Alicia's Dare to Wear Charity Challenge

After seeing Pepper doing a ganguro look for FunnyFaceBeauty.com, I was curious. What is this Charity Challenge thingie?

Basically it is a challenge to all her subscribers to recreate a make up look inspired by non other than Japan.

I have decided to use my 'Dare to Wear' challenge to dare all of you to help raise money for Japan via The Canadian Red Cross. For every person who takes my dare to wear challenge, my family will be donating $10 in their honour (ie. 100 people = $1000 for Japan).

- Alicia

Hell, I paint my face silly for free all this while so to do a challenge and the $10 gets donated to Japan sounds good to me.

Unless you live in a hole, you'll pretty much know what happened to Japan. One disaster after another but it makes me glad to see that people from around the world are scrambling to lend a hand. I'm personally not too worried. I have strong faith that Japan will rise again and fast. They were never the type to give up to begin with.

Original Storm Trooper's pic is from here

Over in Penang, there has been many charity drives and jumble sales to raise money for Japan. The last one Pinky Doodle Doo, JH and I attended was at Straits Quay. It was funny to see Star Wars' Storm Trooper going around with a donation box though.

JH and I is also doing our best to support our favourite Japanese restaurant, Isaribi Tei. Despite the owner saying that business was not affected in an interview, we could tell it has been affected badly due to the radiation scare. We would hate to see it close down despite the fact that he called my colleague 'stupido' for asking for separate bills once..

Since I've done ganguro before I decided to try something different. I decided to try a geisha inspired look. Note the inspired; I did not end up looking anything like one. It took me 2 tries and it still failed. *sigh*

I used Elianto's white foundation. Don't bother looking for it. 1) It's been discontinued since the dawn of time. 2) It's oily and sucks chicken ass. It's extremely difficult to layer without smearing everything - literally. Powdering it is a feat of it's own.

Trust me when I say I lost a chunk of hair because of this. Once you look like you fell into a sack of flour. You're ready for the next step.

Pray no one walks into your room and sees you looking like this. If they do, 'Tell them you're doing an Edward Cullen look'. They might just believe you and leave you alone.

Apply pink eyeshadow to lids, a little gold as well, line eyes with eye liner. Wing it to elongate your eyes to give you the "Asian" look. Fill in eyebrows.

Despite looking dead, you want to look like the healthy dead. Add blusher, a little will suffice. Paint lips red. I didn't wanted to add the false eyelashes because I knew it would change the shape of my eyes to something more 'rounded' but because I was not blessed and born with lots of eyelashes, I had to put some on anyway. I put them only from the middle to the end to retain my eye shape.

In the end, I think I will audition for the next Pontianak film or something. ARGH!

Next! Must.never.give.up! *grunt*

Since the geisha's white make up was a *toot toot toot* to achieve, I decided to go tan. From Edward Cullen to over baked lobster.

I did my eyes first rather than my face make up. It's easier to wipe the fallouts. Using my 15 colour pro concealer, I painted my face with the 2nd darkest shade. I swear to God, even my mom would not recognize me.

I've always thought that people who has tan skin was a lucky bunch since acne scars and all are easily covered. How wrong I was. I have a bad break out recently and even all the make up could hardly cover the scars and bumps.

I'm still sane. I found the eye lashes freaky too.

NOTD of the week

Thanks Don!