The Witch

Name: Eleanor Pinebranch
Age: Like 248 years
Possible place for finding: Etna, Italy

Let's face it, Miss Pinebranch is a witch. I'm not talking about any hocus-pocus thing, I mean real magic. Yes, she has turned men into frogs and cursed people for having a life-time bad luck. Better not to piss her off, I guess. 

People don't born as a witch. They can born with a certain kind of gift or sixth sense, but you really need to study and practice to become a professional witch. It is hard work and you need to be very dedicated to your cause. The curiosity usually begins when something kind of strange and unexplainable happens to these future witches in their childhood. The situation requires a strong emotion.

 The person with the supernatural gifts needs to be careful not to get them self into upsetting situations, for their anger can cause an accident. For example: Two little girls are playing with their dolls. They both have their dolls on their laps, but the other girl's doll is much more beautiful and newer. The girl with a worn doll suddenly grabs the precious beautiful doll from the other one's hands and this causes a loss of the doll's head. The owner of the desired doll obviously gets really shocked and is full of negative emotions. Next, out of nowhere, the doll breaker's hair bursts into fire. The parents explained the incident with sunbeams and a mirror.

But the little girl with her loved, broken doll knew exactly what happened, because that was exactly what she wished her friend to experience.

But curiosity is a strong feeling and usually these people want to try, if they can do it again.

And they really want to succeed and be different. Their will power gets very strong and that is why they usually manage in their freaky little tests. Like could they push over that cup of coffee just by staring at it and really think it to happen..? Could they make that person right next to them sneeze right in this second? 

The succes usually makes them more excited of the thought of being different and extraordinary. They start dreaming about Hogwarts. 

Other kids starts bully them because of their weird interests and absent-mindnesses. Unfortunately the kids can be very horrible to each other. These happenings turns them into dangerous and malicious persons, who swear revenge to all who did all the horrible things and to all the boys who they weren't cool enough for.

On internet, they find many soul mates and they start to collect information of all kind of black magic. Their rooms starts to fill with jars full of spiders, moss and herbs. They get spots on their skin because all the dirt they need to deal with to prepare the heady potations. They get more pale because all the hours spent inside studying. Their teeth drops from all the strong acid drinks, they accidentally taste. They get a bump on their nose, because of all the times they break their conk while practicing flying with a broom stick. They buy a cat to keep them company during the nights, when all the magic is have to be done. Their hair chances into black because of all their dark thoughts. Or in worst case their hair turns into red and they get freckles. Those witches are the most wicked ones. 

And like always, practice makes perfect.

This is how witches are born. 

The future witches and university students can easily be mixed up because of the same deepness of the eye bags. If the person smells like mold and she carries a broom with her, it is most likely a future witch. If you smell beer, the person must be a university student.

Eleanor Pinebranch's story is a very typical one. The curiosity started as a 7-year-old. It was a bright winter day in north of England and Eleanor and her friend Mary climbed up the hill to sledge down. They both used Eleanor's sledges, which her grandfather had made her. The other sledge's pedestal was defective and always ended up turning the sledge to left. This really annoyed Eleanor. Unfortunately her friend Mary wasn't familiar with the amount of annoyance the insufficient sledge caused to Eleanor and poor girl suggested to race Eleanor to catch the better sledge. Mary won and sledged down the hill laughing happily. Eleanor was not happy. She was furious and watched her friend to sledge down the hill that ended up to the frozen lake and wished the ice of the lake crack. 

Mary approached the lake and stopped ten meters from the shore. She turned to wave to Eleanor and at that moment the thick ice broke. 

Eleanor stood on top of the hill, feeling confused. On the moment she realized causing the accident, she jumped on that duff sledge. Distracted of her thoughts, she bumped into a pine. When she had managed to gather herself, the screaming of Mary had already fell silent. 

Even though Eleanor was highly upset of the loss of her friend (and the sledge), the obsession had begun. Was there something different about her? 

It didn't take her a long time to understand the connection between a strong emotion and the magic to happen. Other girls in the village school started bullying her for not being able to save Mary's life. Though they noticed too very quickly the dangerous penalties of making Eleanor upset and usually just avoided her.

Eleanor's life wasn't all about unhappiness. She was passionate to learn more and very happy to notice the progress she was making while practicing her witchcraft. Also, she lived right next to The Thornrose mansion territory and their gardener's son, John didn't seem to bother with her little absent-mindness. He was more impressed by her black, beautiful hair and the fact that the girl wasn't scared at all of the spiders. She also shared his interest of gardening and always brought her some potions to make the roses grow bigger and stronger colored. John and Eleanor were best friends through their childhood and youth.

But unfortunately, the surviving of teenager years changes us and separates us all. It didn't take a long time, when gorgeous-looking Emily Greenhill moved to the village to make every over 7-years -old to 99-year-old men to fall in love with her. John was one of them and probably his magic-potion-grown roses did the trick, and they became unseparated and soon married to each other. He did no longer have so much time to his life-long friend Eleanor and this made her very upset and sad.

