Twisted Princess Collection

When I was little I wanted to be a princess. Not just any princess, but a Disney Princess. My favourite princess was Ariel from The Little Mermaid. She was beautiful, brave, and man, could she sing. I think almost every girl loved the Disney Princesses growing up. No matter which princess was our favourite, we all had one thing in common: we wanted to be her. Since then my favourite princess has changed constantly, but I've come to love all of them.


**WARNING: Things get a little bit dark from here, so if you want to keep that squeaky clean image of the princesses in your mind, stop reading NOW**

A week ago the boyfriend & I were coming up with Halloween costume ideas, and he mentioned that he had seen some pictures that he thought would be pretty cool. At first he thought I would be disturbed by them, but he also knows that I have a small fondness for the twisted, bizarre aspects of things. An artist by the name of Jeffrey Thomas (jeftoon01 on deviantart) has come up with a brilliantly horrifying depiction of our beloved Disney Princesses. A few comments on blog sites have reprimanded Thomas for his work but I think these pictures are done extremely well. Through the grotesque imagery, the beauty still seems to somehow shine through.


My favourite from the collection is Sleeping Beauty (Aurora). (Shown below)

Aurora's picture doesn't come with a story (the first ones Thomas drew didn't have stories but the last 6 do), but the image is enough to spark your imagination. Each picture contains little details from each Princess's story that may take a few glimpses to catch. In this particular picture, you can see the three fairy godmothers trapped inside a lamp. Thomas's attention to detail is amazing, at first glance I never noticed that Sleeping Beauty's eyes were actually sewn shut (though that makes sense if you think about it). It's also amazing how much these Twisted Princesses look like their fairytale counterparts. I think that's one of the main reasons I love this collection so much.








You can view the other drawings here: http://jeftoon01.deviantart.com/gallery/#Twisted-Princess (Note: check out the dinglehopper as Ariel's hand. Pretty crazy, huh.)

If you're still in need of a good Halloween costume you can draw inspiration from one of these drawings. I think I might try to go for Sleeping Beauty this year. I initially wanted to try Pocahontas but it's WAY too cold in Toronto to go out in that attire, haha. I'll let you know how it goes.

What do you think of the drawings? Love 'em? Hate 'em? Leave a comment and tell me!

Typhoon Ondoy - Please Donate!!!

On the news lately there's been coverage (full coverage especially on GMA Pinoy TV for those who have subscribed on Rogers Cable in Canada) of Typhoon Ondoy, the tropical storm that has hit The Philippines. Every year the country suffers through terrible storms, but this one seems to be the worst yet. I have family in the Philippines, but so far none of the cities my relatives are in are affected as badly. I pray Ondoy doesn't get to them too. As for the cities devastated by this storm, I pray that things subside as soon as possible. I've come across many images of the flood and more than once these images have brought me to tears. I could never imagine something like this happening in Toronto, and to see the villagers and townspeople lose everything they own makes me so sad. Some of these people don't have that much to begin with, and to lose everything in an instant...I can't even think about how I would react.

This kind of thing really makes you think twice about your own needs. All of the materialistic items I've complained about not having; they don't seem all that important now. This time, I'm hoping for a job, not just to have my own money, but to have something to donate to the victims of this great tragedy. I feel like I owe it to my fellow Filipinos.

To all of my readers, I urge you to donate money to the American Red Cross or Philippine National Red Cross. It's the least we can do to help out.

To make a direct donation to the Philippine National Red Cross please click on the link and select "Other" on the menu.

Donate Now!

waking up at 3:30 in the morning ain't so bad when I'm getting paid to do it...

This past Saturday marked my first actual "makeup artist"-esque job. Woke up at 3:30am, and by 4:30am I was nervous but ready to go. Vanessa picked me up to be her wedding makeup "intern", and after a quick stop at Timmy's we were off to the bride's house!

I'd like to say that I was completely prepared for my task, seeing as we had just learned the art of foundations and concealing in class on Tuesday, but the first thought in my head once we stepped into the house was, "How the HELL am I gonna pull this off?" All I had to do was bases, as in, concealing and applying foundation, but I've never used a liquid foundation and it's not like it was practice in my practical class, IT WAS A WEDDING!!!!

