Yankee Candle Review: Peppermint Swirls (Christmas Edition)

Yankee Candle Review: Peppermint Swirls (Christmas Edition) 

Hey everyone,

I wanted to talk about a Yankee candle I bought the other day at Clinton's for only £9.99! It was on a special offer and for a medium size jar that is pretty reasonable, usually medium jars are £16.99. I absolutely love it when Yankee brings out their Christmas candles, even more so when they bring out new christmas scents. I saw this one on the shelf and it immediately caught my eye as it is a beautiful deep red colour, which already screams Christmas, and when I saw that the scent was Peppermint I was overjoyed. I am not a fan of extremely sweet, sickly smells so something as refreshing and crisp as Peppermint would definitely rock my boat. Of course, the same with any Yankee candle, as soon as I lit it my whole room filled with a gorgeous, irresistible Peppermint swirl which was also a lot like candy canes. I felt so festive and Christmasy with my candle lit, nothing beats a good old Yankee candle in the winter. I would 100% recommend this candle, especially if you are like me and do not like over powering sickly smells.. such as Christmas Cookie.  The best way I can describe this scent is as if you are walking into a gingerbread house, for some reason it reminds me of the amazing Hansel & Gretel Sweet House! I love it. Also I have just started my own YouTube channel called 'EllsWorld' and I would be so appreciative if you could go and subscribe. I will be uploading hauls, vlogs & different tags. The first video I uploaded was a 'Christmas Bedroom Inspiration' video with a bit of Christmas baking (I make cute little Gingerbread men) so if you are interested in that I will leave the video below. 

Don't forget to check out my Christmas Bedroom Inspiration (Festive Edition) video below: 

Please go and check out the video and leave me a video request, hit the like button and subscribe if you enjoy. Would mean a lot to me, I have worked very hard on this. 

                                                                       Many Thanks, 

                                                                              Ell x

Black & White Skull - Theatrical Makeup

Black & White Skull- Theatrical Makeup

Hey everyone,

I genuinely should be awarded worst blogger award recently as I really have not written a post in ages... Over a month to be exact! A lot has been going on recently but as we are now coming up to the Christmas period I am hoping to be blogging a lot more, both makeup looks and Christmas related posts. So I am starting off with a look which I created yesterday. I never tend to plan the look I am going to do, sometimes it would probably be best if I did plan what I am going to do but then other times looks I have not planned really pay off and turn out great. In mind I knew I wanted to create a sort of skeleton/dark skull themed look. This is how the look came out. I decided to use a bald cap as I wanted the skull to look really realistic and life-like. The bald cap I used was Charlie Short's handmade bald caps (also known as PinkStylist on YouTube). Here is the link to his website where you can purchase them: http://www.charlie-short.com/shop_baldcaps.html 

 

  This look is pretty straight forward, although if you are not used to applying a bald cap it can be quite tricky. All I used was a Snazaroo white face paint, Snazaroo black face paint and a black eyeliner. It really just consists of shading and highlighting certain areas to create different dimensions. If you have any questions on this look please leave me a comment! 

 

After creating just a classical black and white skull I wanted to experiment a little and thought I would create a wound on the centre of the forehead. To do this I dabbed a layer of liquid latex with a pointed sponge along the centre of the forehead and then placed down a thin layer of tissue. I repeated this process about 4 times until a thick raised platform was created, which also gave the illusion of the eyes looking a lot deeper. I then just picked at the tissue and liquid latex to create a deep hole in which I then filled with black, red and purple lipstick to create a sore cut. Finally, I added some fake blood to the inside and around the wound. I also dabbed some blood round the mouth area & on the chest. 

 I really would love to have a go at any makeup request you have in mind. Whether that is a movie/film character or from the special FX effects field just let me know!

                                                                 Thanks for reading,

                                                                           Ell x