Fierce Dark Eyes - Transformations - 2nd Cycle

Hey there again! This February Icon Art Marilyn ran the "Transfromations" project to celebrate its one year anniversary, and after a bit of a hiatus the project is back on its second cycle. Once more in combination with Dita Whip! 

This time the look we were going for was a dark eye, gorgeous red lips and a very light, white skin to counter the dark eye. The look started off with a light foundation and lots of highlighting. Afterwards contouring was added before the powder. For the eyes I uses Berry M's black glitter eyeshadow and some simple clown white blended in together. To finish the eyes of white was added to the water line and a visible black lower eyeliner. To finish off the look the lips were covered with dark red lipstick and a bit of glitter. Then Nena, my lovely volunteer, had fun with the pictures. And she is a stunning beauty rocking different wigs as well as my top hat with the signature "D". Give her some applause!

These two pictures give you a dark side as well as a golden twenties take on big hair with some ombre in it. Besides the dark energy the fist picture has its is very interesting how the shadow plays along. Same goes with the second picture. Both my favorites.

Trailer for True Blood Season 7 - #WaitingSucks

It is though that the last season of True Blood, season seven, will grace our screens this year, more specifically starting June 22nd. And with one sad eye and with smiling one I am looking foreword to this, hopefully bombastic, end of such a great series.

As HBO has released the first trailer for the season they gave audiences a little taste of what is to come, and it seems that it will pick up right where it has left off with Radioactive. televised insanity. And that is  what I expected. With the on rampage, Hep-V infected, vampires go mad at the town meeting at Merlotte's, or should I rather say Bellefleur's, this season supposedly starts with a big fight. the trailer shows us all sorts of vamps showing fangs, moving fast and attacking hardcore style. 

The general storyline seems to be that the Hep-V vamps are out for any human alive to drink. And it does not seem that the Bon Temps forks have any intention of taking it, and fighting back. No, apparently they leave and blame Sookie for what happened. Did Pam prove right about Sookie and her precious fairy vagina?  And after all, will we see Bill and her reunite, or will she stay with Alcide, who hopefully gets more lines then "I am the pack master!" tho season. Or will, please let it be like that, she reunite with yummy Eric Northman. What about Pam and Tara, and how about Olivia and Jason? Even more pressuring: Which one of our characters will die? (Please make it Bill!) And even more important: Will the series close all its questions or will it yet be another insufficient ending like so many other series had?

Besides all that the trailer sees a Tara with her mom, Jessica swearing to protect Andy's remaining fairy daughter and there appears to be no sight of Eric. And that definitely raises the expectations as no one wants their favorite sexy vamp to have taken his last bite.

In conclusion we might be very much looking forward to this, however, I hope that the series keeps in  touch with the ideas it has touched upon the first seasons. May the gender bending and LGBT allegories continue. And may the series please continue to show that vampires are more hum alike then they want to think and vice versa for humans. Lets all take a deep bite and enjoy! taste you later Truebies!

I'm back!

Welcome, Bienvenue, Bonjour, and Willkommen to Cabaret!.... back to Icon  Art Marilyn. 

I haven't been updating the blog for a while now as I fought some things called assignments and a dissertation to finish my BA degree. And as I have succeeded in this quest a couple of days ago, I figured it was about time to revive this project. So in the next couple of days there will be some new articles for you to enjoy, including a review of a little thing called "The Bangerz Tour" (Which I attended in Manchester), a review of the new Robyn music (Gosh, I love me some Robyn!) and eventually some bits and pieces of fiction aka. creative writing. So for now I will grab my cup of coffee, sit my sweet little ass down and get back to writing. Besides that I have an enormous amour of pop culture to catch up with. However, I'm still not keeping up with the Kardashians!

For today I may leave it with this, however, there is a chance I might have something for you later! So get into it! 

Ditas Whip - 12 Shades of Dita - "Transformations"

Hey hunties! Yeah its here! The last day of the February celebration of Icon Art Marilyn's anniversary! and as it is the tradition with such things we finish this first year with a big big bang! And this is gonna be me, Dita Whip, in 12 shades for you! 

 

Of course "Transformations" has been a huge fun project for me and I thank the lovely volunteers for their participation! I hope that the actual aim of the project to highlight make-up and its facets has been anticipated and seen as well, so that there has been more then the usual awe about beautiful make-up. If you don't have any idea what the actual aim of the project is and was then head here to read all about it! But so far the series comes to an end.... until March 5th, when a new "Transformation" goes online, glitter style! I have decided with icon Art Marilyn that the "Transformations" project will become a category of its own here on the blog to show you all different kinds of wonderful faces, with and without make-up. But to let you see that I not only paint people I will give you 12 shades of Dita, and be part of the series! So hold on to your wigs and gag on my eleganza! xoxo

Well, look at you!

Giving you cookie 20's chic!

I had to do it the art way, just one time!

What might you be thinking about my pink wig? Well, I think its fierce!

See, I toild you it's fierce!

She said what?

If you ask me, I'm not surpised!

Cause I am the queen! ;)

Don't you think?

Effie Trinket, Poker, Casino & 20's mixture. I love it! Sob it up!

Yes, I can give you Cher!

Buh! I scared you! Giving you my version of Sharon Needles!

"Transfromations" - Jessica Rabbit with Pink Hair!

