instructions:

• Get (or make!) cookie dough (if you need a recipe, mine is below). 
• Wrap it around an oreo.
• Bake in the oven 8-12 minutes on 325. 
• Die of a diabetic coma.

If you plan on trying this, I would suggest making the cookie dough as the store bought stuff was slightly too sticky and hard to work with, and would probably wrap better with less chocolate chips than normally called for.

My cookie recipe 

1 cup flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 (loosely packed) brown sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp vanilla
1/2 cup butter (melted)
1 tsp baking soda
Mint chocolate chips (1/2 cup or as many as you want..)

Instructions

• Mix egg, butter and vanilla. 
• Add sugar.
• Add flour and baking soda.
• Add chocolate chips.
• Spoon cookie dough onto tray equally spaced, cook until browned (approx 10 min) on 375 on the middle rack. 

Enjoy! Let me know what you think of you try this.

10 Halloween Nail Ideas and Text How-to.

Halloween Nails

Its no secret I'm kind of obsessed with nail polish/nail art. I wanted to share some nail ideas I've found for Halloween with you!

Paint a french tip however you normally do (either with tape or sideways brush strokes) in each color. Use a nail art pen, small brush or stickers to add details.

SO amazing! No easy way to explain how to do this.. you just really have to freehand it and hope for the best :P

Paint nails green. Go back with a dotting tool for the eyes, a small brush or nail art pen for the mouth and messy  brush strokes for the hair.

Paint nails white. Use a nail art pen or small brush for the stripes sideways, and a dotting tool for the eyes.

Paint nails white (or whatever base color you want). To get the splatter effect you need to dip a straw into the nail polish and blow it at your nails. 

Paint your nails yellow. When it is dry, tape off the bottom and paint with orange. Peel off the tape, tape off again higher up (when the orange is dry) and paint white. 

These are my favourite! I cannot wait until its closer to Halloween so I can do this, and I will probably include a picture tutorial on how to do it. Basically though, paint your nails green, add red stripes, and then little thin black lines across it to look like stitches. Add as many shades and shadows as you can or keep it neat.

In this photo I think they had the areas taped off, but you could get the same effect with a black crackle polish over the color of your choice.

Make dots using your dotting tool, then draw small lines up to the top of your nails to connect them. Paint across the top for even coverage.

Paint nails orange, using a nail art pen to draw on the face.

Don't forget to topcoat any nail art to keep it from chipping :).
If any of these pictures belong to you let me know and I will credit it. Thanks!