"I almost wish we were butterflies, and lived three short summer days - days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty years could ever contain."

What do you do when you have a load of old, pretty makeup packaging and some sticky butterflies lying around? Well, you cut out more butterflies and stick em on yourself with liquid latex, cover yourself in highlighter and white dots, paint a couple pretty flowers here and there, add in a few posey shots and you're done.

(My nose is so wonky I hate it.)

So the products I used are as follows...

Body

- Butterfly stickers from Hobbycraft (stuck on with a little bit of liquid latex)

- Makeup packaging I've had lying around forever

- Ayliss iMagic flash palette (bc cheapskate) 

- NYX white eyeliner

Eyes

- Natural Collection "Milk Chocolate" eyeshadow for initial transition shade

- Sleek Makeup Ultra Mattes V1 palette, shades "Cricket" and "Dragonfly" in the crease

- Seventeen Wild Metallic eyeshadow in "Wild Nude" as a base

- Urban Decay Naked 2 "Verve" over top

- Makeup Revolution "White Light" eyeshadow from the Eyes Like Angels palette in inner corner and browbone

- Brows are NYX Tame and Frame brow pomade in blonde 

Face

- Revlon Skinlights Photoready illuminator for that inner glow

- L'Oreal True Match foundation in 1C (still to this day the only foundation I've found that matches my skin, all about dem cool tones)

- Seventeen Stay Time concealer in Extra Fair to highlight 

- Revlon highlighting palette in Bronze Glow for blusher

- Makeup Revolution white highlight in the highlighting palette literally all over my face

- Bourjois Chocolate Bronzer 

-Rimmel Stay Matte Powder

Lips

- MAC "Velvet Teddy"

- Tanya Burr lip gloss in "Chic"

I honestly think it's the most makeup I've ever had on my face at any one time, it sort of felt good to wash it all off lol. I'm not really sure of the concept behind this but I do like the ethereal, whimsical look it gives, it's so different from what I usually do so that's probably why! I never normally do pretty things like this so it's nice to do something different for a change!

Hope you like this - if you recreate it post a picture on Instagram or Twitter and tag me in it!

Emilia xx

p.s. I have a strapless bra on teehee I'm not nekked

Inside Out

So today's post is about this paint that I did on my friend James a couple of weeks ago for my final project of my photography project. I kind of had a bit of a nightmare with it in that my original photos got wiped because the SD card got corrupted so I had to do the whole thing again. I tell you I was legit crying, so when James offered to model for me so I could do it again I was literally so happy!

So I was kind of playing with the concept of being inside out and the idea that we're all the same underneath our skin. Originally the piece was meant to be a lot bigger, like it was supposed to go over a shoulder and on the stomach but we just ran out of time which was SO annoying.

Overall I was pretty happy with how the photographs turned out and the exhibition looked pretty good, but for me, the actual piece could've been a lot better. But I'm so bad when it comes to self-criticism I literally hate myself and my work so much, I don't think there's a single thing I've done that I'm actually 100% happy with! I just think I could have taken more care over the shading and actual skeleton, it just didn't work out quite how I wanted but there we go. I like painting this sort of thing quite a lot though because it really does force me to work on my "artistic" technique a lot more, like with shading and highlighting and all of that.

The products I used were pretty simple, just a Rimmel Scandaleyes nude eyeliner for the initial outlines and then painted the roses using the black from my Ayliss iMagic flash palette (really good dupe for the Makeup Forever one, which fyi is $99 which you know, is a tad expensive when you're 17!). For the skeleton I just used Mehron Paradise Paints in white and black, just because they're quicker to use than cream paints, and then the red parts I used the Mehron bruise wheel. Any other shading I did with the Sleek cream contour kit in light which is a new one I picked up a couple weeks ago and so far so good. I don't tend to contour on a daily basis just because I don't have the time for it but on other days I've tried it it's been pretty good!

Well lads, that's all for today, hopefully I'll be posting a little more frequently now, but then again I've said that before and it hasn't happened so I'm making no promises!

