Happy Friday the 13th everyone!
The question in the title is one that I've heard or seen many people asking - and a question I've also asked myself.
At first I'd like to say that I have nothing against people who don't wear make-up when cosplaying. Since I can't read minds I can't know why they don't do so - and let's face it: I don't use that much make-up for example when I cosplay Josh.
But when it comes to anime characters/VOCALOIDs/manga characters etc. I try to make myself look a bit more like the character and that's possible with make-up.
Today I decided to do this "power of make-up" thing with cosplay make-up. The idea is that a person only does the make-up like usual but just to the other side of their face while another side of their face is all natural. I chose Luka Megurine's make-up since I haven't done it in ages (and I will not do it in the near future again).
Note: I'm not a professional make-up artist. Usually I don't wear make-up at all.
All photos (c) me.
All of the pics (excluding first two ones) were taken with a flash.
These pictures aren't edited in any way.
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| All natural, no make-up at all. |
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| I put a lens to my other eye. I'm also wearing foundation and powder in this picture. |
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| Coloured the eye-brow and added the blush and the contour. |
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| The make-up side of my face. |
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| The natural side of my face. |
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| Added the eyeliner and some light-coloured eye-shadow. |
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| Put on the false eyelashes... And fucked up my eyeliner because I poked myself in the eye with the damn lashes. Fml. |
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| Just compare the sides of my face. |
But yeah, here you can see what make-up actually does to one's looks
This post was quite nice to do - even though I don't like wearing make-up, sometimes I just like to experiment different kinds of make-up styles and techniques.
See you next time~!
-Firith
Wow, this is a very interesting and straight-to-the-point post! Such a clever idea to demonstrate what makeup really does with the split-face example – the difference is really noticeable. :D Great post and I'm sure it will be helpful to some people out there!
VastaaPoistaThis makes me want to do a similar post myself, tbh... xD Back in the days I did a text-based makeup post about my own experiences and stuff but yeah, maybe I should do a follow-up, a photo edition lol.
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Thank you! ^^
PoistaI actually got the idea from some YouTube videos but decided to do a blog post version of it since I have neither a program nor skills for editing a video. And yes, I admit that the difference is quite noticeable... :'D
Just do it! :DD It would be very interesting to read! :)