DRAG WITH A.J

 A.J W-O-R-K-I-N-G IT! He's a natural let's be honest. 

 Well I finally got some attention from him!

Just a small dent to my student budget. Iphone 5. If I'm going to upgrade I might as well get the best thing out there - not like the other competitors are that much cheaper anyway. So I have a phone with a decent camera finally. So you'll probs get more photo updates on here. The photos taken of A.J were from my phone and the quality aint too bad. I'll still take photos from my DSLR but you might get the odd make-up ones from my phone if I cba lugging around my camera.

The cover is from Ohh deer  and they have a whole host of things with illustrations by some amazing illustrators. Guess who illustrated that cover. Yes. You are right. 

Hey guys, back with a fun drag look! I've wanted to do a 'proper' drag look for a really long time and A.J happened to of mentioned it this week, so Friday turned into drag night. I did initially use microporous tape but he didn't really need it (not much of a difference) and my ill preparation meant his head was uncomfortable.
It was a bit of a shaky start. I didn't have any references with me so I was just making it up as I went a long. I also felt a bit of pressure because A.J was so looking forward  to it. But in the end I managed to make it work. The lips could of been better - more exaggerated or something and I've noticed I've forgotten to add purple shading on his right inner eye. Next time I'll have to pull out all the works!

L.F DOES S/S - SHINY DISCO BALL

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I initially started with this as a reference source. Hazy lower lid with the black scattered 'markings'. Soft but with a harsh edge. Not sure, but it inspired me!

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Glitter + Chanel  = spring.  Scattered multi glitter across the lids and on the tips of the lashes. So beautiful and dainty. 

Standard douche-y webcam shot but this was so much a fun look to do.

KEY PRODUCTS:

LOUISE GRAY FOR TOPSHOP - PEACOCK GLITTER (CIRCLES)

BOBBI BROWN LONG-WEAR GEL EYELINER - BLACK INK

MAC EYE-SHADOW - CORK

REVLON MATTE EYE-SHADOW - VINTAGE LACE

DUO ADHESIVE

MAC PRO SCULPTING CREAM - PURE SCULPTURE
SLEEK EAU LA LA LINER - NOIR

MAC MSF - LIGHTSCAPADE

DAINTY DOLL LIPSTICK - COUTURE

Hey guys, so I'm back with a fun look, yesterday I had a much needed zone out of work and just indulge in playing around with make-up - it's been awhile. It was actually meant to be quite subtle but I kept adding more and more. And I'm totally not a spring girl so I had to do a Gothic style lip. 

The eyes were a haze of brown with a heavy black lower lid. I did a quite precise layer first before going in with a MAC 217 dipped into gel eyeliner to do a 'speckle' effect with the tip of the brush to create an almost feathered pattern. Once that was done the glitter came out. Very random placement starting from the lash line and slowly spreading out. The glitter on the lashes was a last minute thing and so easy to do - definitely no need to buy fancy dress lashes when you can DIY it with some craft bits and lash glue. The lips were initially just a bold deep red but to tie in with the eyes I decided to outline them in black. Apparently it looks kind of carnival-y? Or masked ball of some sort. It was fun to do anyway.

Hope you guys like it AND I bought Die Antwoord tickets 3 days ago. So EXCITED to see them in June since they are only touring 3 different venues in the UK. 

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L.F RAMBLES - HAUL, UNI AND FUTURE

I was walking to uni and this stranger randomly gave me this flower and told me to have a lovely day. I'm not even a flower person but I thought it was pretty sweet and made me smile. 

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA FOR H&M GLOVE STRAP HANDBAG

Ah this bag is amazing. Quirky design and I managed to get it half price. Scoreee. Excuse my nails, even though they are hard to ignore.

 FIGHT! VOL.1 - JACK TEAGLE

Adding to my collection of illustration publications. I need more space to keep them all. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS.
Uni work:

Animatic of the story I made up. Basically brief is 1 story, 3 different narratives. I've decided to base it on my character Kitty (who has titties) who basically is in love with her owner and to win his heart thinks she needs tits. I know I'm slightly weird. I have to do it in 3 different mediums and 3 different perspectives. So this is Kitty's perspective and I'm doing hers through a stop motion animation. 

Here's a test of the the style I want Kitty to be in. Kitty brief blog: http://www.laisum-fung.blogspot.co.uk/

Ahhh this is so GEEKY, but it means a lot to me. If you remember my moan about a god-damn essay early January.... well I got a fricken 1st on that god-damn essay. I mean like massive ironz I do better in an essay than any design work I've slaved a good month over. Funny thing was on the day we were due to collect them all my course mates could get there's back but me. So I got really paranoid I got done for plagiarism or something bad. Anyway towards the end of the day I could finally collect my results and the receptionist was like yeah sorry you and 3 others essays had to be photocopied to be moderated. So I was like OK... got my paper and I was like WTF. Like I suck at essays. I never feel confident about my writing skills so this is like a major boost for me to write my dissertation and say *in a ghetto accent* "you can bullshit your way through girl." While I'm milking this... how the fack did I get like all the 1st categories?! 

Hey guys, so this post isn't make-up related at all but I thought I'd share what I've been up to away from doing fun stuff (make-up). I should add 2nd year is going CRAZY fast. I break up in May. WTF. It's March already. So not ready for 3rd year, graduating and real life. My direction is pretty hazy too  - probably *will* pursue make-up professionally, but I enjoy illustration too and still want to somehow be involved with the fashion or fashion publication industry.  I'm not freaking out as much as I was last year.
I also *might* be going to teach in South Korea after graduating like my sister. I kind of passingly suggested it to my good friend Allan thinking he wouldn't want to do it but it's now kind of turned into he really wants to do it and I'm kind of hesitant. It's not necessarily a path I want to go down (teaching) but for general life experience it'd be great. A years a long time too. I like to think I'm independent but I do have a back-up when things turn to shit (parents) but obviously when I'm there I am really on my own. And I hate it when I have doubts in my head because I go into this vicious circle of talking myself into and out of things. Hmm.

FLATMATE MAKEOVER 2

 Before

After!

Hey guys, Here's Katherine again. We had a house party/Katherine's 21st yesterday so I volunteered to do her make-up. She's becoming a bit of make-up guinea pig for me. Nothing too OTT but I wanted it to be a bit more dramatic and intense than previous looks I've done before. I initially went a bit too dark but a good tip is to persevere (you have to on clients) and whip out a duo-chrome/shimmer eye-shadow and press on top to soften it all out. So I ended doing a navy-teal eye and everything else was understated and natural.