Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Bitten by a Vampire

Hey guys! I have another Halloween makeup tutorial for you today and this one is probably the most simple of them all. I call this look 'Bitten by a Vampire' but you can honestly be anything creepy using this look. 

To start, do you regular base routine - except use a foundation that is about two or three shades lighter then your normal skin so you have that pale, dead, and gloomy look. 

Set your face with a powder - dead things usually aren't so shiny - and do your brows as you would normally. 

Next, line your upper water line and your lower water and lash line. Then, give yourself a black smoky eye. All I did was take a black matte shadow and slowly begin to blend it onto my lid - bringing the color into a cat eye shape, building its intensity as I went. 

Next, I lined my upper lash line with a liquid liner, giving myself a dramatic cat eye. 

  

Be sure to add generous coats of mascara!

Next, I went in with a black gel liner (you can usue a liquid liner, paint, or lipstick if you have it) to fill in my lips. I wanted to look dark and creepy and have the black in my eye and on my lips contrast with the white of my skin and the red of the "blood".

Finally, I added the "blood". I just used a red lipstick I had and smeared it out near my lip (as if I just fed for the first time) and created little bite marks on my neck. Feel free to use fake blood for this as well - it would actually look a lot more realistic than my lipstick.

I hope you guys liked this easy tutorial! 

xo Emily

Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Deer

Hey everyone! I have another Halloween makeup tutorial for you today. This look is for a deer and it's so easy (and cute!)

To get this look:

1. Use a bronzer to darken your temples, forehead and cheekbones. I used Too Faced's Chocolate Soleil Bronzer. It looks a bit silly as is, but once we put other shadows and products on top of it, it'll come together.

2. Using a brown gel liner, (I used L'Oreal's Infallible Lacquer Liner in 'Espresso') fill in your brows and from them, draw a line down your nose on both sides. Fill your nose/nostrils in a heart shape, creating the nose of a deer. You can google the shape and style online and draw off that.

2. Using a white shimmery shadow, fill under your eyes. Bring that shadow down until it naturally fades out. Bring the shadow up to you forehead as well. This is where we will place our dots. I used 'Snow' from the Lorac Pro Palette 2 to do this, but any white/silver/cream shimmery shadow works. 

3. Place this color up your nose between the two brown lines as well, as well as a bit on your chin and cupid's bow.

4. Using a white eyeliner, draw white spots on the places we already put white shimmery shadow - the temple, forehead, and cheeks. I used the Jumbo Eyeliner Stick from NYX.

5. Add your own makeup to your eyes to finish it all off. I did a brown smoky eye with the Stila Cosmetics Liquid Liner and Maybelline Great Lash Mascara. 

To finish off this look, it's easy to add accessories. Buy or create your own antlers and wear a nude leotard, using the same white spots to adorn it! Or, just wear a brown shirt and jeans and you're all set!

xo Emily

Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Harley Quinn

Hey everybody! Halloween is fast approaching so I thought I'd show you some easy and fun makeup looks for Halloween. Today's is Harley Quinn - a la Margot Robbie in Suicide Squad. I think this is such a fun and easy makeup look to achieve and extremely timely considering how close the movie is to coming out.

1. Apply a foundation that is 1-2 shades lighter than your skin, so that you get that pale complexion that Harley has. I used Rimmel's Match Perfection Foundation, applying it with a Real Techniques Foundation Brush. (I'm aware I look scary, but it's the price to pay to be Harley Quinn)

2. Set your foundation - Harley is very matte, not shiny - make sure you're using a pressed powder that is the same shade or a lighter shade than your foundation. I used Rimmel's Stay Matte Pressed Powder in 'Transparent' so that the color stays.

3. Next, fill in our brows however you prefer. Per usual, I used the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Chocolate.

4. Next, take a black kohl/pencil liner and messily apply it to both of your lids. I used L'Oreal's Silkissime Eyeliner. Then, you can either use your fingers or a brush to blend it in, again messily. You want it to look really messy - extending how smudgy it is beyond your lid.

5. Now, use a blue eyeshadow and apply it messily on your left eyelid. I used a blue shadow from the Too Faced 'Everything Nice' Palette, but any shade will do. Again, extend the color and smudging past where your eyelid is, dropping a bit of color onto your cheekbone as well. 

6. For the right eyelid, we want it to be the same as the left, except red. I didn't have a red eyeshadow so I used NARS Velvet Lip Pencil in 'Mysterious Red', smudging it out.

7. Now, apply mascara and your eyes are done! I put on Benefit's They're Real Liner.

8. Apply a red lipstick to your lips. I used the same lipstick I used for my right eyelid. Once applied, take two fingers and make a smudge mark on the right lower lip, bringing it down towards your chin.

