How to paint yourself for Halloween

If you've been invited to a Halloween party, it's time to think about your look. If you have already decided on a character, then you need to choose the appropriate costume, accessories and paraphernalia, and also take care of the hairstyle. But in order for the image to be complete and realistic, special attention should be paid to makeup or make-up. If you have no idea how to paint your face for Halloween, then a few valuable tips and ideas will help you make your choice.

Preparing the face

Makeup for a man, woman or child should always be applied only to a previously prepared face. Otherwise, you risk damaging your skin or even getting chemical burns. It is necessary to thoroughly degrease the upper layers of the skin; to do this, wash with regular soap, and then use any toner containing alcohol. Then apply a thin layer of cream or makeup base, this will protect your face from the harmful and drying effects of cosmetics.

Makeup options for women

How to paint a woman's or girl's face for Halloween? Everything will depend on the image and complexity of the costume; we will consider the most popular options.

Gothic makeup

Classic gothic style makeup is suitable for the image of a witch, demoness, mistress of shadows or black widow. This Halloween face painting doesn't take much time and doesn't require any special skills.

1. To begin with, the skin must be whitened using light powder, theatrical makeup or white shadows. You can use watercolors or gouache, but then the result will not be as realistic. You can make whitewash yourself; to do this, you need to mix a rich cream with white clay or loose dye and apply it to the skin with a wide brush.

Skeleton image

It is very difficult to make such an unusual face makeup for Halloween, but the result is worth the effort and time spent.

1. First you need to draw the contours of the main bones of the skull. The places where the bones are supposed to be located are painted over with white, the voids are highlighted in black. The main elements of drawing are the eyes, nose, cheekbones and jaw. If your costume does not cover the neck and décolleté, you need to draw the cervical spine and upper chest.
2. Start painting with the “voids”; for this use black and dark gray shadows. The intensity of the shade should decrease from the center to the edges.
3. Paint the rest of the face white. Cover your lips completely. Using silver and light gray shadows, highlight the cheekbones and temporal lobes.
4. The finishing touches. The lines of teeth and protruding bones need to be made very sharp and clear, for this you will use liquid eyeliner or a pencil.

Artistic images

It is not at all necessary to make a scary and frightening face with makeup for Halloween: the photos presented below are a clear confirmation of this. Your image can be mysterious, fatal and even romantic. With the help of theatrical makeup, you can turn your face into a real work of art.

When applying makeup, it is worth remembering that it must be in the same color scheme as the costume. Too rich a palette of colors can spoil the image and turn it into a carnival one.

Makeup options for men

If everything is clear with the fair sex, then how can the male half of the population paint their faces for Halloween? The stronger sex is much luckier in this regard, because their image can be truly terrifying, while girls still want to preserve a little femininity and beauty.

the walking Dead

Perhaps the most popular characters among guys are skeletons and zombies. However, the variations are very different; it could be a stylish skeleton guy or a real Horseman of Death. But the general essence of the makeup does not change, usually it is a white face and dark accents on some parts of the skull.

If you want to emphasize individuality and stand out from the gray mass, then for the makeup idea you can use the image of a character from your favorite movie or comic book. Particularly popular are heroes such as Edward Scissorhands or the Mad Hatter. Fans of the Batman films can use Joker or Harley-Joker makeup. But fans of Marvel comics are the luckiest, as they have hundreds of thousands of characters to choose from, from the Hulk to Spider-Man.

Don't forget about the youngest family members. Although children prefer to wear scary masks on their faces, you can choose a look for Halloween that doesn't require them at all. Therefore, interesting makeup will help complement the costume.

Makeup for girls

How to paint a girl's face for Halloween? This primarily depends on her age and costume. For a baby, for example, the image of Pumpkin will be very suitable.

