Braid

This has been a year of big hair colour changes. Recently my mum remarked on the incredible mix of colours when I had done it in an inside-out plait. I've had the blonde/white layer underneath for 2years now and currently have the top layer dyed half purple and half orange. Parts of green and blue from my previous dye jobs are still showing in areas though which adds a little. Soon the slate shall be wiped clean again, bleached over before I grow out my natural colour. It has been a fun ride and a joy sharing my colour journey with you all!

Craic with costuming

So a little bit more costume work came up and I had the chance to resurrect (excuse the pun) my Corpse Bride look. I repeated the hair and make-up, teamed with a wedding dress and added bone and scar details with facepaint. I also made up a Cruella DeVille look, doing a heavy smokey eye and a red lip and some sharp contouring. I also made a dalmatian shrug and hand-bag and a fake long cigarette holder. The centre drag look was a Tina Turner attempt but is photographed without the makeup.

Leather pants and 50/50 hair

So I finally did a look that's been on my hair wishlist for a while, the 50/50 colour split. Because I have a side fringe I partially dyed that rather than doing a centre split. I went for orange and purple because they are bright and I love contrasting colours.

Below was trying to get a full length photo featuring both my hair and my new M&S leather trousers but my puppy wanted to be in the picture so it kinda takes away from the outfit.

Here you can see my leather trousers, a look I would never have considered but I tried on these trousers as a joke and actually quite liked them and I thought the colour was very unusual for the trouser type. I teamed them with a simple loose black tank top and low heeled black boots so it didn't look too vampy. 

More colours

So I had another little bit of a hair journey in the interim where my blog was quiet, I was an attempted ginger before it went awry and turned partially green. Luckily it worked well for my Paddie's day look. (You can't see the hair that well here but it was sort of streaked green and orange from my dodgy dye experiment) I teamed it with Bowie style makeup in patriotic colours and my beloved but drastically underused orange Clarins lipstick.

In an attempt to make my hair identity a little more secure I added a red tipped layer to my hair to liven the dodgy dull greenish tinge.

When it faded I finally had a chance to liven it properly without worrying about the dye going funny. You'll see my half and half look in my leather trousers post! 

Theme Party!

So once again I am uploading a backlog because I had exams and since the exams finished I've been in rehearsals for a theatre festival. In the spirit of the theatrical my first post from my backlog is a costume one.  

My friend has a fairytale themed birthday party and I decided to opt for an unconventional gothic fairy tale - Tim Burton's corpse bride. It's simple to do but makes a big impact and it worked well with my blue hair

The outfit was pretty straight-forward, I would have liked to have made it more elaborate but I had a serious lack of time to get ready and out to the pub for the party. I used a plain white cotton summer dress from American Apparel as the base and covered it with a white silk mini dress/top that I made a few years before from and old camisole.
Rather than make it to elegant, I kept it short and suited it to my own style by combining it with my beloved white Docs so I was dressed up but still able to party!

Obviously the most complicated aspect was the make-up but again it was surprisingly straightforward to create a decent likeness to the character.. I used bright blue tights to cover my legs and painted my arms, neck and chest with blue facepaint, using a large paintbrush. I then used dark blue paint to suggest bones and especially ribs in my chest. 

The face was the most important, I covered it as evenly as possible then drew dark blue circles around the eyes to give the sense of large, round, deep eyes. Then I painted dramatic black brows with a curl at the front, using a picture from the film to help me. I also added exaggerated black lower lashes. I finished it with a  pink lip and a flower crown made from an old lay.