Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Look for Sacred artistry competition for October

Hey everyone. The time has come again for the Sacred Artistry competition and the theme was Halloween. Immediately i saw this i knew i was going to be doing a zombie like look and i was fascinated by Tim Burton's corpse bride. After some trial and error as well as tips from you tube videos i set on my adventure.


Just in case you have not watched this cartoon here is a pic of the original corpse bride.

Th original corpse bride

I really enjoyed this movie.



Well i did change a few things since as you can see the bride has a blueish tinge to her and i could not go blue as i am dark skinned. i hope you like my own version. My version actually scares me more than the original. LOL. i would have loved to show a breakdown of the steps but as i was working on myself i was more intent on getting the finished look.

My Version of corpse bride

For the base i used Sacha liquid foundation in Perfect caramel (5 shades lighter than my own complexion) ad dusted it with MUD loose powder (white) to get the ashy tone. I also used Sacha concealer to block out my eyebrows and rub all over my lips to get the dull look you see in the picture.

For a tutorial i watched i saw the lady use UHU glue stick to get these patches that look like rotting skin but i was just too lazy to start searching for that. Instead of the glue stick i decided to mash white bar soap and just stick it on my face till it dried.

While waiting for it to dry i used a white eyeliner for the lower rim of my eyes to make them appear larger and black eye shadow all over the eye. After which i used liquid liner to make the spikes around my eyes, eye brow and stitches all over me.

The soap patches were now dry and i used a brown face paint to paint all over the soap. Then i used a red face paint to just give the appearance of dried blood and make the rotting face more realistic.

Not yet satisfied with the look i finally decided to use some black face paint on my lips to make the lips appear even more cracked.

This is my entry for the Sacred Artistry competition and i hope you like it.

YAY!!! I won...

Feel free to drop comments.

The journey to my Birds of paradise look

This post should have come long ago but i guess better late than never. For July i did a bird of paradise look and the inspiration did not come by magic. i kissed a number of frogs to get my prince and at the end i was satisfied. i came third for the competition that month..

This was the original look when i started the birds of paradise journey. After taking a picture i was not so happy because i like to have a finished look and i felt that this was just too scattered and disorganised . i was also not too happy with the purple colour that i picked for my eye shadow. I decided i was going to stay with the hairdo on the right because i did not want my locs all over the place.

I did this look. i was happy with the centerpiece on my forehead but i was not happy AGAIN with my eye shadow so i decided to go for hot pink only

 Finally i was happy with my look but i was still a novice with fixing strip lashes and i just could not imagine submitting my picture with that flaw.  LOL

Yep I took the lazy way out. i closed my eyes and VIOLA!!!! it worked. As you can see it worked out for everyone......