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silencedrowns · 2 days ago

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Full cosplay makeup list!

Since I had some questions after doing a makeup panel at CitrusCon, here is my FULL list of my personal non-character-specific cosplay makeup items, including what colors I use.

Warning: I am extremely pale and grey. Not all of these products have as wide a shade range as I wish they did. This is my own personal list only. Some of these would work great on a wide range of skin tones though! You might notice there’s tons of blushes and eyeshadow palettes here; that’s because I use different colors depending on the characters and their wig colors, but everything here is used for multiple characters.

I’ve linked to everything you can still buy online (since some of these were limited) and described the limited ones so you could get replacements. Yesstyle links are technically affiliate links? I don’t remember signing up for any affiliate code but the links have one so uhhh if you buy from there I might get some reward???

I’ve accumulated this kit over a long, long period of time so it’d be ridiculous to buy it all at once, but almost everything is under $30 and the vast majority is under $20. I love a bargain and I don’t have the cash to buy luxury makeup, no matter how much I might covet those Dior lip products at Sephora.

List and links go under the cut because this is REALLY LONG.

Base makeup

Elmer’s purple disappearing glue stick

Elf Power Grip primer

Canmake Mermaid Skin Gel

Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion in 10C Shell

The Saem Cover Perfection Triple Pot Concealer in 03 Correct Up Beige

KimChi Chic powder in Ivander

Club Suppin Powder (I use a limited variant lavender one purchased physically but here is a rose version you can get online)

Blush, contour, and highlight

Peripera V Shading in Grayish Cool

Canmake Shading Powder in 04 Ice Gray Brown

Rituel de Fille Intuition

Etude Lovely Cookie Blusher in PP052 Lavender Lemon Macaron

Etude Lovely Cookie Blusher in PK004 Peach Choux Wafers

Cheerflor Angel Embossed Blush in 1199

Cheerflor Angel Embossed Blush in 1196 (this is a blue color that is a full cheek highlighter. Do not buy this unless you’re extremely pale and either cool or grey.)

Canmake Cream Cheek in CL01 Clear Red Heart

LBCC Historical Apothecary 1745 French Powdered Rouge

Eyeshadow type stuff

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Blend Bunny Blends palette (this is my favorite rainbow palette ever! i can blend any eyebrow color or almost any weird character specific eyeshadow color from this palette)

ROM&ND Better Than Palette in Dusty Fog Garden (this is a must have if you’re light skinned and cool toned. the best nude palette. it even has a grey row useful for both contouring and for toning down too-bright colors!)

A Flortte palette that was limited edition 😭😭😭 but any of pink brown cool palette would work in its place. Think Urban Decay Naked 3 or ROM&ND Peony Nude Garden. This color scheme is currently very popular in K-Beauty and C-Beauty but not in the USA, so you’ll probably have to order online

Urban Decay Moondust in Space Cowboy that I got as a gift but you can easily get the same look and spend a lot less by buying…….

C-Beauty glitter singles. Mine were limited edition but I have literally never tried a C-Beauty glitter from Yesstyle that I didn’t like. You can’t go wrong here.

Too Cool For School Artclass Frottage Pencil (yes, seriously) in #11 Dew Beige

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk

KimChi Chic Juicy Nine Palette in Mango Tango

Flower Knows Swan Ballet Six-Color Makeup Palette in Black Swan

Eyeliners

Rozo Cat Print Liner in A13 Tea Grey

Rozo liner in black and dark brown (currently unavailable and I’m replacing with more extra fine tip Chinese liner. I love extra-fine Chinese eyeliners. You don’t need to be great at drawing eyeliner when your eyeliner is already so thin!)

Merry Monde Super Twim in 03 Earl Grey Latte

Urban Decay 24/7 pencil in Perversion

Colourpop liquid white eyeliner (not happy with the performance of this and I want to replace it with not-Colourpop due to wizard collaborations but it’s the best I have found so far 😭)

Focallure Glittering Liquid Eyeshadow in S01 Gray Lily

A pencil the color of my skin meant for my waterline but idk what it is because the lettering rubbed off nearly instantly

Mascara

Heroine Make Long & Curl Super Waterproof (or advanced film) in Black

Assorted colors of Heroine Make Mascara that I’ve only seen at physical stores that carry Asian makeup (sorry!!) (find a dark grey mascara for white or silver hair characters though, it’s so worth)

Heroine Make Mascara Remover (this works in every mascara!!! get this if you hate mascara on your lashes at the end of the day. 11/10 this is an incredible product)

I don’t currently use it but I also really like Judydoll mascara

Fake lashes

Literally whatever I bought at the beauty section in my local Asian market or off Aliexpress. I’m cheap lol. Don’t buy lashes off Amazon because if the package doesn’t look fucked up, the company sends returned lashes back out as new. Yuck yuck no thank you. Do not want this.

