Real make up


First off I would like to stress that quality makeup IS important, but not always neccessary. I use a lot of MAC makeup, but if you would like me to suggest a cheaper substitution for any product or brush I use, please ask. :)


STEP 1: Start out looking like hell, with your hair clipped out of the way and a relatively clean face. Make sure to use a gentle astringent on your eyelids to remove any oils. I didn't do that for this tutorial, because I was rushing, and my eyeshadow STILL had a bit of crease/fade, and I used a ton of bases. FAIL.


STEP 2: For a base under everything, I always use Bare Canvas paint by MAC. I highly recommend it, but there are other bases you can use.



STEP 3: I smear it on both eyelids and then blend it out to cover my entire eyelids all the way to my brows.




STEP 4: I use a crappy angled eyeshadow brush from Walmart and dip it into my Blacktrack fluidline by MAC, and then apply it to my eyelids where I need a black base for black eyeshadow to stick to. I HIGHLY recommend using colour-oriented bases to make your eyeshadow more vivid.




STEP 5: I use a black eyeliner pencil to line both my upper and lower waterlines, making sure to get between my lashes on the top. This is optional, and if you don't feel comfortable doing this, you don't have to. I use Graphblack ((I think?)) by MAC for this, but any decent quality black liner that will stay on your waterlines and not water off is fine.



STEP 6: I use Royal Hue shadestick by MAC as a base for my purple. I line over the top of the black base where my crease is, around the outer corner, and along my bottom lashline with it. Then I take my finger and blend it a bit so the line isn't so harsh.





STEP 7: Load on your highlighter. I like Ploof! by MAC. It's a natural champagne with lots of shimmer. I recommend putting on highlighter before the rest of your shadow because it makes it easier to blend up into then. I put the highlighter all the way down to where my base starts. I'm using a fluffy domed "Round Contour" brush by Anika International.




STEP 8: Pack on your matte black eyeshadow. I use Carbon by MAC. You really need to pick up a lot of the eyeshadow and press it onto your base. I'm using a "Medium Shadow" brush I got from target. It works well for packing on black/blackish colours, and it's the only thing I use this brush for.




STEP 9: Next I go over the top of the black with a shimmery black that's easier to blend. I'm using the same brush with MAC's Black Tied eyeshadow. There's not a ton of difference, but it really makes a difference in the blending and outcome.



STEP 10: Wipe all that black off your brush. It doesn't have to be perfect, cuz the next colour is almost black still.





STEP 11: Pick up some blackened purple eyeshadow. I'm using Fertile by MAC. It's an almost-black purple with a nice sheen, but I was having a hard time getting pictures of it. But it on top of the purple base on the crease and outer corner's edge. It doesn't have to be perfect, we'll blend later.




STEP 12: I'm using my "Smudge" brush from Target for this, it's a great short stiff flat brush. I picked up some more Fertile eyeshadow and lined under my eyes with it.


STEP 13: TADAA!!! Meet your new best friend. BLENDING BRUSH :D:D:D! I use MAC's 217 brush, it's soft and fluffy with well distributed fibers that make for excellent blending. If you can't get your hands on one of these, find something as similar as possible.


STEP 14: Blend your brains out, as shown below. For this look I blended back and forth like a windshield wiper, and with little tiny cirles in areas that needed more blending. When it doubt, BLEND MOAR :O.






Is it blended enough? NO! The inner corner needs MOAR BLENDING PRZ.




YAY :D



STEP 15: Next, wipe off your blending brush on a paper towel a bit and pick up a bright purple. I'm using Make Up Forever's Purple/92 ((I think?)). Put it right over your current blend line, so half is on the darker stuff, and half isn't. Blend back and forth again.


STEP 16: Pick up a lighter purple with less colour payoff with your blending brush. I used MAC's Parfait Amour. I put it a little higher than last time, and again blended it back and forth. This requires a small amount ((use less at first, you can always add more)) and a light touch.




