Alternative Makeup Tips
Vaseline beauty tips
For skin care routine, Vaseline is one of the best ever additions to your makeup bag. It does everything, but you will never see it in the glossy magazines...
Make Up Tips for a Shaved Eyebrow Line
Shaved eyebrows do grow back and provide a fresh blank canvas for creative urges, from tattoo designs to classic pencilled eyebrows. Create lovely shaved eyebrow lines, either from eyebrow stencils or freehand.
Makeup tips - How to wear red lipstick
Wearing red lipstick is an art and a ritual to savour. These makeup tips may help you wear red lipstick to its fullest effect, whether you're into vintage or the gothic aesthetic. With video tutorial.
How to make eyelashes longer
Eyelashes aren't just a home for dead-skin-nibbling mites. Eyelashes also make your eyes look bigger and brighter and more come-hither. Here's how to make eyelashes longer and bigger and curlier and stuff!
Makeup for dark skin tones
Makeup for dark skin: Dark skin absorbs light. It's beautiful au naturelle, but good makeup for black girls that does justice to dark skin tones can be hard to source. These makeup tips for dark skin will hopefully give you some little ideas for makeup madness...
Eyeliner tips - how to apply eyeliner. Properly!
Makeup tips: Eyeliner. Stay! Good girl. Kathryn Hooper gives eyeliner tips on how to apply your eyeliner just right, never have it come off unless you want it to, and never shame yourself with squidgy smudgy eyes.
Learn how to apply bright colour eyeliner
Makeup tips: A bright colour eyeliner is a playful addition to your makeup box that accentuates your eyes and allows for a bit of creative expression. Mookychick readers give some of their tips for applying bright eyeliner without mess or fuss...
Neutral makeup look
Makeup tutorial - how to get a neutral daytime look. This step by step makeup how-to guide uses Urban Decay's Naked Palette (but you can use what you like)
Halloween Zombie Makeup Tutorial for Infected Girls and Boys
Guess what? You're infected. Learn how to apply full unisex zombie makeup SFX (pale skin, veins, rotting flesh and blood effects) to look your best while hunting for brainsss (or, if you're veggie, grainsss) with our zombie makeup tutorial this Halloween.
Victorian Makeup Tutorial
This Victorian makeup look (skin, lips, eyes, rouged cheeks) is a natural day time alternative for Steampunks and Romantic Goths. Also works well with other retro looks...
Smoky Glitter Eye Makeup Tutorial
If you adore the dark, sultry look of smoky eye makeup but harbour a deep love of all things glitter, this eye makeup look has a strong hint of Brechtian cabaret.
'Pop Culture' - rainbow eye makeup how to
When I use makeup I don't believe in neutral. I always believed that if you're going to do it, why not go all out? So I created this rainbow eye makeup look that I think captures pop culture's essence. Here's a step by step guide for how to get this 'Pop Culture' makeup look...
Nail art designs step by step - Minnie Mouse
In this step by step tutorial, talented Miss Emily shows us how to simply create a striking Minnie Mouse nail art design. Pick up her clever tips then branch out & design your own...
Retro make up tutorial
Whether you're wearing rockabilly clothing or 1940s fashion, this classic makeup look will work with any retro style.
Circus/Theatre make up tutorial
With the aid of eyeliner, glitter and other assortments you can create a makeup look perfect for the streets, the wild circus or the hushed, hallowed grounds of the theatre. Makeup tutorial for going out on the town.
1920s makeup how to
Get the 1920s makeup look. Our makeup video tutorial and article show you how to do 1920s makeup for eyes, lips and cheeks. Don your pearls and frivolities. Embrace the flapper within!
How to make eyelashes longer
Eyelashes aren't just a home for dead-skin-nibbling mites. Eyelashes also make your eyes look bigger and brighter and more come-hither. Here's how to make eyelashes longer and bigger and curlier and stuff!
Visual Kei makeup tips
Visual Kei makeup: Visual Kei is a punk/goth hybrid style based on J Rock bands like Devil Kitty and Luna Sea. We take a gander at applying make-up the VK way for a j-rocker look.
Alice in Wonderland make up tutorials
Alice in Wonderland make up: The 'Alice in Wonderland' Book of Shadows makeup box by Urban Decay is sold out - but we bring you Youtube makeup tutorials inspired by your favourite characters in Tim Burton's Alice.
Grunge make up tips - Heroin chic
Grunge make up: Though we know many 90s grunge girls didn't wear make up, we show you 3 ways to apply heroin chic make up. Heroin chic? It's a smudgy, sexy look inspired by grunge with a hint of consumption.
