Last Minute Halloween Costume | Fortune Teller

It's that spooky time of year again! For all you guys who can't ever seem to plan a costume on time, look no further! Using whatever I could find in my draws and a quick 10 minutes for makeup, I created a spooky/ slightly sexy? fortune teller look. You can choose whatever colour you want but I chose purple because it's a pretty spooky colour right? I dunno..anyway here's how to do it!

EYES 

The main feature to this look is the eyes. Starting with a base of purple shadows, I used a mixture of light and dark tones, cover the outer edge of you eyelid. Don't be afraid to go over the lid towards your eyebrow...the more the merrier at this point! 

Add black shadow or another dark shade into the crease and begin to blend it out and around your eye to give you a smokey, deeper shade. If you use a clean brush to blend you can avoid accidentally  placing more eye shadow then you intended...wish I followed my own advice..

Taking a silver shimmer liner and a brush (You can also use a black liner pen and add silver shadow ontop as a replacement) neatly draw a wing first, ending it in line with your eyebrow. From there you can easily line around the top of your eye, extending the line down from the corner of your eye. The bottom line doesn't need to be as think as the top, so just slowly paint the liner on starting from the corner until it meets the wing. Fill in any gaps or neaten it up making sure it's evenly distributed.  

Because brows need as much attention as your eyes, add a little purple shadow over them because why not? you can also add a little bit of that silver liner if your feeling really crazy. 

FACE

Now for every basic bitches favour part of their makeup routine, contour. For this look I went a little over board with the bronzer and highlighter because theres only really 2 days a year you can go look like a glowing goddess.. halloween and your birthday. 

LIPS

Now its time for some ruby lips. If you have a berry/ purple shade then that would be perfect but red can work just as well depending on how noticeable you want them to be. I always find darker shades hard to apply so if you're a little clumsy a brush makes all the difference. 

Back to that trusty silver liner again, using a brush apply a light coat around your lips as a sort of liner. You can also add a little onto your lips but make sure you can still see that colour through it! This just adds a little mystical touch to turn your look from normal to halloweeny. 

Now that the make up is all sorted and have that mystical glow, you just need to throw on some jewellery to finish off the look! I put on some purple hooped earrings, 3 gem stone necklaces because the more the merrier! and used a coin necklace as a head piece by pining it into my hair. (yes I moved rooms for the last 2 pictures so I look more tanned #paleproblems) 

Now you're all ready to cast some spells and cause some destruction  ;) 

Happy Halloween xx 

My Halloween Top Picks 2014

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays (christmas being my all time favorite), there's something about the weather getting colder and nights getting darker that makes the spookiness come alive. One of my favorite memories of halloween is my mum and dad helping me make my Hermione Granger costume, my dad spray painted stars on my homemade cape and my mum helped me paint a random stick into a wand. So even as a second year university student at the age of 18, I still get super excited about choosing my halloween costume. So i've been having a snoop around all the shops looking for the best deals and the cutest halloween themed accessories. 

I'll start with my beauty top picks because well, this is a kind of a beauty blog; 

Elegant Touch "Hocus Pocus" false nails: £5.30 in Superdrug 

How adorable are these little green monsters? They remind me of Mike from Monsters Ink, they also include ones with little bats on and ones with cob webs, so you're nails can feel the full force of the Halloween spirt. 

Eylure Halloween Lashes in "Batwing": £4.64 in Superdrug 

These lashes are perfect for if you don't want to dress up big time but still don't want to miss out on the spooky fun. They are also great for if you want to have a spooky smokey eye look (I may do a tutorial for you, hint hint). They also do another pair of Halloween lashes in "Spooky" that look like spider webs. 

Miss Sporty Perfect Colour Lipstick in "Extreme Black" £2.59 

Nothing screams Halloween quite like a black lipstick (see what I did there with the screams hehe) You can get lipstick in black everywhere around halloween, but I try and avoid lipsticks that aren't by a makeup brand just in case. 

Miss Sporty Crush On You nail polish in "Orange" £2.99 

If this doesn't look like the perfect pumpkin orange colour to you then I must be colour blind because I think this is exactly the perfect shade of pumpkin! and its even in a circle shape. 

Now for more accessories and costume ideas. 

Katy Perry Jewelled Cat Mask: £8.00- Claire's 

Of course Katy Perry has a costume line and of course she's chosen to make it about cats! But honestly how cute is this mask? There is also a black mask in the line if you feel like this adorable baby pink one isn't scary enough for you. 

3 Pack Halloween Sterling Silver Stud Earrings:  £12.00 - Claire's 

These cute little Halloween stud earrings defiantly take the scary away from the season, but they have all your favorite halloween buddies, the pumpkin, hunted house and the spiders wed. You can even get away with wearing them when its not Halloween! 

Bony Skeleton Hand Double Ring £5.00 - Claire's 

Double rings can be quite tricky to pull off (like my other halloween pun "tricky") but I think this one is just so beautiful that it subtly fits you into the spooky theme of Halloween, just like the eyelashes. You can also wear this on the weeks building up to it because we all know that you secretly want to wear halloween costumes every month. 

Black Spider Headband: £5.50- Claire's 

This one is more of a jokey idea, but wouldn't it be hilarious to see someone walking around in this! I literally burst out laughing when I saw this for the first time, you never know someone may be sporting this bad boy at your halloween party. 

And of course how could I not include Starbucks Pumpkin Spiced Latte! Even though its not beauty or fashion related I still think it deserves a place on my top picks list. 

Hoped you enjoyed my Halloween top picks! Expect more Halloween themed blog posts to come because I love it so much xx