Wake up the little monster for you for Halloween! Skeleton, zombie, clown, devil, for children and adults alike, find easy-to-reproduce tutorials to make those around you tremble.
Children and adults alike, everyone likes to dress up on Halloween, but terrifying makeup is necessary to enhance the outfit and complete the transformation into a monster. A few greasy eyeshadows are enough to become, for an evening, one of those creatures of the night that roam the streets on Halloween. From simple and quick make-ups for children eager to go in search of candy to other more precise and scary ones for adults, here are some easy-to-reproduce tutorials to transform anyone into a horrifying creature. All you have to do is amaze and terrify the neighborhood!
Halloween makeup must be adapted to each situation and each person. Be aware that the pattern will be different if it is a child or an adult. A little too realistic or a little too complex makeup could traumatize your toddlers or wear out their patience. Indeed, a child under 5 will remain quiet for a very short time, so it is advisable to choose an easy-to-reproduce Halloween makeup idea such as a simple pirate motif, a pumpkin or a clown’s head. To make up children, it is also preferable to avoid the area around the eyes and mouth. If your child really can’t let it go, you can opt for a halloween mask.
The material for a disguise makeup is easily found in specialized stores or in toy stores. Instead, it is recommended to use suitable make-up that will be hypoallergenic and non-toxic in the event of accidental ingestion, especially if you are doing make-up for young children. Greasy make-up is very popular because it is easy to use, but it tends to run and is not very resistant. Water-based makeup lasts longer, but is less covering and lets the face show through. Know that the makeup keeps only 18 months after opening.
A makeup that appeals to children for Halloween is that of the clown. Easy to make, it also appeals to parents! Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a makeup pro to pull off a clown makeup. Here’s how:
- Apply white eye shadow using a brush, all over the face, in a generous layer.
- Depending on the model chosen (sad, happy or terrifying clown), draw the mouth with a red blush. Do not hesitate to enlarge the lines and make it very large.
- Then make up the eyes. Start by thickening the eyebrows with black shadow, then color the eyes, blue or yellow for example. You can make up both eyes the same color, or different colors.
- Tip: to make it easier for you, use stencils for the perfect clown makeup!
The skeleton face is also a very popular makeup for children, boy or girl, it is also very easy to achieve in a short time. Two shadows, one white and one black will be enough to transform your little “monsters”.
- Outline the shaded areas with black shadow: the top of the temples, more or less large circles around the eyes, the sides of the nose and the cheeks. For the cheeks, start from the level of the ears, follow the line of the cheekbones to the middle of the cheek then go down in a straight line or slightly oriented towards the chin.
- Fill the inside of the face with white, respecting the delimitation of the nose and the eyes. Then fill in the other parts in black.
- Draw a thin black line on each side of the face, from the corners of the lips to the delimitation between the white and the black. Thicken this line then add small strokes at regular intervals up and down to imitate a mournful smile.
This is a simplified version of skeleton makeup, but this base can be reused by an adult with just a few upgrades to get a scarier makeup.
On Halloween night, the zombie makeup, ghost, witch, monster, skeleton, pumpkin, devil or vampire meet with real success. The scarier they are, the more we love them. If you want to innovate and find more original ideas, do not hesitate to search the Internet. The sites are full of videos and tutorials with scary new Halloween makeup ideas for girls, boys, men or women and walk you through all the steps to achieve it. Be aware that, whatever the pattern chosen, it is important to find at least one of the Halloween colors, that is to say white, black, red or orange. On Linternaute.com, we offer, for example, make-up and Halloween costumes: witch, pumpkin, she-devil, vampire, Frankenstein, and skeleton.
The vampire is a very popular make-up for the Halloween party appreciated by both children and adults. While some make-up and disguise enthusiasts achieve very sophisticated vampire faces, it is actually quite simple to make up like a vampire with just a few greasy shadows.
