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Is your skin too healthy? Your hair too thick and shiny? Do you despair of never being able to create a scary Halloween look? Never fear! Follow the tips below to learn how to apply scary Halloween makeup to even the prettiest of faces.
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Mahalo Daily host Leah D'Emilio visits Cinema Secrets in Burbank, California, to find out some great tips on applying spooky Halloween makeup, movie style. D'Emilio learns about applying prosthetic makeup to give a "Vampire's Kiss" effect. Makeup artist "Troy" also demonstrates how to use makeup to transform into a creepy zombie.
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Introduction
- You look awful. Your skin is a strange hue of greenish-white. Your eyes are sunken in their sockets. Your red, bloody lips stretch back in a ghastly smile to reveal missing teeth. In fact, you look great. You look great because your Halloween makeup has been applied to perfection! Read on to see how you can apply scary Halloween makeup--and look awfully perfect.
What You'll Need
- Use high quality brushes, paints and other supplies for best results!Face Painting Designs: Starting Out
Materials
- Face paints (greasepaint) of various colors (black, gray, green, white, red, brown)
- Black eyebrow pencil
- Tooth blackner or fangs (available at most Halloween stores or craft stores)
- Moisturizer
- Fake gel blood (available at most Halloween stores or craft stores)
- Soft wax (available at most Halloween stores or craft stores)
- Water and soap
- Dry towel
- Baby Wipes
- Spirit Gum (available at most Halloween stores or craft stores)
- Flour
- Corn Syrup
- Coffee
Step 1: The Basics
- It's not scary if your skin is healthy and glowing, your eyes are sparkling or your teeth are white and shiny.
Pale or Sickly Skin
- Mix a small amount of gray and a tiny amount of dark green greasepaint together with a lot of white.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
- Continue to add gray, green or white greasepaint until you get the pale color you desire.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
- -The color you create can be the foundation for many different looks: add more green for a zombie or a witch, use mostly white for a vampire or play around until you find the perfect sickly shade.Make-Digital.com: Macabre Makeup: The Zombie Mahalo: How to Do Vampire Makeup
- Use your fingers to blend the color into the skin on your face, ears and neck.Third Eye Health: Gothic Makeup Tips How Vampires Are Created
- Apply a small amount of gray greasepaint under the cheekbones and at the temples.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
- Use the fan brush to blend this into shadows, to create a gaunt look.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
- For an extra sickly look, use a blue pencil to create thin veins on your face.Make-Digital.com: Macabre Makeup: The Zombie
- Use translucent powder to set the makeup.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Ideas: How to make a Fake Wound
- TIP: For quick and easy sickly skin, simply use pale face powder, makeup foundation, or baby powder. This is a more subtle look that works fine if you just want to look dead or dying.Yahoo Answers: How to create a sick, pale look for Halloween? Third Eye Health: Gothic Makeup Tips How Vampires Are Created
Spooky Eyes
- Follow the steps below to create eyes that sink back into their sockets, and eyebrows that are slightly sardonic.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
- Put black greasepaint on your upper and lower eyelids.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
- Shade the greasepaint so that it is darker along the eyelashes and along the contours of the eyeball, but not beyond it.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
- Use a black eyebrow pencil to draw in small hair lines on the eyebrows, arching them upwards to a point so that they are in a ^ shape.
- For angry eyebrows rather than sardonic, slant them upwards only in a / shape.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
Lips
- To look sick or dead, you want your lips to look lifeless. Color them with the same mixture or shade you used on the rest of your face.Make-Digital.com: Macabre Makeup: The Zombie
- You can also use bluish lipstick for a bloodless tinge.Yahoo Answers: How to create a sick, pale look for Halloween?
- To make your lips appear bloody, color them dark red with lipstick or face paint, and add some drops of fake gel blood at the corners.Halloween Online Magazine: How Vampires Are Created
Teeth
- For scary teeth you have a few choices depending on the look you are going for.
- You can insert a set of fangs for a scary vampire visage.Mahalo: How to Do Vampire Makeup
- Add crooked false teeth.Make-Digital.com: Macabre Makeup: The Zombie
- Blacken out a tooth or two using tooth blackner or a black tooth cap.How to Face Paint Blog: Halloween Make Up Ideas - Scars and Teeth
- Tint your teeth yellow.Make-Digital.com: Macabre Makeup: The Zombie
Step 2: Special Effects
- It's one thing to paint your face for Halloween, but take it to the next level by adding gruesome special effects!Martha Stewart: Halloween Costumes: Scary Makeup
Scars and Wounds
- To create realistic scars and wounds, you'll need wax, red face paint and gel blood.
- Use the small spatula to scrape a small amount of wax from the jar.MonkeySee.com: Molding Wax and Preparing the Forehead
- Place the wax on the heel of your hand and use the spatula to work it until it becomes soft and pliable.Face Painting Designs: Special Effects Scar
- Mold the wax into a long oval shape.Face Painting Designs: Special Effects Scar You want it to be thick in the middle and thin around the edges.MonkeySee.com: Molding Wax and Preparing the Forehead
- Use a brush to put spirit gum exactly where you want to apply the wound.MonkeySee.com: Molding Wax and Preparing the Forehead Stick the mold to your skin.
- Use the spatula to smooth the edges around the length of the scar.Face Painting Designs: Special Effects Scar
- Now you want to cover the wound with the base color you used on the rest of your your face. This way the wound will blend into your skin.MonkeySee.com: Molding Wax and Preparing the Forehead
- -If you started with clean skin, now is the time to use foundation to create a natural, blended look.
- Cut lengthwise through the center of the scar using the edge of your spatula.Face Painting Designs: Special Effects Scar
- Dip a sponge into red face paint.Face Painting Designs: Special Effects Scar
- Dab lightly around the scar and over the top of it.Face Painting Designs: Special Effects Scar
- Add fake gel blood through the center of the scar (where you made the cut).Face Painting Designs: Special Effects Scar
Bruises
- Create bruises by layering shades of red, dark blue, purple and green.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Tricks: How to Make Fake Bruises (Time: 2:35) You can use eyeshadow or face paint to form these painful bruises.
- Place a dab of dark blue eye shadow on your skin using a wet brush.Family Corner: Homemade Halloween Make-up, Bruises and Blood
- Add a bit of gray and more blue with your fingers, until it looks like a bruise.Family Corner: Homemade Halloween Make-up, Bruises and Blood
- Put the most color in the center of the bruise, then gradually lessen the color and blend into your skin for a natural looking bruise.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Tricks: How to Make Fake Bruises (Time: 2:35)
- Set this layer with translucent face powder.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Tricks: How to Make Fake Bruises (Time: 2:35)
- Add a shimmery olive green to the edges of the bruise.Family Corner: Homemade Halloween Make-up, Bruises and Blood
- Smudge the bruise until it looks nice and painful!Family Corner: Homemade Halloween Make-up, Bruises and Blood
- Finish with a light dusting of translucent face powder for a long lasting bruise.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Tricks: How to Make Fake Bruises
- For fresher looking bruise, alternate dark red and purple layers. Skip the green.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Tricks: How to Make Fake Bruises
- -Fresh bruises look great around an open wound effect.
- Bruises come in all shapes and sizes, so use your imagination and have fun!Expert Village: How to Make Fake Bruises for Halloween (Time: 1:05)
Skin flaps/torn skin
- Here is a great way to make old, torn or wrinkled skin.
- Rip up paper towels or facial tissue.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Ideas: How to make a Fake Wound
- Dip paper towels in cold coffee and let drip dry.Martha Stewart: Scary Makeup pg 2
- To stick the paper to your face, you have two choices.
- Mix up a simple paste consisting of:
- -2 tablespoons flour
- -1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon corn syrup
- -brown face paint or makeupMartha Stewart: Scary Makeup pg 2
- Or use liquid latex. Liquid latex is great because as it dries it shrinks pulling the skin together and creating a wrinkled effect.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Ideas: How to make a Fake Wound
- Mix up a simple paste consisting of:
- Apply mixture or latex to your face.
- Press paper towels onto your face.Martha Stewart: Scary Makeup pg 2
- Let a piece hang off to create a skin flap.Martha Stewart: Scary Makeup pg 2
- Use face paint to blend in with rest of skin.Martha Stewart: Scary Makeup pg 2
- Finish the look off by dabbing with face powder. This will set the makeup.YouTube: Halloween Special Effects Makeup Tips and Ideas: How to make a Fake Wound
- If you think staining paper is too much trouble, PNTA will show you how to use highlights and shadows to create the appearance of old, wrinkled skin.PNTA: Tips: Age and Character
Step 3: Don't Forget the Hair
- Your hair should be the "crowning glory" of your costume. The following are some ideas for creating creepy, Halloween hair.
- Use a temporary color dye.Beauty About.com: Yikes! The Creepiest Hair for Halloween!
- Use hair gel to shape your hair into amazing shapes.CBS.com: Horrific Halloween Hair (Time: 5:18)
- Use a straightener and crimper to alternate between very wavy and straight sections of hair.Beauty About.com: Yikes! The Creepiest Hair for Halloween!
- You can also crimp all your hair and shape it into a cone. Hold the shape with massive amounts of hair spray and finish with streaks of white for a truly terrifying look.CBS.com: Horrific Halloween Hair (Time: 5:18)
- Tease your hair dramatically for a wild and crazy, zombie look.Beauty About.com: Yikes! The Creepiest Hair for Halloween!
- Using a heavy gel, slick your hair completely back from your head.Beauty About.com: Yikes! The Creepiest Hair for Halloween!
Step 4: Remove the Makeup
- You perfected your scary Halloween look and had a wild night. Now, it's time to take it all off.
- Use baby wipes for removing the makeup around sensitive areas, such as the eyes, then wash the entire face with soapy water.Face Painting Designs: Starting Out
- Finish with a moisturizer, or a soothing lotion if the skin has been irritated by the paint.Face Painting Designs: Starting Out
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