I can’t wait to see this movie. I know it’s out, but only in select theatres. I love Natalie Portman. I think she’s an amazing actress; one of my favs. Yes, a ballerina movie, but with a sick twist I heard and seen from trailers. Thriller. Drama. Can’t wait….^^


As always, whenever something comes out in entertainment, there is bound to be a makeup tutorial video on Youtube. I watched a bunch of makeup guru’s on Youtube on their version of the Black Swan makeup. Decided to play around and do it myself too. :) I wish I had the wicked contacts. >:) Would have been sweet. I did the makeup twice. Most of my makeup is elsewhere, so I had to use what I had. 

For both: I used my concealer all over to lighten my skin up. I set it with the lightest matte powder I had with me, which was a light beige eye shadow. I filled my waterline & tightlined with a red/burgundy lipliner since I didn’t have red contacts. And for the lips, I put on deep red liner & lipstick with black liner blended in the corners. For the white areas, I just used a shimmery white eyeliner with pigment powder over it. Little bit of pink blush. 
Contacts: from prettycirclelens.com: Geo Olive Ash Wing Grey Circle Contacts
Headband from GUESS.

FIRST: I was just doing it with the image in my head. I didn’t like the shape. I used just a black kohl pencil eyeliner to draw the shape. Obviously didn’t come clean and sharp. 

  

SECOND: At first I wasn’t going to do it again, until I saw the first images at full view. Lol. This time, I outlined the shape with a gray kohl pencil, then used a gel liner & brush over it and to draw the feather texture. I also decided to throw in some shimmery forest green. I just got that eyeliner from Victoria Secret. Such a beautiful color. Smudge proof too. Anyway to the second look, I added the green, a rusty red shadow under the inner points (which I used my burgundy lipliner with a bit of brown & pink shadow blended with it), and went heavier with the blushing.
  

I totally wouldn’t wear this out, unless I was going to a costume party. Maybe I’ll do this for next Halloween. 

I talk too much, ya?

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Yes, another vexel. :) This is a friend of mine. I wish I had her hair! So pretty. 
Not only do I like playing with makeup in real life…I like doing it in photoshop too. So I did this vexel in two versions.

Click first two to enlarge:


More glamourous one:


Original (I don’t own this):


Here’s the progression: 

Right when I was about to blog about this, I realized I forgot her beauty mark. I had already shut down photoshop, saved the images, and uploaded them to a host. How annoying. I hate having to open up photoshop again (or on accident). Anyways, thats why there’s no beauty mark in the animated pic. 

This one took me hella long to do. Mainly because of all that hair she has. I did this one for about three days on and off. First day, I did the base, the nose, and brows. Second day, the eyes and lips. The third day, the hair, shirt, and background. I took the longest on the hair. I’m guessing a total of 24 hours. I don’t know how people claim to do detailed vexels in 4-5 hours.

I hate how saving images (and gifs) for the web is such a disappointment. The coloring of these images are so off. Saturated. If ya know what settings are the best, please tell me. I use Adobe Photoshop CS4.
Is it even the program itself? Or is it my Mac, your Windows, Chrome, IE, and Firefox? Ughh…I just suck. 

Don’t bother asking me to do one of you unless you’re gonna pay me. :) I don’t think alot of people know how much work is put into one of these. That’s why I like showing the progression. 
I do these as a hobby. I usually just browse through family and friends’ pictures on fb, save some that I like (those I don’t think that would mind :X), and turn them into vexels. 

Yawn. So tired. Been up all thru the night and morning. Graphic designing = insomnia for me.  

Lunar Eclipse (by Dean Terry)

[my mom, brother, and me] 
Happy Birthday Mom. 

She would have been 50 years old today.
Rest in Peace. 

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