Halloween!

So, yesterday was Halloween and the makeup competition at school! I decided to bust out my zombie look and ended up winning. Sorry for the heavy picture post, but I wanted to show my transformation... it's not pretty! My friend Chris took these photos and in some of them I wasn't aware I was being photographed and am making the strangest faces ever. Oh well! I am human. Sometimes I make odd faces... I even wore the makeup in to drop off a job application and I had an interview today. Hahaha. Later, I zombified my friend as well and we went to some lame haunted house where a 14-year-old tried to hold hands with me. It was really awkward.  Afterwards we ate way too much Waffle House and crashed on the couch while watching a 60's informational video about safety on Halloween and eating Fun Dip.

In other words, it was pretty epic.

What did you do on Halloween?

P.S.- I am trying to enable threaded comments on here so that I can reply to everyone, but I am having issues. Any advice?

It's a girl!

So, as I have posted about before, my brother and his wife are expecting their first little young'n. I am so excited to be an aunt! Last night we all met up to find out the sex of the baby. I didn't realize until Kayla opened the envelope at the end that she and Derrick had waited to be with us to find out for themselves. I may have cried a bit.
The whole idea was really cute and I had a great time. We each got a balloon containing an old wives tale and after we read it Derrick and Kayla had to mark on the board which one applied to her. Example: If you are carrying high with a big, round belly, you are having a girl.  If you are carrying low with a smaller belly that sticks straight out, it’s a boy.  

Here is a video for anyone who would like to see it. My hands were super shaky (I was filming with my bulky DSLR) and this video is unedited... meaning you get to hear Kayla's sister who is also pregnant saying "if it has three lines like a hamburger, then it's a girl" when they looked at the sonogram picture. Also, I would like to point out that I did not realize how bad my accent was until I watched this video and I am almost impossible to understand. Sorry! 

10 Things.

Howdy, folks! So, with me being a sponsor over at The Nearsighted Owl, I thought I would post a few very random things about my very random self so that we could get more acquainted. Please ignore the very old picture. I desperately need to locate my tripod.

1. I live in a ridiculously tiny town. 

I am originally from Wartrace, Tennessee. I went to a small Christian school with two or more grades in a single classroom, and was brought up in a Pentecostal church. While I don't consider myself to be the strict religious type any more, my love for big hair is still intact. That is where the name for my blog came from. The original quote is "the higher the hair, the closer to God." That was definitely our mantra.

2. I used to work in a nursing home. 

Before I started cosmetology school I worked as a rehabilitation technician in a nursing home and I loved it. I met some really wonderful people there and had to say goodbye to some of them. I urge everyone to volunteer at your local nursing homes. Those people are beautiful and do not get enough attention.

3. I used to live in a haunted house. 

That is why I am 20 and still have trouble sleeping alone... in fact, I may have a palette made in my brother's floor tonight. We used to live in a large, very old house. My dad decorated it with all sorts of antiques, a lot of them creepy pictures. I used to see shadows and hear people walking around all the time. I was terrified. I remember lying in my bed nearly having a panic attack and as soon as I would hear my older brother come home I would nearly run to his room so I would not have to sleep by myself.


4. I have an odd infatuation with Victorian postmortem photography.

Which stems from my old house. My dad used to buy all these strange portraits of people we didn't know from antique stores and hang them around the house. We had one in particular that had a man with one eye half closed and the other was almost shut. As a kid I just assumed he blinked when they took the photo. When I got older and realized they didn't just snap pictures like we do now... no, that guy was probably dead. Now I love researching Victorian postmortem photography. It's fascinating!

5. I also have a serial killer fascination. 

I wonder how many readers just thought, "this girl is a weirdo." I am I guess. It's not the gory details that I like (I cover my eyes at any hint of blood on movies), it is the psychology. I would have loved to have been a psychologist, or a criminal profiler so I could help find these people.

6. I am slightly OCD. 

I am super schedule-oriented. I do the same thing at the same time every morning when I get ready. If my routine gets thrown off I get really anxious. I also have to check at least three times to make sure my flat iron is unplugged... and sometimes I still check it again before I leave the house.

7. I love photography. 

I love to take photos! My favorite subject is people. I have a small photography business that does pretty well for some extra money.

8. I am a Potter-head. 

I LOVE HARRY POTTER. If it is Harry Potter weekend on abc family, you better believe I am not leaving my house. I have read all the books several times.

9. One time I had 19 cats. 

At my old house, we had a litter of kittens we couldn't find homes for. They all became outside cats and would all pretty much hang out in the yard and were all really friendly. One day a litter of kittens emerged from under the house, then before we knew it they had multiplied. Before it was all said and done we had 19 cats living at my house. I was pretty much in cat lady heaven. Luckily, they all found homes before my family and I moved.

10. I am a bit of a hermit. 

I hate parties. Not that I don't love hanging out with a group of friends and doing something cool, I just can't stand what my age group considers a party. As a general rule drunk people annoy me. I went to a club once... I will probably never go again. Zach and I talked about it and decided we don't mind. Last night I cooked dinner and we watched Coraline together and cuddled with Matilda (my other cat, who lives with Zach right now) on the couch... I would take that over some wild party any day. 

 
If you are reading this blog, please introduce yourself in the comments! Tell me some facts about your self!

Also, for those of you reading... any thing you would like to see on my blog? Anything to make navigation easier?

Night of the living moms!

I know, I know. I said no posting on the weekends. I just felt this was too rad not to post!

I am lucky. I have a mother that supports me and is basically always willing to be a guinea pig for hair and makeup related things. So, last night when I said "let me turn you into a zombie!", she was game. She makes such a pretty zombie... you know, as far as attractive reanimated corpses go.

Zach did the blood trickle coming out of her nose. I have never seen someone so proud of themselves.

If anyone is interested, I might just post a tutorial!

FOTD Fail.

So, tonight I decided I would post my look for the day. It was inspired by the scarf I am wearing. I took a photo, then I decided the lighting in my parents room would be better.

And then this happened...

I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL.

And then my camera died
So...

Face-
 Revlon Colorstay in "Buff"
Hard Candy baked blush in "Living Doll"

Eyes-
120 Palette 2nd Edition
LashBlast Mascara

I also had on the liquid liner and a sheer pink gloss from E.L.F.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Under construction!

I know everything looks not so hot right now, but I am working on making this blog look lovely. :) Posting will resume as usual tomorrow afternoon! Love, Emily.

Eight Halloween Tutorials.

WARNING!!!! SOME OF THESE LOOKS ARE A BIT BLOODY.


























Halloween is just around the corner and I am so excited! I am pretty sure Zach and I will just spend the night watching scary movies, but that doesn't stop me from getting in the spirit. Since Halloween falls on a week day, my school is doing a fantasy hair and makeup competition and I have been obsessing over which look I want to do. I have been spending way too much time on Youtube looking at tutorials and idead, and these are a few that I have found that I thought were pretty awesome and not super complicated. Zach and I are headed to one of the big Halloween stores this weekend, so expect a few spooky looks from me next week! P.S.- Desperately need a new blog layout. Terrible inexperienced with blogger. Too broke to pay someone to create a layout for me. Advice? Somewhere I can learn a thing or two?