1. Take paint or theatrical makeup and draw the outline of a pumpkin on the child's face. It should cover the eyebrows, cheeks and top of the chin. Using different shades, create a smooth gradient from light yellow to bright orange. The color intensity intensifies from the center to the edges.
2. Using brown paint, draw longitudinal curved lines. They will imitate pumpkin sectors.
3. Using black eyeliner or gouache, apply triangular eyes and a carved mouth for the future holiday pumpkin.
4. Complete the makeup with the stem and green leaves.

An older girl can dress up as a witch; for this she will need bright and beautiful makeup. Use different sparkles and rich colors. And to give the image a holiday spirit, draw a cobweb, bat wings or an imp’s tail. Well, if your daughter is not afraid to be funny, she will like the image of a real witch with a creepy green face.

Boys can choose many options for holiday makeup. Various animal characters are very popular. For example, a puppy, kitten or tiger cub. They are very easy to draw and look quite cute. For a more specific look, it is worth choosing individual makeup. If your son decided to be Count Dracula, then you should apply vampire makeup; if he chose a superhero costume, then the symbolism of Batman or Spider-Man will come in handy. And for the living dead, zombie or skeleton there are detailed photo instructions.

After the holiday, you need to properly remove makeup from your face. For this, it is better to use special milk, but if you don’t have it, you can get by with water and soap. To do this, wet your face with warm water and apply a little liquid soap to a cotton pad or sponge. Wait until the paint becomes soft and fluid, and remove it layer by layer with gentle movements. Do not rub your skin or smear makeup all over your face; harmful substances may get into your eyes. After washing, wipe your skin with an alcohol-containing toner and moisturize with a rich cream.

The celebration of Halloween in our country is becoming larger every year. Everyone wants to look spectacular at an All Saints' Day party. Therefore, it is important to choose an image, an appropriate outfit and make a scary Halloween makeup.

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DIY scary Halloween makeup

You can do original makeup for the scariest day of the year yourself, using cosmetics or aqua makeup. Below are options that will make a girl the star of any party.

Makeup “Corpse Bride”

The image of this bright character implies the presence of an old wedding dress (preferably torn, dirty), a blue wig, a flower wreath and a veil. In addition, you need to do the appropriate Halloween makeup at home.

The sequence of actions is as follows:

1. A pale face can be achieved using various means. The first is a mixture of blue shadows with white powder, and the second is a pale blue makeup. Also, do not forget about the whole body so that the image is complete.
2. Next, outline the eyes (the area around the eyebrows and under the lower eyelid) with purple and blue. Use the same shade to highlight the line of the nose, temples, and cheekbones. This is done in order to emphasize thinness. Fill in the eyelids with white pencil to create huge eyes.
3. Outline the white area with black. Draw eyelashes along the outer side, highlighting the nostrils. Particular attention to the eyebrows. They should be thin and quite original in shape. For their clarity, eyeliner is used. Plus, you need to draw the pupils in such a way that the bride’s gaze is directed upward.
4. Apply bright pink lipstick to your lips and attach a deep blue wig.
5. The final touch is a golden wreath. The bright image of the cartoon heroine is ready.

Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad

Following the success of the movie Suicide Squad, this character is one of the most sought after characters at Halloween parties. Harley is the crazy, merciless and charismatic girlfriend of the Joker.

Makeup can be done step by step as follows:

1. Apply a light foundation to your face. Using shadows or paints, accent the eyes with pink and blue, like the character’s. Blend thoroughly, as if the paint had spread across the cheeks.
2. Apply bright red lipstick to your lips. You can add glitter on top.
3. Highlight the line of the nose, cheekbones and temples in a darker tone. Use black paint to outline your face from the forehead to the neck under the chin. At the cheeks, the line should become oblique, passing through the lower part of the cheekbones.
4. Highlight your eyebrows. Outline the lips with black, making small strokes with a brush. The same careless stripes should run along the nose, on the black line of the cheekbones, next to the eyebrows. Add white to the lower lip and upper lip.
5. All that remains is to put on a spectacular, memorable wig and choose a suitable costume.