"Let's see how happy together they are when everything else around them starts to go wrong." were the baneful thoughts of Eleanor and the years of bad luck started shadowing The Thornrose. 

Eleanor had a reputation in the village and of course, everybody suspected strongly her being the reason of all that followed, though not completely understanding how. John naturally knew exactly the reason of his new, cautious life. As a good man, he couldn't verify the village gossip's thoughts to them to protect his old friend. He also had a conscience. No-one should abandon their friends when the love comes to the picture. He also hadn't exactly verified to Eleanor over the years, that all he felt for her was a strong friendship, but nothing more. He felt deserving her revenge, because no-one can have it all. He had his Emily and their daughter and he was happier than ever.

When the worst things happened, he always went to Eleanor to beg her to stop and tried to explain. She could use her energy to find her true love, because that thing did not live in her neighbor mansion. She didn't listen and finally on one July evening her new love potion was ready. She suggested a walk with John to turn everything with her potion the way it was suppose to be.

But even she had tried the drink for as big and strong as a real bear, that followed love-hungrily the smell of one fox to the garden of Thornrose and end up killing the carrier of the mommy bear's love, The Thornrose heir, the potion, that John drank mixed with a glass of red wine, didn't break the love of John and Emily. It didn't even crack. How embarrassed Eleanor felt, she had been so wrong and wasted so much energy and time to John, and on top of that all: She hadn't been able to prepare a working potion!

So tears in her eyes, leaving everything behind, she flew towards the moon. After reaching it, she decided a direction and landed directly back to planet Earth. This place was in Italy, Catania, right next to volcano Etna. This was such a stroke of luck for her. She soon discovered the power of lava in the potions and she became a very impressive witch, even in the circle of the other witches she soon gathered around her. For the first time in her life, she had a group of people to call a family. One day she noticed, that it was a first day after she was a 7-year old girl, that she didn't think of John. The reason of this, was another witch called Jakob. They felt such a happiness and relativines being exactly in the same level of weirdness, without any secrets.

Now finally, when she had found the happiness and a place to call home, she understood that there is no reason to destroy other people's happiness. She made one last visit to England to Thornose and released the mansion territory of it's faith of bad luck. 

And everybody lived their lives happily ever after. Eleanor and Jacob a little longer, obviously as a users of Never-ending-Life -potion.

So this was a little explication, how to really become a witch. But if you were just looking for how to look like a witch, you find it here.

John's story you can read from here.        

How to Create The Witch

When I was a little girl, I was mesmerized by the beauty of the witches. I wished to have a raven black hair, like my all-time hero, Wednesday from The Addams Family.

Oh dear..

Anyways, this piece is not how to look like a seductive Morticia Addams. This is about how they look like when they get out of the bed in the morning.

Let's start from the eyes, as usual, so it will be easy to wipe out all the spread eye shadows around the eye area.

Use an eye base product to ease the color using, but spread it just lightly, because the uneven coloring is just welcome in this makeup. Shade the inside corner of the eye with a cold-shaded brown eyeshadow. Make the color most strong in the hole/area between the nose and eye and spread the eyeshadow until the eyebrows and just a bit in the crease in the eyelid, above the mobile lid. Soften the color with a hint of matt vanilla colored eyeshadow. Spread the vanilla color on top of the eyebrow bone and outside corner of the eye. This makes the eyelids look baggy and the strong inner color eye makeup gives a horror-like-gaze.

Then create the dark eye bags using auberge colored eyeshadow. Finalize with a  cold shaded red lip pencil as an inside-kajal. 

Then right away to my favorite, hide the eyebrows! Brush the eyebrows upwards with a mascara brush (..without any mascara on it…) and attach them in this position with a Mastix skin glue. Tap and spread a red colored foundation to hide their color.

Let's create the typical witch-nose. Tap some Mastix skin glue on top of the nose, where you want the bump to place. Add a small amount of tired cotton on it, and another tap of skiing glue. Cut a small-hazelnut-sized amount of skin wax and warm it up by swirling lightly between the fingers, forming it as a ball. Place the wax on top of the glue and form the bump. Follow the bone structure of the nose, use a sharp spatel as help. Spread the wax carefully on the nose, don't leave any edges. Tap a tiny bit of latex on it with a makeup sponge. 

Now the fresh looking skin. Mix a drop of a very pale foundation with a light green supra color. The result should remind you of  a sea-sickness, but not of an alien. Spread it to the face, blend it together with the eyebrow makeup, the nose bump and don't forget the lips. Ask your model to frown the lips. Voilà, wrinkly lips! Powder lightly with a translucent powder. 

Shade the cheek bones with a cold-shaded light brown eyeshadow. Start the spreading from the ear and continue until the highest point of the cheek bone and then pull the color slightly downwards. Highlight a bit with a matte white or vanilla eyeshadow above the shading and blend the colors together.