STEP 17: I picked up some of the MUFE Purple/92 with my stiff Smudge brush and lined the inner half of my lower lashline with it.


STEP 18: Line your eyes. In this case I used Boot Black liquid liner by MAC. I also often use Blacktrack fluidline for this. Any good quality liquid/gel liner that won't chip/flake/get leathery works for this :D





STEPS 19 & 20: Curl your lashes and apply mascara. I use a Revlon "Beauty" curler or something like that, it works quite well. I usually use Covergirl Lashexact mascara in Black ((which I highly highly recommend!)) but I couldn't find it and used some awful old stuff instead. D:


STEP 21: Use a cotton pad and some astringent to clean up all the fallout under your eyes, and all over your face. I literally swab my entire face down, you'd be surprised where eyeshadow bits can get to when you're not looking. @___@;



STEP 22: Prep your face for face makeup. I use Olay Regenerist Serum or something like that, as a primer for my face. It makes my skin really smooth and a good canvas to work with, as my skin is very awful is tone and texture. I highly recommend everyone use a base for their faces if they wear foundation. It really helps.



STEP 23: I use a concealer brush and dab Bare Minerals foundation ((I use Fair)) in spots where I need extra coverage, and then blend them with the concealer brush. If you use liquid concealer, do the same, except with a LOT less product. And pat out any brush streaks with your fingers after blending.




STEP 24: Buff on Bare Minerals/Mineral Veil. If you use liquid foundation, use a tiny bit and put it on with a foundation brush. If you need more coverge, build up to it. Then dust on a finishing powder such as MAC's Studio Fix, Ben Nye's, or Bare Mineral's Mineral Veil. Use a large/jumbo domed powder brush, and again, start with less.



STEP 25: Contour your cheeks. I use a brush from CVS to do this, it's an angled face contour brush with another brush on the other end. Works well. For this I used MAC's Strada blush, a tan peachy colour.



STEP 25: Put on your blush. I used my "Angled Blush" brush from Anika International, with MAC's Dame blush, a cool-toned light pink. Apply from the apples of your cheeks and blend back to your hairline, and into your contour. Again, start out VERY lightly, and build up if you're not used to blending blushes.


STEP 26: Using the other end of the contour brush, I put some of MAC's Shimpagne MSF on to highlight my cheekbones. You can use any small round powder or blush brush for this. You can't see the difference much in this picture but you can in the next. It's important to highlight and contour.





STEP 27: Fill in your eyebrows! I think everyone should do this, even if they have complete eyebrows. It really brings out a lot of your face. I use my tiny angled 208 brush from MAC with Concrete eyeshadow from MAC. Match with your hair and skintone to make it work for you, and make sure it's a matte eyeshadow with no shimmer or sheen.


STEP 28: CHAPSTICK!!! I use Burt's Bees original. It's AWESOME.


STEP 29: Lipgloss. I use MAC's Instant Gold. I know for this tutorial the girl wanted berry lips but I didn't feel it went well with the eyes. Heavy eyes usually means very light lips, otherwise you start looking overdone/dragqueen/UBERGAWTH/whatever.



STEP 30: Unclip your hair and take pictures.

1
They say you can't live
Without love.
Yeah, well oxygen's
More important.

2
your eyelashes tickled my neck
with every nervous blink,
and it was perfect.

True Love

3
what would you attempt to do
if you knew you couldn’t fail ?

4
Class is dead, darling;
it died with the dinosaurs.
It traded it's pearls & white wine
for a MySpace & Corona.
Welcome to the 21st century;
Would you like fries with that?

5
it's just so easy
when the whole world
fits inside of your arms.

6
& the trouble is,
if you don`t risk anything,
you risk even more

7
i want to be your last kiss of
2006 & your 1st kiss of 2007.