Cat image: execution sequence

Cat makeup for Halloween is easy and won't take much time. This image is popular due to its mysticism, as well as “collaboration” with sorcerers and witches. To work, you will need a minimum of cosmetics: mascara, black pencils of different thicknesses, bright coral lipstick, light green eye shadow, blush and foundation for the face.

The process is divided into stages:

1. Having transformed the skin of the face with a tonal foundation and highlighting the cheekbones, you need to move on to the eyes. You can outline your eyes with a sharp black pencil or liquid eyeliner. You definitely need to make arrows. Apply green shadows to the upper and lower eyelids, blend the black pencil on top for greater expressiveness.
2. Apply eyelashes top and bottom. It is best to choose a lengthening mascara.
3. Using a pencil, paint over the tip of the nose and draw a line to the upper lip. Outline its outer part also in black.
4. Add mustache dots and apply lipstick or bright gloss on your lips. The makeup is ready, all that remains is to choose a beautiful outfit and attach the ears and tail.

Drawing spectacular lips

If you need to do makeup for a doll or witch for Halloween, special attention should be paid to the lips. The correct choice of tone largely determines how well the makeup will look.

Below is one option:

1. Outline your lips with a black pencil, drawing a thicker line in the corners.
2. Carefully paint your lips with bright purple lipstick.
3. Paint the middle of the upper and lower lips with a white or light pink tone. You can add a drop of transparent glitter.

Eye-catching makeup with a skull element

Skull makeup for half the face requires care and black and white makeup. It goes great with a leather jacket or a black slim dress.

Instructions for implementation:

1. Using white makeup or powder, lighten one half of the face.
2. Paint half of the nose black, outline only one eye, draw a line from the ear to the corner of the lips.
3. Completely fill in the eye, making a thicker dark base near the ear, moving towards the chin.
4. Using a brush, draw vertical stripes on the lips from shortest to longest.
5. Blend the black over your lips until you get a gray tint. Add other touches: highlight the upper line of the forehead, make streaks around the eye.
6. Apply makeup to the other half of the face as usual, using burgundy lipstick, eyeliner and dark eye shadow. To consolidate the result, you can use a makeup fixing spray.

Makeup with cobwebs

The usual option of applying cobwebs to the face with a black pencil or paints can be complemented by using red makeup.

The sequence of actions is as follows:

1. Prepare your face using foundation, powder and blush. Outline your eyes with black, highlight your eyebrows, apply a thick layer of red shadow to your eyes, after painting your eyelids with a black tint. To make the look more expressive, it is recommended to display red arrows.
2. Paint the upper part of the face with red paint, shading the edges. Outline the area around the eyes and eyebrows with a thick pencil in the shape of a pentagon.
3. Draw a straight line from the center of the forehead to the tip of the nose. Draw the remaining stripes at an angle. Do this so that the lines on top seem to be mirrored below.
4. Connect the strips with small arcs, as in the photo, to make a web. The image is ready!

Photos of witch, clown and vampire makeup

Effective makeup is the key to success at a themed party. Makeup for a witch, werewolf, vampire for Halloween - all this requires thoughtfulness and careful preparation. Below are photos that show successful options for eye and lip makeup. For example, thickly painted eyelashes and burgundy lips with droplets of blood, tattoos on different parts of the face, or bright lenses imitating the eyes of a reptile look impressive. You can experiment with cool colors, make your face blue and white, and decorate your lips with silver sparkles.

Skeletons

Makeup of a skeleton or the popular “Sugar Rocks” is a win-win option for the holiday. You can do it in a moderate style or go all out and make the face incredibly realistic. This option is for brave girls who prefer a frightening, spectacular look. Ideas with different execution styles can be seen in the photo.

Creepy clowns

Brightly colored clowns evoke fear and horror in many people. This Halloween makeup look will definitely be a hit. It is not necessary to make a classic circus performer with a red nose and golden curls. A clown can be glamorous, scary with bloody smudges, or mystical or gothic. You can see the different options in the images below.

