Octoskull is my pride and joy. This idea had been on my mind for awhile. I was so excited to finally be able to make it come to life. However, this makeup taught me patience on a hole new level!

Things always start out nice and tidy.... they sure don't stay that way!

As you can see in the pictures above I stopped taking progress pictures after the 9th picture. Things got crazy overwhelming and I had insane "artist block". My original idea wasn't working out like I thought it would. I ditched the pink and went with purple. I also decided not to do the colored part I mapped out on the forehead. I had big ideas for this look. I really should have sketched something out on paper first, so I could have worked all the kinks out there.

Everything that could go wrong with this makeup did. I was going to go on and on and tell you guys about all the things that happened and complain, but honestly I don't think it's worth talking about. The makeup took a long time, but I'm very proud of myself for not giving up. I feel like I've earned this one the hard way. Next time I won't let all the negativity and self doubt slow me down. Trying my best to stay positive!

I'm still new to all this, octoskull is only my 3rd big makeup. Here's a few things that I learned from doing this look.

- always have some type of sketch to save time. It will help me with artist block. I can't get it if I have a plan and know what I'm doing ahead of time.

-Start early or don't start at all.

- that I can do absolutely anything I put my mind to no matter how "difficult" it may appear.

-hard work pays off

-stay positive no matter what

I like to set goals for my makeup looks. For this one I wanted to go bigger then I have before. So I set a goal of 200 likes on Instagram. Just to give you an idea of how big that was for me, most of my looks at most have 50 likes. I had no idea how I was going to get 200 people to like my photo, I didn't even have 200 followers! In life we shouldn't worry so much about the how, we should focus all of our energy on the what. What I wanted was 200 likes and that's what I was going to get.

Just like with the alien makeup other artists played a huge part in making my goal a reality. Not only did I get 200 likes for octoskull, but I did it three times! Two out of the three times it got over 300 likes. I also hit 300 followers! I was amazed and extremely grateful for all the love and support. I couldn't have done it without help. A huge thank you goes out to everyone involved. Thank you for believing in my passion!

Here are the links to the Instagram accounts of the insanely talented artists above.

Lauraj_sfx http://instagram.com/lauraj_sfx

Madeleineharirian http://instagram.com/madeleineharirian

C_lina69 http://instagram.com/c_lina69

I'd also like to share what I do when I hit these goals. I go hiking with my fiancé. This time my best friend was able to join us. Here's some photos of our celebratory hike.