Simpsons D'ohnut

Online shopping is my hamartia. If my life were a Greek myth my final epic battle would be at it's climax right now: the fatal choice of buying groceries or giving into Modcloth's 50% off Black Friday sale.  Looks like Christmas gifts this year will be handmade, which is the opposite of a problem. I used polymer clay to make the d'ohnut brooch, something I'll have to replicate as a magnet for my Simpsons obsessed father (and hey dad, in case you're reading this, pretend to be surprised at your present). My life is at it's up most happiest (exception of today, when bus goers spoiled my happiness high) and I don't want to say that someone's the reason for that, but maybe they are. And maybe it's also the fact that I'm superpiduper into writing again! My Simpsons Moleskin is getting scribbled on probable misspelled ideas and brainstorming sessions. The characters I write are getting more and more real to me it's like we're hanging out. Begging for a giant dry/erase board for my birthday (November 29th, ps) so that I can have an abundance of hardcore smelly marker idea fests. 

I should also talk about my clothes here too. This outfit is pretty inspired by @madisonsteward and her cute vibes. It's almost entirely from SheInside, which has been a super hit or miss site for me. The cheap prices make me repeatedly shop there, but this order came with a pink dress when I ordered a gold one, and not to mention the dresses are designed too short to wear without shorts underneath. Big butt problems. On the plus side, I'm super happy with their vintage selection, and now own a few dresses I can only wear for my photography lifestyle, since they're so fancy I can't fathom an occasion I'd be able to be seen in public with them. The fabrics they use aren't cheap, and they have fast responding customer service too. On the fence. Also, apparently buying yourself clothing with owls on it is bad luck, but frankly, I've received the best of luck since she came in. She's also the softest shirt I've bought online. Still on that fence. 

 Dress

Owl Blouse

D'ohnut was handmade, comment (or message me on tumblr) if you want to buy one and that can be arranged!

Socks: Target

Merry Hallowmas

It snowed on Halloween- I repeat- it snowed on Halloween! My opportunity for a warm and coy fall shoot was cut short by at least a foot of the white stuff. I'm not mad (though everyone else seems to be) because snow and the winter it brings are by far my favourite season. The white background makes for optimal photography, and the whole 'drink hot chocolate and sit by the fireplace' is my favourite thing. Plus everything's nice and dead. No allergies, bear's are hibernating. An off sort of peaceful. The whole Winter Is Coming joke never gets old, and I feel so much closer to Alaska when the whether's not so sunny. Wearing all black to lament my cat, who was named Kitty because we couldn't decide on a name when we were young, and who was the best friend an introvert could have. Pudge, if there's one thing you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person.

Hat

Shawl

Top, gift

Skirt

Socks

Boots, thrifted

Galaxy Face Tutorial

Okay ladies and gentle jams we're going to be doing a tutorial because it's sunday night and the most exiciting thing I did today was groceries. And I'm waiting for Once Upon a Time to start okay. 

We're going to be doing space face like me below. It's about to be halloween soon and as always every single year I have a billion costume ideas but no main one. This year I spent around 150$ on indecisiveness when I could have just done this. Oops.

Materials:

• Acrylic Paint (purples, pinks)
• Face paint (white, black) [I had only white and black, if you have all purples and pinks in face paint that's probably safer for your skin!]
• Glitter
• White eye shadow

So as every single artsy fartsy knows we start with a blank canvas. Here's mine. She has foundation on and like the basics. Look at that tooth poke. 

I live in the basement with no natural light. Thus the flash use. Any who, I probably should have made this a video but I didn't. So start out with a base. Use the coloured paints (purple and pink and even blue if you're feeling rebellious) and dab them on to make something like this.  

Next add some black. I tried to put mine on places I wanted to stand out. I put some on my eye brow because I didn't want it to disappear in the galaxy, and some on my cheekbone to remind people that it's there.

Next I'm not sure how well you can see but I added tons of glitter. There was a paint where I was trying to dab in on but within minutes I went straight for literally dumping it on my face and basically bathing in glitter. My dresser is a little sparkly now.

Also I added as much white paint to my eyes as I could, then filled in what I couldn't with white eye shadow. I lined my eyes with it and put it all over my lids.

See.

Next I painted stars all over me. Too many, I think. But hey, this was my first go at turning myself into outer space, as it's not something I do often. I made big stars by making four lines connecting them in the middle, and tiny stars by just dotting my face. The dots looked cooler I found when I dabbed over them.

I also used the white face paint on my eye lashes. Super happy about how that turned out. Looks like I've frosted myself.

Put on your spaceish clothes and be a nebula goddess.

This picture below shows the fact that I starred my face on the opposite side too.

And yes, that's all.