Step 4: Do the same thing, with the same brush, except using black eyeshadow, applying the line right beside the red one. Step 3: use a thin lip liner/eye liner brush to create a line of red lipstick through it. Step 2: dab a bit of matte brown eyeshadow on top. (Step 1: dab a bit of red lipstick on your forehead. To make her/me look a little tougher, I used a bit of lipstick and eyeshadow to create a fake cut above my eyebrow.
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I paired that with a nude lip, using MAC Warm Me Up lipstick (discontinued – similar here) and Too Faced bronzer. Oh well, I guess I’m not exactly a method actor.Īs for my makeup, though it would make sense that Lara Croft didn’t wear any for her adventures, the video game character always seems to have some kind of black eyeliner/slightly smokey eye thing going on, so that’s what I did. Speaking of dedication to the role: I even tried to work out to get into better shape for this…but unfortunately that lasted all of three days before I re-discovered my love for Nutella. That’s the extent of my dedication, folks. I’ve been wanting to cut a few inches off my hair for months, but forced myself to grow it out until Halloween was over, just for this. I messily French-braided my hair down my back (I’ve been running around jungles and through ancient temples, after all – it’s not going to be neat!) and pulled out a few shorter pieces in the front to more closely match the video game character. And this year, I couldn’t have gone much farther out of my comfort zone.įor the skim-readers, here’s my Lara Croft Tomb Raider Halloween costume (or cosplay) breakdown:īlack Ribbed Tank | Shorts (similar) | Belt | Guns/Holsters/Backpack | Gloves | Boots For one magical night, you get to transform into someone you’re not. All Lara Croft and I have in common is that our first names rhyme. I’d like to tell you I grew up into this super co-ordinated, athletic adult, but the fact is, I still can’t do a cartwheel. She used her abilities and her brains to achieve her goals – and that was something I could aspire towards.
Sure, she was beautiful, but she very rarely ever used that to get what she wanted. I guess you could say she was a feminist icon for me, before I even knew what feminism was. I actually don’t remember whether my first exposure to her was from the films (Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft was a gift to us all) or the video games, but I do remember enjoying both immensely. She was badass, in charge of her life, smart, and a capable fighter. Lara Croft was everything I wasn’t, but wanted to be.
They could see I tried very hard, but I was just…really bad. My teachers in elementary school gave me good grades in gym class simply because they took pity on me. I was a quiet, deeply shy, and fantastically uncoordinated kid.
This year, I continued my trend of dressing up as my favourite fictional females, and went as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from the video games and films. Last year, at Halloween, I dressed up as Disney’s Belle, from Beauty and the Beast, and Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The year before, I went as Hermione Granger.
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