Now take some grey-black colored fake hair, as much how thick you want the eyebrows to be. Moist it a bit with a mist of water to help processing it. Pull the hair lightly to straighten it up, the product comes braided and therefore it's curly. Cut them into index finger length (my fingers are crazy small and short.)Start tapping the skin glue (Mastix) where the real eyebrow begins, but to create a mean gaze to your witch, chance the position of the natural eyebrows and place the fake-hair in up-warding position. 

Naturally a witch should have a big disgusting mole in some part of her face. Draw one or ten with a brown kajal pen and matte eyeshadow, and of course finishing with a couple of long, curly fake-hair. 

Last, let's remove some of your witch's teeth shall we. Ask your model to reveal her teeth and dry the teeth of your choice with a paper.Please do not remove your friend's teeth with pliers, use tooth enamel instead (e.g.g, from Grimas). The product leaves from the teeth with alcohol. Good luck!
   

The Old Dude

                               
Name: John Grandfield

Age: Stopped counting after 70th birthday.

Family: Wife Emily Grandfield and a daughter Ann-Rose

Profession: Gardener of an old and grand mansion Thornrose.
                                       
                                 
                       

John Grandfield was born to a gardener's family and like every man in this family, he too became a gardener. For over two centuries, this family had served the great mansion of Thornrose. It is said that the mansion itself got his name after the beautiful roses that the Grandfield family raised around their magnificent garden.

Unfortunately there were days that The Thornrose was only a shadow of what it used to be and the landlord needed to rent the halls of The Thornrose for weddings and other events. People in the town gossip that the day when the roses of the garden suddenly started to topple, a curse that seems to surround The Thornrose habitants and the house.

Also, our character and the gardener John seemed to have lost his joyfulness and richness of nature with the roses and he always escaped the life to his little gardener's cottage. He was very rarely seen in the village and on those rare days, he didn't bring to the lovely ladies of the village any roses as he used to. 

Such horrible things happened in the territory of The Thornrose:

 Gardener's lovely wife, beautiful as rose, suddenly lost all her hair and the next day lost her ability to talk. No one knows what happened, no one knows exactly why.

The gardener's daughter, Ann-Rose, fell from her favorite tree and broke many parts of her body when out of nowhere, from a clear blue sky, lightning hit the tree. 

One very early morning the gardener woke up to strange voices from outside. He found a mommy bear with her cub eating and destroying all the the hundreds juicy berry bushes and the honey from the wasp farm. Unfortunately the son of the mansion Lord was at the same time returning from his hunting trip from the forest. He got attacked, and as a brave man the gardener tried to save his life with bare fists and sticks. This is how the mansion lost its heir. Since that horrible morning, the gardener withdrew the outside world even more, now with a halting walk and nasty scars.

I could tell even more stories, there would be one with the wasps size of the fists and puffed bride. 

But I won't.

But I can tell that the more superstitious couples searching for a place for wedding certainly will not say their vows in The Thornrose territory.

John Grandfield

So what the F happened? Why is this picture-perfect domain cursed?

The rumor blamed Miss Pinebranch. 

Miss Pinebranch was a lonely old maid with a weird reputation and a large number of cats.

She lived in the neighbor area of The Thornrose and she often visited their land for getting vegetables, berries and the famous honey.

They said that the gardener and she got together very well and there was a spark between them. They said that it was only around him, when she looked almost like beautiful and glowing.

One warm july evening Miss Pinebranch was seen walking from the village towards the Thornrose pond with our gardener. The young gang of kids followed these friends with curious reputation. What they witnessed, was a heartbreaking scene, where Miss Pinebranch confessed her love, tried to kiss our gardener and begged him to leave his wife, but as a faithful and respectful man, he refused her kiss and love.

The young kids escaped back to the village when the crying and cursing of Miss Pinebranch became too embarrassing and loud to watch. But one of the boys told that last thing he saw, was a green glowing light towards the gardener and a punch of words he did not understand. 

For some reason, people of the village believe that Miss Pinebranch has supernatural powers. 

Miss Pinebranch

They believe Miss Pinebranch being a witch.

Yes, it was after this curious and heartbreaking night that everything started going wrong in Thornrose, as Miss Pinebranch vanished from the village for good. This blue season continued over a decade. 

Until one autumn evening she returned, walking through the village with many cats following her. She looked no-one in the eyes, stopped talking to everybody. Her eyes were fixated in the direction of Thornrose.

The village's life and habits stopped for that evening. Everybody felt that something is going to happen and chance, hoping for the best to Thornrose people.

Nothing happened for many hours, until suddenly the same glowing green light stroke to the sky above the Thornrose land. Many people swore seeing a woman flying with a broom towards the moon.

The next day our gardener came down to the village with her lovely wife Emily, whose thick, luscious colored hair moved in the wind beautifully. They carried roses, giving them to everybody, and they placed grand flower-settings around the marketplace. And oh boy, Emily had so many stories to tell. But when asked about Miss Pinebranch, they both suddenly became implied, but gave each other a secret warm and knowing smile. 

