Who's ready..

For me to start making videos? I think I developed the confidence. Keep in mind no editing software just my iPhone and webcam. Get pumped to laugh at how ridiculous I am.

Welcome the new co- manager!

An amazing and talented friend of mine agreed to help me keep the looks on this page stunning and a bit more active. His style is so different from mine and stunning. I started this blog to help people who are looking for new makeup ideas and techniques, no internet fame, and the best way to do that is to show both sides of the mirror. My simple everyday pretty neutral looks is now being combined with some sassy bold new creations. Everyone welcome Dashawn and keep checking back for his welcoming intro and whatever fun and elegantly defined makeup looks he thinks of.

Thank you sweetie for joining me words can't say how over joyed I am.
With love,
Layne Helen

More creations and a rant. Yippee.

So also while I was on my massive break from updating I created some new necklaces. A lot of these are revamped pieces where I just changed out the chain or resized them, some are chains I completely tore apart and put back in new ways, and a lot are old charms, earrings that lost their match, navel rings, and things of that nature. Enjoy the mass amount of pictures of the magic I can do with junk jewelry and my trusty pliers.

This was two different navel ring charms.

My 'lucky' earring that lost it's match, also elephant related things are very sentimental to me from my great aunt that passed away. These just caught my eye at Walmart over the summer.

This is another unmatched earring I originally got at Spencer's and this is the only piece I made as a gift for my best friend and cousin.

Couldn't get a clear picture but this is one of the first charms I remember my grandmother giving me, yes I'm a Scorpio and topaz is my birthstone.

I think this one was just an individual charm in the craft section of Walmart.

So old I honestly have no idea where it's from or how it got into my possession but I finally found a nice chain that matched it.

This is blue topaz with small diamonds around it from one of my grandmother's trips to Aruba. She got me another like this because I told her I didn't like the orange tone of normal topaz. This is my 'dainty' one.

If you couldn't already guess I found this at Claire's I have a weird obsession with mood jewelry.

This beauty is a gift from my best friend and cousin. She got it for me off Etsy and no it is not Harry Potter related. I'm an ultra Legend of Zelda fan girl so she got these as a set, they're from Majora's Mask she has Tatl and gave me Tael. I wasn't too much of a fan of the original chain it came with so I did a small revamping of that. I love it either way. 

Way back in the day this chain was originally a replica of Yuna's necklace in Final Fantasy X, which I'm also a huge fan girl of, and the sparrow I've had since my goth kid days. Eventually both were so worn and old that it's like they broke for each other.

This is a random medallion from Michael's (the craft store) from back when I first started doing hemp.

Before I show my 'trademark' and family necklaces I figured why not show the pendants I have that switch from chains to black ribbon chokers. I actually feel pretty naked without a choker on, and one of these I wore for the first time the night my current man and I told each other ''I love you", the rest I simply find pretty. 

I guess I get this habit from my mother, I always wear this chain, usually under my shirt, but it's a charm for my family. From left to right: I stole that classy looking pearl charm from my sister so clearly that resembles her, the apple I got with my mom one day when she took me to Goodwill for the first time, the heart has always been mine and yes I used to bite it when I would get nervous, and like I mentioned earlier that is the other blue topaz and diamond pendant my grandmother got me from Aruba. These four charms are always kept close to my heart so in a way they're always with me, and I went through a lot of self hate years so I always keep my heart charm in this so I never forget to equally care about myself.

If you've looked at any picture of me from a couple months ago back to I can't even remember I've had this pendant on either a chain, choker, or even hemp. Sadly not so much anymore because as you can see it's broken before and clearly glue isn't enough to fix it for good. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE HIPPIE PENDANTS AND IT'S NOT A HAMSA HAND! Once again this is a pendant I've stolen from my sister so much she eventually gave it to me. This is a piece of jewelry I can refer to as a personal 'trademark'.

