• Concise How to Halloween Make up Advice

    Posted on September 19, 2011 by in Millie

    Halloween is a great time of year. Not only do you get to delve back to your childhood, but you also get the opportunity to take up a whole new identity for one night. This is a great chance for all those who are usually shy or antisocial, to shed, take up a new façade and just step out of their comfort zone. As is the trend, if you would like to make an impact on Halloween, chances are you will be investing in renting a fantastic outfit for the night. There are people who may even choose to purchase a whole new outfit or make one on their own. Either way, you will be stepping out with the intent of making heads turn. So why just pay attention to what you are wearing? At the end of the day, the aspect that will make or break a Halloween costume will be the makeup that goes along with it as well as the accessories. Unfortunately, we cannot delve into all the tips and tricks that you could put to use when it comes to ensuring that you have flawless make up for this night. We can however give you a concise guide on how to Halloween make up advice for a couple of popular outfits that you may contemplate adorning. This should enable you to make an impression without having to consult with a professional makeup artist to ensure that you are looking your best or your scariest!

    The trick to having the best make up, whether in terms of it being flawless or it being believable, is you making the most of your best facial features. To start off, you would have to establish what feature this is. For some people it could be their eyes, or maybe their dainty little nose, or perhaps some full sensual lips. Once you have figured this out, you should then try and figure out which would be the most complementary outfit for your figure. Over the years, the sexy costumes that are most popular tend to be the sexy cop outfit, the sexy farm maid costume, or the cowgirl costume. If you have large, beautiful eyes as your best feature, you would be best advised to go as the sexy farm girl. This is because the farm girl is known for her innocence with her large doe eyes. Here’s the Halloween makeup how to enhance your eyes for this costume. You would first have to start off with a primer all over your eyelid. You could also use foundation for this part. Next, you would then have to pick a base eye shadow for the lid of your eye. Ensure that you pick something that is light in color as you are trying to look innocent and not sensual. After you have blended the base color all around your lid, you can then pick a darker color for the crease of your eye lid. Finish this look off by lightening the brow line and blending all the colors flawlessly.

    Sexy costumes are not the only option when it comes to Halloween. As we all know, Halloween is supposed to be a scary holiday so some people may opt for much scarier outfits. The thing with these costumes is that some of them may require blood, either as a prop or as part of the makeup. So where does one get blood to complement this scary outfit? You may choose to spend money and buy some or you could cut costs and create your own Halloween blood make up. Here is a simple way to create blood make up for Halloween. Get some corn syrup as this will be the base of your blood. Next, you would have to mix together two tablespoons of water with two tablespoons of red food color, a tablespoon of yellow food color finished off with a few drop of blue food color. Ensure that you have mixed the ingredients well so that you can get a consistent deep red color that will look exactly as blood. The thick consistency of the corn syrup will make it even seem more realistic. The benefit of making this at home is that it is also safe for ingestion thus; you could smear it all over your mouth without fearing toxicity! If you would like to make the scary appearance more realistic, create bruises on your face with dark colors of eye shadow tinged with a bit of red. Remember to practice creating these bruises beforehand so that you get them just right!

     

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