Faces by the Honey B: Halloween Peacock

This year for Halloween, I decided to ruffle some tail feathers and dress as a peacock. Of course, this called for me to do an elaborate bird look for the evening. Armed with my favorite golds, greens and blues,  I went to work on my bird eyes. I started with the gold pigment from my MAC Surf Baby Surf the Ocean stack. For the green in the inner crease of my eye, I used my Sugar Pill Midori eyeshadow and patted After Party in the outer crease of my eye. I took Urban Decay's Flash and blended it into the brow bone along with Urban Decay's Midnight 15. Using my NYX Milk jumbo pencil, I drew white dots to mimik the pattern of feathers around my eyes. After letting my eyeshadow set, I drew on Urban Decay's Heavy Metal Glitter liner in Metal Head on top of Flash eyeshadow and Air Guitar on my lower lashline. I extended my MAC Blacktrack Fluid line up as far as i could wing and also drawing an inner wing in the inner corner of my eye to create a birdlike effect. I then added Miss Ardo lashes in #112.  I bronzed my cheeks with MAC's Refined Golden Bronze and added Rock and Republic's Kinky on the apples of my cheek. Keeping the lips simple, I put on Nars nude lippy, Pago Pago and finished my look by gluing on some craft feathers with Ardell's eyelash glue.  Just to add an extra peacocky feel, I put on amber contacts to make my eyes pop. Picture below is my Halloween FOTD. Did you dress up last night? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Faces by the Honey B: Halloween Mermaid

It's that time of year again!!! With Halloween rapidly approaching, the beautiful Lizette had asked me to do a mermaid look for a costume party she was attending. When I think of mermaids, I tend to think of deep greens and blues. I wanted to create a very wet look for Lizette's mermaid makeup so I stuck to shimmers and sparkly eyeshadows. I primed her eyelid with Pixi eye primer, and added MAC's Vex all over her lid, applying it the darkest in the brow bone. I then took Cargo's Green Bay lime green eyeshadow and applied it to the inner corner of her lid and near the tear ducts. I put Urban Decay's Kiddie Pool, a turquoise shimmery blue, on her lid and brought Urban Decay's Flash in on the crease and outer V. To really reinforce the purple color, I added MAC's Parfait Armor over Flash. I did a simple black winged eyeliner line with MAC's Blacktrack Fluid line and applied very pointy, thick falsies on both bottom and top lashlines. I applied MAC's Light Flush Highlighter all over her cheekbones, T-zone and bridge of her nose and applied My Paradise onto the apples of her cheeks. To finish the look, I added MAC's Cremesheen lipgloss in Fashion Scoop for a wet look. Apply a small layer of Wet 'N' Wild's white glitter down the temples to your cheeks for an extra scaley look. Picture below is the beautiful Lizette as a siren of the sea Mermaid Princess! What are you dressing up as for Halloween? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Faces by the Honey B: Janet

When the beautiful Janet (pictured left) had requested me to do her makeup for a wedding, I jumped at the chance. She was attending a California spring wedding and was wearing black and gold lace so we decided on a gold and black smokey eye for the occasion. Janet has some gorgeous brown/hazel eyes so I used a gold eyeshadows (Urban Decay's Half Baked and MAC's Tempting eyeshadows) to really bring out the green in her eyes. We darkened up the outer V of her eyes with MAC's Beauty Marked and filled in Smut in the crease. To open her eyes a bit, I used Urban Decay's Sin in the inner corner of her eyes and MAC's Blanc Type on the brow bone. Janet wanted to really pull out the gold undertones in her skin so after contouring her cheekbones with MAC's Refined Golden bronzer, I used Rock and Republic's blush in Call me to warm her up face. I used MAC's Angel lipstick and Nymphette lipglass. Of course, no look is complete without a full set of falsies, which made Janet's already beautiful eyes really pop. Pictured below is Janet's sexy and glammed up smokey eye look. 

Faces by the Honey B: Stephanie

Stephanie was attending a wedding is Santa Barbara so she asked me to do her makeup for a conservative beach wedding. It was easy to create this bombshell look on Stephanie, since she was providing me with an already beautiful canvas! I wanted to do a smokey bronze and brown look to highlight Stephanie's deep brown eyes and accent her grecian-style purple dress. To create a flawless glow on Stephanie's already gorgeous skin, so I used a pea-size of Revlon's Photoready liquid foundation all over for a semi-sheer coverage. With the help of my trusty Urban Decay Naked palette (Virgin, Buck and Smog) and MAC's Mineralize Eyeshadow in Under Your Spell (used wet), I created a dramatic smoked out bronze look, topped with Clinique's cream liner in True Black (my new favorite product, goes on darker than MAC Fluidlines). I stayed with Stephanie's natural brow line, only filling it in with my Anastasia Browkit and kept to her natural lashes, only coating them in Rimmel Day 2 Night mascacra. I contoured Stephanie's cheekbones with MAC's cream bronzer in Weekender and topped her cheeks off with Rock and Republic's blush in Seduce. For a perfect finish, I swept on Laura Mercier transulcent powder all over and finished with Landcome's It Girl lipsick and NARS lipgloss in Sweet Dreams.

Faces by the Honey B: Pocahontas

Happy Halloween! For my last Halloween post, I decided to do a playful yet glamorous take on Native American legend Pocahontas. I wanted to do something different, but stick to browns and golds as to not stray very far from my costume's color palette. I used most of the browns and golds from my Urban Decay Naked palette (including Dark Horse, Smog and Half Baked) and winged out my liner very drastically. I also used my new Urban Decay Heavy Metal Glitter Liner in Baked to line underneath my eyes and cover a small portion on my lid. I finished the eyes with a row of full and lush falsies. I dusted my cheeks with Rock and Republic blush in All Nighter and kept my lips simple in MAC's lipstick in Underplay. To complete the look, I stuck on some yellow and white war paint. Below are some shots of my makeup up close and of course, a group shot of me and my tribe, Tribe Slappahoe. Have a Gruesome, Ghoulishly FUN Halloween!