9. Time to make Harley Quinn's heart. Using a black liner, draw and fill in a small heart on the top of your right cheekbone. I just used NYX's Liquid Liner. 

10. To finish everything off, I used NYX's Matte Finishing Spray. 

And voila, there's my Harley Quinn makeup look. It's really incredibly easy to do and all you need to finish the look are two high ponytails, a baseball tee, and black booty shorts.

xo Emily

Living Up To My Blog Title

For my final post about Halloweekend, I'm sharing my costume that I wore on Saturday (my last costume).

As I said, I'm living up to my blog name because I dressed up as a cat (I know, so imaginiative). Because I did do a very tried and true costume, I wanted to make it a bit more special and unique. I had this awesome leopard onesie that was absolutely perfect for such a cold night and I decided to really vamp up the makeup to match my leopardness!

The makeup was really fun to do and I think it turned out awesome. Do you think I should do a tutorial on this sometime? 

All the animals together :)

It was such a fun weekend full of costumes and candy and fun. I can't wait for next year!

♡

xo Emily

Halloween #3 - Harry Potterlicious!

Hey guys! I thought I'd share with you my third costume for this Halloweekend!

If you can't tell, I was Harry Potter! I'm a huge fan of the books and movies and when I spotted HP glasses in the store, I snagged them and decided to become a wizard!

The costume was super easy - you can really customize it however you want.

I wore a red plaid skirt, black tights, a red tie, Harry Potter glasses, and a white button down. I drew his scar on my forehead in brown eyeliner and carried a wand.

The wand was super special. When my mom found out I was going to be Harry Potter, she sent me a cape and this awesome wand.

You probably couldn't tell but it's homemade!!!!!!! She found a stick in our backyard, whittled it down, dyed it with tea, and then treated it with lotion to make it soft. It looks absolutely incredible. When I first opened the package, I thought it was storebought. Don't you just love moms? They always know how to do something awesome.

It was a great night and I was so happy that my roommate dressed up as Cho. She looked amazing!

What did you guys dress up as?

♡

xo Emily

My Halloween #2: Lucille Bluth

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween! For my second Halloween party on Thursday night, I dressed up as Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development!

Watch this if you want to know why I love her so much....and WATCH the show, it's brilliant.

The costume was a pretty easy one to achieve! Basically you just needed a pant/skirt combo, a brooch, a martini glass, and a bitchy face. It was so fun!

I went to my friends house for their party. Emma was dressed as Teddy Roosevelt (spot on) and Elaina was Thomas Jefferson. 

"I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it."

♡

xo Emily

5 Last-Minute Black Dress Halloween Costumes!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

I'm so excited for this holiday! I love dressing up, but it always give me anxiety and sometimes I have to pull something together at the last minute.

Today I thought I'd share five easy, last-minute costume ideas you can make using a black dress. I know we've all got a black dress in our closet and this one I use - from H&M, is only $25 and a staple.

Hope you all enjoy!

Cruella de Vil by eaperry featuring a black dress

First up was Cruella de Vil. All you need is a big fluffy coat, red pumps, white hair spray, black tights, and red lipstick. For her signature cigarett holder, just tape together two pens! Add a stuffed dalmation for fun then get to spraying one side of your hair and work on being mean!

Bumblebee Halloween Costume by eaperry featuring a short sleeve dress

This is an easy one! All you need is antennae from the store, yellow duck tape, yellow rainboots (or any shoe you prefer!), and black tights. Just cut out strips of the yellow duck tape and put them horizontally on your dress to achieve the bumblebee look!

Orphan Black Costume by eaperry featuring a biker jacket

One of my favorite shows is Orphan Black and it's really easy to use a black dress to become a clone. First off, the show literally has 'black' in it, so it's a funny play on words too. You just want grungy black clothing items. I grabbed combat boots, a black leather jacket, and black tights. Once you've got all that on, get your hair all messy and then get some super intense black liner going on. The final touch is to grab some nametags from any office supply store and write 'Hi my name is.... clone #19' on it. You can choose whatever number you want. The point is, you're one of the many clones!

Black Cat Costume by eaperry featuring a black cat costume

This one doesn't need much explanation, and it's a standard Halloween costume for everyone. You basically just need cat ears, but I added some more black clothes, a tail, and black makeup for the nose and whiskers!

Bitten by a Vampire Costume by eaperry featuring jessica simpson shoes

Lastly, this is the easiest costume ever. All you need to do is take red lipstick and make two little incision marks (like a vampire would bite you, duh) on your neck and voila! Now you're 'bitten by a vampire' and you're ready to go!

♡

Are you guys going to use a black dress for your Halloween costume?

xo Emily