Dark Funfair - makeup tutorial
Makeup tutorials: As the nights grow darker and the pumpkins and bonfires come out to play, wear bright makeup and dance gaily amid the neon lights. You might even get a dance with Mister Jack O'Lantern. Or Noel Fielding.
Aqua fay - makeup video tutorial
Makeup video tutorial: Aqua fairy makeup tips from Hayley Jane. Use metallic eyeshadows to create a dramatic fairy makeup look.
Electroclash makeup for eyes - step by step
Makeup tutorial: Striking eye makeup helps define the electroclash look. Courtney Brandabur takes you step by step through an electroclash eye makeup tutorial. With time and effort, you too can look like a sultry nu-skool jazz harlequin.
Electro style - get the Lady Gaga lightning bolt
Makeup tutorial: Electro diva Lady GaGa is the current queen of disco kitsch. With her human hair couture, glitter-love and pvc knickers, Lady GaGa is inspiring make-up lovers everywhere to get colour confident and take on the staple electro make-up trend - the lightning bolt.
Gothic lolita makeup tutorial
Makeup tutorial: So, want to learn to how do cute Gothic Lolita make-up? You can use this gothic lolita look for day and night, vamping it up a little more for night time and even changing the pink lipgloss for maybe, a little red lipstick. Change it a little and make it yours.
Eighties eye makeup tutorial
Makeup tutorial: The eighties were a hugely creative period for makeup and the self-expression of the New Romantics influenced much of the electro look today. Esme shows you how to apply 3 shades of eyeshadow for a natty daytime eighties look. Peachy!
18th century makeup tutorial - for budding aristocrats
Makeup tutorial: This Marie Antionette makeup tutorial is designed to make you look like a great big slutty princess for cheap - all pale skin, big eyes, plumped lips and flushed cheeks. With a dash of powder and paint, my child, you will be irresistable - fey, abandoned, yet with a hint of control. The future beckons... and my, it looks just like the past!
How to apply Indian dance makeup
Makeup tutorial: The makeup required for classical indian dance (temple dance) is powerful look, better suited to night than day (unless you're a brave soul and a facepaint pioneer). It's equally suitable for dark and light skins. Your new face will make princes gasp as you dance by moonlight.
Lily Lolo mineral makeup tutorial for tired skin
Mineral makeup: In your 30s? You may wake up with a yelp to discover tired, mature pale skin with tiny wrinkles AND spots. On your face, sadly, not a boyfriend's lower nose. So unfair! Emma explains how to apply Lily Lolo mineral makeup to improve tired skin for genuinely healthy radiance.
Natural beauty makeup tips
Makeup tips: With summer around the corner, natural beauty wants to come out and play. These beauty tips for natural makeup will tell you how to apply (less) makeup for a natural look. Not every girl needs to be Barbie GaGa - and not everyday. Sometimes, natural (or even no) makeup lights the way.
Satellite 3 - Unearthly cosmetics for Nu Skool spacegirls
Makeup products: In a brave new age where cosmetics are serious business, Satellite 3 make-up is a high quality but still playful make-up brand that's stocked in places like Cyberdog. Lippies disguised as recyclable rocket ships? Mookychick finds out more.
Simple eyes for contemporary styles
Makeup tips: A girl's best friend may well be a large bin full of rainbow eye shadows, eyeliners, lipsticks, mascara and fake eyelashes. However, do we need to look like an electroclash princess every time we go out? Here's a simple contemporary look that speaks volumes and is perfect from morning to night.
Beauty Top Gear Challenge: Test-driving mineral cosmetics
Mineral makeup: Dispel all thoughts of Jeremy Clarkson in drag. Our intrepid Mookychick beauty contributor was sent a host of Care Free Beauty samples with the provisor she test-drive them to hell and back. Char got behind the beauty wheel and gave them a thorough seeing-to - from the nice lippy and eyeshadow to the bronzer which stole her heart and eloped with her to sunny Mexico...
Mineral cosmetics - pure makeup for pure people
Mineral makeup: What's natural, protects your skin from the harsh rays of the sun, great for all skin types, plus gives your complexion a healthy, glowing finish? It's not magic, but mineral makeup; the hottest thirty year old trend to be hailed as the 'new' beauty solution.
High street skincare and cosmetics for eczema and problem skin
Makeup tips: Sometimes you can suffer from 3 problems at once: you have delicate problem skin, you're on a tight budget, and there's no health store near you (or you can't be arsed to go to one). If this sums you up, Georgie Hanmer recommends the products that she finds have personally saved both her skin and her social life.
Alternative and Vintage Makeup Tips
Browse hundreds of alternative makeup tips from Vintage to Gothic by people who live the look. No animal cruelty, just human beauty.