Animal images

For lovers of glamor, the image of a witch's assistant - a black cat - is ideal. Here you can experiment with makeup options, come up with bright details, and add fun accessories. In addition, the version of a deer girl with thick long eyelashes and calm makeup looks interesting. Examples in photographs.

Dolls are an incredibly scary image for a party

A spectacular, but rather difficult to execute image of a doll from horror films. It is on this holiday that a dusty abandoned doll will be able to take revenge on everyone who left her alone. The main decorative element of the image is the cracks on the porcelain face, as in the photo below. The makeup of the famous doll from the sensational horror film called “Saw” looks original.

The witch is a popular image for the autumn holiday

Evil, insidious witches always cause horror, frighten with their mystical abilities and ability to control people. By choosing this look, you can give free rein to your imagination in clothing and makeup. On Halloween, it will be appropriate to look like an angry, daring witch or as a modest one, hiding her cunning under a cute girlish mask.

Other memorable images

When preparing for the scariest party of the year, you don't have to go with the standard images of cats, witches or vampires. Those around you will be delighted if a bright unicorn with a blue mane, an imp with flower horns and thickly painted eyelashes, or a garden scarecrow with a sewn-up mouth appears at the celebration. Variants of these images are presented below.

Video of beautiful Halloween makeup

Video makeup for Halloween is the easiest way to create a spectacular look with minimal time investment. You can see how to make a frightening original makeup for the holiday from the video “Lightning on the Face”:

Another option is to transform into a zombie. The nuances of performing simple makeup are given in the video “Zombies for Halloween”:

For the holiday, it is important to think through every detail of the chosen image. Properly selected clothes, shoes, hairstyle, manicure and makeup will help you stand out from the crowd and add an intimidating and incredibly impressive atmosphere to the celebration. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment and show interest in the chosen character.

Witch, ghost, skeleton or clown – who will you be this Halloween? Find dozens of ideas for thematic makeup in our beauty dossier

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Text: Editorial staff of Makeup.ru September 19, 2017

Any holiday or party is an occasion to try on an unusual make-up look. But if, for example, New Year's or wedding makeup still has its own unspoken rules, then Halloween makeup can be anything: eccentric, frightening or absolutely crazy. On All Hallows' Eve, we all feel a little like children - and we shouldn't suppress this feeling. Be bolder! And we will tell you how to extract maximum practical benefits from this mood. By the way, you can find some useful tips in the video below.

How to make Halloween makeup at home?

When creating complex makeup for Halloween, they often resort to the help of professional makeup. But it’s not at all necessary to buy a dozen special pigments for one image, which will then gather dust on the shelves. You can create original makeup for Halloween using regular makeup products. Read more about which ones you will need in this section.

What do you need to create makeup for Halloween? 5 means

Mascara that will help create the effect of spider legs, long-lasting blood-red lipstick to imitate bruises and a black liner that draws “dark” details - products that are sure to be found in any cosmetic bag. What else could be useful for a Halloween themed make-up?

If you only use nude eyeshadows and only allow yourself textures with shimmer on holidays, it's time to reconsider your habits. This palette of bright pink, purple and yellow shadows will not only be useful for creating a remarkable Halloween look, but it may also encourage you to experiment with makeup in your everyday life. With its help you can create, for example, fashionable eye makeup in red or pink tones. By the way, a smokey eye palette will also come in handy - what would Halloween be without black eye shadow?

You will need it if you want to create a romantic, rather than scary, look for Halloween. Why not become a forest nymph, mermaid or fairy fairy for one night? Adding a little glitter to your look is the easiest way to make your makeup festive, so don’t put the jar away: New Year is just around the corner.

We don’t get tired of singing odes to this magical make-up product – and we won’t stop until the make-up base is in every cosmetic bag. Use primers for the face and eyelids so that your Halloween makeup is frightening in its authenticity, and not in the fact that it runs an hour after the party starts.

