Cool makeup artist on YouTube (and potential Halloween ideas)

Get inspired by this makeup artist who's been posting many tutorials on YouTube.

Here's one for achieving "The Terminator" look, part of her special effects series:


Her other tutorials include series of arty designs and popular Halloween choices ranging from Arwen to Voldemort.

She's also made videos for each of the seven deadly sins. Here's gluttony:

Chocolate-colored lipstick

Magpie Tales blog posts a photo each week that's meant to serve as inspiration for a poem, vignette, or other short piece of writing. Have a look via the link - this week the photo shows a tube of chocolate-colored lipstick (at least, the color looks chocolate to me). And so I wrote:

Reasons to wear chocolate-colored lipstick

When I speak the words emerge in a slow lingual melt.

My lips are no longer chapped and worry-bitten, but creamy and smooth.

I transform into the gypsy Theobroma, who paints chocolate on her lips and burnt umber round her eyes.

When the lipstick gets on my teeth people wonder what kind of chocolate I've eaten, and if I still have some to share.

I taste sweetness and bitterness both when I bite down on my lip.

I'm a child for a little while, chocolate-smeared and smiling.

Whatever I kiss turns into cocoa.