Halloween Make up + Nails (late)

Hello people!

So, it's almost the end of November now and only about 5 weeks until Christmas?! That's scary. Anyway, even though it's a little bit late, I thought that I would show you some of the make up and nail things I did for Halloween. 

Cut throat make up school (left) and night (right)

Different angles of my skull make up

Blood dripping nails 

We had a Halloween event at our school which I was taking part in (doing face painting, funnily enough..) so I went a little bit more 'all out' for that. Then, at night, me and some of my friends went into town to a gig so I thought I would do similar make up but I little more toned down. For this one, I mostly used make up that I already had (lip liners, lipsticks, eye liners etc.) but  also made myself some fake blood and bought black, white and grey face paints.

 The skull look wasn't really for anything, I guess that shows how much free time I have, but for it I followed a video tutorial on YouTube from Promise Phan (dope2111) but then edited some parts to make it my own. It took me about 2 hours to do the whole thing, as it was my first time trying it out. I used the same black, grey and white face paints, but mixed the white with my cream foundation so that I could get better coverage. I also shaded with black and grey eye shadows.

And finally, my nails! I started with a base coat, of course, then painted my nails a very nude shade (Carrie'd Away by NYC) and covered that with a matte top coat (Westminster Bridge by nails inc.). After that had dried, I took my largest size of dotting tool and put various sizes of dots on each nail, different distances down with a deep red (Sole Mate by essie) then joined them up with a small brush. To finish it off, and to make the 'blood' stand out, I carefully covered only the red with a high shine top coat (I used the Salon Manicure top coat by Sally Hansen). These nails lasted me really well because the red wasn't too thick and didn't immediately chip.

Okay, so that's all of my Halloween creations from this year, I hope you enjoyed reading this. I now have Winter Wonderland, Christmas shopping, gingerbread lattes and everyone playing Christmas songs to look forward too! I am far too excited for the Christmas season.

Have a good day.

Iona xo

Hello and welcome!

First of all, hello there! 

Here's me, hi

Blogging feels extremely odd and I'm not quite used to it yet, but hopefully I will get the hang of it if I start to post regularly. I guess I decided to start this blog because I enjoy reading other peoples blogs (for example, Zoella, TanyaBurr, SprinkleofGlitter etc.) and I thought that I would give it a go myself!

This will mainly be used for posting about beauty and fashion, but I may also sneak in a few posts about my life and things of that nature. I am currently in my final year of high school and next year I hope to go off and do a beauty course. And after that, well, who knows. Maybe uni. Maybe not.

 Of course, I am not a professional or anything like that so any posts of make up I have done will be far from perfect. Also, any 'tips' etc. that I post about, will just be my opinion so obviously, don't need to be taken on board if you feel they are wrong. 

Okay, so that little bit of technical talk is out the way now. So, I guess this is my first ever post to my blog. That's quite exciting!

If you have read this, thank you. I know it's a little boring but hopefully it will get better haha!

Welcome to my blog, enjoy. Have a good day.

Iona xo


(Also, if you have any questions/ideas for posts, let me know in the comments!)