Halloween 2009 ~ Voodoo Queen

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So after many, many years where I didn’t do much for Halloween.. I finally did something. I was invited out with friends, who were hitting up not only a house party, but street festivities. Since it’d been a while, I figured I should probably do something interesting costume wise.

Naturally, with the numerous tutorials and inspiration to be found on YouTube, that’s where I headed. The creativity and skill level of some of the people on there is absolutely fantastic. I consider it something separate from your day to day makeup, this is a completely different level of makeup artistry.  With inspiration coming heavily from Petrilude’s Witch Doctor Makeup Tutorial. The actual costume itself was inspired by a fusion of New Orleans Voodoo Queen, Tribalist and Witch Doctor themes. While we were out, a woman asked me if I was Tia Dalma/Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean, which I guess could work too. ;]

The makeup was pretty simple:

• concealer mixed with white greasepaint
• black gel liner
• black kohl liner
• brown eye liner
• black & brown eye shadow
• invisibile set powder
• feathered lashes
• black lipstick & gloss

The costume was a mix of halloween props from the party store, some of my own clothes and jewellery, a few pieces from the thrift shop and some acryllic paint. The only other thing I needed was raffia, for my dolls, which I picked up from the dollar store.

And some random photos of the street festivities. :]