Till Death My 3rd Year With Conflix

Tonight is the 2014 student film night for the Confederation College film class : Conflix.
I get to watch all of the amazing student's work plus once again one I worked on(only one this year? yeah I know what a gib)
This year's film is called "Till Death" it's a bride of frankenstien styled movie(of course my favourite kind)

So for once I haven't totally spoiled my work  by posting it everywhere, though during my weekend of filming I did give some sneak peaks on instagram and facebook.

This was working with a whole new group of students and actors. I love meeting new people and working with super fun and creative cast and crew. Plus lunch time and off time is always the best because I get to geek out hard about movies, and now that I am getting to be pretty older than these guys I'm winning geek outs haha.

Before yesteday I hadn't seen any of my work yet, other than being there and taking my own photos I don't know how things turned out on film.
Well Anders, the director/writter, posted the trailer and had a few shots in his film reel for all of his work up to date.

I don't know if the movie is in black and white, or if its just his trailers are.(would of been nice to know because if its in black and white the contrast on makeup is way higher and some points aren't picked up. Not fully like the old days where if you google "color addams family tv set" you will see that their entire set was bright pink. Or if you have seen the colour vs. black and white Munster's you can see how green they had to be to register their skin was even a different colour than everyone else's)

So before I bore you with any other photos from on set: here is the trailer for "Till Death"



So now some photos, this was my first try at using a pre-made halloween bald cap. they suck, or I at least need more practise with. Also my first time trying to afix other objects with scar jelly on a non porous surface. I think it still turned out good.  

My beautiful bride Alyssa Novak (actress for hire :)

Can't wait to see everything tonight and hopefully talk more ideas for more oppertunites to get creative!

  xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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Playing Dress Up

Over the last few weeks I have just been going full out dressing up to leave the house, for no actual reason, maybe just one is due to my shopping addiction of dresses. 
So here's just a quick what I've been doing with my style lately, which if you follow me on my instagram or facebook then you've already seen them.

The day I had to go do a wedding cake tasting and make reno plans at home depot, I wanted to wear a new dress(not shown) which is a retro style halter dress that has a vintage circus print on it. I paired my Johnny Cash cardigan with it. 
I have actually never done my hair up all in rolls before, and I was totally out of hairspray. I think it turned out really good. 
All neutral makeup minus my "Pink to be" Lime Crime lipstick. 
Which usually I find it a bit hard to wear cause its sooo pink but it works good with this retro, neutral look.

Then yesterday I decided that I wanted to be Freddy Krueger. I went out to friend's business' downtown to ask for shag prizes. 

I wore my new wig from pleasure wigs(though I always end up cutting the bangs). 

For coverage surprisingly all I used was some Merle Norman loose mineral powder and some matte cover girl mouse foundation on my lips: as I don't have a super nude lipstick (well I do now.. keep an eye out for my review) I used a dark brown, black, darkest purple and the darkest red eye shaddows to blend out on the outer corner.

The socks are from halloween town, I found the sweater, fedora and the little vest harness at value village. And of course I didn't wear out my Freddy glove, but it is a numbered special edition replica.  

I also used the Marc Jacob's silver nail polish I grabbed from Sephora.

The necklace is from Hot Topic(6 years ago)

and Unfortunately I wasn't with anyone who could of taken a pic of me with my Elm Street sign: yes I live on Elm street!

 

Another dress (up) that I did was my new R2D2 dress and (you can't see it in the pic) I wore with it my galaxy leggings. Lipstick is "Mint to be" by Lime Crime












Last but not least, for the drag show of my friend Fantasia 10 year anniversary of doing drag, I dressed up with inspiration from Sharron Needles though everyone thought I was Lady Gaga. Both are acceptable.

Lady Gaga :World Icon. not a drag queen(technically)

Sharon Needles: World Champion Drag queen

Either way Needles or Gagging on Gaga: people at the show wanted to take pics with me, which was a first. I was very flattered by that. It probably also helped that other than the other Drag Queens I was the only one super dressed up.

. xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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Grabs from Online, Sephora and ESP

Earlier today I posted on instagram  a new toy I got, a giant chrome gun. I asked what do you think it is and everyone got it right: its a hair dryer! 

