So as an up and coming freshman at college going to study history, you could only imagine my love for makeup trends and applications through about each and every time period in history. Some days I wake up and think it would look cool to be a Greek goddess and others I do an Egyptian thing. Today, it happened to be 18th century France.
!8th century s one of my favorite time periods in American history, yett there wasn't a lot going on in the makeup area there, so I turn to France for that one thanks to my good friend Marie here.
So that's what I did. I made myself into a pretty close recreation of her look with a bit of a modern twist.
I know, Allison, Damn, that blush though.
I know, you're thinking I look crazy, but trust me, it's pretty freaking amazing.
I did a lot of research on this topic, meaning I watched a YouTube video of my favorite lady to watch as far as historically accurate makeup goes:
And of course I didn't go full out, but I did lighten my very tan skin. Because I am tan for once in my life.
I also found the same picture that she had just about and I translated each of the places for the beauty patches and found out that where the mark is on the side of my face that I always end up using concealer on would make me passionate, as I went with it and that's what I did. Instead of using eyeliner, though,I made mine with a piece of an index card I colored black with a sharpie,cut it out and used eyelash glue to glue it onto my face over the mole think on the side of my face.
Here's the pucture you can translate if you speak french, or if you took 5 years of it in high school like me, you can use google translate like I did.
So i'm not gonna lie, but I really actually like this. I own a wrong amount of flannel shirts, 3 Nirvana albums, and have been smudging my eyeliner. So I decided, since I have been slacking on the blog lately, I would actually do a post about my new favorite look. Now I haven't done anything this extreme before and will not wear something like this out of the hose, But the thought of it is really cool to be honest.
So I started it all off with my Rimmel Stay Matte foundation with my real techniques miracle complexion sponge, which makes me look pale and dead and my stay matte powder and made myself look like a white matte ghost (which if you're really going for the grunge look and not the fake grunge look, is what you should look like).Then I did some light contour to make look sickly, but not enough to make e look like I went out in the dun. I filled in my eyebrows like normal, then primed my eyes to ready for the large amount of medium matte brown shadow I put everywhere, I put a deeper matte brown in the crease and blended it. I also put a bit of both colors under the eye too. I next lined the eyes completely black with an elf eye pencil and did my water and tight line as well. Curl the lashes and put on a ton of mascara! Look like you just rolled out of bed, nothing is perfect.
Then I used my elf moisturizing lipstick in party in the buff on the lips and put more powder over that so that no shimmer is left anywhere on your face. If you're dead, you can't have moisture on the lips. None of that!
Add cool lighting and some Instagram filters, and you'll be set!
So here they are on all of theyr glory: Homecoming 2015 pictures! As this was my last homecoming, I went to all the highs and did everything I could to make this year the beast homecoming, and I think I won!
So here's a rundown of everything
Makeup:
I did everything I could to recreate the 20's without looking too much like a costume. And if you're wondering I used both the sugar plum fairy and my new fav lipstick, cherry bomb by Wet N Wild.
Eyebrows on Fleek!
Hie: I honestly can't tell you how i did this, but just enjoy it.
It was just experimental. Lots of bobby pins!
And here is my group of friends looking beautiful! (and Handsome)
Since Allison posted a while back about her Homecoming plans for a 1920's inspired look, I thought I'd tack on my 1920's look from Halloween last year. Since the holiday is coming up, it's all just perfect timing.
I went more dramatic than Allison's tutorial which wasn't a problem because I was attending a Halloween party, not a homecoming dance.
I had a load of fun doing this look although around halfway through, I was CONVINCED I was going to have to start over because I looked so crazy.
Yet another amazing TK Maxx Haul for me! I had literally popped in to grab a couple of new tea canisters for my growing collection of teas but just had to stop by the makeup section to see what they had (and if any of it was free from dirty fingerprints... ahem...) By some gift from the makeup gods, this beautiful palette was there, in its box, completely untouched. Praise!
I bought it for £10, a £15 pound discount off the sticker price! I figured it was okay to treat myself considering I'd just turned in my major project for my master's degree.
Anyway, here are the swatches!