Want to show your friends how they will look like as a 254-year-old? Here is how. 

How to Create The Old Dude

This is one of my favorite makeups to do! The way to do it, is exactly quite opposite than you would do your beauty makeup. And the result is always quite impressive.

First when doing The Old Dude makeup, you need to decide how old your character is. It's very easy to go over-the-top with the makeup and the result can be way older that your character were supposed to look like.

Secondly, where is your Old Dude performing? Is it for a masquerade party, or for a stage? Stage on a small theatre where the crowd is really close, or is it a big stage with strong lights? The answer affects how strong of makeup and lines you need to do.

Also understand that the character's manners, clothing, accessories (glasses and hats can make a huge difference) and voice used all add to The Old Dude effect.

My Old Dude is made for the big stage and he is about 80 years old.

No need to use any makeup primers here - the uneven colors are only a positive thing when creating an old skin. 

Spread some pale foundation lightly and starting from the nose, spreading towards the ears. The purpose is not to create an even skin and cover, just to make some sickly looking paleness. Add it also to the lips. Ask your model to wrinkle his/her lips. Very kissable aren't they?

Let's continue with the shading. 

Use light brown, cold shaded and matt eyeshadow. (e.g., Make Up Store Smog).

Shade the inside corners of the eyes. This makes the eyes more boney. The eye bones seem to look deeper, like holes. Continue the color until the iris of the eye and then pull the color downwards, but towards the outside corner of the eye. Color also the inside corner of the eyelid. 

Shade the bridge of the nose until the nostrils. Make the nose more appealing by following more gently  around the nostrils. Smooth the color toward the ears. 

Create the boney face by shading under the cheekbone, beginning from the ear. A blush brush made from real fur is a good size for this. Continue the color a bit over the cheekbone and then pull the shading downward. Continue the shade also on the neck. This line doesn't need to be completely symmetrical and straight, like the old people skin usually is not. 

Shade the temples.

Use for highlighting a white or vanilla matt eyeshadow:

Highlight the eyelid area next to the eye shading, that is not yet colored. So fill the eyebrow bone and the outside corner of the eyelid with the light eyeshadow. This makes the effect of baggy eyelids. Smooth the line between colors.

Color the top of the nose, also the tip of the nose.

Then the forehead.

And the chin.

Also highlight the cheekbones next to he shading. Just follow with the white color the same line as with shading, but just above it. 

Add some light eyeshadow on jawbones, continue to the neck. This creates a bit of a double chin! Again, smooth the lines between colors. 

Now is time for the lines and wrinkles. 

If you want to create very strong lines or make it just last better, base every wrinkle with a brown kajal pen.

Ask your model to furrow the eyebrows. Draw with the same cold light brown eyeshadow the longitudinal lines between eyebrows - that makes you look more strict. Smooth the lines a bit towards the ears. Fill the area between the lines and some part next to the faded wrinkle with the same vanilla matt eyeshadow. 

Now tell something really surprising to your model, like you haven't drunk any alcohol during last four days, or that yesterday you cleaned your apartment and see the forehead lines to be revealed! The result can easily become unnatural. Don't draw all-forehead long and symmetrical lines (mine are just in the edge to be a bit weird looking!). Fill below the line with the vanilla eyeshadow. Smooth the line a bit also upwards. By making some parts of the lines a bit stronger and wider, you make it more natural; they are just deeper parts of the wrinkle.

Now ask your model to smile. You find the mouth wrinkles, that leaves from the nose towards the neck (This is why Posh Spice avoided smiling). Draw these wrinkles with that cold brown eyeshadow and they can be drawn quite strong and deep. Leave the other side shorter to create some asymmetry. Blend towards the ears. 

Deepen the fulcrum line that connects the nose and the mouth together. Soften the line a bit towards both ears. Around the smoothed color, put some vanilla eyeshadow.

Emphasize the chin by drawing a line around it, making it look like a ball. Smooth the line towards the ears. Create the Ridge Forrester chin dimple just by drawing a short line between the chin. Soften a bit towards the ears.

Add a super short line from the corners of the mouth downwards. Smooth towards the ears, add a vanilla line below it.

Let's assume that your character had a happy life full of laughter. We need people to know that, to reveal this, draw the thin lines from the eye corner - the ones that looks like crow's feet (this is why Posh Spice avoided laughing).

Your model has shiny McDreamy hair? Na-aaa, doesn't sound like The Old Dude material. 

Swirl a eyelash brush into moist white aqua color (e.g., from Kryolan). My model has brown hair, but if your model has more blonde hair, the grey aqua color works well. Drag the brush through the hair and sideburns. Also, dry shampoo gives a good effect.

Brush the eyeshadow downwards and also give them some grey charisma.

If your model has a beard or moustache (if a girl, take her to a professional waxer.), color it carefully with white/grey aqua color.

