Brow Down To Me

 Now i've only just recently stated to realize that eyebrows are an important part of your face, everyone sees them all the time and that kinda freaks me out. Your eyebrows control a large part of your facial expression and with good brows comes big responsibility.

I only started plucking my eyebrows after some girl came up to me and sarcastically said "your eyebrows are so nice do you pluck them?" I legit looked at my brows for an hour that day thinking they were horrible hairy caterpillars. After that  started plucking.....a lot. One day I got so crazy about how bad they were I plucked nearly all of them out and was stuck with thin little sticks above my eyes that my brother laughed at. So as you can guess I was a little stuck for what my next brow move should be. Before year 11 prom my friend took me to her beauty centre I would say spar but it really wasn't like one. She told me I should get my brows threaded, which I thought thought was a very strange way to remove hair but I went along with it because why not? And yes my eyes watered extreme amounts that every working there laughed at me and yes they were all red and puffy. But once that all went away they were perfect!

So now i've said my goodbyes to the tweezers and leave my eyebrows to the professionals and for only 4 pound at Superdrug once a month it's a really easy way to maintain them.

Before threading them:

After threading them: 

As you can see they are so much neater and the shape is more defined making your look fierce. 

Now for my eyebrow routine, I don't do this everyday because i don't wear makeup everyday but when  I feel like looking like a badass then i'll step my eyebrow game up to the next level using only 3 products.

I normally leave my brows till the end of my makeup routine so I can work out how dark or structured they need to be. 

Firstly I take an brow brush, usually they are on the end of an eyebrow pencil as a little 2 in 1 kinda thing. I brush them all neat and in place making sure there are no little stray hairs affecting my game! 

Then taking my Maybelline 'Master Shape' brow pencil in the shade soft brown (they also do lighter and darker shades). I fill my eyebrows in from the start so they look fuller and a little darker for a stand out look. I then fill in any gaps in the rest of my brow and draw a little more shape into it so that it looks more defined. 

Then its back to the brush to smudge the pencil into the brow so that it all looks like natural beauty (no one needs to know ;) ) 

Now I promise I'm not sponsored by Maybelline or anyone for that matter but I used their "Brow Drama' sculpting brow mascara in medium brown. This helps your eyebrows to stay in place throughout the day as it gently places them down on your face. 

Now for the final step. Using any white eyeshadow place a shadow line underneath your brow so that it contrasts with the darkness of your eyebrow and gives it the finishing touch of definition that it needs to make you look hot as hell! 

And the finishing look: 

I hope you all feel as beautiful as you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently xx

The Makeover

 If you read my blog you'll notice I did a complete overhaul of it. But if you're new then HELLO heres a little context. Firstly my URL and my blog title has changed from "nicolealexandraslater" to "thathongkonggirl"- probably the biggest change you can make to a website. Next you'll see the traditional red background and pink writing have been replaced with a very noticeable black and gold theme. You can spot more changes as you read but I wanted to make this post to explain why I have chosen to change the blog's identity. 

I made this blog in January last year, I was still trying to keep that fact that I was from Hong Kong on the down low. But recently It's been hard pretending that my whole life hasn't happened. The people I care about most know everything about me and that is all I should think of. Why should I keep the most interesting aspect of my life, the thing that most describes me as a person a secret because I don't want to make people angry? To be honest being raised in Hong Kong is the only exciting thing about me. Why should everyone else get to show off their best qualities, when I have to tell some boring story? - rant over. 

But back to the blog change, I'm also thinking about changing the content a little. Of course i'll still do beauty and fashion posts but I would also really like to do some personal ones. Like this post! You'll see more of my personality (if you like this new/unfake me?) I hope you do. But we'll see how it goes.

Also I did a little photo shoot for my friend and me being the vain person I am, want to show you them!

I really appreciate all the support you guys give me and hope you're okay with this change xx 

Dead Prom Queen Halloween Tutorial

I was pretty stuck this year when I was thinking about my costume, for many years I have been going as slutty rather than scary and I wanted to mix things up. What's more scary then a bratty high school prom queen who is back from the dead?   I was never voted prom queen in high school so this is my way of getting back (just kidding....or am I?) 

Top tip before we start, use brushes that you don't mind ruining! 

Firstly I painted my whole face white with just white face paint (please don't use real paint I know its obvious but just incase) try and go for a more moist paint, it makes smudging a lot easier. For the parts that didn't go white very well I put a whitish nude eyeshadow on. 

I then applied black eyeshadow very roughly on my eyelids, you don't have to make it look like you're actually going to prom. If you're wondering I used Urban Decay "Blackout" because it's far to dark for me to use with normal makeup. I then lightly put a line of the same shadow my the bottom of my eye.  

To make my eyes look more bruised and dead like I put purple cream eyeshadow under my eye as well and smudged it into the black eyeshadow. Do the same to your eyelids as well to give yourself 2 very black eyes. 

Then I applied my usual eyeliner on my waterline, try and avoid touching your face when you do it or else you'll smudge your paint off! Then using a liquid eyeliner give yourself a cat wing on your eyelids. 

Then put on a pair of big long black...eyelashes ;) eyelashes can be difficult to work with but use the cat eye you made with the liquid liner as a guide. They will made your eyes pop and look really dramatic. 

Halloween just isn't the same without a little or a lot of sparkle, even if you are trying to be scary. I used Urban Decay's Glitter Glaze and applied it under my eye and on my eyelid. It is a little thick or I smudged it into the eye shadow to add to the bruising. 

Then going back to the trusty black eyeshadow, I put a thick amount under my eyes and smudged in down my face. This will make it look like you've been crying a lot because well....you're dead.  

I then put mascara on my bottom lashes and a little on my top ones, becuase you've still gotta look glamours, you weren't voted prom queen for nothing. 

I then filled my eyebrows in with the black eye shadow to give myself a more haunted look as the black contrasts to the white paint.

Now to give your lips the bloody attention they need (not swearing I genially mean bloody) First outline your lips with a red lip liner it doesn't matter if its messy, it one corner of your mount colour it outside the line to make it look like your lip has been slip open. I then used Benefits Bene Tint, I used this instead of red lipstick on my lips and corner of my mouth because I thought it gave it a more bleeding effect. 

This is where the fun really starts in the form of fake blood, you can really do anything with it. I used it a dramatize my split lip by putting it on my finger tips and rubbing the blood along the cut. I then got a bit excited and carried away and decided to cut my cheek up and put some blood on the side of my forehead. 

I decided to make the blood on my forehead into a bruise by adding some Bene Tint to it to make it look more red and outlining it with black eyeshadow. By mixing the black and red together a kinda purply red colour is made making it look like a fresh blow to the head. 

Now for hair, I wanted to have it up as It means more of my horrendous face is on show! I put it in a messy high pony tail and using a high donut I put it into a bun. 

Once my hair was nice and tidy in the bun I proceeded to pull bits of hair out of it to make it look like i've been running for my life. 

This is a perfect time to crown yourself queen, enjoy this moment it might be your last. Make sure you pin it on tightly especially if you going on a night out with it, we all know what drunk people are like.  (Crown was £5 from Claire's) 

Put your outfit on (mine was £20 off Ebay) and get ready to make everyone shit themselves! 

Happy Halloween Everyone! What are you planning on going as? xx