Emilia xx

Talking Frankly About Nudes | #IAmMoreThanMyBody

Today, I'm going to tell you a story. This is a true story, everything in this blog post happened exactly how I tell it.

Oh, by the way, if you want to skip the story, just scroll down to where the screenshots end. Some of you might be in a hurry and there's a lot of screenshots involved in this.

I have a dating app that you might have heard of. It's called Tinder. Now, I don't feel like I should justify why I have it, but the main reason is that I like talking to new people and meeting new people and just having different conversations with different people. Most of the time I make some pretty good friends and most people on there (both guys and girls) are nice.

But then, every maybe two in ten, think this is okay.

This was nearly a year ago...I wonder why he never replied...

And this is where the main part of the story begins.

So I'm happily swiping away in front of 24 Hours In Police Custody (which you should all watch, by the way, it was very good) and then this comes up. You can imagine my reaction.

"Oh. My. Lord."

Quickly followed by

"That can't be a real photo of him."

I took my chances and swiped right anyway, and nearly screamed when this happened.

Ten minutes later, this pops up and I'm like "I am on my way to a long relationship with a hot guy full of love, happiness, good sex and beautiful babies."

Things didn't exactly work out that way.

I was going to go on a feminist rant at him about how it's not okay to ask for nudes etc, but then  thought a bit more, and decided I was going to troll him...big time.

Upstairs my little legs carried me and out I whipped my Naked 2 and Naked Smoky, MAC Hue (woud've used Velvet Teddy but it was in my bag lol), Rimmel Kate Moss 45, Rimmel The One in "Naughty Nude" and NYX Butter Lipstick in the shade Pops.

And then this happened.

After a response (and a couple of dick pics which I really did not need to see) asking to "send real nudes", I decided that yes, I would go on my feminist rant at him.

In response to the question "Why are you sending me pictures of lipsticks?"

And on a parting note...

And just to prove I actually did this...

Ahh, the joys of screenshotting.

The End.

To ANYONE who has EVER asked ANYONE for nudes,

My main question is what makes you think it's okay to ask for nudes? Boys or girls, this is. It's not, alright, it's really not. Asking for nudes is rude, degrading, objectifying and frankly a really horrible thing to do.

Think about the implications about asking for nudes. 

You're telling a man/woman that their body is only in existence for your pleasure. 

You're telling them that they aren't worth talking to and actually getting to know.

You're telling them that they are their body, and there is nothing else to them.

You're telling them that they are worthless.

It's not okay.

I am a woman and I have boobs. I am a woman and I have a vagina. I am a woman, and do you know something? I have a brain. I have a personality. I have intelligence, curiosity, imagination, ideas, views, opinions, thoughts, dreams, hopes, cares. I am so much more than my body.

My body is not there to bring you pleasure. My body is not in existence for me to show you my boobs as soon as you ask. And there you go, acting like you have a right to my body, a right to ask me to show you my body like I'm not a self-respecting girl who is saving my body for the right man/woman when s/he comes along. I am a self-respecting girl who has a lot more to her than her body, but no, you don't care about that, do you? You only care about satisfying your own needs. You don't care about how it might make a girl/boy feel when you ask her/him for nudes. You don't care that s/he might look at herself in the mirror and ask herself. "Is this really all people see in me?". You don't care that she might look at the recent A she got through working hard in an English essay and think to herself "Is this really worth anything?"

And as a note to any girl who has ever gone through that - you are more than your body. You have beauty, brains and intelligence that far surpass any gorilla of a teenage boy/girl who thinks that asking for nudes is okay.

Maybe one day, boys and girls alike will learn to respect other people's bodies and their privacy.

And anyway, what's so satisfying about nudes anyway? Surely taking the time to get to know someone and seeing it in real life is better than just a boring old picture...

