Okaaaaaaaaay, SO this would officially be my first ever tutorial, ever. Long time coming, I know but we have a lot to cover so I'm gonna dive right into it.
This post is for all those slightly unprepared people who either, haven't yet got their Halloween Costume/Make Up sorted, or have an idea of what they want to look like but are completely clueless on how to achieve it. The tutorial today is for a kind of dead/zombie look which is quite a universal look and can be used with pretty much any fancy dress outfit. You can then pass yourself of as a dead (insert stereotypically generic costume idea here) and you will get credit for not just being a nurse.. or cat..
WHAT I USED:
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| MUA Lipstick - Red: £1 MUA Lipstick - Nude: £1 Blood: £2.99 Elf Pallet: $2 so around £1.25 MUA Eye Palett: £4.00 Natural Collection Powder: £1.99 Grimas Face Paint: £5.99 |
(I used extremely cheap products as you don't want to ruin your favourites!)
I started off with a pale base. I used Grimas White face paint, applying all over with a sponge. I then added some translucent/really really pale powder to give me a bit of a human tone,, while still being extremely pale.
I then used a cheap ass Lipstick, MUA and circled underneath my eyelids, above my cheekbones, each side of my nose and a little on one side of my forehead. You then rub over the lines you've made with your fingers blending it in. Don't use too much as a little goes a loooooong way.
By this point your Make up should be very messy, and you're probably wondering where I'm going with this, but keep at it. After you have done as much blending as you can, it's time to add some purple! I put a medium purple directly under my eyes to give off the whole bruising, dead, rotting kind of impression blending that with a slightly darker purple. I used the Elf mini pallet for this.
Now you've got the colourful groundwork, it's time to add a lotttt of black. I used a black eye shadow from my MUA pallet and applied with my Real Techniques contoring brush, just because it was a good shape and amazing at blending, but you can use any brush you deem fit for purpose. So I now go over all of the red parts with black, not too thick to start but keep layering it till the blood looks old and really manky. I also go in the inner circles of my eyes quite stongly with the black. (It didn't picture well but I have a lot more in the inner circle but blended it out) Only you can be the judge of how much you need so keep applying until your happy. BLENDING IS KEY.
The look is now starting to take place, but you could still definitely look deader. I next use a pale pale paaaale lipstick on my lips to give them a bit of a realistic look, rather than smearing white facepaint on them. After that on the inner part of both lips, I added a little bit of black eye shadow using a thin brush to make them look quite creepy and dead.
Finally, I thought a bit of blood was in order, so I dabbed the wound on my head with some blood, and dabbed anywhere else with red showing with a bit of blood. Remember to blend this until your happy. I also added a little on the side of my mouth, as it wouldn't be halloween without the suspicious one sided blood mouth - thing. BUT the one perfect line of blood coming from one side, annoys me every year, so don't be cliche, make it look a liiiiittle messy! :)
So thats pretty much it! This look can be as subtle, or as dead and horrible as you like, it's all about the quantities used, so have fun with it! I hope this helped all of you last minute Halloweeners!
Will you be using this look this year? Do you want to see more tutorials? What are you doing for Halloween? LET ME KNOW.
