Last Minute Halloween Make-Up // Tutorial

I debated whether it was worth posting this, but someone might be after a last minute Halloween look which is super easy to do (believe me, if I can do it then anyone can!) I'm a member of the badminton team at my university, and Wednesday night - as I'm sure you'll know if you're a student - is the weekly sports and society night out. So last night, me and all my friends went out dressed as "zombie doctors and nurses"!

I didn't want to spend loads of money on a nurse outfit to rip it up/bloody it/wear it once and never see it again. So I went to Primark and bought a huge white t shirt and paired it with white knee high socks and my ripped Levis shorts. I chopped the top up a bit, covered it in fake blood and wrote NURSE on the chest. Voila!

And now onto the make up...

I appreciate that this isn't a great angle but you get the gist. I'm quite pale anyway, paler than I look here, so I just used my usual foundation (No7 Beautifully Matte) with my Real Techniques buffing brush. For my eyes I used a palette of purple eyshadows from W7 which you can pick up for really cheap - any purples would work though! I used my Real Techniques contour brush as it's big enough for the large area, but not too big. I took the eyeshadow under my eyes and then around my temples and onto the forehead, avoiding my actual eyelids. I also used a navy eyeshadow blended in - the key was definitely in the blending!

On my eyelids I used a really green-toned gold from Collection, but it wasn't particularly pigmented so it just gave my eyes a green-ish glow which didn't look too bad! I used a blue liquid eyeliner from Eyeko's skinny eyeliner range so do little flicks. I was originally going to wear false lashes too but that didn't work out... I filled in my brows with Buck from the Urban Decay Naked Palette on a tiny angled brush.

For my contour I used Creep from the Naked Palette, putting it on with the Real Techniques contour brush, and blending it with an angled brush that I've had for ages. I didn't use any blusher, and then I powdered the whole look with a translucent powder from Make Up Revolution. 

For the gunshot wound on my head I used the Real Techniques stippling brush to apply fake blood, then took a bit more of Creep in the middle, dabbing it on with my finger. A layer of Kate Moss for Rimmel in shade 04 on my lips and bob's ya uncle.

I hope this helps any of you who are needing a quick and easy Halloween make up look - this took me around an hour in total but I was chatting with my friend as I got ready so you could probably do it a lot quicker.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! Let me know over on Twitter @katygilroyblog if you liked this look

Want to see a zombie mermaid tutorial? 'course you do

My Everyday Make Up!

I'm not claiming to be amazing at make-up, because I'm actually quite poo at make-up; but I thought it might be interesting to put a post together about my every day make-up and what I reach for on a daily basis!

BASE // I have very dry skin but I also get a lot of spots, so finding make-up that suits my skin can be a bit of a nightmare at times - plus I'm ridiculously pale. To start off with I apply Collection 2000's (or just Collection now??) Lasting Perfection Concealer which literally everyone seems to us, to any blemishes I have as well as under my eyes and along my brow bone. I tend to just blend this with my finger. I recently went to Boots with my mum and had my skin tested by the machine at the No7 counter, which matched me to the palest of their foundation colours. I explained that I wanted quite a full coverage so the woman suggested their Beautifully Matte foundation which works pretty well for me! I apply this with a foundation brush which you can see in the photo below; I don't know what the brand is and I got the set of brushes pretty cheap off Ebay - but they work fine for me. If I know I'm going to need my make-up to last, I use MUA's basic primer underneath it all, and my trusty Rimmel Stay Matter powder in Transparent over the top - *I haven't used them in this look though*

FACE // Once my base is on, I contour gently using Mac's Bronzing Powder in Matte Bronze on my cheeks, forehead and chin; as I'm pale I try not to use a lot as it can look quite muddy. Following this I use a Collection blusher in the shade 02 - Bashful, on the apples of my cheeks. This is really pigmented so a little goes a looooong way. After my blusher is blended in I take Mac's Mineralise Skin Finish Natural in Soft & Gentle as highlighter - along my cheekbones, brow bones, down my nose and on my Cupid's bow.

EYES // Next I move onto eyes; I have my eyebrows waxed and tinted, so most of the time I don't need to do much to them. When they look a little sparse as they did today, I take a little bit of Bobbi Brown eyeshadow in Blonde(21) on an angled brush and run it through. Over my lids I used the shades Naked and Sidecar from the Urban Decay Naked Palette and a tiny bit of eyeliner which is a freebie I got from 17 @ Boots - and I completely forgot to photograph it, plus the name has rubbed off and I can't find it on the Boots website. SORRY :-( On my lashes I used Benefit's They're Real Mascara which I'm actually not a fan of - it does barely anything for me.

LIPS // I completely forgot to include my lipstick in the photos below - but it's Rose Rush by Calvin Klein. I love the CK lipsticks as they're really pigmented and last ages on me.

Sorry for the awful quality of the pictures; my camera has disappeared so I'm stuck with my iPhone. Hope you enjoyed this post!