Explanations and Apologies

Hellllllllooooooo worrlllllllllldddddddddddddd

No, I'm not dead! Though in the world of technology I might as well be!

So I know I haven't posted in ages, and no it's not because I'm a slack bitch, I actually really look forward to posting, and get excited about things I can blog about, and it's REALLY frustrating when your internet provider just decides it's no longer financially viable for them to give us internet and turns it off without letting any of their customers know.

See we'd had a shitload of storms and the net was unreliable, i would often go off for days when there were storms and such. Anyway we just figured they were taking ages to fix the net, and we did ring them a few times, and they gave us various excuses why it wasn;t done, one of them that it was snowing and therefore no one could brave the cold and fix it, despite that whilst the gentleman from Cirrus told me this, I looked out the window and it was a pleasent sunny day...Hmmm..

Anyway, after a while one of my parents got a bit stroppy with them and their excuses and spoke to one of their head honchos who informed us that they weren't fixing the connection and that we'd no longer have a contract with them.

Well thanks a fucking lot you bastards.

Anyway, to makelong story somewhat shorter, we've tried several options and unfortunatly due to our circumstances we can only get dial up. Grrrrrr! So, yes, I'm not sure if I'll be able to bother posting while this torture continues but I'm just letting you folks out there (if anyone does in fact follow m'blog that that's why I haven't been around.

In other news, if you'll recall the green snake skin patterned tights I ordered from Black Milk ages ago, well they did arrive but up until now I hadn't really gotten a nice shot of them.

This shot was taken by my good friend, Gracie and is featured in the latest Black Milk blog post.

There's more photos of that shoot with Grace (like the two in this post) on Grace's blog.

Okay, I'm off

Bye!

Easy being green

So I haven't posted in ages, and I apologise for that if there's anyone out there that reads my blog religiously (A girl can dream :P ) but it's been due to a multitude of reasons. First of all our Internet was down for 8 days, and it seriously nearly killed me. I was like crack whore Lindsay Lohan at the beginning of a stint in rehab. I ate a whole packet of biscuits despite not being hungry, I wandered around aimlessly, I played like a bazillion games of minesweeper, and got up and turned the modem off and on around about 200 times a day; it was horrid!

Then, a day after the net came back up, my hard drive decided to have a coronary and shat itself, taking all the intricacies of my life along with it. Luckily I had backed up about 2 weeks ago, I'm kind'a lazy with that, but yeah lost about 3 gigs of music which I had just recently acquired, which is really annoying.

So for the last 10 days or so I have had no computer. I feel faint saying it out loud, or in text..or whatever. I'm currently on my mum's computer, and she's been good enough to let me borrow it a couple of times. She also bought me a new hard drive which has arrived and we installed it a couple of days ago, now we're just waiting for software my uncle's sending down.

Anyway, the weather had been pretty much constantly raining for the past 2 weeks and so taking photos has been kinda not possible despite that I have so many new editions to talk about!

I will talk about one today however, so I went to Sydney last week, not for a very nice reason but Mum and I wanted to get away from my Dad and Nan who we'd been stuck with all day and were driving us a little loopy, so we went for a wander in Newtown. Mum was interested in having a little peek into the subculture that I've claimed as my own and so we visited a few of the awesome shops along enmore road. Anyway after about 40 minutes in Gallery Serpentine, we were walking back up to the train station and I asked if we could take a little stop into In Visible Light, because a few years ago I got a really nice hat from there. Anyway a had a discussion with the lovely folks in there for quite a while, they were really sweet! However, probably just saw me as a dollar sign on legs but anyway, I bought a pair of Hulk green Colourvue lenses, and I love them! I had so much trouble deciding between them and the glowing green ones that react with UV light. I ended up going with these because they were cheaper, but I admit I'll probably get the other pair anyway :P

Anyway, here;s a picture that Grace look today after the photo shoot I had with her. I gothed her up and took some photos around our paddock. Hopefully I'll get those soon, and when I get my computer back I'll upload them here.



Anyway, that's about all I have to say,

Laterz

Steffles

xx

Look at me

So I went to Grace's place last night and we took photos to arrange in a photobooth type style. This is how it turned out!



