Happy New Year

Many blessings in the New Year to you and yours!!

Detrivore Green and Black

Another eye look using Detrivore Cosmetics.

In this look:
Detrivore White Chapel on browbone
Detrivore Amazon (green) on crease
Detrivore Beetle on lid
Revlon Glistening Snow on inner corners

I wore this on Sunday for our first snowfall AND to take the kiddos to see Santa. Yeahhhh!!!! I'm telling you what, I never was a fan of Christmas but this year with kiddos that are old enough to "get" it, I'm totally going overboard on all things Christmas. Add in a healthy Yule celebration and we've got ourselves a season!

Pink and Black

Well hello strangers! ;)
Wanted to share a fun eye look. Medusa's Makeup in Flamingo on crease and Dawn Eyes Cosmetics in Super Sparkle Black Pink on the lid. OMG isnt the black color pretty!! It's a black base with fusia glitter. I had to apply it wet with Manic Panic Glam Glue sealer to make the glitter stick but it's worth the trouble.

Sorry I've been absent. My laptop crapped out on me and as of now it's just a big brick. I don't have any funds to get it fixed so for now I'm on a borrowed computer and my phone - not very condusive to blogging. :( I'll be back soon and in the meantime I have a few things to post. I haven't been able to keep up with my blog reading either. So.... sorry for not making comments on any of your blogs. Anybody have suggestions as to what apps they like to read blogs with on their phone? So far I'm not happy with any of the ones I've tried.

Thanks for reading!
Cheers!!!!

Happy Halloween

Better late than never!

Building the next generation of Halloween lovers.

Birthday face

Trying out the blogger app on my phone.... Bare with me.

Black is such a happy color.....

Sugar Skull Makeup Tutorial

Fist paint your face white.

 I used cheap white face paint that I bought at the drugstore in the Halloween section. I did a base layer using a foundation sponge and then did a second thicker layer with my fingers. I patted a thick layer of MAC Shimmering White powder over that. You could use white baby powder if you don't have a true white foundation powder. You just need something to "set" the cake makeup.

Next I used a flat eyeshadow brush and a semi-matte eyeshadow in a bright color to fill in the hollows of my eyes. Make sure to really layer on the shadow to get a thick and even coat. You can make these circles as big or as small as you'd like.

Now add in your detail work. I used a thin pointy eyeliner brush and my Studio Gear cake eyeliner to paint on the black outlines. You can make this simple or intricate, depending on how much detail you want to mess with.

Lastly I added a bright accent color to the empty spaces. I also used a black eyeshadow on the nose over the eyeliner to darken and smooth the color out a bit. I added some liquid eyeliner and fake lashes to my eyelids.

This is such a fun look to play around with and experiment with. I actually put a spider web on my forehead and first and it was a COMPLETE fail!

Wanna see?

DERP!!!! Makeup FAIL!!! LOL

This was easy to fix. I just wet a washcloth, removed the areas that were messed up, added white paint back on and started over. That's what's nice about working with these cheap Halloween-grade makeups - it comes off with soap and water.

Here's another look I did like this last year.

Thanks for reading!
Also, thanks for all the kind words on my last post. <3
Cheers

What I've Been Doing

Hello lovelies!

It's been a while since I last posted. I have to admit that I lost the blogging bug for a moment. I seem to waffle back and forth over what I want this blog to be. Is it a makeup blog? A lifestyle blog? Funny? Serious? I don't know really.... and I guess I shouldn't stress over it too much. Sometimes I just loose interest in things and need to step away from them for a bit.

I also found myself reverting into my own head and thoughts and shutting out the outside world for a few weeks. I tend to do this from time to time. It's probably not the best way to handle my introspection as I also shut out a lot of my friends. I'm sure a lot has to do with the changing of the seasons too. As we move closer to Samhain and to the Winter time I think it's natural to turn inwards a bit.

I've had some stumbles in life that set me back. I landed a job I was pretty excited about only to have them renig on their offer of employment at the last minute. It was even more upsetting because I had turned down another job at the Lancome counter in order to take it. So basically I missed out on two jobs in a matter of weeks. On the flip-side I FINALLY heard from the University and I have been accepted into the Masters Degree program in History. So in hindsight it's probably best that I'm not starting a new job at the moment. School starts in January so that will hopefully give me enough time to figure out financial aid and childcare as there's no way I can go back to school without those two things in place.

I've started volunteering at the local history museum as a docent/tour guide. As of now I'm still in training but it's great experience and I'm meeting a lot of people in the history community here.

My parents came up from Texas to visit for a week. That was fun as it allows me an excuse to be a tourist in my own town, although I feel like a tourist here anyway since I've only been living here for a year. Luckily the weather was gorgeous and the leaves are turning so we were able to do a lot of outdoorsy fall things.