Your model has partied all night yesterday? Brilliant! Take some warm shaded violet or auberge colored matte eyeshadow and make the eye bags even more deep. Draw the lines of the eye bags as low as you dare to make your character more exhausted looking. Make the color most strong right next to the inside eye corner. Smooth the color widely upwards, towards the eye. Add some white/vanilla between the line and the nose to create some puffiness and to make the bags look deeper.

If your character used to live for parties and liked to take more than one glass of red wine a night, his/her skin needs some couperose. Use a sponge that looks like a hedgehog, called stubble sponge, and tap with it carefully red colored supra color (e.g., Kryolan) on top of the nose and to the cheeks and around the nostrils.

Sponge to create some couperose

Create also some brown spots with the same hedgehog sponge to random places. Add more if she/he used to be a hippie living on a beach and already at the age of 30 looked like a sultan.

And my personal favorite: Veins! Just look carefully, your model has them somewhere in his/her face. Make them more appealing with a blue eyeshadow with a real-fur brush.

Gorgeous!

How to Create The Mad Hatter

This Mad Hatter here is very inspired by Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland. What can I say, since as a 6-year-old I saw Cry Baby for the first time, I always fall in love with Johnny Depp's characters. The makeup itself isn't very complicated, just a lovely play with the colors and bone structure, but if you decide to prepare the eyebrows from the scratch, it will take.. a bit longer. The side effects, besides the bloody tired eyes, is the shoulder pain, cramps in the fingers, total loss of your nerves, ugly language use and a bunch of new grey hair in your head. But let's face it, how cool it is to prepare the face hair or wigs on your own, using the real hair?

Picture to help creating the bone structure

But let's begin with the makeup. 

I usually like to begin the makeup from the eyes, therefore all the escaped eyeshadows on the cheeks don't ruin the rest of your makeup. Just swipe them off with a gentle makeup cleansing wipe after you are done with the eyes.

Picture to help show the eye -and the lip makeup

Prepare the eyes, also the lower eyelid, with the eye primer and powder lightly, but evenly (I like to use Makeup Store's reflex cover). Next tap and spread the light blue eyeshadow with a glow ( e.g., Make Up Store's Wave) on the eyelids, until the upper crease in the eyelid. Then take a glowing light green eyeshadow (e.g., Make Up Store Eclipse) and spread it from the blue eyeshadow just until the eyebrows. A real fur brush is perfect for powdery products.

Next, color the lower eyelids with a fuchsia eyeshadow or a blush (e.g., Make Up Store's Frozen Daiquiri blush). Create some shape in the eye by increasing the width of the color to the corner of the eyes. Continue the delicious fuchsia towards the eyebrows. By swirling the round shaped real-fur brush on the eyeshadows, you blend the colors well together and it makes the edges of the colors softer.

Curl the eyelashes and add thickly a white mascara. Color the inside lids with a cold red lip pencil (e.g., Make Up Store's Russian)


Wipe the possible spread eyeshadows and color the face with a white supra color using a makeup sponge. Don't make the base too thick, but make sure it covers enough. If the supra color feels too thick, mix it with a drop of transparent makeup base serum. Tap the color also on the lips. Powder with transparent powder.

Create some strong structure to the face with a light purple eyeshadow or a blush. Lovely color, isn't it? Reminds me of a My Little Pony's vomit.
Shade the edges of bridge of the nose just until the nostrils. Fade the color well towards the ears.
Also shade the inside corner's of the eyes and fade the color towards the eyelids. Connect the color with the shading of the nose.
Next create some sharp cheek bones. Follow with the line of a cheek bone from the ear to the point where the cheek bone ends (fade the color upwards) and pull the color downwards. (fade the color towards the ears) This helps to create some manly shape to the face!
Next to the shades, there is always the highlight. Swirl some glowing white highlight color on top of the cheek bones, on the chin, in the middle of the forehead and on top of the nose.

Speaking if the manly things, line the lips with a cold pink lip pencil. (You can use the same as in the inside eyelids) Shape the lips less feminine by hiding and filling the cupids bow, you can also line the lips a slight smaller, depending on your models mouth. Color the mouth with a cold pink lipstick.

How about that cute little gab between the front teeth? For example, there is Grimas 's black Tooth Enamel.
Roll your upper lip up and look like a squirrel. Dry your front teeth with a paper. Swipe the brush between the teeth. (The brush is the same kind as in nail polish bottles.) Be careful with the gums! The best part? The best way to remove the color is with alcohol. I'm sure my The Hatter model remembers the 80% alcohol that I used to remove the gab.

Voilà! And finally..

How to Prepare the Eyebrows:


You will need:
- Lace (like ballerinas use in their tutus)
- Special wig sewing needle
- Real hair (but please don't cut it from your friend's head.)
- Polystyrene head
- Pins
- Good light!

Start by drawing on a strong paper the shape of the eyebrows. Cut it off. (really.) Make sure they are a perfect size and shaped by fitting the paper model on your model's face.

Attach the paper on the polystyrene head with a glue or pins. Cut a small size of the lace and attach it well and firmly, slightly stretching, with the pins. Attach it in a way, that it stretches crossways.