8
you never get a second chance
to make the first impression

9
It just doesn't feel right
holding someone else's hand. ♥


because that's what people do,
they leap and hope to god they can fly because
otherwise you drop like a rock, wondering
the whole way down, why the hell did I just jump?
but here I am, falling, and the only one
that makes me feel like flying, is you.

look, lots of people lose themselves in love.
it's no shame. they write songs about it.
the hitch is, you can't stay lost. sooner or later,
you have to get back to yourself.

it can't last forever, of course not
but who made the rule that all of the best loves do?

no one writes songs about the ones that come easy.

I swear I'm sleeping less and less
when the ocean's getting warmer
and California's on her mind,
Los Angeles is tired and we always seem to feel alright.

Cause I know you, I deny you
Days go by and choices still remain forever
Right and wrong is black and white
The illusions of this world
And there is hope again.

"make yourself free." a man said that to me. and now my heart is like an open door.

Any type of love, it will be shown.
Like every single tree, reach for the sky.
If you're going to fall, I’ll let you know, that I will pick you up.

Ya, I miss your smile.
but I miss mine even more.

Once in a lifetime you meet a person who takes your breath away.
Not because you want them to, but because they're meant to.

you're riding with me tonight. passenger side,
lighting the sky. always the first star that i find.
you're my satellite. maybe you will always be
just a little out of reach.

Subtle glances, playful smiles, and a secret whisper.
If only you knew you were saving me.

I want power in my words,
I want passion in my eyes.
And when I wake up,
I want my life to be a pleasant surprise.

People are mostly nice. But there are some strange ones.

We can go to thrift stores
and you can pick out my dress
and I'll pick out your suit,
then we'll fall in love.

I need a faster car now,
a rocketship staright to the moon.
I need faster way to show you
just how much I need you.

You've always found a way to cheer me up
even when I'm as down as can be
you replace my tears with laughs + smiles
you have no idea what that means to me

Sometimes when I see you in the halls
& we act like nothing is going on,
I just want you to push me up
against the locker and kiss me.

I've been falling like the rain but
you got your umbrella in my way.
I had the sun in my hands
until you said you liked the rain.

you swore to me with a pinky promise.
i suppose i should have called no crosses first.

Here goes the same thing around again
No I'll never learn
You're in the deep end
I don't know how to swim
But I'm jumping in


Alone, you find yourself just hanging
and to fill the hole you cling to all that seems
to hide the little girl that's crying
underneath the rage that you let others see.


I want to go back to a time when our hearts carried the conversation & our brains jogged behind. When truth wasn't so cryptic, & lies didn't destroy everything we've ever worked towards. Oh, progress is the opposite of "you & me." As we stand together & watch the world pass by, you vanish from my side. I see you run & catch up & my tears sting like acid; the bitterness makes them burn, & I'm afraid even through this I doubt I'll ever learn. They say, "absence makes the heart grow fonder," but I think I like you more when you're here.


Don't let it end like this;
we've been through worse,
this is just a windy day
compared to all the storms that have came our way...


She's not over what happened.
She’s still hurting.
Songs come on the radio that make her remember
that he was the one that broke her heart.


We were joking around.
And I wondered will there come a time when we won't be joking?
And what would that look like?
And how would I feel?


I'm afraid that I've forgotten your face.
But I haven't forgotten what it felt like to hold you.


You can hear it in my voice,
read it on my face.
I'm drowning in the memories,
of the past I can't replace.


Don't be afraid of death,
be afraid of unlived life.
~Tuck Everlasting

it's the possibility that keeps us going,
not the guarantee.

"You know that place between sleep
and awake, the place where you can
still remember dreaming? That's where
I'll always love you, that's where I'll be waiting."
-Peter Pan
[I really like that one] haha.

I don't know if it's your smile, your laugh,
or just the way you are that makes me feel like this ...
but whatever it is, everytime I see you,
I love you more than ever before.

You were the last thing I expected,
and I couldn't ask for more.

life is made up of years
that mean nothing. and moments
that mean everything.

