ink and icing

Wow. Too...many...colours.
Too...much....detail.
Please shoot me.

This took well over 20 hours to make. I don't really know why I make these neon background massacres, they take ages and make me feel like punching my fist through the screen... but they always turn out nicely!

So, make-up madness background. Love it!

The gorgeous lovely girl in this picture is *The1stGrape-stock
The stock picture I used for a reference was this one here: [link]
Thank you so much for sharing your work with us!

I used some splatter & stain brushes for the background:
Paint Stroke & Splatter Brushes by *mcbadshoes :[link] & [link]
Glossy Blood splatters by ~dennytang: [link]

I used references I googled up for nearly all of the makeup products on here. If you have some knowledge in the field of cosmetics, you might be able to identify a few things...

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Photoshop CS. Genius tablet. Over 20 hours. No filters, no effects, no nothing. NOT a photomanipulation, not a vector!

Same sort of picture family as these two: