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There are a few styles that require plenty of makeup, such as the 'Emo' or 'Goth' looks. This can look fantastic, but if you forget to match your colours properly, it can also be a disaster. )
While most makeup sites will give you colours which work well with your skin colour or eyes, I think it's more important to know which colours look good with each other. It's no use knowing that your blue eyes will be highlighted by brown eyeshadow if you don't know what lipstick or eyeliner colour would look good with that.
Some fairly 'normal' colour combinations that look good are:
Brown and pink (either light brown and light pink or dark brown and dark pink)
Red and blue (one should be a bright colour and the other subdued
Grey and white (as an eyeshadow combination), brown (as an eyeliner) and bright red (for lips)
Some more unusual combinations that look good are:
Orange, green and purple (it sounds terrible, but as long as they are blended well they look great as an eyeshadow, or orange and green eyeshadow can look good with a purple lipstick)
Pink and black (a bright, shocking shade of pink and very dark black)
Purple and blue
Other than this, just remember your colour wheel. Contrasting colours look terrific (colours opposite each other on the colour wheel) as do complimentary colours (colours beside each other on the colour wheel). And, of course, pastels look good with pastels, bright colours look good with bright colours, and dark colours look good with dark colours. These rules can go right out the window when you're going for an unnatural look, so the best way to find out what looks good together is really to experiment!
Although it was at one stage in fashion, pin curling is now unusual enough to count as 'alternative' in my books - if only because I love the look.
[I've seen a couple of different methods of creating them, but the most obvious one is:
1. Start with damp (not wet) hair.
2. Add a small amount of gel to hair.
3. Take a small section and smooth it out before twirling it around a finger in the direction you want the curl to go, until you reach your scalp.
4. Gently slide the curl off your finger and hold it tightly against the scalp with a thumb and forefinger.
5. Using pin curl pins rather than bobby pins (as bobby pins can change the shape of the curl) pin the curl in place.
6. Repeat for each section of hair you want curled.
7. When taking the curls out, comb the gel out carefully.
That's pretty much it! Whether or not bobby pins are acceptable to use is debateable, they work pretty well on my hair (well enough that I am yet to purchase pin curl pins) but other people have different results.
Piercings are fantastic. I love them, and I don't think that they should stop employers taking you. However, it would appear that lots of people don't agree. Don't let that stop you getting pierced - aside from the initial healing period, there's no reason for you current or prospective employer to even notice you have a piercing.
Clear retainers are basically plastic versions of the metal studs you wear in your piercing. For a good idea as to what retainers look like, as well as somewhere to purchase them, visit the body jewellery shop or, more specifically, their section on body piercing retainers.
Well, it's been less than a week since I got my nose pierced, and I'm having troubles with it again. It falls out every single night. I'm pretty lucky now, in that I usually wake up when it falls out, or that my boyfriend wakes me up (he's absolutely paranoid and checks it every hour).
I've been sleeping with a bandaid over the jewellery to try to stop it coming out, and tonight I had two over it. The bandaids didn't actually come off, but the jewellery managed to come out, and I lost it. I don't know how this is possible - there's no way the stud could have gone through my nose backwards, and I don't see how it could have come out forwards either. I must be the roughest sleeper on the planet
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If you're anything like me, you've dyed and bleached your hair enough times to well and truly kill it. Mine has gotten so dry and damaged that it not only knotted itself - it began to turn into dreadlocks!
Obviously, the only real way to get rid of damaged hair is to cut it off. However, most of us want to cut off as little hair as possible, and when it's dry and unmanagable it's very hard to tell which bits really need to go and which just need to be conditioned
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I thought that it would be a good idea to do a photoshoot with Ethan - unfortunately it had to be in a friend's bedroom, but you can still see his sense of style, and that's the important thing. Ethan has quite a few unique looks, so if you want to see more of him, I'm sure I can take more photos.
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The nose piercing - I think it was worth it!
I love nose piercings. I've wanted one for ages, but thus far I'd been too scared to get one (I have a fairly conservative Christian mother who spent most of my childhood telling me of all the horrible things that could happen if I ever dared to get facial piercings - especially a nose piercing. Aside from that, I have a lot of allergies.) However, yesterday I decided to take the plunge.
For any Brisbane readers, I'd recommend Cosmetics Plus at Chermside at the best place to get pierced. I got my other facial piercing (a Marilyn) in Coff's Harbour at a tiny studio in an alleyway somewhere. Because of this, I expected the piercing experience to simply be a matter of turning up, explaining what you want pieced, having a needle shoved into you, paying and leaving. Cosmetics Plus required me to fill out a form, provide identification and make an appointment. They also spent more time on the actual piercing, and used sterile equipment. It hurt, but I was really happy with my new piercing, it looked great and the redness went down within an hour
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One possible result - without blending colours.
One of the great things about unnatural hair dye is that most brands allow you to mix coloured and create fantastic effects. One of my favourite dying techniques is blending two or three colours together
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Fudge paintbox hair colour
Fudge is an Australian hair product brand which produces a range of unnatural hair colours called Fudge Paintbox. Fudge hair colours do tend to fade fairly quickly, but for those people who want an unnatural look with minimal commitment, it's the perfect range.
To get the best results from Fudge or any other bright hair colour, you must first bleach your hair, regardless of whether or not it is naturally blonde. The bleaching process makes hair more porous, so it takes the colour better. If you don't want to colour your entire hair, place the section of hair you do want coloured on a piece of aluminium foil, cover it in bleach and then wrap it. For developing time, check the instructions on the label of your bleach. Never leave bleach in your hair for longer than the recommended time - it damages the hair too much. If the result isn't as light as you want it, you can always bleach again in a few days time. If you intend to dye your hair blue, you may want to use a white toner afterwards to ensure that there is no yellow left in your hair - otherwise your blue dye may turn green
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Cat ears, black dress, thick framed glasses and pearls.
Alternative style is just about anything not currently in mainstream fashion. This encompasses not only the obvious examples, such as Emo or Punk fashion, but also styles frorm past eras, and things you'd only expect to see on a cartoon character! (Think cat ears, fairy wings, superhero capes etc.)
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While most makeup sites will give you colours which work well with your skin colour or eyes, I think it's more important to know which colours look good with each other. It's no use knowing that your blue eyes will be highlighted by brown eyeshadow if you don't know what lipstick or eyeliner colour would look good with that.
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