Top Tips for a Halloween Makeover.....with a difference !
When I was asked to design a Halloween look using MyFace Cosmetics, I squealed like a piglet with excitement then fell silent into a quiet panic.
The Miss Piggy excitement derived from my LOVE for Halloween and the anticipation of playing with the vibrant SLINKY LIQUID LINERS and sparkly BLINGTONES from MyFace.Cosmetics ! The panic was due to the fact that I would be creating this in the wake of KABUKI’s awesome Halloween make-up last year.
KABUKI, MyFace Cosmetics’ Artist Director and masterful genius at his craft created his Black Widow make-up with unforgiving symmetry. The precision was haunting and had me shaking in my Doc Martins! So I had to create something that was HALLOWEEN INSPIRED, COLOURFUL and well executed. The Mexican SUGAR SKULL seemed fit for the task, less blood, more colour, still creepy, P E R F E C T !
My design utilised a lot of the BRIGHT colours from MyFace’s SLINKY LIQUID LINER range. There was quite a bit of thinking outside the box with application, lipstick and lipliner was used around the eye and on the forehead, black liquid liner was used on the cheeks, around the mouth and everywhere else. Various Slinkys were used to shade and my FAVOURITE was the WHITE SLINKY MATTE LIQUID LINER to highlight.
- After applying and setting the base I mapped out my design with a MyFace Pencil Liner as a guide.
- I got the dirty work out of the way first and filled in a dark smokey eye.
- Touches of the GREEN and PURPLE BLINGTONES over black pencil liner gave Katie a moody look and a beautiful bruised effect.
- Next it was just a matter of colouring in and outlining in the BLACK SLINKY.
- I did a bit of shading around the jaw with the black pencil liner and blurred it out with a brush. References really helped with this design.
- Add some gems and false lashes for some extra intensity and make sure black eyeliner rims the eyes on the upper and lower waterlines.
I wanted my design to feel more organic than clean and sharp. Since the Sugar Skull is a colourful celebration of The Dead designed by children and adults alike, I wanted the colours to look so vivid that they were vibrating beyond the lines. It was okay for lines to look blurred, sketchy and uneven.
The look really pulled together once Katie was dressed in all the adornments. I picked up all of these props from Poundland, Paks Cosmetics and independent fabric shops or market stalls. These nice cheap alternatives really helped to pull off a professional studio look.
Here are some close ups of the finished look.
Look what happens when you put it into instagram!
If I were to do it all again, I’d make some changes for sure. I’d be more strategic and work from the top down. I would also rim the black smokey eyes in a different design, I feel the yellow and red colours look great but the rings don’t really work. My advice would be, step away from your work and look at it from a different perspective. Even take a photo and see how it translates, I guarantee it will look totally different to the real life version. Apart from that I’m very pleased with the result. I hope you enjoy it and keep an eye out for out video of the Halloween Sugar Skull in the making on our YouTube Channel:
On behalf of OH SO WOW I want to extend a huge THANK YOU to MyFace Cosmetics for allowing us to use their INCREDIBLE products. Check out their website to order your Slinkys and Blingtones, their foundations are stunning also! P.S they have a fantastic HALLOWEEN COMPETITION so get filled in by clicking the link below
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