I thought it was pretty nifty :)

-Steffles

xx

Rapid Movements in Your Mind's Eye

Okay, so Grace suggested to me that I might do a post on how I might go about doing my makeup. So I've made this tutorial type thing for one of my preferred make up styles for a goth event or just a night I feel like looking a bit formidable! Obviously this isn't appropriate for everyday or every outfit, but it's just a nice, colourful and fun style. I've also incorporated some photos of most of the tools I've used in making this.

WARNING! Includes some UGLEH photos of me with no foundation on! Eeep! Not all of us can be naturally beautiful I s'pose. Anyway, here we go! (p.s. you might have to click to enlarge some of these photos to see the details).

I will be using my Coastal Scents 88 Colour Palette as shown below.



I have circled to two colours I've used in red.

Firstly clean your face and apply primer; be sure to pay special attention to your eyelids and any areas that may be less consistent texture-wise than the rest of your face.



Now apply the, lighter green all over the lid with a general eyeshadow brush, and be sure to blend it into the crease of your eye. Also, I like to add a green lining with the same eyeshadow under the eye with an angled brush in order to make it 'pop' more dramatically. The photo above shows the difference between the eye with and without the green lining. If you don't like it, obviously don't include it.


Next we apply the dark green over most of the lid, however avoid the inner corner in order to conserve the nice gradient. As before, be sure to blend well into the crease; I find the best way to do that is to blend it whilst your eye is open, sweeping across with your eye as wide as it can go. It's a little hard to explain if you don't know what I mean, but I guess if you know me in real life you can just ask me to show you :P



Now we apply the black to the outer corner of the eye and up into the crease, about a third of the way across the eye. Remember to PRESS the black it, especially if your black eyeshadow is as crumbly and bad-a-quality as the one I was using when I did this. Pressing decreases the amount of excess that just falls all over your face as opposed to a sweeping motion. However, if you do get a bit of excess on your face, and you're like me and aren't a connoisseur of professional makeup brushes, just dust over the area quickly with your largest powder brush.

As I've said, blending is probably the most important thing about getting nice looking eyeshadow, so I've ensured I've put in both a before and after blending photo. Obviously above looks ridiculous, this is BEFORE blending.


And this is after. I've blended the black out quite a lot, but I wanted a very dramatic look. I also re-shape the edges of my eyeshadow by wiping off excess with makeup remover and a tissue; this also makes applying foundation easier around a more contoured edge. I know you're generally s'pose to apply foundation before-hand, but I lean of my face a lot and often have excess everywhere, so i find it easier to apply it after.

Here is an example of how I've tidied up the side of my eyeshadow; the left is tidied, the right is how it was when I applied it.

Mascara to the other eye (dunno why I already had it applied to one eye :P), pencil eyeliner and liquid foundation.



Powder foundation.



Black cheekbone lines, just done with my blending brush with the excess black that was already on it. Also go over my eyebrows with a bit of black eyeshadow, but my eyebrows always look retarded :P

I was also going to apply my fake eyelashes but for some reason they refused to stick to my eyes, and after I took the pics I also added liquid eyeliner.



Finishing touch, Absinthe flavoured lip balm,; that extra something special for a green fairy ;)


Now for the tools!
General eyeshadow brush





Angle brush



Blending brush

Large powder brush


Concealer, dunno if it actually does anything but :P


Powder for that added goth pallor


Pencil eyeliner, though this one is shit so don't get it. I just couldn't find my other one.



Liquid eyeliner.


I dunno why but I always like to add the tiniest bit of blush to my cheeks.




Full-coverage liquid foundation



I've always used this primer because it's the only one that they sell at big w, but Grace let me try some of her MAC sample and it's AMAZING. So I bought some, can't wait to try it :P



Blush brush



Mascara, I just like this one 'cause I don't seem to get clumps with it.



And yes, well that's all really. I should be getting some of my new purchases next week, and Grace and I will hopefully be able to organise a nice shoot soon, so that will be fun times.

Okay, I'm out. Laterz!

Steffles/ Syddie

xx

Jesus was a zombie

Hahahahaha! Oh so, I started typing my new post here and I got interrupted, and when I came back I saw that all I had written was "So I came.." Oh, yes, I know, I know, small things small minds, but sexual innuendo is a big part of my life amongst my friends :P Grace gets it, don't 'cha Grace?