Take a small part of your real hair and moist it with a spray bottle. The hair is curly so you can brush it a bit straighter.

How to Make a Knot:

I prefer to sew placing the polystyrene head between my legs (because I am a pervert) and throw my legs on a high table or chair. Trust me, the comfortable position is important in this business. Also the sips of whiskey helps.

Start from the inside corner of the eyebrow and progress from up to down, so that the ready knots will no be on the way. Always pull the knot to the direction where you want the hair to be heading to.

Notice: The paper under the tulle is just there to show the formwork of the eyebrows. No need to stick the needle through the paper too.

Also notice, there is no need to stick the needle through every single lace hole. The result would be quite furry.

So. Form a ring for a small part of the moist hair and hold it firmly between your thumb and index finger. Keep 1-3 hair in front, ready to be catch. Slip the needle through the one hole of the tulle. Take those 1-3 hair on the needle, pull them through the lace. Pull the hairs just a bit upwards so that you can with the same motion grab the rest of the 1-3 pieces of the hair through the loop. Pull the knot upwards, so to the direction you want the hair be heading to. Pull the knot tight, but don't break the hair .

The knot should look pretty and small, not like a tangle. Make sure that the knots on the lower edge of the eyebrows are in straight line.

And always think the direction you want the hair to stick out.

Ready, all the hair has been knitted? Awesome.


Cut the eyebrows for the suitable length.


Now you can color the hair the way you want to. My Hatter has orange eyebrows, that I colored with orange aqua color (e.g., from Kryolan). Originally my hair was grey. Dying with aqua color has one down side, the color falls out easily and with that can ruin your makeup! Try to use enough color during the first time of the coloring and let it dry well. But because we are talking about the real hair, you can of course use for example spray colors.

Last step. Cut the lace smaller, just next to the hair line, two-three rows of the lace holes sounds good security to me.

Placing the eyebrows depends how your model's own eyebrows are. If they are thin and light colored, just brush them upwards and tap and spread the skin glue/Mastix/Spirit Gum (e.g., from Kryolan) on them.
If your model has strong eyebrows, check here how to make them less appearing.

Press the sewed eyebrows on the glue and be specially exact with the edges, that no lace sticks to the air.

Use some hair wax and hairspray to style the eyebrows.

Now go to some oldish charismatic man with an awesome hat and start a conversation with him just to wait for a perfect moment to steal his awesome hat for your Mad Hatter. (NEVER done it myself, never.)

The Mad Hatter

"Why is raven like a writing desk?"

                                               

This loved character is familiar from Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" -books, made even more famous by the Disney and Tim Burton's movie. Originally Lewis Carrol named "The Mad Hatter" just as a "Hatter." But hey,  he and his friend The March Hare are maaaad. And there is actually an explanation for that!

The Hatter is always on a never-ending mad tea-party, or in a Disney version an "un-birthday party", which is by the way an excellent idea, because you have only one birthday in a year, but 364 un-birthday days.. Oh the amount of the champagne! Or in this case, the amount of tea. (Luckily tea is very good with a rum.)

Anyways, the reason why The Hatter and The March Hare are always sipping tea is an interesting story. One day The Hatter wanted to sing for the evil Queen of Hearts. The Hatter loves singing. Unfortunately The Queen of Hearts wasn't so pleased of his talent and claimed him for murdering the time. Obviously The Hatter was sentenced to death, off with his head!! Luckily The Hatter succeed to escape the blade. Because of this ,The Time himself halted himself for the respect for The Hatter. The Hatter and The March Hare we're always about to live in 6pm, in a tea-time. The mad tea-parties are full of riddles, changing places in a table and questions with no answers, which was a bit nerve-racking to Alice.

Later, in "Through the Looking-Glass" The Hatter (named as a "Hatta") has become a messenger for the White King, he was against the evil Queen of the Hearts.

So why is The Hatter acting a little bit weird? Besides of drinking all that tea? Before all the hat makers were a bit like The Hatter. The hats were made by using some mercury for curing the felt and the poor hat makers couldn't help breathing the poisonous fumes. This caused them neurological damage, also confused speech and distorted vision. 

Although, the symptoms also are increasing shyness, loss of self-confidence and a will to remain un-noticed. This certainly isn't within The Hatter's behavior, so I blame the tea. Maybe he also liked the tea with a rum.  

Johnny Depp, who played The Hatter in Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland, seems to believe The Hatter being a victim of a mercury poisoning. According to Johnny Depp, the reason for The Hatter's orange hair and pinkish eyes is the huge amount of poison coming out of his body.

Inspired to the story full of imagination by Lewis Carrol? Want to learn how to prepare some eyebrows on your own? Here you go.

Corpse Bride

Name: Emily a.k.a The Corpse Bride

Location: The Land of Living

This lovely and fresh creature is inspired by Tim Burton's animation film Corpse Bride.

