Trick or Treat – Awesome Halloween Make up
It’s October! Don’t you just love the upcoming Halloween/Oiche Samhain festivities? Pumpkins, autumnal fruits and the customary ghosts and ghouls. It is that special time of year when the veil between the two worlds is at its thinnest. It is our own Irish Mardi Gras! This is your annual opportunity to dress up, let your creativity soar and have the craic in a topsy turvy, scary, funny Halloween world. But what are you going to dress up as?
To help you and your family embrace this wonderful time of transformation, we have found some of the best ideas for simple, scary, Halloween faces. And amazingly, these can be achieved by using just the contents of your make up bag!
Keep it simple with this upside down face which looks super creative, but only needs some shading on the nose and your usual make up slightly reversed. Confused??
Follow this clever YouTube video tutorial and enjoy an evening of confused faces as you blow their minds with this totally weird look.
Remember, getting ready for the evening should be as much fun as the party itself. Round up some good friends and a bottle of wine and enjoy a pre-party party as you get ready!
White powder faces are the perfect base for gruesome scars, burns and scary faces. Scars and Bullet Holes will successfully freak people out and won’t take much time or effort on your part. Get the base right. Apply Lancome La Base Pro, an ultra-soft, translucent make-up base to smooth your skin surface as well as increase the makeup hold. Then add a white coloured base all over your face. We recommend you use the Blank Canvas Airbrush Blender Sponge to apply your foundation. Soak the sponge in warm water for about one minute until it expands. Squeeze all the water out. A foundation brush like the Blank Canvas F02 Double Ended Foundation Brush is also very useful for applying the foundation first, and the choice is yours. Blend well with the Airbrush Blender sponge. Do stippling motions, by doing a gentle dabbing motion on your face. This white base is great for sugar skull faces or for any scary images you like. See our half dead model below.
Check out the best way to make an impressive bullet hole without buying expensive SFX (special effects) wax and make up here:
Don’t be afraid to go over the top. It is the one time of the year when you can actually get away with it!
Black Eyeliner is a one stop shop for Halloween. Draw a thick black super hero mask across your eyes. Draw on a weird spider web drooping from the eyes or go for a full skeleton face. Give yourself some full on Cleopatra eyes and don a sheet-toga if you want to walk like an Egyptian. Perhaps, you prefer to be cute and cuddly and less of a spectre. For kitten cute, you can draw a pussycat nose, whiskers and eyes and purr your way unto the dance floor. There is no doubt that black eyeliner is your best friend for that Oiche Samhain metamorphosis from Mammy to Mummy, from gorgeous to gruesome, from zero to zombie. (You get the idea!) Check out some more simple black eyeliner ideas here:
Contouring takes on a whole new meaning at Halloween. Dip your brush into the dusky eyeshadow and apply liberally to your face to bring out your inner Ghoul. This can be a very disturbing look when the right shading and contouring is used and at very little cost. You were seeking a ‘disturbing’ look, right? A good step by step guide to assist you from friend to fiend is available here: https://youtu.be/FYFpGFlJ6p4
Not all costumes need to scare the bejaypers out of everyone you meet. A cute scarecrow tutorial, which uses very small amounts of your precious make up, is available here: https://youtu.be/uXVw39lY82I .
This can be adapted for small people who want to go trick and treating. Team with a straw hat or headscarf and some dungarees. Hay is optional but would complete the look if it is added to cuffs and hems.
Finally, add some Clarins Fix Make Up to set your makeup and ensure that you have long lasting hold.
Trick or Treat Girls!