Hey everyone, welcome to my makeup tutorial for Magdelena Alanga, a cambion from the League in PD’s Empire. This usually takes me about an hour or so, it’s got quite a few steps but it’s a nice morning ritual and it’s fun to see my character slowly emerge.

Here is the stuff I use; all of it is super cheap because I am poor as dirt. I picked it up mostly from the internet and non branded makeup shops, the L.A Colour stuff I got for £1.50 each and everything else was mostly £1 - £4. I know practically nothing about make up but I am an illustrator and painter so most of the knowledge I put to use here comes from that. Quality of makeup doesn’t really matter to me as long as it shows up and doesn’t irritate my skin, it’s mostly the colours I’m concerned with.

This is my normal human face, I have a pretty tiny nose and high cheekbones so I like to bring those things out in Magdelena.

The general theory with this face is we are honing into the most intense colours, so with each layer we’re covering less of the face.

First things first, I use the gold lipstick to put down a large base colour over my forehead and cheeks leaving the lower half of my face alone because gradients are more natural and I think I would be really uncomfortable with the whole of my face covered. Lipstick is great for almost everything, if you can’t find the right shade of blusher, or a thick enough eyeshadow, I would say have a look at what colour lipsticks are available to you.

The rest of this tutorial consists mostly of me drawing on gradually more intense colours and blending them in. I use the tip of my finger and lots and lots of gentle patting and dragging in the direction of the contours of my face. This is the gold L.A Colour eyeliner, on the left is it drawn on where I want the colour most intense (above the eyebrows and the ridges of my cheekbones) and the right is it blended in.

Same again but with the bronze eyeliner, here I’m starting to pick out the areas I want to bring attention to, so adding ‘shadows’ to the cheekbones, starting to darken my little goat nose and covering my eyelids all the way up the my brows, blending it all in with fingers.



Stargazer bronze lipstick actually on my lips, but also on my nose and the eyelids. It’s usually at this point I start panicking that it looks awful and that I’ve forgotten how to do it.

Now I feel a little better, the brown eyeliner really starts to help. I darken my eyebrows, use it as actual eyeliner (a line above the lids but also on the inner part of the lower lid) the tip of my nose, right under my cheekbones and also as a lip liner, then blend blend blend!



FRECKLES! These are a huge part of Magdelena’s face, she does not look like herself until these babies are on. They also take attention away from the shoddy blending so it’s all good! That same brown eyeliner we used in the step before, just use that to dot about your face.

Tricks to make the freckles look more realistic:

- Do them in stages, a layer of dots then tap them out until they’re faded slightly, then another layer on top.

- Two thirds of the way through, sharpen the eyeliner, this changes the size of the freckles so you can do more detailed clumps of smaller ones.

With the gold liquid liner I add some more freckles around the eyes so that they catch the light when I move my face. Also if I feel up to it, a thin line of gold over the brown eyeliner on my lids and some mascara to really make my eyes striking.

And we’re done, seal it up with the lipstick sealant on the lips and the fixer over the whole face, I think this makeup has pretty good staying power but then again Magdelena doesn’t go onto the battle field or do any kind of physically strenuous activity so I don’t tend to sweat that much, if my face itches I have gotten into the habit of tapping the annoying area instead of scratching and that seems to work.

Add the wig (Dahlia from Geisha Wigs) and you have a lovely shiny cambion ready to ruin your day.

Let’s be best friends!