The Urge To Fly

In all fairness, this makeup was actually remarkably difficult to conceive, and so it straggled to the last of the four villains in the Chocolate Factory series I’ve been working on. But hang out until after the credits, friends, because Charlie himself might make an appearance.

First of the first came essence’s I *Heart* Colour shadow primer, blended right up into my brows so that they’d be…

Not going to lie: I love this makeup. I love the true halo appearance to the eyes, right down to the “bleached” lashes.

After setting out tools, I washed and nourished my face using Fresh’s Soy Face Cleanser, followed by a spritz of Caudalie’s Eau Beauté, and a drop of Farsáli’s Volcanic Elixir mixed with LaNeige’s Water Bank Gel Creme had my skin radiant and prepared for what I had planned…

After a commission to see makeup to match my idea of wanting to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remade as a horror, I began with Violet Beauregard, and I feel that she won’t be the last. I’m already chewing on chocolatey ideas to recreate each character in a less than candy-cute manner.

This makeup began with all the usuals: setting out tools and colours, dampening my Beauty Blender for…

As I realize that three weeks ago, right this moment, he’d already had surgery twice, once to investigate and another to reinforce the emergency repair of internal bleeding, I look at what this morning brought: rain, but also cuddles, conversation, kisses. Messages back and forth with his brother; chatting with friends who check in regularly to make sure I’m taking care of myself as much as I’m…

When Self-Care feels Nearly Impossible

There won’t be any pretty makeup photos going with this post. Instead, I’d like to talk about a few things that have been going on in my personal life, and how I’ve been trying to take care of myself in the meantime. It feels like the last two and a half months have lasted forever, but there still isn’t enough time for all the things I wanted or needed to get done.

March: Our landlords decide…

My initial introductions to HP Lovecraft came from two sources I can remember, somewhere around the age of twelve or thirteen: Jerusalem’s Lot by Stephen King from the book Night Shift, and The Call of Ktulu by Metallica from the album Ride The Lightning. One talks about De Vermis Mysteriis, a creature incorporated into the Lovecraft Universe, while the other is a slightly altered title of one of…

Dorothy’s Kiss

Matte lips are my jam. I’ve extolled the many virtues of how a lip can look full and perfected by wearing the right gloss, but let’s talk tranfer, people! Onto glasses, through kisses, onto cutlery! And the texture is weird to me. So I stick to matte lips for the most part and apply my shine through other means, such as powder shimmer or cream highlighter dabbed lightly onto the matte finish.

We’ll All Float On

Today’s been as good as it could be. Last night I started playing music, singing to him. Squeezing his hands, rubbing them, touching his shoulders and hair carefully in between IV lines, monitor lines, infusions, nutrition, respirator. All the things that cause frightening noises if they’re disturbed in any way, all the things that are keeping him alive. This has been through mask and glove and…

Kiss Me, You’re Beautiful…*

This entirely fun makeup started as a colour challenge from a girlfriend of mine: Orange, Green and Purple. My reaction was to immediately spin the colour wheel in my head and think These colours are entirely unrelated and are going to look amazing together. Out came the Violet Voss Rainbow Palette and Urban Decay’s Electric Palette. Oh gosh, what had I gotten myself into?

I started by…

This is going to be a long post.

So let’s start with the good stuff: How we met.

On November 8th of 2015, Sarah’s two best friends took her out for dinner. In fact, that’s all Sarah had wanted, was the company of these two amazing women and some killer Indian food. They sat eating in a tiny restaurant in their hometown, and they both asked what she really wanted for her birthday.

“I’m ready to fall in love,” she answered.…

Love’s a Crime ❤️🔒

Here’s another catch-up post from the old house, featuring the black cherry ombré wig and the unrealistic contacts. Here goes with the tools:

Beauty Blenders (yes, plural! I live for these to create a perfect complexion), damp and warm and squishy

Lancôme’s Flat-Topped #75 Blush Brush

Sephora Pro Collection Full Coverage Fan Brush #53

Duo Dark Brush-On Lash Glue

Fingers

I prefer to use my fingers…

Your Spooky Girlfriend 💀✨🖤

First and foremost: I’m absolutely all about body positivity; I may love my own body less than I love others’ bodies, but it’s mine and I am fond of it after years of negative body image. And this site isn’t just about makeup tutorials, it’s about cheering you on, challenging you, with the honest mindset of if Ican do it, your old spooky girlfriend, then you can certainly do it. You can…

So, we all know by this point how much I love my lavender hair. Love it. To the point of obsession, and going through my Tickle Trunk of wigs to see if I have another wig like it.

(Turns out I do, but you’re going to have to wait for that crisp baby to appear at a later date; sneak preview is way back on the blog, see if you can find it!)

This is the first update since the end of March, when we…

Natural light to showcase nothing natural at all…*

We’re in the middle (but leaning toward the end) of packing and moving to our new house, so as I’ve been packing up The Cosmetic Empire of Sarah Samedi, I’ve been putting on makeup and taking it off to deem it worthy of keeping or recycling. With this look, we were preparing to head out to a concert for my fiancé’s birthday, and as a request, I wore my lavender hair.

To start this makeup, I…

When I was in grade eight, I tried to be a redhead, a recessive genetic trait that I’ve always craved; my cousin has amazingly red hair and I’ve always admired her. So when a friend gave me a pile of her auburn and red wigs, I couldn’t resist the urge to slam one or two (or let’s be honest, all of them, one at a time) and falsely became 1-2% of the global population with ginger hair and blue…

I love rich colours. In another life, I would have been a lady jewel thief, stalking the foggy night in black heels and French-heeled seamed stockings, a hat perched against my platinum hair and a cigarette equally perched between soft, poisoned-cherry red lips. Instead, I settled for a leopard-print sweater and a comfortable backdrop where the colours themselves would stand out against a pale…

And The Seraphim Shall Sing 2/2

On the flip-side of the same coin, I wanted to do something fiery and bold that could be seen from the heavens and be both angelic and not to be f*cked with.

The beginning of this makeup started with the removal of this makeup using Farmacy Green Clean to remove the makeup itself, Sephora Collection Watermelon Towelettes to clean my skin and remove the makeup residue, a spritz of Caudalie Eau…