Next Sunday is my 34th birthday and my mother brought me a day of the dead  wine opener.

We visited some amazing city buildings that had ceilings like this:

And this:

We went places with trees like this:

And history like this:

We saw leaves like this:

 And fields like this:

I will leave you with one of my favorite songs. Perfectly fitting for this time of year.

I actually posted this last year at about the same time of year. I am approaching my blog-aversary. What to do... what to do... hmmmmmmm.....

XOXO
Cheers

Franken-polish

Hello

I made a nail polish with an old bottle of clear polish and some mineral eyeshadow. This is just a simple two step process. From here I can add glitter if I'd like but for now I'm going to leave it alone. The color came out perfect and super opaque.

This is a mini bottle of clear essence polish .16 fl. oz. I added a generous 1/8 tsp of mineral eyeshadow.

Next time I'll probably purchase a small funnel. It got a bit messy but I was working over a sheet of paper so I just tapped the excess onto the paper, folded it and used the sharp edge to pour the eyshadow into the bottle.

I gave the bottle a really really really good shake.

Then I pulled the sticker off of the sample baggie and put it on the polish bottle so that I can remember the color.

I'm really happy with the result. This was my first time frankening. I think I may be addicted as I'm already plotting out my next colors.

Here I added some snowflake stamps and Sinful Colors Pearl Harbor glitter top coat.

Have you frankened your own polish? Any advice?

So..... is this blog becoming a nail blog? The short answer is no. I have been organizing my polishes lately and have caught the polish bug, HARD. Not that I didn't already have it but I'm a bit obsessed lately. Luckily I've been earning a TON of swagbucks so I have been using them to buy amazon gift cards and I buy polish with those.

Thanks for reading!
Cheers!

Glitter Nails

I wanted to show you a mani I did using loose glitter. I can't believe I've never done this before because it came out so pretty. Pictures never do glitter justice so just imagine the awesomeness here multiplied by 100.

This was so easy to do.

First I painted one coat of Kleancolor Charcoal over each nail.

Now to put glitter on, I worked on each nail indivually. I painted a second coat of Charcoal on one nail and then poured a small, light grade glitter over the wet polish. Work over a sheet of paper to catch the glitter fallout.

Let it set for about a minute and then gently brush away the excess glitter with a soft bristled brush.

I decided not to put a top coat over this because I liked the textured look that the glitter made. Plus I was worried a top coat would dull the glitter a bit. The thick glitter look lasted about 6-8 hours until the excess rubbed off. I was still left with a glitter mani but not as WOW as when first done. This would be a fun look for a special party or something. Possibly a coat of Gelous would work to make it last longer.

Thanks for reading!
Cheers!!

Random Nail Polish

I have been organizing my nail polish. I finally got the mess under (semi) control and into color order. I'm now trying to go through and use all of my colors. Green starts it out so here's what I've had on my nails this week.

 Elianto polish in Shimmer Green with green, white and silver glitter nail art polish

 Sinful Colors Professional in Mint Apple with Orly Shine On Crazy Diamond on ring finger nail

Sinful Colors Professional in San Francisco

I'm hoping to eventually make a spread-sheet of all of my nail polishes just for my own enjoyment. Some people collect comics, some collect shoes, I collect nail polish and eyeshadow. 

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!!

Madd Style Cosmetics WIN

Wow! I've had some clamshells of Madd Style Cosmetics (MSC) for a while but hadn't gotten around to playing with them. Ermehgerd I was floored when I started opening them up. Some made me literally gasp because they are just so pretty.
This is a look I did with three of the more neutrals.

xRay Spex on browbone, Atomic Dreamland inner lid, Final Fantasy outer lid and crease

Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in Trollop

What's your favorite MSC?

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!

Guest Post with Lesthi from Lesthi's Blog

Today's guest post is by Lesthi from Lesthi's Blog. 

Hi I'm Lesthi. I'm a Swedish gothblogger and I blog at http://lesthi.blogg.se.

My blog is.... very random, I update about my outfits, my cats, cute stuff, larp, things I wish I could buy and stuff I do buy. ;D

But here in my guestpost on Bethezda's Preoccupations I thought I would show you the result of one of my biggest interests, making hair accessories. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading. And a big thanks to beautiful Bethezda as well!
I hope you wonderful people want to visit my blog. I'm always looking for more goth related blogs to read!

Good-bye! :)

Thank you Lesthi! I love everything you create, especially the rose crown. I may have to make one of those for myself. ;)
Please visit Lesthi's blog HERE. 

Thanks for reading!
Cheers!!