- every new beginning comes from
some other beginning's end.

Its weird, you know the end of something
that has taken so much time to get
over is coming & youre so relieved
that its finally here but you still,
for some reason want to hold on.
Just for one more second...
just so it can hurt a little more.
After all, this problem has been your
life for so long youre not sure
if youll be used to being free.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero:
Seize the day, put no trust in the future.

sometimes you just need someone.
someone to make you smile when you're sad
someone to tell you you're beautiful
someone to look forward to seeing you every day
someone to call you every night
someone to say I love you and mean it
sometimes you just need someone.

we spend our whole lives searching
for all the thing's we think we want,
never really knowing what we really have.

you never leave my mind.
even when i have a million things to worry about.

what's the difference between a drunk and a pothead?
a drunk will drive through a stop-sign,
and a pothead will wait for it to turn green.

never say goodbye
because goodbye means going away,
and going away means forgetting.
-- Peter Pan

The nights are forever and maybe I'm wrong,
but it feels like I'm so lost without you.

If you believe in yourself even when the
odds seem stacked against you,
anything is possible. --Dawson's Creek

I know there will be better things.
that's kind of the best thing about being young..
knowing all these things are on their way..
these better things.

get caught up in the moment
sing a silly song
do whatever it takes to
live life for what it's worth

one
& the skin you call your home
Holds a heart that quits
& knees that buckle in
& lungs that just can't breathe
Whenever you think of him.

two
I'll be there when
The world stops turning.
I'll be there when
The storm is finally through.
'Cause in the end I want
To be standing at the begining with you.

three
Late last night I made my plans
It was the only thing I felt I could do
I said goodbye to my best friend
Sometimes there's no one
Left to tell me the truth.

four
She swears there’s nothing
wrong but I hear her playing
the same old song.

five
She smiled in a big way;
the way a girl like that smiles,
when the world is hers.
-Dashboard Confessional

six
Sometimes confrontation is difficult.
Sometimes it's just easier to write
my heart & soul out on lined paper.

seven
Our hands touched. Not purposely.
Not slowly. Really quickly.
And we both looked at each other,
because we both felt the electricity,
& we both knew what it meant.

eight
come on baby, you and me,
lets cause a teenage love scene.

nine
He said last night that she was the one...
but men and mascara always run

ten
then one day I realized
the fairy-tale life wasn’t for me…

eleven
in a world of stilletos, be a ballerina flat

twelve
true love is never ending.
when someone is still with you.
even were youre apart.

thriteen
Trouble is part of your life,
and if you don't share it,
you don't give the person
who loves you a chance
to love you enough.

fourteen
like my favorite record -- you're alittle overplayed
and like my favorite summer, you'll never fade away

fifteen
sometimes music is the only thing
that gets your mind off of everything else

sixteen
She builds high walls around her heart because she
knows no one can climb that high. That way, when
no one is able to reach the top, which is what
she knows is going to happen, she won't be disappointed.

seventeen
I love how,
in the middle of a kiss,
I can feel you smiling.

eighteen
If you keep chasing yesterday,
You're gonna miss tomorrow.

nineteen
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me.

twenty
Let the music move you, let the moment take your hand, let it lead you out intothe middle of the dance floor and embrace you. Dive off the high board, ride with the top down, thrive like a wildflower.

you are, in a word, irresistable.

we were gonna bust a move,
but we're just too white.

it's raining.
let's dance.

I will dig a hole.
and label it love.
then trick you to fall in.

She sits on her porch alone
with her headphoneson,
listening to depressingmusic.
Mascara runs down her face as she
looks up at the stars& wishesupon
everyone of them that someday
hewould love heras much as sheloved him.

I'm like that qirl on 50 first dates
i don`t know what's qoinq on
& i can't explain what happened with us
but i love you anyways.

