Halloween Series #1 Glamour ghoul Makeup

October is one of my favourite months of the year and I try to make Halloween last as long as possible! I'm going to do a Halloween series for you guys, with a few makeup looks and some other spooky posts that I'm excited about!

For this first look I've kept the makeup pretty simple and used quite earthy tones, like rust red on the eyes and grey contouring on the nose and cheeks.
I wanted the imperfections of my skin to come through so I went for minimal coverage and just used concealer to cover any spots. The eyebrows are really dramatic, I used black and kept the lines strong and sharp.
The lipstick is what makes the look perfect for the Halloween season! I lined the lips with a black liner and then brought the edges out to a sharp point. I then blotted some red lipstick to the centre of the lips and then blended the two colours together.

I'm happy with how the makeup turned out and now I'm psyched to get more posts together in the Halloween theme!

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Pinterest Inspiration #1

Hello, my name is Melissa and I am a Pinterest-aholic...

Fashion

Beauty Makeup

Tattoo

Interior design

So these are some of my favourite pins at the moment.

I hope they inspire you as much as they do me!

Pinterest - Melissa Mears

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Everyday makeup routine

Pretty much everyday I use a variation of this makeup routine (well the days I can be bothered wearing any makeup!)

I love experimenting and changing my look up. Right now I'm really in to heavy contouring and highlighting and overdrawing my lips to Pamela Anderson proportions, she is my spirit animal!

Foundation - Illamasqua Skinbase

Powder - Illamasqua pressed powder

Contour and highlight - Illamasqua sculpting powder duo

Eyebrows - Barry M pencil

Lips - Mehron "sweet" lip pencil

Eyeliner - Barry M

Mascara - Barry M Lash Vegas

The eye shadows are from a massive palette I bought from Ebay a while ago, it has every colour you could ever imagine! I used a blending brush to put the brown in my crease and then pressed a red colour on to my lid.

I'm going to do a few more detailed posts with different looks and a post about how I overdraw my lips and different ways to make them appear bigger, so keep checking back!

Also can you spot my handsome German Shepherd Sabbath in the second photo?! He's too cute I can't even deal.

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Lavender Hair

Lately I've been trying to be more spontaneous and it occurred to me that I've had the same blonde hair for three years, not very spontaneous of me!

After searching for hours on Pinterest I finally decided I was going to take the leap and dye my hair a pinky/purple. I bought two pots of Directions Lavender dye and left it on for about an hour and a half. When I washed off the colour I could see that the freshly bleached top of my hair took the colour a lot better and so it was a bright purple, whereas the ends of my hair were left more of a lilac, pastel pink mixture. This resulted in an accidental ombre which I really love!

I'm now completely inspired to keep experimenting with my hair colour and I love how I can match my eyebrows to it and be more adventurous with my makeup. I mainly wear head to toe black and so this colour is allowing me to stand out a little more than I normally do!

I think next I'm going to try electric blue or pastel turquoise.

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