How to create Halloween Makeup

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Top tips for 5 killer Halloween Looks

Halloween makeup is a great chance to get fun and creative. Perhaps you’ve checked out my list of Halloween makeup ideas but want to know step by step how to create a look?

Look no further for five top ideas for Halloween makeup and costumes!

Simple Clown

Smile… though your heart is aching…smile…even though its breaking…⁠

Kick-off Halloween with a spooky mask look inspired by a truly spooky subject-clowns. Whether you have coulrophobia (the fear of clowns) or not, there’s no denying that a fakely happy clown is down right scary!

This simple look was created with eyeliner and eyeshadow in black, white and blue! 

First draw the outline of your shapes with black eyeliner. Then blend the colours of eyeshadow into the centre, finishing with the white in the middle as the lightest point. The blue is used to give greyscale to the design and for ease of blending black.

Products used:

• Bourjois Health Serum Foundation (Panning)⁠
• Revolution Fast Base Concealer⁠
• Soap and Glory Supercat liner⁠
• Soap and Glory Thick and Fast Mascara⁠
• Revolution large eyeshadow palette (shades-white, black and a dark blue)

Pumpkin Queen

Think of Halloween, think of pumpkins!

I wanted to created a creepy pumpkin inspired look but without the facepaint/obvious pumpkin makeup.

This pumpkin-inspired makeup was created with the use of a variety of orange tones. 

I created this makeup inspired by the starting scene of Nightmare Before Christmas, which also gave me a great excuse to wear this fabulous coat!

Keeping the makeup simple is key. Instead of face paint I used orange eyeshadow to create a dramatic look and orange contour. All the colours of eyeshadow used were from the Patricia Bright x Revolution Makeup Rich in Life palette.

Using a palette with dark orange, bright orange, yellow and bronze shades I was able to create an ombre of contour on the face. As well as bold blends on the eyes.

A heavy black liner around the eyes gives the impression of a Jack-o-Lanterns cut outs. Along with an overly large smile created with black lipstick. I set the black with black eyeshadow to increase its depth. Finishing with a touch of shimmer. 

Mama Wolf

Here is a look I did for the monster mash-up theme of Color Me Halloween.

I created a werewolf inspired mask using Snazaroo face paints to dress as the mother werewolf-Wanda-with her hundreds of pups from the film series Hotel Transylvania!

Start with a yellow, mark out your mask shape then add in darker shades in strokes leaving the centre lighter and the edges darker to represent fluff! You will want to use 3-4 colours in total to help get the textured look-try not to let the colours blend too much!

Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice is back in cinemas this September with a sequel. That means you know the Beetlejuice makeups are going to be back in full force this Halloween.

For the madcap main character of Beetlejuice, known as Betelgeuse, a messy, un-dead look is required!

To create this I lightly wet a sponge and dragged it through white face paint and blended this out to pale out my face-other pale products would work for this. Tinges of blue/green help to balance out any natural colour and a dusting of green eyeshadow or powder over the faces will add to the look! Dark green can also be added in patches to represent his moudly skin-blargh!

If you wanted to you can also use liquid latex here and peel bits of for a rough effect. It’s up to you how complicated you make this design as he is a very recognisable figure.

I then used black and purple eye shadow in the eye socket, up to and including the eyebrows. Eye shadow works better then face paint for this look as you want a powdery almost zombie appearance rather than a sharply defined skull as you could create with face paint. Eye liner around the eyes helps them to pop.

Now all you have to do is pull some wacky expressions! Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…

Safari Gone Wrong

When they tell you to stay in the safari vehicle they mean it… 

This safari gone wrong makeup was created using basic makeup and a small amount of face paint.

I started with a natural everyday makeup and then built up layers of disaster.

• Red, white and black face paint for scratches
• Black and brown eyeshadow for dirt
• Red, yellow and blue eyeshadow for bruising
• Red face paint or fake blood can be used for fresh cuts/bloody noses
• Black facepaint for tears.

What other characters would you love to see me re-create? Let me know in the comments!