Lips

A second (and marked so it goes nowhere near the eyes! Don’t let the same liquid item go on your eyes and lips!) Merry Monde Super Twim in Earl Grey Latte

A cheap black lip liner. Literally get one at the dollar store or Daiso or wherever and it’ll be fine.

Dolly Cosme Lip Base (beige) (only get this if you’re already proxy ordering from Classe)

Peripera Ink Velvet in 26 Well-made Nude (I need a better nude. This one sucks on me but it’s still the closest I’ve found.)

Lilybyred Glassy Layer Fixing Tint in 12 Muscat Shower

Lilybyred Glassy Layer Fixing Tint in 06 Rosy Rose

Lilybyred Smiley Lip Blending Stick in 06 Chuckle With Me

Flortte 2 in 1 Lip Pencil in 04 Bean Paste

Clear lip gloss

Literally just whatever lip balm I have around

Setting sprays I like

Urban Decay All Nighter

Ben Nye Final Seal

Other

ASSIST FACE COVER GLUE AS!!!!!!!!! BUY THIS ASAP IT IS MY FAVORITE COSPLAY SPECIFIC ITEM even if you have to do a group order to justify Assist shipping. You roll this on your face and then lightly stick the wig to it and the wig hair will stay in place. Perfect for face framing pieces or that one bang piece that needs to stay somewhere or lace front gluing for just a day. Comes off with a makeup wipe. You need this.

Banila Co Clean It Zero Cleansing Balm won’t spill in your bag but will delete cosplay makeup

Cheap sheet mask after you take off all your cosplay will help your skin feel less angry!

If you choose to use face tape, I like Classe’s best and Assist’s next-best

Eyebrows are typically drawn on with colors from my Blend Bunny palette, with shadow and highlight strokes done with my grey and white eyeliners. I also have some character specific items that aren’t on this list (weird lipstick colors lol) and I’m not fully happy with most of my options contour and lip color, so I’m actively looking for something I might like better. I often skip colored lip product in favor of clear products because I have extremely pigmented lips.

Also if you’re wondering why my kit is almost entirely Asian makeup… it’s because I’m extremely grey, which is an undertone America does not cater to, and also I’m cheap and C and K beauty are more affordable. I wish more of this stuff were more inclusive! seriously! but this isn’t a list of products and colors for everyone, it’s a list of what specifically works for me. (Canmake Clear Red Heart though. That’s one of the most inclusive blush colors I’ve ever seen. It’s nothing but red pigment suspended in clear. Even if you think you’re too pale for red blush or you think a Japanese blush would make you look ashy, you should try it! If I could only have one blush in a kit where I were doing makeup for the entire spectrum of human skin, I’d pick that.)

#cosplay #makeup #cosplay makeup

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randomfoggytiger · 2 days ago

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Collector's Edition: Fox Mulder Is a Father (Fan-Favorites)

In honor of Father's Day, I wanted to collect other fans' favorite "Mulder as a father" fics.

Thank you to all who participated!

Loose chronological order below~

@spooky-jordan's Picks:

rivkat's and MustangSally's Iolokus 3 (Iolokus 03 - Vix te Agnovi 1/3, Iolokus 03 - Vix te Agnovi 2/3, Iolokus 03 - Vix te Agnovi 3/3) and Iolokus 4 (Iolokus 04 - Res Judicata 1/3, Iolokus 04 - Res Judicata 2/3, Iolokus 04 - Res Judicata 3/3)

"I'm getting really tired of that song, Scully. Really tired. You didn't ask to be abducted, you didn't ask to have your ova taken, and you didn't ask for the cancer. You didn't choose to have Miranda, and when she inconvenienced your life you dumped her with Emerson and Aileen. You didn't provoke George into stalking you and you certainly didn't *aid* him when he tried to strangle you," I continued, trying to keep my voice under control even though it was crackling like a cheap stereo speaker. "When things don't go your way, you cave like a house of cards."

Parts 3 and 4 of the infamous Iolokus is stuffed with Mulder and Scully as parents: both of them unpacking their traumas, fighting for custody of their daughter, and settling into the life they're building together.

@calimanc's Picks:

Revely’s The Unfinished Universe (Gossamer)

They have a private evening ritual - nose to nose on the bed they practice telepathic communication.

Scully disappears into the motel bathroom for their soft-shelled display of male bonding, shutting the door behind her with aggravating finality - boys' side, girl's side. Mulder immediately stops casting out brain waves and begins to wonder what she's doing in there. She's awfully quiet. The baby just dozes and tries to nurse Mulder's nose until he manages to work one of his fists into his mouth.

AU-- Post-Requiem Mulder is returned a year later, bonding with his lioness partner and months-old son on the drive back to D.C.

Anjou’s (Ao3) Ghosts (mulderscreek), The Ghosts of Christmas Past (mulderscreek), and The Ghosts of Future Past (mulderscreek)

By the time that the running stroller Mulder had purchased arrived, Will had begun to stand up voluntarily. He wanted to walk, but he was still hesitant, afraid that a show of independence would mean he wouldn't get taken care of anymore. To keep William moving forward, Mulder started including him on some of the loops. This time, Scully sat on the steps and read and they waved at her as they ran by. Mulder loved the way Will's tiny hands extended out from the hood of the stroller as he laughed at the wind. By the end of the third day he was demanding "Again!" when Mulder was all tuckered out. Mulder would take him out of the running stroller and sit him on the red earth while he stretched out. By the end of the week, William was mimicking Mulder's movements. When the tiny running shoes that Mulder had ordered for William arrived, Will began to walk around their trailer and demand to dance with his parents before dinner.

Mulder, Scully, and William (who was saved via Skinner's heroic sacrifice) hide away in motels as she tirelessly works to prevent the anticipated invasion.

@samucabd’s Picks:

Donna’s Goodbyes/Hellos (Gossamer)

"Is it safe for you to be here Mulder? I . . . you can't know how much I've missed you, but is it safe?"

"As safe as anywhere Scully. He insisted we come."

Her surprise was obvious at that. "He insisted?"

"He says you're in danger. We've come to get you."

Post-Existence Scully hands William over to Mulder and tells them to go into hiding. Jeremiah Smith, the incoming invasion, and their friends, allies, and family all pitch in for a "happy ending."

Christy’s (mulderscreek)

Interstice (Gossamer | Story: "Interstice 01 - Saturday" by Christy, Gossamer | Story: "Interstice 02 - Sunday" by Christy, Gossamer | Story: "Interstice 03 - Monday" by Christy, Gossamer | Story: "Interstice 04 - Tuesday" by Christy, Gossamer | Story: "Interstice 05 - Wednesday" by Christy, Gossamer | Story: "Interstice 06 - Thursday" by Christy)

Intellectually, he knew her love. He could see it every day, as they tried to coax another bite of puréed peas past Liam's stubborn lips; as they poured through old files in Doggett's cold basement office; as they sat together on the couch at night, each armed with a red pen, wading through stacks of papers and quizzes.

Mulder left the bedroom, his gaze darting around the family room in search of Scully's shirt. Finally he found it, a puddle of light blue silk on the floor beside the couch, and draped it across his shoulder, still smelling her perfume.

He lifted their coats from where they hung over the back of the couch, then hung them in the closet. After snatching his boots up by the laces, he found Scully's shoes, one near the door, the other kicked halfway under the couch. Gathering everything into his arms, Mulder went back into the bedroom.

It's William's first Christmas, with the Scully family (and their issues) in tow.

Song of Innocence (1/3, 2/3, 3/3) and Song of Experience (1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4)

His dad looked like a superhero, tall and dark and dressed all in black like a secret agent. A spy. His voice was magical, Will decided, soft and soothing as he questioned the injured deputy; then, as he said to Will's mom, "Will you just escort Deputy Wetzel to the hospital?" Will was too busy replaying the sound of his dad saying his name to hear the crazy theories that his mom pooh-poohed whenever she stepped out from behind the ambulance door, where she was hiding from the cameras.

But his dad didn't seem to mind the cameras, even laughing at them a few times during the hour-long show. Will smiled as he listened to them discuss the case, and his dad saying that bright pink was his mom's color. Will didn't think his mom owned *anything* pink.

Then it got exciting. His dad breaking the door down and his mom pulling a gun from somewhere inside the back of her jacket, her fingernails shining against the black metal of the gun grip. Then his mom doing an autopsy, something Will had wondered about for forever but had, of course, never been allowed to see.

Then the dawning in his dad's eye when he solved the mystery, dashing off heroically to save the deputy, his mom hot on his heels. They stalked through an old beat-up house, guns and flashlights in hand, and Will thought they were ten times better than Luke Skywalker because they were real.

He had watched the tape twice more that afternoon before his mom arrived, and then once again with her, crawling into her lap when she started crying, when his dad turned to face the camera head-on for the first time.

Will and his mom took the tape home with them that night, watching it together twice before he went to bed. And even after that, Will could have sworn he heard his dad's soft, gentle voice drifting from downstairs and into his room through the vents... although it could just have been the replay of Will's own memories.

He loved to watch how his dad moved -- his long strides, the fluid way he stepped across the screen -- but it was his dad's voice that stuck with him. Not the soft, reassuring tone or the private, teasing voice he used with Will's mom, but the strong, forceful way he spoke to the deputy, begging from the wrong side of a locked door for Wetzel to "cowboy up" and be a man.

Will had heard that same voice in his head ever since then, when he needed a push. "Cowboy up," his dad said, only it was Will he was talking to, not some stranger. "Cowboy up, Will," he mentally spliced together when he needed to borrow some of his dad's courage.

Post-NIHT Mulder returns seven years later with an implant and selective memory loss. As he heals up and tries to figure out what happened with Scully, his son works through the complicated emotions both are feeling.

Vickie Moseley’s Flight Into Egypt Series (Flight into Egypt 01, Flight into Egypt 02 - Making a Home, Flight into Egypt 03 - Making a Life, Flight into Egypt 04 - Games, Flight Into Egypt 05 - New Life, Flight into Egypt - Doing it Right 1/2, Flight into Egypt - Doing it Right 2/2, Flight into Egypt 07 - Going Home 1/2, Flight into Egypt 07 - Going Home 2/2)

Mulder watched Dana take their son's hand and help the little one make the sign of the Cross, then bowed his head as the prayer began. He couldn't help thinking of their conversation of the morning. Yes, he did feel safe in this place, among these people. But maybe Scully was right. They were still very much strangers, very much alone. It felt good to forget all the danger they'd lived for so long, but the danger was still there, waiting for them to slip up.

Mulder and Scully and William hit the road, becoming fugitives in a small mountain town in order to keep their families together. Of course, ghosts from their past will always find them; and, sooner or later, they have to face the complicated present.

Girlie_girl7’s A Day in the Life (A Day in the Life, 05 and A Day in the Life 12 - A Fractured Christmas Story and A Day in the Life, 14 - Christmas and A Day in the Life, 35 - Fox Mantle and A Day in the Life, 30 - The Shooting/A Day in the Life, 31 - Home Coming and A Day in the Life, 36 - Problem Child)

Mulder carries his daughter into his office all the while rubbing her dark, curly, head against his cheek. He pulls out the desk chair and switches on the computer then sits down with Katherine balanced on one knee. Scully has the baby dressed in a light blue, terry tank top and matching shorts, she kicks her white baby shoe against the desk as Mulder absentmindedly reaches down to still her foot. He brings up his email and begins to open and delete messages. He's just opened one from a UFO hotline when Katherine begins pounding the keyboard and jabbering. Suddenly the screen goes black and the computer shuts off.

"Katherine, you shut me down," Mulder says with a frown.

Mulder and Scully, their children, and her family experience the ups and downs of parenthood: be it holidays, illnesses, near-death experiences, grown bullies at school pickups, and restaurant shootouts. (Note: the stories linked above-- for brevity’s sake-- are mostly Mulder-centric. My favorite is "14 - Christmas": touchingly touch-and-go.)

Thanks for reading~

Enjoy!