So anyway, I CAME across a few new sites over the weekend and discovered a few little beauties. Now I'm not normally into brands like Lip Service, with their mass produced clothes for mall-goths, probably the reason why I didn't discover these pants long ago; however when I saw these I thought I might be able to make an exception!



Pants found here.



Look at them, in all their infinite green and black glory. So, I want them, but after I have made all these other purchases I might not be able to afford them, but we'll see. I'm looking into buying them off ebay, because the shipping will be like 70% cheaper. Actually, I think it's the shipping that deterred me from buying them the instant I saw them. From the website I found them off; Infectious Threads shipping is like $40 American. So, I went searching, and it turned out to be like 40 cents different on the Lip Service website, and they didn't have my size anyway, but I found them on ebay from an Aussie seller with shipping amounting to $6! The product is more expensive, but all together I stand to save around $35. Hooray!


I seem to be having an obsession with cyber goth at the moment, I've always been kind'a turned off by the whole cyber goth thing; obviously something has caused that to change. I have a feeling it's because I've been reading a lot about Adora Batbrat lately. She's a gothic youtube-sensation, model, clothes designer and a kind'a bad singer (:P) with a large interest in outrageous gothic makeup and what not. I've been reading her blog and just generally getting into her head.





Can you believe she's 37? Well, I think she might be a bit older now, but god, she looks hot for her age.

Anyway back to my point so I found these AMAZING cyber-goth boots, supposedly by Demonia; though I find it hard to believe I could never have seen these before!


Boots can be found here


They have an actual working light in them, I'm thinking it's probably that circular, lime-like thing on the heel and the green sections glow under uv light. Gah I want them, but at over $300 not including postage from Germany on the website I found them on, XtraX; they'll be staying on their little shelf for quite a while.

And today my new foundation and false eyelashes arrived which is exciting!

p.s. when my snake skin tights arrive I have a cool idea for makeup for my snake-themed outfit!

Anyway, that's about all,

Laterz

Steffles xx

Hello Lamp-post, wha'cha knowin'?

So I'm very excited about what I created this new post for! If you'll remember not too long ago I did a little feature on this new website I'd discovered called Black Milk that sells unique tights, bodysuits and swimming costumes. Well, I was a big fan of their Snake tights:

However, the colours wouldn;t go to well with anything I own. So I emailed them today and they're going to make a custom pair of tights for me in this material:


They're costing me about $93 Australian, which is rather expensive, but considering they're probably OOAK or very close to it, and that I was considering buying two pairs of $60 tights, I can live with it.

I also purchased this dress from Beserk that I had again mentioned earlier:



As well as this nice little hoodie for snuggling up at home:



So once they arrive I'll be taking pics of my great new wardrobe additions!

Plus I also bought some new manic panic face powder, for that lovely deathly-white glow that I like to rock and new massive fake eyelashes for when I'm feeling particularly cyber goth! As well as some fake spacer earrings, 'cause I like them, but I don;t want to have to have surgery when I'm older because of some stupid fad whilst I'm young. Which, I'm aware probably makes me a poser...Oh well! :P

Anyway, that's all I can think of at the mo.

Later guys

Steffles
xx

Rosemary, Cherries and an Angel's kiss in Spring

So I don't have a lot to post about at the moment because my idea for interviewing people in order to better understand people's perceptions when it comes to stereotypes didn't seem to go down that well and my new clothes aren't to arrive for a few weeks. Grace suggested I do one about how I do makeup or something, but I dunno... I kind'a feel that I do a bit of a dodgy job and I want some new false eyelashes before I embark on any eye makeup tutorials - and some new brushes wouldn't go astray either. Sigh, I need things and more things, always with the things. I'm such a materialistic bitch :P

Anyway so I just though I might post a few pics taken on the weekend by Grace that I had a little fiddle with on CS3.

I kind'a got there late so the excitment was over by the time I got there photography-wise. However, we did play a nice game of tennis and our sunday best (on a saturday :P )



Yeah, that's all really :P

Laterz

Steffles xx