#IAmMoreThanMyBody

Emilia xx

"Flowers Bloomed From Her Skull"

Have a feeling the title is from an R.M. Drake poem, if you're wondering :)

Snazaroo Clown White | L'Oreal True Match Foundation shade 1C | Ayliss Flash Palette Black shade

Credits to Vic for the title by the way - I painted her face a while back and she made a blog post about it and called it that. For about a week now I've pretty much had it buzzing in the back of my head like a little bee and I wanted to do something to sort of literally represent it, so I decided to finally do it with a few spare hours I had yesterday.

All it took was three products - white cream makeup mixed with foundation and black cream makeup. That's literally it.

I started by mixing the foundation and white to create a really pale but still sort of skin coloured colour and basically put that over my entire face, neck, chest and shoulders with a Makeup Revolution sponge. I swear by makeup sponges for applying base coats of face paint with - you get a much more even, smooth finish with them than you do with brushes and it takes waaay less time! 

I wasn't really sure how I was going to do the actual details on the piece. I knew I wanted a rose type flower on the shoulder, around one eye and on the chin, but apart from that I honestly didn't have a clue where I was going with it, I just sort of made it up as I went along.

The roses actually weren't that hard. I practised for ages all up and down my legs and arms so I basically became a walking rosebush for a day, but I generally starteed with a sort of flower shape and went from there really. Adding triangles, rectangles, swirly things here and there randomly and creating a sort of flower shape. Wasn't too happy with how the eye one came out - I feel like I should've taken a lot more care over it but oh well, next time! For the shading I just used whatever was left on my brush and just pulled the colour from the outline down into the middle and then went back and redefined the outline with more black. I then decided to paint an actual skeleton on myself - not at all anatomically correctly but there we go, biology students don't murder me please! I just sort of drew some wiggly lines and then used the same shading technique as before.

The face - pretty much the same. Flower round one eye, I did it on the eye opposite the shoulder to balance it all out, flower on the chin (was so proud of how this one turned out - I loved it) and just some wiggly lines really. I wish I hadn't filled in one eye socket, I should have left it blank with some shading and smoky eyeliner. Next time maybe. The wiggly lines are sort of meant to be thorns but they didn't really turn out that way. 

All in all, I was pretty happy with how it came out, there are obviously things to improve on for next time I try this but overall I do really like it. 

It's also my first post on my new Facebook page called Emilia Rachael MUA - if you're interested in keeping up with my work I would really appreciate it if you would go and give me a cheeky like. I also have a special Instagram now called @emilia.rachael.mua so you can go give that a cheeky follow too.

The video tutorial for this will probably be up sometime this week - don't hold me to that because I do go back to school tomorrow so I'm not sure just how much time I'll have this week!

Have a wonderful Monday my loves and I'll see you soon!

Emilia xx

"One Does Not Simply Deadpool And Chill"

Quite right, Clarence.

Um..hello?? So you may have noticed that this ol' here blog of mine, started lovingly in 2013 with a mass of daily posts about my extraordinarily boring life as a Year 9 student, got somewhat abandoned. So I've decided a rebrand and a new lease of life is almost definitely needed, so welcome to the new reformed Emilia Rachael. I'm very sorry I've gone back and drafted all my old posts, they're somewhat embarrassing to read now!! Anyway, to kick it all of I thought I'd share a nice body paint I did a few days ago...

A couple of days ago I attempted a Deadpool inspired face and body paint. Armed with black, red and silver paints, ten paintbrushes, three sponges, two false eyelashes and one red lipstick, five hours later I ended up with this...

I'm not too sure what I was going for in this, I sort of took inspiration from the film version of Deadpool and also Bonnie Corban's version of Wanda Wilson so it's sort of a mashup of a lot of different looks. The lipstick and hair ribbon aren't technically included in it but I thought it added something a bit more feminine and pretty to it.

I also uploaded a tutorial to my YouTube channel that I go into a lot more depth in, and I would love it if you could check it out and if you like it, give it a thumbs up and a comment and maybe even subscribe?! 

You guys are the best :*

Emilia xx