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Really important - Start with a shiny, clean face!! Oily skin doesn’t
absorb make-up very well and makes nasty smudges. Also, it may be wise to have
a generous supply of cottonballs, q-tips, water, baby oil, tweezers, tissue,
make-up brushes of ALL types, and a nice pillow to beat the living snot out of
for when you fuck up.
List of Products used on Jennifer (pictured to
the right) in order of occurrence:
1. OIL OF OLAY Moisturizer
- really important stuff to protect the skin before covering it in gook.
2. MANIC PANIC’s ‘Goth White’ cream base and
‘Dreamtone’ colour corrector. Provides a nice, even, pale finish.
Apply with sponges, preferably dry, for a smoother look.
3. COVER
GIRL foundation ‘Classic Ivory’.
4. Studio Fix MAC
NW15 powder compact and/or MANIC PANIC’s ‘Virgin’
pressed powder.
5. MAC ‘Chill’ eyeshadow base,
‘Sketch’ eyeshadow, ‘Carbon’ matte shadow,
‘Vellum’ frost eyeshadow, ‘Rose Quartz’ matte shadow, and
URBAN DECAY ‘Uzi’ frost.
6. BONNE BELL ‘Black
Ink’ eyeliner and mascara, and L’OREAL ‘Black’
liquid liner.
7. MAC ‘Currant’ and ‘Vino’
lipliner, MAC‘Cyber’ satin lipstick, Wet N’ Wild
‘Black satin lipstick and Urban Decay’s ‘UZI’ frost
lipstick.
All the above products that were used can be replaced by
any other brand name - I just have personal preferences for cosmetic
application. MAC is like a corporate goddess to me, but I do attempt to try
different stuff on occasion.
I chose a basic ‘gothic’ look
for Jennifer though there are some new and exciting looks popping in the clubs
lately I am simply ‘dying’ to try.
Jennifer saved me a
great deal of agony by not wearing make-up to Nine of Cups (bless her dark
little heart) so I had a clean slate to work with. I started with moisturizer
and applied ‘goth white’ cream base first before adding
‘dreamtone’ corrector. After that had been smoothed out (and
Jennifer’s skin started warming up - ouch, chilly!), foundation was
applied carefully with a dry sponge. I find that goths tend to forget that an
evenly spread foundation is really important and compliments the overall
appearance of a pasty skin pallor.
From there, I applied power to set
the foundation (and would continue to dust Jennifer’s face throughout the
session) and started on her lovely eyes. I find eyes are the keyhole to the
soul and extremely important to focus on - especially for the
‘gothic’ look. ‘Chill’ eyeshadow was applied from eyebrow
bone to lash, ‘Sketch’, ‘Carbon’ and ‘Rose’ was
used to define the lid and outer eye crease. ‘Vellum’ provided a
shiny, purple frost just below the eyebrow and ‘Uzi’ provided a light
sprinkling of fairy dust (frost.)
Since Jennifer was being so patient
and hadn’t kicked me in the shins yet for poking her eyes out, I attempted
to go a step further. I left her eyebrows alone since she hasn’t had the
misfortune of plucking out her eyebrows and drawing them on (try sweating in
the summer, you’ll figure out what eyebrows are for) - so I just combed
them out and applied a little bit of ‘Carbon’. I applied a bit of
‘black’ liquid liner and finished the rest off with a pencil eyeliner
to give that staple, cat-like appearance - a black, curved line across the
lower lids. Mascara from outer corner was applied to the lashes inward
(although I would have killed for some fake eyelashes Sophia Loren style) and
complimented Jennifer’s purple smokey eyes.
As NINGurrl was
beating me time-wise with her lavish make-up techniques, handy-dandy cosmetic
tips with the wonders of Vaseline (and I was noticing that poor Steven and
Tornsunder looked like they were gonna bang their heads against the wall from
sheer boredom), I finally finished with MAC lipstick.
I find that
many glam and baby Goths divulge in lighter colours and fuschia is scorchingly
popular these days, so I applied ‘Currant’ and ‘Vino’
lipliner to get that pointy upper lip look and drew the line a bit below
Jennifer’s bottom lip line. This was filled in with a combination of
‘Cyber’ and Wet and Wild’s ‘basic black’ for a deep
rich flavour. Sort of like a lush, rotting grape colour. A bit of URBAN
DECAY’S Uzi was applied for a frosty, upbeat finish.
After 45
minutes of squinting by the windows, Jennifer’s look was completed.
I think Jennifer liked the make-up application because she didn’t
wash her face the whole day. Or maybe it was because she couldn’t get all
the gunk off without the skin coming off with it. Either way, I think she
looked absolutely fantastic - Jennifer has a beautiful, delicate bone structure
that is an absolute delight to work with!
I’d say the Spooky
Girl meeting was a smashing success!
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Jennifer
Greg
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