HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Hey lovelies,

I'm really sorry but there wont be a Make Up Monday this week! I was going to be filming my final Halloween look for this year but I have lost my voice and my throat is so sore! So rather than do nothing I thought I would put up a couple of pictures from this past weekend when I worked at The Big Chill Bar in Bristol for a Halloween Charity event doing Halloween Make Up!

I went along with two of my friends Michelle and Simon, we had a great night despite the fact we did our last make ups at 2am!! So here are some pics for you to see!

 Simon did this on himself and is AMAZING!! you can find more of his work here 

 Michelle still looks gorgeous even when she's halloweened up!

 These are two of my favourite make ups of the night!

To see more of the make ups I've done take a look at my Facebook page (A 'like' would be very much appreciated too!)

I hope you have all had a great weekend and if you were out doing Halloweeny things I hope you did it in style!

Happy Halloween

Stay Spooky

Grace xoxo 

VIVO cosmetics

VIVO cosmetics were at TOWIB, they are a brand new range of cosmetics that are exclusive to Tesco. Not only did we get a demo from VIVO cosmetics with the very lovely make up artist Karla Powell, she showed us three looks, but at the end we got to chose which look we would like to recreate and then got a goodie bag with the products to do just that!

I chose the Twilight look, which is slightly more dramatic (could be a good one for Halloween!)

Twilight face chart

Black Sparkle and Purple Passion

Highlighting Cream (amazing to mix with your foundation)

Very Berry Lip Stick

Feather Boa False Lashes

So as if getting a goodie bag full of amazing products wasn't enough, VIVO set a competition for us all to recreate our chosen looks! There will be one winner for each look and when the finalists are chosen their picture will be put on the VIVO Facebook page, and it will be judged on the most 'likes' they get.

Here is my entry picture

I love this look, its really wearable (well maybe minus the lashes!) and its a great way to get colour into your look with out going too far out of your comfort zone!

To see how I got this look take a peek at my tutorial video....

So fingers crossed my picture might get picked! And in the mean time pop down to tesco and try out some of VIVO's amazing products!

Stay Gorgeous

Grace xoxo

Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model Live 24 hour Blogger Bargain!

I'm sure that most of you are aware that this weekend is Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model Live at the Excel Centre in London (running 28th - 30th October). Which is classed as an essential weekend of Fashion, Hair, Beauty, Style, Shopping and Music!  I am going on Friday and I know I have seen others that are going on twitter but for those of you who haven't made up your minds yet or thought it was too late to buy tickets fear not, I have great news for you!

Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model Live 24 Hour Bloggers Bargain!

To celebrate, readers of Oooooh Pretty have the opportunity to snap up 2-4-1 Standard Tickets (£20 normal price) for the closing day of the show! These tickets are available for 24hours only with the offer starting at Midnight tonight and ending at 23.59 on Thursday (tomorrow) so you better set your alarms! Go to www.bintmlive.com, click book tickets and enter BLOG24 when prompted.

As if you needed any more excuses to book your tickets fans of the TV series will get the chance to join the show’s infamous judges Charley Speed and Grace Woodward and the 13 gorgeous contestants from series 7 for the ultimate three day live event which will be London’s biggest fashion and beauty fix, and the ultimate girl’s day out!

Ready, Steady.......GO!!!

Stay Gorgeous

Grace xoxo

Halloween Pumpkin Nail design

So this is the last Halloween Nail design for this year (not that I need an excuse to create nail designs), so you now have plenty of choice for your nails this Halloween!

To create this design I used Atomic Orange from OPI as my base colour and then Black Shatter also from OPI over the top. For the ring finger I used a black nail art paint to paint on the details of the pumpkin and then a dot of green nail art paint at the top.

I am far from an expert pumpkin painter so with this design is something you can have fun with and not worry if its neat and perfect!

To see how I got this design take a peek at my video tutorial....

How are you painting your nails for Halloween?

Stay Gorgeous

Grace xoxo

FashionistA

Last week I attended The only Way Is Blogging (TOWIB), it was a great day catching up with some other gorgeous bloggers, I haven't done a specific post on towib as there are so many others that have, so if you want to see take a peek at these lovely ladies blogs, Em from Its-em, Emma from Flossies Beauty Love, Stacy from The HQ of beauty.

One of the companies that came along to showcase some of their goodies was FashionistA, they are a brand that works with Superdrug to bring you affordable high quality cosmetics, and I have to say they didn't disappoint!

The lovely Katie Hughes was there doing her Make up magic with three demonstrations using the FashionistA range to create three catwalk inspired looks, after this we could choose from three different palettes to take home and try out!

I chose the Blush palette, I have lots of eye shadow palettes in my kit but only have two blushers which are about to run out so this was definitely perfect timing! The colours are great and if you wanted they could double up as eye shadows, there is a blush to suit all skin tones!
There is an amazing highlighter which if layered up is super shimmery, and you could use the darkest colour to contour, so this is definitely your one stop shop for blushers!

You buy the colours separately and there are 49 eyeshadows and 12 blushers to choose from (all priced at £4.00 each), you can keep them as individual items or them pop them into the handy palette priced at £5.00 (which has a mirror so its perfect for your handbag!) and create your very own custom palette!

They are currently on a 5 for 3 on superdrug.com  so what are you waiting for? Get creating your own palettes for this seasons hot make up trends!

Stay Gorgeous

Grace xoxo

Make Up Monday - Halloween Zombie

This weeks Halloween Make Up Monday is one of my favourite tutorial that I have done this Halloween!

I have made my dad into a Zombie for you all! I think he secretly wanted to be in one of my videos!! For this tutorial I am not really showing you the base as that is fairly easy, I am showing you how to get an infected looking zombie skin! I know it sounds disgusting but it is super effective and is an easy way to scare everyone at any Halloween parties you go to!

To get this look is used black and white aqua colours (face paints will do) to give the skin a grey look and then used grey, black and red eye shadows to create the contouring and shadowing, you could go slightly whiter on the base than I have and still look realistic.
Now to get the infected skin part you need some gelatin granules, mix it with a small amount of hot water and mix until its a thick paste, you can then apply it to the face. The other things you will need to complete this look is either grease paints (if you have them) or eye shadows in a dark red, black and blue, this will create the bruised look, and then some fake blood, if you have professional special effects blood that's great but if not there is loads about in the shops at the moment so you can use what ever you have.

To see how to finish the look of take a peek at my tutorial video....

(I promise my dad is alive in this video....despite the fact he looks like he might keel over any moment!!)

I hope you like this look, and if you give it a try I would love to see some photos!

Happy Make Up Monday

Stay goulish!

Grace xoxo

Jib Jab!

Have you guys heard of or used Jib Jab before? Well if you haven't you should, It is the funniest website ever! Before I go on, I would just like to say I am not affiliated with this site in any way, I just think its amazing and wanted to tell you all about it!

On this site you can make send-able e-cards and videos with pre made characters which you just add your head to. I was obsessed with site last Christmas as you could do something called Elf-Me which had me LOL-ing for hours!

I noticed on a friends Facebook that she had something similar but rather than Elf's is was more Halloween like so I clicked on it and saw it was the same website so I had to do one myself! The good thing is you can do it as a surprise for people by using your Facebook account to log in and you can use their photos to place their heads in!

Here is my Halloween Monster Rap....

I have used me, my mum, dad and sister in mine.

If you want to make your own monster rap or elf-me at christmas go to JibJab, but I warn you, you will become addicted!

Stay Gorgeous

Grace xoxo