My Eyelash Collection

I have a serious thing for false lashes.

As requested, here's my collection:

It was about $3 for these beauties. I did buy them in China though, so it was about 21 yuan.

These were really cheap, and I've been able to use them for some looks that need a lot of layered lashes, (like the Evil Orange Queen) but honestly, they are pretty low quality synthetic lashes, that just aren't worth envying.

And some more costumesque lashes:

Walmart post-Halloween clearance sale. $1 each.

The top ones would be awesome for a Cleopatra-based look.  I actually won a costume competition with the bottom set of lashes. They've got dark-purple glitter on the tips, and they were perfect for my Yzma Halloween Costume.

The top pair are really dramatic.  I used them for my Evil Orange Queen look, and for my Marie Antoinette dress-up.

The bottom spotted pink feather lashes are super fun and easy for going out when you don't want to spend a lot of time on makeup.  They were also from Walmart, and I love the volume and flexibility of the lashes.  They were really light-weight for their size, and stayed on really well with normal lash-glue.

These are probably the three lashes that I use the most in real life. The top ones are pretty dramatic, and I used them for the Starry-eyed Surprise look.

The middle ones are AWESOME, and they give smokey-eyes just the perfect amount of oomph.  I used the middle NYC lashes for my rainbowesque oil-spill makeup look.

The bottom ones really aren't that great for me, because I have small eyelids, but I used them a lot when I was younger.

And the grand total is . . . 40 pairs of falsies. (In this post.)

I have since gotten more eyelashes, and when I can, I'll update this post with them.  If I feel like it.  I have some new favorite brands, so don't let me forget.

From the Archive: Marie Antoinette Make-up

So, sometimes when I'm bored, I play dress up like a nine-year old.  Only with better dress ups.

This was something I did sometime between July-October of 2012.  Marie Antoinette-styled fun.

Everything was going wrong: the eyelashes, the bathroom lighting, my camera, my brushes, the make-up itself.

But I had fun, and thought I'd journal it here.

The photo quality is horrid--for which I apologize--so I edited the crap out of the image so you could see the colors of the eye-makeup.  So now the hair looks all . . . fluorescent.  It's really more of a burgundy red.

Speaking of hair, I used the same wig on my Hipster Ariel outfit, but just stuck socks inside to give it more volume.  Here's a picture from the top, where you can see all the earrings and jewelry I put in it, to make it purty.  In addition to the socks, I also used bobby pins to bring those ringlets forward.  Sorry about the blurry picture, but this is the only photo in which you can see the top of the wig.

(You can also see the totally sexy shoe that my man bought me back in our "we're totally not dating" days.)

In the photo below, you can how truly experimental my eyeliners were.  I used orange, lilac, green, yellow, and blue.  I also drew a fantastic mole, because it's a beauty mark, BEOTCH.

And now, I shall post this and pretend that you can't totally see my eyebrows, and crooked lines, and escapist eye-lashes.