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Koichi ‘Theatrical Blue-Black' Makeup

These past months, I've been really attracted to a visual kei band named Mejibray. I admit that the first time I saw Mejibray, I liked MiA, the guitarist, and I found out that his skill is also amaaaazzzziiinnnngg. Then I dug more about this band, searching their songs, the MVs, lyrics, and meanings, also knowing more about their members, until I became obsessed with their pink-haired bassist, Koichi. So, let's say like this: I'm in love with MiA, but with Koichi, I'm obsessed.

Why? Because he has face like this!!

I will be obsessed with someone who's beautiful, and Koichi is too beautiful.

Mejibray celebrate their third anniversary this year. They will release their new single 'Theatrical blue-black' on September 24. They already released the teaser. You can see how pretty Koichi is...MiA too, of course, and Meto the drummer is so weird yet cute, and Tsuzuku the vocalist is as charismatic as always.

Way before this, it just came in my mind that I thought someday I really wish to create the look of Koichi. So when he released his concept look for 'Theatrical Blue-Black', I instantly thought it's the time. Later on, I learned the details of his makeup, especially the eye-make, and then I gathered materials, watched tutorials from youtube, practiced it, until finally, I can show you the result.

What do you think? The eye-make is still lame though. It's not as jet black as his. I don't use any gel liner on this.

The step-by-step how to do Koichi's eye makeup:

Besides eye makeup, thing that needs to be focused on is shading technique. People who used to do cosplay or visual kei makeup must be familiar with this kind of really dramatic shading. The point is to create illusion of extra small and pointy nose. Even though my nose is not pointy at all, it will change with such an effort.

The red line shown below is the area that need to be filled in with the shade. I use brown eyeshadow.

The difference is obvious. The reason why I love makeup is because I can do magic with just few strokes of brush.

Back to Koichi, I remembered he had one look in which he wore devil's horns and a hoodie. I think it was during their 'Sadisgate' era.

I also want to imitate him this time. Please bear the sighting of my ugly black roots.

If anyone wonders how I get the eye patch and the horns, I made it by my self, following this tutorial: eye patch and devil horns.

When taking selfies, I usually have some favorites. This time it turned out to be this one below, because my expression looks like Koichi (or at least in my mind). However, the background is not so nice, my messy wardrobe. Errr~ so blurrrr it.

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IBB Makeup Challenge: Alter Ego

This July, like every months, Indonesian Beauty Blogger hold a Makeup Challenge. This month, the Makeup Challenge is sponsored by Maybelline, and the theme is so interesting: Alter Ego.

The theme really excites me. Unlike IBB MUC previous themes, this kinda needs an effort to just make my imaginary look popping up in my mind. But when first knowing the theme is about alter ego, Hollow Ichigo came into my mind. Ya! It's Kurosaki Ichigo from the famous manga 'Bleach'. He has a hollow (bad spirit) side of himself even though he's a shinigami who supposed to beat all hollows out. In this manga, Ichigo is often told to fight with his own hollow to get the control of his power.

Not only that, another image also appears, related to Alter Ego theme. It is one of my Goosebumps' cover. The story is about a boy and his evil 'twin'. The cover shows a face with two expressions; at one side, the boy is smiling, and the other side, the boy is EVILLY smiling. And now talking about Goosebumps, I'm missing those books so much. I only have two series of them, and the rest, I've read all of them at my junior high school's library. They have complete series of Goosebumps *feeling excited by imagining those books on the shelf*.

I keep thinking, maybe I have an evil side of myself by keep imagining those evil looks. And also, you don't want to know the evil things that I can be done *evil smirk*; from stealing candy from babies to becoming an Emperor of Evil..........ahhh~ I play too much The Sims 3.

So this is my usual look.

I am a cute girl who always says sweet and nice things, keeps smiling to everyone, and keeps pouting for pose.

I usually wear a pair of fake eyelashes, and mascara for my lower lashes. Thus it makes my eyes cute and bigger. For blush, I use my favorite red blusher. And also peach tint for my lips.

Then, it's time to show what's inside me. Let the curtain opened to show the true self. Here's my alter ego.

To make face look evil, I create smirk lips, inspired by scary clown and Joker. But I prefer to create sharp edge to make it more evil. The same sharp edge is also applied to how I draw the eyeline.

Here's the details: