The SCARY FACE

Ello ello ello, roll up, roll up.

So, here we have a nice little make-up post, featuring some artwork, all over my face.

Be prepared for a whole bunch of pictures, all featuring my scary face...

White face paint- snazaroo from Partica, black face paint- snazaroo from Partica, black liquid eyeliner- Barry M, purple eyeshadow- Superdrug, dark purple lipstick- "Ruthless" from Topshop

Oooooh and while I'm blogging I think I'll add that I dyed my hair at some point in this Christmassy week. No more weird gingery stripy hair with weird blacky roots, now I'm all reddy brown- yay!

Oh, and while I'm still blogging, screw Clegg for breaking all his promises and screw Cameron for just generally being a shiny-faced bastard.

And now I'd talk about some more stuff, but I have salt-dough gifts to check on!

Thanks for reading, more posts soon hopefully!

Katie. Xx

My new obsession!

Ok, I have found a new obsession.

He happens to live in London.

He also happens to travel to school with one of my best friends

He is stylish and oh so gorgeous.

He is confident and kooky.

He is so cute it makes me want to cry.

He is short but in a really sweet way.

He is intelligent too and very quirky.

But I will never be able to date him- he is off limits.

God, I'm so jealous of Miranda- she spends all her time with him now. He loves her so much, he's always with her, holding her close and hanging around her. She's even going to start bringing him shopping with us- without even asking us! I don't think I can spend that much time around him without breaking down screaming "I love you!" :'(

Yes, you got it.

I have a crush on Miranda's new hair.

Here he is in all his glory. I couldn't find a picture of him without Miranda in though.

Yours jealously,

Katie

Protests

Ok, so I rarely even blog, but I found something that I really want to talk about and which actually holds some importance, so here we go.

Thanks to the crappy state of the economy and the need for cuts in funding, the government wants to TRIPLE tuition fees to cost £9000 max.

Of course, this is ridiculous as many people will not be able to afford to go to college or university. These people will be left without the necessary degrees to get any of the good jobs to 1) give them a stable future and 2) support the future economy.

As it is those with less money who won't be able to afford university education, the difference between middle and lower class will grow a lot larger. This will also make it more difficult for families to bridge the gap- those born into families lacking in money will not get enough education to get a good job and so they will not be able to become lawyers or doctors.

Of course, if these people cannot become lawyers or doctors, it will only be the middle class who can fill these jobs. This will result in not enough people to fill these jobs- though perhaps that's what the government needs, as they are cutting the health sector too and many people will lose their jobs.

So, what? Does the coalition want to leave us with no future, no jobs and a massive gap between two similar classes? Whatever the hell they're trying to achieve, it's not going to be good for this country.

So, yes, CRAZILY ENOUGH, students are protesting against this.

Yesterday and next Tuesday, too, people have been and will be walking out of school to go to the protest in the centre of London. The media picks up on all the negative information- "yobs vandalise car" or "student vandals shout obscenities", but hey, the media will always pick up the rubbish side of things (especially the daily mail ahem-hem) Some people say it's dumb- walking out of your education to protest about losing future education- but is it really better to just sit around and watch so many people's futures be snatched away from them? Without the protests, would the government even have thought twice about tripling fees?

Sad as it is, even after that little rant, I didn't make it out of school yesterday cause the door was being guarded and I couldn't get over the fence, but some people made it out or just didn't come into school in the first place and ya know what? I salute them :)

that's right, if you went to the protest, go you.

SALUTING YOU while poofing up an imaginary moustache,

Katie.

Drawing + layout...

Ok, to my readers (Miranda, Flossie and Martha)

This post is just so I can do a link to a photo on mibba so I don't BREAK THE RULES by posting a pic thats not of me :)

now on a less morbid and just as necessary for the site note, SOME CANDYFLOSS!

and lastly, something nothing to do with layouts and stuff, flossie as an alien (thanks to picnik)

see ya soon

Katie Xx

The Clockwork Orange

Ok, so I know I only just posted something and I really should space posting out, but I really can't be arsed. I actually did the last makeup ages ago and only just got round to posting it.

I did this makeup today and Matty (who you eager readers can find on my list of followers if you're just that desperate, but don't worry, I do realise that your not existing might make that a teensy bit difficult) gave me the idea. It's originally inspired by the clockwork orange, which no I have not seen but I really want to- particularly as it has inspired my makeup pretty often- even before I had so much as heard of it.

I also based the makeup on what Gerard Way and Pete Wentz have done before-

No one can deny that Gee looks amazing in that pic (for any idiots out there or just people lacking in their knowledge of my chemical romance, Gerard is the one in the white shirt)

anyway, after all that and without further ado, here it is, probably disappointing after the whole long talk about it.

makeup used: RIMMEL London 061 jet black pencil eyeliner (like it really matters what brand of eyeliner you use), the Body Shop shimmer smudger shade 07 and black Barry M liquid eyeliner. To be honest you could probably just do this whole thing with a pencil eyeliner, but it looks a teensy bit better with more resources.

lastly, if anyone (flossie, martha, mirri or anyone else who finds themselves on this blog) has any makeup tutorial needs (haven't ever tried one of them and I could try to make one i spose) or any general requests then just comment... for god's sake comment I need to feel appreciated!

See ya in hell! Katie...

eye eye!

ok, so this started out great- i did one eye fine, and the other one looked good too, but then I took the first picture and realised that the eyes didn't match! I looked totally retarded.

So, I added more and more to the eyes, in a poor attempt to make them match and they just got worse. So I'm going to show you 1st, the way the eyes on eyes should have looked and then i'll show you how these ones went totally wrong!

matty modelling a successful eye-on-eye :D

and now the not so good stuff

and the other eye

so yeah, turns its pretty difficult to a) make both of your eyes match when you can only see one at a time and b) to draw eyes on your own eyes

so I leave you with this message: to avoid looking like a freak in the bad way, get someone else to do your strange and creepy eye makeup for you!

lots of creeptastic love from katie :)

bumbly-bee :)

yesterday i discovered that i would make an awesome cat-burglar

i was locked out of the house, so i went round the side and into the garden, but that door was locked too... however, there was a tiny, high-up window open and in my garden there is a table and a few chairs.

So, i took a chair and put it under the window, then climbed up onto the top of the chair's back, balancing on a thin ledge of wood. then i turned around slowly and pushed myself up to sit down in the window (though first i had to pull an unused stuck on birdfeeder off the glass below). once i was sitting down i pulled my legs in tight and flipped my body around so i was facing into the room. if i jumped down id probably twist my ankle, so i jumped down onto the lid of the bin and then jumped down off the bin. i am now officially a ninja and am considering fashioning some sort of mask!

anyways, this blog post is supposed to be about

1) the fairy wings i made at the weekend

and 2) the bumble-bee themed makeup i did at the weekend

i don't actually have a picture of the fairy wings and they're not quite finished but i am muy proud of them and i did them at martha's house, using the same sort of technique that emilie autumn uses to make her fairy wings

the bumble-bee makeup was something i did at matty's house too and i do have a pic of it :)

it was sort of inspired by the summery weather and well, here it is :)

sorry for poor quality photos :S

simple eye, just yellow and black makeup with a bee on the side

more complicated eye, yellow and black + flowers and another bee

both eyes together :)

and here's the makeup i did ages ago when mirri and i went to oxford street together

yes. i am dressed like a freak

ADIOS! katie

MAKEUP BLOG!!!

IMPOTANT NEWS FOR MY FOLLOWERS (mirri and flossie, love u both)
ok, so (thanks to the lack of any real subject for this blog and my total utter love of strange and interesting makeup) i have decided to transform this blog from
"katie's random blog where she talks about random shiz" to "katie's random blog where she posts makeup pics and talks about random shiz"
this will also make it easier for me to post more often so mirri will get pissed off at me less often and i will feel like a slightly better person! YAY!

music + post-punk happies

am in a happy mood right now, though i am doomed either to spend the day at home with nobody to talk to or to go to the park and be the crazy girl who spends her saturdays squinting at pidgeons (i spose i could go out rollerblading, but my rollerblades are so small they make my feet go numb and even if i can find my sister's rollerblades, i really doubt they'll fit me...)
anyways, am happy because i finally worked out how to get music onto my blog (yay for me)

if you (by you i mean miranda because you're the only person reading my blog anyway) dont like the song? fast forward. don't like the music? press pause. simple as that. am considering putting more than 1 mixpod thing up there so people (or really i mean me) can choose what they (i) want to listen to :)

but mostly i am happy because i am listening to post-punk music right now and have found myself with a sudden need to sway my head as i type which really adds to your happiness levels though it does make it harder to type properly.

katie. Xx.

Captain Miranda

Thought i'd post the picture of mirri i drew

(while on my hols in gran canaria)

It was inspired by miranda's post about...
(dun dun duhhh)

THE NEW HAT!!!!

I reckon i might well end up writing a little book
(the style of Pog the Mushroom)

about the adventures of

Captain Miranda and Perry the parrot...

I know i'd read that...

BYE BYE....

katie. Xx.

helllloooooo helllloooooo heeeelllllloooooo!!!!

am posting on this blog because, like i was at some point last year when i first made this blog... or maybe it was more recently... i am bored.... and also, i think having a blog which ma luvvveeelllly buddies can read sounds really quite damn funky... pardon me for sounding a little drunk... im not... i promise...
so, yeah... posting on this is really quite fun

so... i will....

when i have spare time :)

also will post art and stories on this blog (by which i mean photos, drawings of miranda in especially piratical form, collages and cautionary tales about frogs)

yours randomly,

KATIE

hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

hello, hola and bonjour to about two of the blog-reading people of the world...

HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY NEW BLOG!!! this will be my HAPPY blog (as opposed to my slightly sadder blog where i just bitched about crap... okay thats a lie, i planned to bitch about crap but then i sort of forgot the blog even existed and now it just lies there, untouched, with only one lonely little post on it and no comments :'( - a moment of sadness for the, deceased and rather mouldy probably covered in flies, blog)

ANYWAYS...

hoping to keep blogging, u know, at least one post a week probz more because i get bored a lot of the time. some people say only boring people get bored but i think its like greatness, some people are born bored, some become bored, and some have boredness thrust upon them... i have boredness thrust upon me... a lot of the time :/

oh, and here's a picture of a vampire muppet, just for the hell of it...

thankya verily muchily!

katie