Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Bestival 2012

I thought I'd share with you all the preparation that went into one of the best weekends of my life! The fancy dress theme for Bestival this year was 'Wildlife', so I chose to be a leopard and a flamingo. Separately, of course.

Numero uno: Glitter leopard. We had a few days to prepare costume wise, so we decided to make our own! The leotard used is really just a body/bodysuit (whichever you prefer) from Primark which cost £6. I drew on the leopard spots with felt tip and spread the gold glitter with Anita's Tacky Glue and a Q tip. Took me a few hours but it was so worth it!

This is the make-up look I went with to match the costume. Apologies about the untamed eyebrows,  I had yet to sort myself out pre-festival! The background gold was a Barry M pencil which I definitely lost therefore can tell you no more information about! The darker gold was an extremely cheap eye pencil, I don't even think it had a brand! And the black is just liquid eyeliner.

My flamingo costume! This one was the killer... took me a few days! The top was another body from Primark, and the feathers are Marabou feathers from Amazon at £3.99 for 120. (I needed 3 bags/360 feathers).  My tutu is from FairyLove, but they are quite expensive and you can't really see it so feel free to just make your own! I then ripped up strips of pink tissue paper and glued them on and scrunched them up. That definitely took a while...



Definitely not looking my best here with scraped back hair and tired eyes but here is my flamingo face paint! I think in the end I just went with the mask in the previous picture, but this was a nice experiment. I just used liquid eyeliner for the black bits, although face paint would've been a lot easier! The white is eye pencil, the light pink is just eyeshadow from Claire's applied with a really good brush, and the dark pink is Mac pigment so I didn't need a lot. All of the make-up used were presents so I have no idea of the price but I'm sure the internet will hold the answers!

If you went to Bestival this year I hope you had just as an amazing time as I did, and if you didn't, I advise you to go next year!
Beth x

No comments:

Post a Comment