Our beautiful Corpse Bride Emily lived in a little village on Victorian era. One day she claimed her big eyes on a handsome Lord with a strong jaw and they fell in love. They wanted to get married, but unfortunately Emily's parents didn't accept their intentions and they had only one choice, to escape together. 

Emily was waiting for her Lord in the forest with a generous dowry. Finally he came. Though The Lord was never hungry for her love, just her dowry. Poor Emily was soon murdered by the man she loved.

And that is how Emily became The Corpse Bride.

Emily moved from the Earth to the Land of the Living. That is a place, where all the death people with unfinished issues go before finding their peace. That is why every day, every night she was waiting for someone who would want to marry her for love. 

To learn how to create Corpse Bride inspired makeup, click here.

How to Create The Corpse Bride

On this makeup you will learn how to attach the ready-made-wound pieces and how to hide the eyebrows!

This makeup is lovely to do, because it's both, beauty and theatre makeup. And because you couldn't describe Emily as fresh and healthy looking role model, it doesn't matter if your model is dead tired and dying because of a hangover!

Let's start with hiding your models eyebrows. Brush the eyebrows upwards with an eyebrow brush. Then attach them in this position with a skin glue.

Take a yellow shaded concealer, meant for hiding red spots on a face, and tap the color on top of the up-pointing eyebrows.

The skin. Take a very, very pale foundation and mix it with a strong, cold shaded, highlight cream. 

Spread it to the whole skin. Hide the possible spots and red areas with a yellow shade concealer and smooth the yellowish color again with a foundation+highlight mix. (if you continue working with the powdery products, you can powder the whole face now lighlty with a transparent powder. If you use even the lightest powder that is still not transparent, don't do it. The result will be yellow. :O)

Now let's create those big, beautiful sad eyes! Prepare the eyelids for the eye shadow with an eye primer, also the lower eye lid. Powder it lightly, but evenly.

Spread the glowing light blue eyeshadow on the whole eyelid area with a brush made of real fur. Don't stop until the eyebrows, also cover them with the light blue eyeshadow. That is your makeup model's new eye socket.

Next take a darker blue eye shadow and create some volum in the eyes by adding the color on the outside corners of the eyes. Imagine the eye lid area being a lot bigger than you normally have. So add the dark blue eyeshadow from the eye lashes until on top of the hidden eyebrows (just the out corner of the eyelid.) Fade the color with a real fur brush (the round shaped eye shadow brush is really good for fading the colors) towards the center of the eye.

Next we create that horror character look to the eyes by adding the dark blue eyeshadow on the inside corner of the eyes, right next to nose until the hidden eyebrows. Fade the color with a real fur brush towards the center of the eye.

Emily is a little bit tired of not needing to sleep as  dead person, so she needs eye bags. Follow the line that you started next to the nose downwards, using a smaller real fur eyeshadow/eyeliner brush and a dark blue eyeshadow. Kind of circling the eyes with the eyeshadow. Blend the color upwards. See, this is more easier if your model already has eye bags on her own.

So now we should have lighter, glowing blue eyeshadow in the middle of the eye and darker blue areas  around the eye, right? This effect makes the eyes to pop out, rounder and bigger.

Next add the lighter blue eye shadow to the lower eyelid, following the eyelashes, but leave a little gap between the eyelashes and the blue color. Fill this gap with a white eyeshadow to make the eyes bigger. Add some darker blue shadow in the center of the lower eyelid to make the eyes more round.

Fill the inside eye lid with a white kajal (not with a glittery one, they are not meant to inside lids!)

Finish the eyes with curling the eyelashes with a Shu Uemura eyelash curler (buy them. Seriously.) on three parts of the eyelashes. Add a lot of black mascara, don't forget the lower eyelashes. 

Let's create very strong structure to the face. We want our Emily to have high cheek bones, so let's enchant them with a cold shaded, light brown eyeshadow. Use a big, real fur brush and start swiping the eyeshadow starting next to the ear and following the cheek bone. Don't spread the color further, than you model's eye irises are. Start the spreading gently, it's always easier to add color, than make it lighter. Fade the color upwards.

Next to shadow, you always need a highlight. So take a cold shaded, glowing highlight product and swirl it on top of the highest point of your model's cheekbones. 

Next we make her look a bit more dead, a little moldy. Take your ready-made wound, put it on the skin and powder the limits of the piece gently. Now take the ready-made piece away and fill the are with a face glue. Don't cross the powder area!

Now press the ready-made piece gently on top of the glue. And remove. Why? This makes the glue stronger and the piece attaches better. Now on the third time you can finally press the piece to the skin. For good. 

Take just a tiny bit of skin wax with your spatula and put it on the edges of the ready-made-wound. Now you can smooth the edges of the piece and the skin with the skin wax.

Add one light layer of latex on top of the piece. Let it dry. Now depending how your wound looks like, you need to make it gross. In this case, Emily has started to mold from the face. Color the piece with a light blue supra color and smooth it well to the skin.

If your wound is not nasty looking enough, add some little pieces of cosmetic paper with a skin glue and color it with a greyish green eyeshadow or supra colors. Add some dark blue and black color in the roots of the cosmetic papers. 