Last but one of my top favorite pendants. Another random medallion I also found at Michael's when I first started doing hemp. Up until very recently this has been on a hemp necklace I made so very long ago and yes it is heavy so I had to repair that necklace way too often. This is another one of my personal 'trademark' pieces. No I'm clearly not a Pisces, I've been asked that far too much, I've always just been drawn to this for some reason. Could be that I have always been fascinated and in love with the ocean, or it could be from my family always calling me a 'water baby' from when I was born to even still today (I never drank anything but water growing up, I hated juice, milk, soda, all of it. And I can and have taken like a thousand baths in one day for hours and I've always been content and most calm in my baths.) 

Anyway there is all the necklaces, charms, and pendants that I've revamped or recreated in the past few weeks that I've been giving my skin a break and sadly neglecting this blog. After all it is called "Layne Helen Creations" so here's more of my creations. This post was mainly so when years go by and these pieces break more, fade, or get changed again I'll have something to look back on to remember my work and my signature pieces. Hope somebody out there enjoyed this, it should be nice for everyone out there to know that if they think their jewelry is weird there's always something weirder.

With love,

Layne Helen 

What I did last night..

I intended for this to only be a 'beauty' blog but my skin needed a break and my quick and simple everyday makeup isn't anything special to post about. So I figure this is called Layne Helen Creations because makeup isn't my only hobby and passion. I'm mainly a broad spectrum body modification fanatic, I personally find it mesmerizing and fantastic that we, as a species, are the first on this planet to be able to physically alter our appearances and form however we feel whenever we feel. Also if you haven't noticed from my pictures I'm pretty addicted to piercings. I've been wanting to pierce up my ears a bit for a long time I just didn't have the time or energy, but last night I didn't feel like sleeping so it seemed like the perfect time to get the basics of the looks I want done. Kinda wanted to hit 30 piercings to.

Anyway, my lobes are stretched to a half inch and that's not going to change. In my opinion a half inch is enough for me to feel like a boss, in my own awkward way of thinking, but they're not massive where they dis-form my ear shape. I've kept my second hole 'normal' simply because I still like wearing the cute earrings I have. My 3rd, 4th, and 5th holes on both sides are a 14g.. I don't know maybe in time I'll size them up but I'm content with how they are right now. I had my 6th holes for awhile and I just keep them as normal sized silver studs just to keep the look standard. Years ago when I did my cartilage on both sides I really just didn't have the right jewelry for them at the time and over the years it's kinda become a type a trademark for me to have navel bars.. Honestly I have no idea why but it looks decent and it's comfortable so I change out the colors and designs occasionally but other than that those don't change either. Last pre- existing piercing is my left tragus, and for awhile I had a 16g eyebrow bar in there but I changed it to a 18g nostril hoop, I did use my handy pliers and cut off a bit of it and reshaped it so it wasn't awkwardly unnecessarily huge.

So last night I did the same thing to another nostril hoop I had and matched my right tragus to my left and it was pretty painless. I've always wanted that spiked ear mohawk look so I pierced the inside of my cartilage and that hurt more than I can put into words, sad part is it's pretty much invisible on both sides at the moment because I put in little acrylic spiked 16g eyebrow bars. I'll bring them up to a 14g once they heal a bit. Then I was thinking about adding another on the other sides of my two middle cartilage piercings but thankfully I realized that would make sleeping, wearing my glasses, touching my hair, anything and everything incredibly painful, so instead I did two more little side piercings on each side, 7th and 8th, that just follow up the rim of my ear. Nothing special but I like them and I'll love them once they heal enough to get my 14g labret studs in because my need to have all of them match and symmetrical is overwhelming.

So yeah that's a little update of my piercings, not really a big deal but I'm happy I got all of them done that night. I'm just such a piercing junkie and I'm so happy I finally hit 30 in total. Yay me.

With love,
Layne Helen

Just something I have to mention.