Dashingly raised “devilish” arrows, freckles like Pippi Longstocking - all this is painted with eyeliner, which can be found in most beauty brands (take a closer look at the versions from the YSL, NYX Professional Makeup and Maybelline collections). And this product will definitely not sit idle in your makeup bag when Halloween passes. In everyday life, you can use colored eyeliner to draw fashionable bright arrows for the eyelids.

Still haven't gotten yourself a set of good makeup brushes? A Halloween party is a great excuse to do that important task that you've been putting off for a long time. Explore our detailed beauty dossier on makeup brushes to create the perfect basic set for yourself.

5 Halloween Makeup Tips

Remember these simple makeup tricks that will come in handy when creating truly scary Halloween looks.

10 Easy and Simple Halloween Makeup Ideas

Before we start discussing the really difficult – and scary! – images, we suggest looking at a selection of make-up solutions that will help you create an interesting thematic make-up without extra effort.

Paint your lips with a thick foundation that is a tone lighter than your skin. Cut out a lip-shaped shape from thick paper, place it on your cheek and outline it with a permanent pencil. Fill in the empty space with long-lasting matte lipstick. Ready!

Bright shadows with strong shimmer, applied right up to the eyebrows, plus a juicy glossy lip gloss will make you the queen of the dance floor in no time.

One of the most fashionable trends of recent years is bright freckles, which can be “worn” not only in the sunny season: this beauty trick is also useful for Halloween. Apply a little loose glitter to your face, mark freckles with a pencil (we showed how to do this here) or instead of regular dots, draw hearts, as in the picture.

Barbie is the last thing on your mind when it comes to Halloween. But why not, for the sake of variety, try on the most doll-like look of all time? Paint your lips with bright pink glossy lipstick, apply purple eye shadow to your eyes and blend it into a haze (for example, like in this video). Draw a classic arrow with black eyeliner and thickly coat your eyelashes with mascara.

Under the lower eyelids, blend shadows with a bronze tint, and use them to highlight the inner corners of the eyes. Paint your lips with brick red lipstick, add a little golden glitter to them (to create a similar lip makeup, see our photo instructions). Cover your entire face generously with shining loose glitter, and set your makeup with a setting spray.

This ironic make-up look is accessible even to those who find mascara difficult to use. Use an eyeliner to draw dotted lines, then outline them with long-lasting black eyeliner. Apply matte red lipstick to your lips. Of course, this kind of makeup looks more impressive with clear arrows, but you can do without them.

The author of this image calls for silence, but you can write your own message on the motionless eyelid. It’s okay if the inscription is not too smooth, the main thing is to design it so that it is easy to read.

The superhero costume is traditionally one of the most popular at Halloween parties. Why not experiment with makeup? This bright version of the “superhero mask” will definitely attract everyone's attention!

Another interesting option for using colored eyeliner. To draw David Bowie's signature lightning bolt on your face, use paper tape. Use it to mark the boundaries of the drawing, and then it’s up to you.

Halloween is a holiday during which you need to overcome your fears. What do girls fear most? That's right, smudged lipstick. It's time to look this fear squarely in the face!

Halloween makeup - 5 DIY looks

Are drawings and messages on your face a past stage for you? Are you ready to move on to a more challenging level? Then watch our step-by-step photo and video tutorials on creating popular Halloween looks. We'll tell you how to replicate makeup in the style of the Joker and Harley Quinn, and show you how to turn into a terrifying doll.

Makeup dolls for Halloween

You don't have to buy extra makeup to replicate the creepy look of a ventriloquist doll. Everything you need can probably be found in a basic cosmetic bag: eyeliner, dark gray eye shadow, black pencil, red lipstick and foundation. But for this make-up it is better to use a foundation lighter than your natural skin tone, so that your face turns out deathly pale.

Makeup Harley Quinn

The look of the supervillain from Suicide Squad after the film's release became as classic a Halloween makeup look as Santa Muerte and Catwoman. Its main advantage is that it does not require precision in execution, so even beginners can create it. Follow our photo instructions.

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