Now take a dark brown, cold shaded kajal pen, eyebrow pencil or eyeliner, which ever you prefer and draw the new eyebrows. If you want your Emily to look more doll-like, draw them more round, like I did. If you prefer more devilish look, make them more straight and give them a little lift upwards in the beginning of the eyebrows. (Think of a face of wrinkling your forehead because of a devilish idea and at the same time lifting your eyebrows with an an astonishment.) 

And the last part, the lips. Draw the lines of the lips with a pink lip pencil. Start from the middle of the upper lip and go to towards the edges. Blend the color by coloring with the pencil almost the whole lip. Leave the center part of the lips pencil-free. Now take some a bit lighter pink lipstick and color your lips.

Now put some wedding dress on, knock on your new boyfriends door, wait until he opens and scream:

"I Dooooo!"

Two Face

Name: Evan From Heaven

Age: 19 

Possible location for finding: The world's best burger restaurant, Geneva

Marital status: Yes boys, he is single.

Let me introduce to you my lovely friend Evan From Heaven. He seems to look all fresh, energized, happy and not afraid of life ( but he should be).  

Because this is what happened to him two hours after. 

This is what I would call a skin problem.

You see, our Evan From Heaven works in Switzerland's best burger bar, where the pace is fast and burgers fly to customers' tables.  

And the burgers, they are so delicious and les frites à l'ancienne - so tasty! Anyone who once enters this restaurant will always come back. 

It was a day like any other during the busy lunch hour in the kitchen. Evan From Heaven was packing the burgers and screaming out the order numbers."SERVICE!" screamed Evan. Where is the waitress, who is suppose to carry the menus for the customers? The waiter was on the other side of the restaurant, carrying seven menus at once, looking for the waiting customers. No can do. He would have to carry the menus for the customers himself. Evan left his position and took four baskets, filled with inviting smelling fries and burgers with blue cheese, bacon, and avocado mash - oh dear.. 

He passed the frialator and had an excellent idea. Why not grab a couple of fries as a snack for the task of finding the order number 767-770? But of course Evan knew that the fries, drowned in the cooking oil, can be a little bit hot. His mouth was already numb from eating the too-hot, just prepared fries during his working hours, the boiling oil just could not be that hot, right? But his hands were full! Although, he thought, he wasn't holding any menus in his mouth! 

 He double checked, there was no-one to witness his desperate scene with the fries. He leaned towards the boiler, tried to grab a french fry with his teeth - just don't loose the balance now...! 

From the pictures above we can see that the cooking oil was pretty hot.

So want to create the painful incident with the cooking oil or play Harvey Dent? Here you go.

How to create The Two Face

Here is how to create pretty bad looking burn marks.

The usual equipment from up to down: Supra colors, the spatula, skin wax, wax/glue remover, fake blood, skin glue and the latex. All from Kryolan and Cinema Secrets.

Start with a brownish red supra color. Spread and tap it with sponge carelessly around the face. Don't forget the ear and the neck. 

Next open not-so-good smelling latex bottle and ask your makeup victim to stop breathing. Tap the latex (your friend is not allergic to latex, right?) lightly around the face and neck. Be careful with the eyes!

Take from kitchen closet a fistful of oat meal and press it on the face. If the latex is already a bit dried, you can use a bit of face glue for help.

Rip of some cosmetic paper and attach it with a face glue.

Let's make the smell worse by adding another layer of latex.

What is that smell reminding you again..? Yes, it's condoms. IN YOUR FACE!

 Or dog toys.

Add generously grey and a black supra color. Make it most dark around oat meal and cosmetic paper parts. They are the part, that has burned to worst. The cosmetic paper is also good to color for example with a black eyeshadow.

Now is time to create the painful looking mouth. Draw with a kajal pen the lines of the mouth incident and fill the inside, tapping gently, with a face glue.

Cut a good slice of skin wax and warm it a bit between your fingers. Keep it as a one piece.

Press the wax on top of the glue and start spreading the edges of it with your spatula. Spread the wax further than the glue.

Create the form of the teeth on top of the lip. Also shape some shred of gums and flesh. 

Add a light layer of latex with a makeup sponge.

Color the beauty with a pink eyeshadows. Add some bright red, specially to highlight the hanging gums and flesh.

Color the teeth with a white supra color. Create the teeth gaps with a black supra color.

Color the eye area with a black and dark grey eyeshadow. Shape the eye by adding more black on the inside corner of the eye. Color the inside eye lid with a cold red lip pencil.

Now if you already haven't cover your friends clothes, now is time to do it (yeah might have had better to do it during the oat meal, it's everywhere isn't it?)

Open your fake blood jar and pour some of it carefully to a little jar and add A LOT of it on the face, specially next to and on top of oat meal and cosmetic paper. Let it spread naturally, don't forget the ears (bloody ears! Cruel!) 

There you go, now freak the neighbors out and go to ask some plaster!