#makeup tag

[psilocervidae]

"Everything that limits us exists only in the mind. Imperare sibi maximum imperium est."

Here's my first go at a Daniil cosplay! I have none of the right clothes so this was just done with stuff I had in my closet (and a red bit of scrap fabric I found) but I'm thinking of taking this one to Comic Con somewhere down the line.

Shout out to my dad for letting me use his office and his old anatomy textbooks to shoot while I'm in town.

[basilsart]

Hooters Swag

[phemiec]

[confused-bumblebee]

Follow my makeup Instagram for my daily looks and updates about my YouTube channel!

[belladoesbeauty]

Well they’ve gone and done it again haven’t they .......

Hi guys!

Urban Decay recently released a brand a new mascara called ‘Lash Freak’ now when it comes to mascaras I like to test them for a few weeks before writing a review so I can really let you know what I think. Let’s chat about the details, this mascara cost £21 (though I found a discount code on honey and paid £17.90) and is advertised as an “intensely volumising mascara with an asymmetrical brush that lengthens, lifts, and curls lashes for a dramatic, wide-eyed effect”. This mascara is meant to give you 23.6 times more volume than their other mascaras and is a longwear formula lasting up to 20 hours.

Now when it comes to a mascara with this many claims especially when it states it’s a long wear formula I really like to test it out. When I first opened the mascara I was slightly confused because the brush wasn’t something I’ve ever seen before so it took me a go or two to work out how to properly apply the mascara. But once I applied the first coat of mascara on my eye you could see the difference straight away!! My lashes looked dramatically longer and since I only did one eye at this point you could see such a dramatic difference. When I applied the mascara to the second eye it went on even smoother then the first time and again my eyes look so different it was like I was wearing false lashes genuinely.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been wearing this mascara on my 10hr shifts to see how good the mascara would look after a long day at work. Normally when I wear mascaras during the day usually regardless of the brand it will transfer on my lower lashes throughout the day. This is something I get worried about but with the Lash Freak mascara once it dries after application it didn’t move at all, not a single budge which is so impressive!!! After I had this experience a weeks straight I knew this mascara was something that definitely deserved its hype. Since I was feeling a little extra after work one night I decided to wash my hair and not take off my mascara before to see how it would long wear it really was. Now I figured yep you literally last on my eyes until I physically remove you but can you last through water and let me tell you the answer is .... YES!! That sucker didn’t move once which was so impressive!!

So moral of the story if you’re looking for a mascara that can last all day at work, actually water resistant, and has crazy voumising abilities here’s the best recommendation I can give you!!! Check out Urban Decay for more info and in 2 days I’m posting a video where you can see it in action so lookout for that!!

Lots of love

Bella x x

[gothhabiba]

How do you think about/approach makeup in your day to day life ? It’s such a fraught subject and my brains overloaded and I’m not sure which of my impulses to listen to. You’ve written such clear concise critique on the subject in the past and I’d really appreciate your thoughts.

capital-T Thoughts on makeup are in /tagged/makeup tag (/tagged/makeup was ironically enough already being used for pictures of makeup looks I like)

in terms of what I do personally, I just have a set of basic guidelines for myself that are aimed at preventing that thing where your concept of what your face looks like is influenced by what your made-up face looks like to the extent that you see yourself without makeup & think it doesn’t look like you. these guidelines include

nothing aimed towards altering the appearance of a naturally occurring feature (e.g. no complexion products, no plucking or filling in brows, no contouring, no lash extensions, no “natural” blush colours, no “my lips but better” lipstick shades, no “no makeup” looks). if I’m wearing a pigment or something then it’s clearly artificial & differentiated from the colour and texture of my face, & you can tell where it begins and where it ends

if I notice that I’ve been wearing makeup for a few days in a row, I’ll go without it just to ensure that I remain comfortable with it. at least some of these makeup-less outings have to be Out out (with friends, on a date, to class), not just a run to the store

my personal feelings towards makeup & other aspects of my own ‘feminine’ presentation are also really wrapped up in the context of gothness (not to say that it’s like ~subversive~ but it does mean that I was scolded for wearing [the wrong kind of] makeup more often than for not wearing makeup in adolescence–& in a lot of settings a lot of aspects of goth fashion are considered unisex) so your mileage may vary.

overall I think you ought to aim to do whatever feels comfortable for you, but also be wary of viewing makeup as a ‘quick fix’–in other words, short-term comfort (feelings of confidence, beauty, &c.) can be incompatible with the long-term comfort that comes with not feeling that you need to change anything about your face to feel confident, to recognise yourself.

[doomybat]

тaeѕтe тeeғнz,!

[sunflxwerbabe]

s o i'm probly gonna do a dump of some makeup looks soon? idk i just,, yea h anyways here's one that's kinda recent that i rlly enjoyed doing