- Vampires are sallow, so cover your entire face with white or gray eyeshadow, or a mix of both. Apply a little black under the cheekbones, jawline and around the temples and blur the blush to give the impression of a emaciated face.
- Eyes should be dark with smoky makeup. Apply black greasy eyeshadow all over the eyelid and stretch the material all around the eye, including below, and blend there for a “smooky” effect. Add a little red grease shadow around the eyelid and blend again.
- The make-up of the budge is very simple. Outline the outline of your mouth and paint it dark red, black, or another dark color of your choice.
If you have to recommend a make-up and disguise to make easily and that will really cause a sensation, it’s that of La Catrina. It can be done in no time.
- Using a sponge, apply a white greasy blush all over the face and neck.
- Circle your eyes with black blush and fill in the drawn circles with black color.
- On the nose, draw an inverted V shape and fill in there too with black paint.
- Draw several vertical lines above the lips and then down to the middle of the cheeks, on each side.
For a colorful alternative, feel free to put red or pink around the eyes. Add a crown of flowers, and voila! This La Catrina makeup is celebrated on Day of the Dead, a holiday associated with All Saints Day, in Mexico. It can be worn by both men and women.
Many proven Halloween makeups are mixed like clowns, vampires and other monsters, just adjust them according to our tastes to appropriate it or reproduce a model that we like. Other essential makeups are often used by women who celebrate Halloween night, we think of witches, black cats and devils present every year. To change the register a little, it is easy to find inspiration in pop culture, this year among the trends we find make-up imitating the robotic doll of the South Korean dystopian series Squid Game, or that of the emblematic villain Disney Cruella from Hell. Both are ultimately quite simple to achieve, for the first opt for an even complexion, marked contouring, a pronounced pink blush on the cheekbones, very red lips, eyebrows hidden and replaced by a thin line of pencil and especially eyes enlarged with white shadow and black pencil. As for the second character, imitate a pallid complexion with light gray blush obtained thanks to the mixture of gray and white greasy blush and reproduce a glamorous, smooky make-up and pronounced line of liner for the eyes and blood red lipstick for the mouth.
Other pop culture icons are always good inspiration for Halloween makeup. The cheeky Harley Quinn remains in tune with the times and the villains of cartoons are also a rich source of inspiration, in spades we can cite The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent from Beauty in the dormant wood or Yzma de Kuzco. For those who would like to dress up as a monster, some creatures are often forgotten, such as the famous Gorgon Medusa from Greek mythology.
Skeleton makeup is an option often used by men who play the game and dress up on the evening of October 31st. The idea is good and the make-up effective, but for a little more originality, why not take inspiration from the calaveras, these skulls of Mexican origin and the male counterpart of La Catrina. As for vampire makeup, seen and reviewed, why not replace it by becoming the enemy of blood drinkers: the werewolf! The technique is simple to imitate the creature and many tutorials on the internet explain how to make the makeup.
- With shadows darker than the complexion of the skin, sculpt the face in the hollow of the cheeks, the contours of the nose and around the temples and forehead.
- Mimic the hairs and the birth of the tufts of hair on the werewolf’s face: one starting from the middle of the forehead and one on each cheek, if you want you can add more at the temples. Start from the edges of your face, darken them generously then stretch the shadows in point on your cheeks or your forehead. With different shades of brown add small strokes and blur them to give texture to the makeup.
- Then attack the eyes with dark makeup on the eyelid and a little below the eye, then blend the material outwards.
- The eyebrows must be provided, enlarge them with makeup and think about imitating a small spike at the birth of the eyebrow for a more realistic effect.
- The nose should look slightly like a truffle, darken it down your nose, from the nostrils to the tip. As for the mouth, make it up with a dark color as well. If you feel comfortable, feel free to add injury or scratch marks.
For other ideas, this year clown or Joker-inspired makeup is still trendy and the advantage is that it can be adapted to not look like everyone. So-called steampunk make-ups are also in vogue and rather easy to achieve.