When I was in high school I was pretty anorexic, I made it down to 98lbs. before my family and friends started saying how unhealthy and sickly I looked. At the time I was dating an insane stoner and he got me into smoking daily and that helped me gain back the weight where I was still happy with how I looked but I didn't have bones poking out and all that. I stayed at a pretty average weight ranging from 110lbs. to 125lbs. over the years until my ex fiance came around. He only cooked fried foods, like bacon wrapped chicken breaded and deep fried, in the year and a half we were together I also drank a lot of wine and champagne. He got me up to 175lbs. when he left me this past Valentine's Day, I'm only 5'2''. I drank vodka and did quite a few drugs I won't ever do again as my way of getting over him, of course I slowly started loosing the weight but I still binge ate like no one's business. When I weighed myself last month I was in the 150's range, like I said I formally had an eating disorder so I don't weigh myself often because that is a bad trigger for me. I finally started to try and be healthy and diet, as in a long term effort of curving my appetite and instead of grabbing a bag of chips I started having applesauce as my new healthy alternative. Also it was the most plentiful thing in my house. I still eat real food for dinner since I normally don't get hungry until night time. I've yet to weigh myself to see my progress, personally I'd rather wait long enough to actually see a difference when I start feeling more slim and confident, I'm almost positive I've lost a good amount because I'm starting to drop a bra size. I'm a heavy cigarette smoker and I'm really not that active but by simply changing my snack and munchie food to something healthy my skin is getting clearer, my clothes are fitting better, and I'm actually gaining so much energy that I might start exercising a little. I thought I lost all hope and that I'd never feel like myself again and I'm not promoting or advertising because I'm not saying any 'miracle products' or even brand names.

I just felt like I had to share my little lifestyle change that's helping me be me again. Don't lose hope. Don't starve or drug yourself. Just replace your guilty pleasure snack food with something healthy in moderation. It doesn't have to be a huge new diet system to make a difference.


My laptop currently hates me and I'm not a fan of using my mom's desktop so sorry for being so inactive, I'm running out of time but later tonight when I get home I will post some creations I've been working on. Stay tuned.
With love,
Layne Helen

Bold Kindness

So for this look I started off with my Clean and Clear dual action moisturizer, my NYX primer base, and my Neutrogena shine control primer on my oily spots. I wanted a very high coverage for this look so I used the Wet n Wild coverall cream foundation in 816 fair light, a layer of NYX above and beyond full coverage concealer, a layer of Rimmel match perfection in 101 classic ivory, and another layer of NYX concealer on my problem areas before patting on the Cover Girl professional loose powder in 105 translucent fair. I primed my eyes with NYX eyeshadow base and filled my eyebrows with the NYX eyebrow cake powder in ECP06 blonde. My shadows are various shades from the Coastal Scents 252 ultimate eyeshadow palette. My eyebrows are framed with Rimmel soft kohl eyeliner pencil in 071 pure white, Maybelline coverstick concealer in white, with some Revlon oyster metallic blended into the crease colors. For my contour I used Maybelline Fit Me pressed powder in 330 toffee caramel, and Elf blush 40106 tickled pink. Sephora nano in 05 native nude to line and fill my lips with Covergirl outlast lip color in 593. My lashes are the Elf natural lash kit 1713 with my new favorite liner Rimmel gel eyeliner in 001 black, with a coat of Rimmel scandal eyes rockin' curves mascara in 001 black.

This look was inspired by someone I met recently during a very hard time, for personal reasons I won't disclose the terms of the situation. However this woman is the first and only person I met under these circumstances that has ever showed and support, consideration, or concern for anyone but themselves. I wasn't eavesdropping on her conversation but I couldn't help but over hear her phone call, in regards to that it was easy to see that she is reliable and in a way she was way too sweet to deal with what was happening to her. Crystal I know I didn't really talk until this morning but you really made last night bearable by just showing that you don't have to know someone like the back of your hand to show you care. I hope you see this soon and find a way to contact me if you want any beauty procedures done or just to let me know you're okay. Until then I hope I hear from you and to everyone else, enjoy this look and stay tuned for more to come.
With love,
LayneHelen

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Nails

A few years back I did my nails with triforces and spiritual stones from the favored classic Nintendo game, The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the N64. Well tonight I realized I need a pedicure dreadfully bad so I recreated my former design. My white polish is old and gunky but once I get acrylic paint they'll look millions of times better. Maybe there will be a tutorial in the future, but for now enjoy my sloppy fan girl toes.