This was my online grab I got this week. I have seen this on pinterest a million times and keep looking for it to get cheaper on ebay.  I couldn't help myself to this 1980's Jedoran .375 Magnum Gun hair dryer this time I looked at ebay. it was about 200-300$ but it still works and is just awesome to own. I don't want to actually use it on my hair, just have something so unique. 


My Sephora grabs were some makeup forever black chrome lip gloss, Sugar Rose tinted lip balm, Urban Decay Naked skin "ultra definition pressed finishing powder" and "weightless ultra definition liquid makeup", Marc Jacobs "Stone Jungle" polish, Nails INC leather and Ciate gold nail studs.

The makeup forever  lip gloss, isn't as thick as I thought it should be, it's black and might look better if I had a matte black base of lipstick.

A few years ago, at my 1st time I ever went to Sephora, I went for my birthday and I got a small sample of this Sugar rose tinted lip balm. I loved it so much I bought it again! Original Post here

Next I got the Urban Decay Naked foundations. I know how popular this line is, especially the eye shadow pallets that I decided that I didn't want to get at this time.

The weightless ultra definition liquid makeup has many many claims:

"100% of participants had a measurable improvement in the appearance of skin imperfections. 96% had a measurable improvement in skin radiance and 93% had measurable improvement in the appearance of fine lines"

left side of photo has Naked weightless liquid Ultra Definition foundation on it

Because it is so fine and thin for a liquid it feels amazing to have on your skin. it keeps good colour and even with a thin layer: it does cover most imperfections.

As my key word was MOST, if you have dry skin and haven't ex foliated, or for many dry sensitive skin people, you will need a primer or at least a moisturiser. otherwise as you can in the photos my flaky skin peaking through.

The Naked Skin Ultra Definition pressed finishing powder is all pros! it goes on really light, fills in imperfect spots and you can't even feel it!

I already posted also on instagam the pedicure I gave myself with my new Marc Jacobs "Stone Jungle" chrome nail polish. It goes on matte, but when you add a top coat it looks super shiny and like real chrome.

I tested out the nails INC leather and the Ciate gold studs together because I love the punk/metal look.

The leather polish dries super fast but you can't use a top coat with it. It even feels like leather!!! The studs I just glued on, and I think they'd work better with a gel top coat, I don't think they'll last every long just glued, because they are flat and nails are curved.

At ESP I got a LCN halloween and winter gel colour kits for fun. This 02 multicolour stars. I hate to admit it but it took me till today to ever use gel colour and I love it! Goes so so smoothly and I love this colour!

Super excited now for tomorrow I am off to Las Vegas! I hope to bring back another group of new products to try!

xoxox Mamma S.

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Happy Holidays!

Well with 'tis the season... for me to try my new prosthetics I got!

I love the Hobbit and everything in the realm of middle earth. Kyle and I are going to be seeing the Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug for our second time tonight.

The theme of this year's Christmas is definitely Elves: Santa's elves, elves from middle earth, elves in general!

I had gotten these from a website after halloween so I wanted to use them finally. the tips are backless so they can fit to almost any ear type, and aren't heavy at all.

I added earrings to match my colour scheme(white and red). I was really surprised that they didn't rip, but the foam is pretty thick, and moveable. You can't even see the hole up close either after I took them out. Very happy I didn't ruin them.

For my makeup I used a water based cream white for an under glow.

then used my powder mineral foundation from Merle Norman for over top and blend it really well.

I used red eye shaddow to match my eyebrows to my hair.

My eyes I used white eyeliner around the outer corners. I used a base of light gold and mixed in a shimmery brown and a medium light grey. I smudged the back eyeliner only on the outer side of my eye, and only used mascara on the outside edge.

My lips I had whited out before and made a bit smaller, using my lip pencil plus "hussy" from Merle Norman. Making the lips smaller I find gives you a cuter but more serious look.

