Halloween: Steampunk: Skeleton Makeup

This Friday night I am attending a large Masquerade event that will include live bands and Burlesque dancers and a costume contest...which I aim to win! ;D

Halloween Masquerade Ball in Casper, WY

So, with Halloween right around the corner, I felt like regular Steampunk just isn't going to cut it and decided to amp the whole costume up with a Skeleton makeup.   So here are some pics of me working on the makeup in various stages and then finished.   And, of course, tonight just being practice -it's not perfect and no doubt will be subject to change each time I do it.

I used a couple different skeleton makeups found online as reference a couple of my own touches here and there.       

 -After applying my regular liquid foundation and letting that dry, I then used a black pencil liner and sketched out my designs.

 

 

 -Here I used cheap Halloween cream makeup in a tube that I purchased for .98 from Walmart and filled in my design with the black paint using a paint brush. To set and mattify the black cream makeup, I went back over the filled in areas with some matte black eyeshadow and an eyeshadow brush.

 -First using white Halloween cream face paint and then setting that with matte white eyeshadow, I started filling in the teeth and going back in with black eyeshadow to fill in the shadows between the teeth.
-I also used the white eyeshadow to create highlights along the bone-ridges and so on.
-The hair-line fracture cracks were created using black gel liner and an eye-liner brush.

And now....with some of my Steampunk accessories -all made by me.:)

Steampunk: Wings WIP -part 7

Doing a little more work on my wings...I'm actually working on a smaller pair of wings that will sit inside this set, but slight off-set.

But for now....

 

Steampunk: Bustle skirt modeled

After creating some leather straps for some D-rings to be sewn to my bustle skirt, the skirt is now finished and I have a friend of mine, Fathom, modeling the finished skirt and utility belt for me:

My new Steampunk Utility Belt:

-I enjoyed attaching these rivets and creating the strap for the D-rings...just used a leather strap/handle from an old leather purse.

Steampunk: Wing Pack WIP -part 5

On the suggestion of a friend, I decided to try painting one of the turbine cylinders an aged silver while leaving the rest of the pack the aged brass....I wanted to do one silver first to see if I actually liked it.
-Unfortunately, the paint job wasn't turning out how I wanted...will have to re-do. But I like the contrast of the aged silver against the aged brass.

 

With the black paint:

-I think I didn't let the silver fully dry here before spraying on the black and that may be why it bubbled up like this. Not liking the effect.:/

And now with the aging effect:

-unfortunately, here you can see where I didn't put down enough layers of the silver paint first...so then when I was trying to remove the black over-paint using acetone, I went too far and started removing the silver and the brass...so that black is the plastic of the toy boat beneath...went too far.:(

Will be trying this again at a later date.

Steampunk: Utility belt WIP

 I recently saw this awesome tutorial on how to create a Steampunk utility belt and decided to give it a go. Went to Goodwill and picked up two different leather purses and a belt.

Here's the tutorial I used: How to Make a Steampunk Utility Belt

The purses:

My kitty, Ember, helping me out:

 *I forgot to take a before pic of this purse before I started cutting it, so here's the best I've got:

 The pockets from one of the purse are now cut out and trimmed:

-After cutting out the cargo pockets I used the strap from the purse to create the belt loops on the backside and I riveted the loop to the backside of cargo pocket.

-purse strap, again, cut and riveted to make the belt loop.

 -a friend of mine wearing my now finished bustle skirt and modeling the utility belt.