{"id":13995,"date":"2012-03-08T07:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2012-03-06T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:42:21","slug":"black-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13995","title":{"rendered":"Black Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blacktears.jpg\" alt=\"Black Tears\" title=\"Black Tears\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/nonworking-girl.blogspot.com\/\">Sisifo<\/a> recently pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/wickedweb.deviantart.com\/gallery\/?offset=48#\/d26ax9a\">this<\/a> splendid photo by deviantART member <a href=\"http:\/\/wickedweb.deviantart.com\/gallery\/\">Wickedweb<\/a> (some photos borderline NSFW).  She wasn&#8217;t sure of the substance used for the &#8220;tears,&#8221; but suggested that for costuming purposes eyelash glue mixed with matte black eyeshadow might work.<\/p>\n<p>I dug around through the gallery comments and finally found one where the artist identifies the stuff as black acrylic paint, which is fine for a photograph but definitely not something you&#8217;d want to wear around your eyes for an extended period.  I&#8217;m wondering if homemade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shades-of-night.com\/painneck\/blood.html\">fake blood<\/a> using black food coloring instead of red would provide an appropriately drippy look (although ideally it&#8217;d be nice to find something that dried with that pretty glossy look instead of staying wet).  It really is a wonderfully striking look, particularly paired with the silvery eyeshadow.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the rest of her photos too; she&#8217;s trained as a makeup artist and has some fantastic inspiration, like <a href=\"http:\/\/wickedweb.deviantart.com\/gallery\/24209713\">lipstick<\/a> styled after the patterns on poison-dart frogs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Sisifo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous Sisifo recently pointed me to this splendid photo by deviantART member Wickedweb (some photos borderline NSFW). She wasn&#8217;t sure of the substance used for the &#8220;tears,&#8221; but suggested that for costuming purposes eyelash glue mixed with matte black eyeshadow might work. I dug around through the gallery comments and finally found one where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14003,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions\/14003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}