The headpiece is actually just a necklace I had and I used bobby pins on the ends to run the chain through my hair.

for my nails I got this new OPI polisj by Mariah Caery called "Pure" it is a 18k white gold and silver flake top coat. I was under the impression when I got it that it was a matte solid but it turned out it looks like expensive snow flakes so I'm okay with it.

I hope everyone had a wonderful christmas!

 xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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Bay of Banana's Charity Fundraiser

This is also serving as my christmas party posts as I missed my work's one(which wasn't fancy and I had more important things to do... like get engagement photos done!)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bay-Of-Bananas-2014/

My friends were very brave to pose for this awesome calendar, all in their "banana hammocks" for the opportunity to help out prostate cancer research.

They held a gala event to launch the calendar, and me and a group of small women business owners got a table. The night was super fun, I love networking, the food was great and the entertainment was awesome!

I wanted to wear my new dress and as my instagram tease pics were these: 

candy cane and holiday sparkle gel nails

    

I hope you guys got excited for today's post!

The night of if you have me on facebook you would of seen this:

   unless you remember the pagent queen episode of "King of the Hill", are a drag queen or know lots of random fashion tricks: this is how you keep your back fat/skin out of the way for a nice smooth back for a backless dress. 

Here's the dress I wore: its from Dollskill.com and is called the "morticia dress"(how could I NOT buy this?!)

here's my look

I did my own hair, I bought a new curling wand: Verge Curl Styx (3 interchangeable barrel curling wand)

Eyes:

• MAC "genuine treasure" eye paint pot 
• GOSH "05 plummy"
• GOSH "14 fox" 
• anabelle" Solar"
• MAC "blitz and glitz" liquid pot eyeliner
• MAC black extreme mascara

The first 3 were all blended on the upper lid and brought around the outer corner to under my eye half way. Starting with a blend of the red and plum, adding the genuine treasure on top. I added more plummy to the outer edge to darken it.

I added the solar to the bottom inner corner of my eye.

Lips were a blend of Merle Norman "bistro berry" and Sinful colours "red".

I had a blast and hope to see everyone out at the next event:

The 3rd anual Ladies Gala luncheon @ the wayland !

Me and Karen(Dolls with Toys) will see you there!

xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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For the Day to Day

I haven't done just a simple makeup or really a full makeup walk through in a while and seeing as my students are just finishing up with this at school, I figured it be a good time to post this.

To start off... be warned... this is what my face looks like without makeup! Hold your breath!

just kidding its not so bad!  I have a pretty decent skin tone, especially when I am currently super sick. just a bit red which comes with being fair skinned(also the red in my hair brings it out a bit more). You can click on all photos to make them bigger which might help.

I did start off as well with putting my day cream on and had some Vaseline on my lips as they are dry from being sick.

Highlighting & Contouring:

I changed the lighting in the 1st picture so you could see it better.

So I take a highlighter colour and go around my eyes, above my brow, down the middle of my nose, on my cupid's bow(above my lips) and along the bottom of my lips. 

my contour(darker shade than my foundation..coming next) I go all the way around the end of my nose( I think its a bit bulbousy), going along the top of my hairline and then the edge of my jaw line and under my chin.

Done with foundation, stippling it with a foundation brush over the contoured and highlighted areas to blend it better vs. but covering all the work I did. Finalized it with a dusting of loose mineral powder.

Shaping imperfect eyebrows:

I have horrible eyebrows, they have a scar that runs through the right one so its all wavy, they are getting sparser as they used to be, also (no offense to any of my students) but I let them practice on me so they aren't exactly the shape I'd like or the thickness has been taken down so they can learn how to do thinner ones.

I don't do any of the super fancy sculpted eyebrows for a every day look.

I just use a angled brush with a darker red/brown brow shadow and follow my natural shape, filling in spots and creating a bit of a more defined look. I also lengthen them a bit more.

Just a simple daytime smokey (well blended) eye and my average black eyeliner with some just voluminous mascara(not my super dark, super length, super thick mascara)

My Final Look

just added some dark pink lipstick and a touch of light pink blush.

Feelin' Better Already. 

If you have any questions about what I did, used, or questions about how you can do or fix your own makeup feel free to comment here, facebook, email, instagram!

xoxox Mamma S.

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