Hey bubble buts and gutter sluts! Its Dita once again! And today its time for another "Transfromations"! And this time I have the honor to present you my lovely volunteer Michaela as the Dita Whip version of Jessica Rabbit... with cotton candy oink hair! Lets get started, shall we?

This look speaks of a fantasy land where reality, comic, crazy, sexy and fierce meet, intercept and have a love baby. And that looks like what you are about to see. Crazy high eyebrows, sexy pumped up lips and some damn big blue eyeshadow! Exuding sexy in the Aime form with a side dish of surprised look. What a strong and self determined beauty that looks like one of these dolls, don't you think?

For this look I wanted to go completely crazy and unnatural, cause the idea behind it was Jessica Rabbit. I started off with the usual contouring and highlighting, but with the difference that I glued down Michaelas eyebrows to paint all over them later. After powder, powder and more powder, i was done with her eyebrows which then made me paint on new ones somewhere high on her forehead. Afterwards I painted all white what was going to be the eyeshadow part before I added layers of blue eyeshadow for the optimal coverage. Then, adding thick and juicy black eyeliner and mascara completed the eye part. The lips were finished by a red lipstick and some bright accents in the lip corners. Of course some lip gloss was added to optically boost the lips.

Of course you can get an insight into what Michaela had to say about  her transformation:

As Sandra Bullock correctly said, ‘make-up is scary’. Nevertheless, Dita’s offer was a great opportunity to try something new and face up to the challenge. For someone who does not use very much make-up and has short hair, the weight of both, makeup and wig, were new to me. Already after the first layers of foundation, my face felt significantly heavier. Since my eyebrows (or what is left of them… Insert joke about trichotillomania here!) were to disappear, Dita used a mixture of different glues to flatten their structure and cover them with makeup. With a face full of glue and heavy layers of makeup, I felt like a Hollywood star shortly after her tenth lifting – my face was an alien part of my body, incapable of moving or showing any facial expressions, you know... just like Kristin Stewart. Since it took quite long to finish the makeup, I had time to become familiar with my new look… and in the end, I even liked it! Although long hair will never feel right on my head, it was a great experience to slip into a different role…. And the fact that neither my family nor my friends recognized me on the pictures shows, that this was a radical transformation!

And, since we once more did not take a real half and half picture, here Dita got for you a sort of half and half one: 

Ditas Whip - RuPauls Drag Race Season 6 - The Wait is over Kittens!

Gurrls! Welcome to Dita's Whip - The Drag #Whorespondent of Icon Art Marilyn! Finally it is officially here! The season six premiere of RuPauls Drag Race! The sixth season of this spectacular, unspookable and jaw-dropping transformation extravaganza  is giving us life in every second that it blesses our TV screens! 

And dayum season six is going to be full of fierce fish throwing shady shade in shanty style! Bring on the firing squad, Darianne Lake is ready, but so are we!

Tonight on Logo TV we will see the whole first episode in whole of the new season where we see whom of the queens TV series inspired couture send her packing or gets her the Ru stamp of approval in the form of a shantay you stay! And darlings I am voting for .. both to go home! #AllTAllShade But lets get it started from the beginning. As the new queens entered the workroom we had all the shade at first as they were only seven and had to compete just between each other. They will just meet the others after they survived this first episode. 

When the queens began the season with the usual Mike Ruiz photo-shoot they had to make a jump into TV. Literally. Jumping into a pool of foam they had to give leg, body, face and fish in the air. And Laganja Estranja grabbed the win as she was giving us legs for ages and fierce for days! When the main challenge arrived the queens had to create a couture outfit that resembled from stuff that aligned to TV's best known shows, including (Fucked UP) Duck Dynasty, Keeping Up With The Kartrashians, Dancing With The Stars and Golden Girls. In the end Ben De La Creme and April Carrion rocked the competition with Ben winning. I started to absolutely hate Laganja Estranja, adore Adore Delano even more, despise Kelly Mantle for her lack of character profile and fashion forwardness, disagreeing with everyone about Vivacious hideous walk and outfit and finally starting to think that all that Gia Gun is good at is giving face. So in the end I definitely am looking forward for the second set of girls to get it to the next level. So gentlemen, start you engines! And may the best woman win! Oh and the guest judges of course were Mike Ruiz and the hot hot hot Adam Lambert!

See you next Tuesday for another Dita's Whip with all the T about Drag Race! Cause from now on: Tuesday will be the T with Dita!

"Transformations" - Behind the Scenes of Versace 90's Realness

Hallelu! Yesterday has been a real feast when Jill showed us her Versace 90's realness look and made us gag on her eleganza extravaganza! And, during the making of this gemstone, Dita Whip had someone to take pictures during the process, you know, to document it. Are you ready for the behind the scenes? Then lets get to it! 

First of course there was an extensive amount of foundation, contouring and a wig cap to hold back Jill's hair, cause ain't nobody got time for getting foundation outta your hair gurrl!

Then came the usual highlighting with clown white make up that was been blended in to the nines. Spread that stuff good and well so it wont be seen no more! Highlights were set under the eyes, the forehead, under the cheeks, along the nose, under the nose and on the chin. 

After all the highlights have been blended in lots of powder was added on there (Not in the pictures), and some more blending had to be done. After that a little bit of blush was added. Then the color part began. With some simple but delicious pink red eyeshadow.

After the blush all the colors were added to Jills forehead, her eyebrows were thickened and a huge eyeliner completed the look along red shiny lips. And the result was as seen in the next picture.