From Left to Right: Instinct, Impulse, Glance, Improvise, Catalyst, Desire, Wonder, Spontaneous, Whim, Captivate
Left to Right: Desire, Wonder, Spontaneous, Whim, Captivate
From Left to Right: Instinct, Impulse, Glance, Improvise, Catalyst
The color payoff is great for all of the colors. The only ones really effected by primer are Instinct and Impulse which seem to stick a bit better to primer.
I'd also swatched Catalyst on top of some glitter primer to help bring out the purple glitter in the black shadow. It seemed to help keep the glitter in place.
Anyway, another great TK Maxx haul! I love nearly everything about this palette and it was definitely one of my best makeup purchases.
So I know, you haven't seen me lately, but a lot has happened lately. In that list of things, school has started...Ugh. I am super busy, but still want to be able to blog for you all. So on Friday I learned that my homecoming theme this year is going to be Gatsby
Gatsby? What Gatsby?
And I am not sure if I've mentioned this, but I love everything vintage and retro, so this is straight up my alley.
So here's the plan:
Makeup:
This is one of my most favorite makeup youtubers that I actually found through this series of historically accurate makeup tutorials about a year or two ago and have been watching her religiously ever since. Now obviously she has a lot of hinged products that I don't have, but there is a makeup palette by wet and wild out now that I don't know the name of, but I plan on getting it for the eye shadow part. I also have a pair of ELF eyelashes that will do the job, I just need to get better lash glue, which will probably just get duo lash. For the lips,there is a number of colors I am thinkg about and I want some opinions, so here are the options:
Miloni Black Cherry
Wet N Wild Cherry Bomb
Revlon Black Cherry
and Wet N Wild Sugar Plum fairy
The Two Wet N Wild lipsticks will apply more matte, and the others will be shinier. I am leaning more towards sugar plum fairy, but it might be kind of hard to find, so i need to figure out which one I want to get.
I probably won't be doing the while cupid's now lip shape thing because i don't want to look costume. This is homecoming of my senior year, it has to look really good this year! As well as thee way I apply blush and my eyebrow filler, I don't want to look crazy.
Hair:
Now, if you don't know, I have extremely long and extremely red hair at the moment.I plan on redying my hair with my FAVORITE hair dye(R57 Cherry Crush by L'Oreal Feria power reds)
SO now that you know what my hair looks like, I would like to take a second to explain how opposite the trends were in the 1920s.
In the 1920s, hair was revolutionary in the way that women were now cutting their hair super short instead of veing traditional and keeping it as long as mine is now or possibly even longer.So the challenge for me is, I want to make my hair fit into the time period without giving myself a costumeish faux-bob type look.
So I'm thinking this
I did this for a dance a few years ago that I had a 20's vibe for, but this was different, so I couldn't look as sultry as I wan tot go this time. So I want to do this hairstyle oer with the same feather jeweled headband and instead of making it looked polished and pretty, I want to make it loser and curlier allover the sides and the tops of the head. (Also I apologize for the poor makeup application in this picture. Oh the eyebrows are so bad!!!!!!)
I also found some inspiration from these pictures online too
Dress:
Even before i knew the theme, I decided I would be wearing the dress I wore my freshman year to homecoming Simpy because I hate most of the dresses in the stores this year and I have so many, there is no need to buy another one. So let's look at little Allison for the dress
Accessories:
Instead of the shrug I am wearing in the picture on the left is not god enough is it, no it isn't little 14 year old Allison. So I am going to borrow a little mess beaded shawl with tassels that looks very sensual and classic, without being too costumeish.
As far as shoes go,I originally wore some sparkly silver heels with this dress, but this time I am wearing the satin shoes with silver sparkly jewel details on them that I wore with my first 20s dress. I don't have a picture of them, but they are four inch heels with straps that buckle on the side. They aren't super 20s, but they will work and make the outfit look a bit more modern.
I have a retro clutch that I borrow from my mom every time I need a black clutch for homecomings/dances.
I am planning on going to Charming Charli to get some kind of long necklace to wear to complete the look. I might get new earrings as well, but if not, I can wear the earrings I borrowed from my mom pictured in the picture of my hair from the first 20s outfit.
Thta took a long time to write,did I miss anything?
If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment and tell me your thoughts especiallyon hair and makeup because I am kind of not really 100% on it all yet.
