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 

Halloween Tutorial | Pumpkin Spice Latte

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! My annual halloween costume tutorial i.e my favourite post of the year! i've done scary and (somewhat) sexy before, so I thought it was time for a funny costume. Now you should all know by now about my obsession with all things halloween and pumpkin spice, so why not put the two best things about autumn together and make a pumpkin spice latte costume?! I know pure genius Nicole, queue the round of applause. 

So here's my step by step guide to being the basicest bitch in town: 

STEP 1: 

On the first piece of your white card, stick your Starbucks logo onto the centre, making sure it's a little over halfway up since the logo in Starbucks isn't exactly in the middle of the cup. (it's gotta be realistic people!) 

STEP 2: 

Measure the card around your biggest area, boobs or hips, so you can slide it on and off easily and not have to be cut out of it. Then with your second piece of card work out how much extra space you need and cut the paper. I decided to cut mine in half. 

STEP 3:

Then staple the second piece of card to the first piece at both ends so it forms a cylinder shape. Don't be afraid to just bang a whole load of staples in there, you want to make sure it's nice and secure. Make sure the logo is still in the centre at this point, so only staple at the back of your costume. 

STEP 4: 

Using the hole puncher, make 4 holes into your cup, 2 either side at the front and 2 either side at the back. Make sure the ones at the front match up with the ones at the back, as this is where your handles/straps are going to be. 

STEP 5:

Secure everything with about 2 layers of tape, but go crazy with it if you want, better safe then sorry! This includes the holes you just punched so that when you put the handles in they won't rip out so easily. 

STEP 6:

Reopen the holes just by poking some scissors through the tape, and measure your shoulders and cut 2 pieces of sting to size, to use for your handles. 

STEP 7: 

Thread your string through each of the front and back holes and tie a whole load of knots to make sure the string doesn't slide through the hole. Now you can actually wear you're cup! 

STEP 8:

For the final touch staple your white fabric onto the top rim of your cup to give it that whipped cream affect. And boom your cup is officially complete!

STEP 9: 

Add a little pumpkin spice theme to your makeup by using tonnes of bronzer and highlighter around your face and as eyeshadow. If you happen to have any orange eyeshadow laying around (yeah I know I went through some bad makeup stages lets not talk about it) you can use the shadow as lipstick by applying balm and then sticking the orange to it with a lip liner brush. Don't forget to add you're little pumpkin hat or accessory. 

AND VOILA YOU ARE OFFICIALLY A PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE

(I even got some props, some actual pumpkin spice! which I spent far too much time trying to find, but it's in Citysuper for all my basic bitches) 

Don't forget to check out my other tutorials from the past three years here: 

Dead Prom Queen

Washed Up Mermaid 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 

xx