I'm not going to base my whole life on who I'm
stuck in a room with. but I am going to base this
moment on who I am stuck in a room with.
it's what life is, it's a series of rooms, and who
we get stuck in those rooms with, adds up to
what our lives are.

my heartbeat was louder than the sound of
my steps to your door.
you're cold, but you're beautiful. you're a mess,
but I like it that way.

the ultimate test of a relationship is to argue but still hold hands.

Smokin hot.

HAHAHA machiam sex



A true friend never gets in your way unless you're going down.

-"and you left him, just like that?"
-"it's the only way to leave. 'I don't love you anymore. goodbye.'"
-"suppose you do still love them?"
-"you don't leave."
-"you've never left someone you still love?"
-"nope."

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine.

The thing about addiction is it never ends. Well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting go hurts even worse.

Sometimes we run away, but I know no matter how fast we are running, somehow we keep up with each other.


Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything. I didn't think I was ready for that.

He seemed like the kind of person you could show your messiest self to. And not have to worry that you were letting him down in some way.

I get it. You chose her.

"Every girl wants to be the one that changes him."

I understood that he didn't want me around anymore. But it made life seem black and white, flat and one dimensional. I craved the oxygen and color he brought. He had changed life, and now it just couldn't change back.

You think that you can use up your love. I think you can blow it all on one person. You can love so much, so deeply that there is nothing left for anyone else.


I don't exactly have the reputation of being a thinker. I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my head. So I've made a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred-plus years, only one thing I've ever been sure of. You.

Of course I can't forget all the beautiful colors on the day we first met.

Maybe some girls aren't meant to be tamed, maybe they are supposed to run wild, until they find someone, just as wild, to run with.

If you hate someone, you still care.

He shouldn't have left at all. There was no reason for it. Well, maybe there were some reasons. But they weren't good enough.

That was the day I stopped believing in love. That kind of love. The love in books and films. The love that tells us to abandon our lives and plans, all for one brief touch of Venus. So often we fail at that kind of love. The world just seems too fragile a place for it. Perhaps it's just that we are too fragile.



"That's the point. You don't need help. There's nothing to figure out here. There's only what you feel."

When you say you love someone, you'll do anything you can to keep them with you. Unfortunately, there is also a point when you have to step back and say that it's time to let go.

Because that's not what people want to hear. They want to hear that it's going to be okay. That the pain goes away, but it doesn't. It never does. And you can't say that when the wound is fresh. It would be like pouring salt into their wound and you can't do that to a person.

Earth laughs in flowers.

But most of all, what really attracted me to him was his manner. He laughed a lot, and it's easy to fall for someone who can find humor in any situation. He was also intelligent, well read, and well spoken, willing to listen and confident in his beliefs. And most of all, he was warm.

The world says they'll never make it, but love says they will.


It's not as if New York City burned down to the ground once you drove away...

"Someone once told me about brain chemistry. When you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling a drain."

You take the breath right out of me.

When I think about love, I think about when I was little and I automatically knew what I wanted. Love should come to you just like that. Like your favorite color comes to you, or how a smile comes across your face. It should just hit you and you should know that's how it's supposed to be.

Strength is being able to say, 'no thanks' to someone who, despite how they glow under the moonlight, forgets to call the next day.

Forever is a long, long time. And time has a way of changing things.



look down at your chest and a little to the left. that's where i'll always be.

When it is November, we can say our last goodbye.
But I will still remember when you loved me in July.
I hope you know it happens all the time,
I just can't seem to shake this luck of mine.

would you believe me if i said i didn't need you,
'cause i wouldn't believe you if you said the same to me.



the stars weren’t the only thing shining that night.

There's never been anyone else.

in that moment, i swear we were infinite.



three cigarettes deeper and deeper.
i've been drinking more and eating less,
i'm a mess without you laying here.


You make me want to be somebody.


It's undeniable how brilliant you are
In an unreliable world you shine like a star
It's unforgettable now that we've come this far
It's unmistakable that
you're undeniable.