I'd like to think I did a pretty good job though, I was particularly proud of how I made one of the bridesmaids look absolutely flawless. I don't mean to offend, but she had a little bit of an acne issue. I completely covered it; that's my proudest makeup moment to date! We only really worked with the bridesmaids since the bride, her mother & her Maid of Honour were done in traditional Chinese wedding makeup. I was really nervous so I couldn't really make conversation, plus it was still 6 in the morning so the event wasn't as social and upbeat as it could have been. I'll get used to that though.

So by 8am we were finished for the day and I went home to sleep for a few hours before Vee came over for our wedding dress excursion.....but more on that in another post.......

Typical...this kind of stuff always happens to me...

Alright, I wasn't planning on writing a blog today but I just feel like I need share this little story with the world!

Today I had one of my professional cosmetics classes, so I lugged my whole makeup kit to school with me only to find out that we don't even use our kits for that class. That wasn't really a big deal though, I only had that one class for the whole day so I didn't mind. I had to sit in the back so it was a little bit of a struggle to shove my kit underneath the counter. We went on with our lesson plan, talked about projects, etc. So far everything sounds like it's going peachy, right?

Well, as soon as class was over and I pulled my kit onto my lap to pack my stuff, I noticed that my thighs were getting cold. WTF?!? So I lifted my bag a little, and I noticed that my pants were SOAKING WET. I figured someone had spilled water or something on the floor because when I looked down I saw this giant puddle where my bag had been sitting. But no, it was coming from inside my bag. The weird thing is, nothing was leaking when I checked my bottles. And as much as I love conspiracy theories, I'm pretty sure nobody in my class hates me (yet haha) so that rules out someone pouring anything into my bag when I left the room. Turns out, it was my eye makeup remover. After careful inspection I realized that there's noticeably less solution in the bottle. But that's ok, there's plenty more where that came from.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go back to drying my supplies....*sigh*....

First Day Jitters

So...for most people it's the 2nd day of school. Technically that applies to me as well, but I don't have class today haha.

My first day was....to be honest, it was pretty nerve wracking. Thank God that Marlon was okay with being awake at 8am when he didn't need to be, haha. I don't think I would've been able to make it if he wasn't on the phone with me. But anyway, the day actually started out pretty bad. The bus that I got on changed route AFTER I got on it. So imagine my surprise as the bus turned onto the highway right after I pulled the wire for my stop! I had my headphones on, but I'm pretty sure the whole bus heard the F word come outta my mouth as the bus was turning haha.

So when I finally get to class (15 minutes late, mind you. Not a good look for a professional makeup artist) I sit down in the front like a keener. I won't go into extreme detail, but my class is actually pretty awesome. I've volunteered to be a model for one of the demos, we'll see how that goes. No makeup going to school...but it's our first class of the day so I'm down with that =)

My business class is pretty cool too. Just a few projects but they don't seem all that difficult to do.

It all seems generally easy for this semester. I think the worst part of anything will be lugging our kits around. But that's what lockers are for, right?

All in all, I don't think school is gonna be that bad.

But ask me again when I'm getting stress zits from homework and projects piling up haha

Drake - Come Winter

I'm obsessed with this song right now. That is all.

sorry i've been gone...

Okay so....I tried the beauty review thing, and clearly it didn't seem to pan out. I'll still be doing beauty reviews, but this blog won't be limited to that. I'll be posting anything from youtube videos to songs I like to fashion or makeup trends I love (or love to hate).

It's basically like this: I'm just like any other college student trying to get my shit together before being propelled into the real world.

I've been told I'm quite the storyteller, and I like to keep my stories as detailed as possible, haha. So join me on my fun little adventure through life =)

By the way, I'm really random, so...be prepared for that haha.

P.S. if any of you twitterheads want to follow me, feel free: http://twitter.com/mafargas (my account is private so just dm me or something)