Halloween Vampire Mouth

Quick Halloween Idea: Vampire Mouth

I wanted to finish off this week with another Halloween tutorial, and I decided on a vampire's mouth. There's lots of different ways to do the eyes and face - you can be a creepy or scary or sexy vampire, but the mouth stays mostly the same - you need fangs and blood.

I started by making fangs with white face paint. Make sure it's non-toxic, since you could accidentally ingest some.

This step is optional. I decided to paint the rest of my lips red. You could go for pale lips or a darker red as well.

Lastly, use a small brush to paint on some fake liquid blood. You could use more than I did to give it a drippy, fresher-looking appearance.

Halloween Spiderweb Eye

Quick Halloween Idea: Spiderweb Eye

When I think Halloween, I think of ghosts and spiders and pumpkins. I wasn't sure how to do a ghost or pumpkin look, so I went with a spiderweb. This only takes about ten minutes and it's pretty easy, even for beginners. The shadows I used are from the Makeup Revolution Essential Mattes palette.

Apply the 5th shade from the left to the crease. It doesn't really show up on my skin color, but it gives you something to blend the other colors into.

Apply a white cream base to your eyelid so that your lid color will pop.

Apply the 12th shade from the left to your lid and blend it into the crease color.

Apply the 9th shade from the left to the outer corner of the lid.

Line the eye and draw the spiderweb. You can make it bigger or more complicated than I did if you want - always feel free to customize any of my tutorials so that you like them better.

Curl your upper lashes and apply mascara, and you're done! I would pair this with a bright red lip, and maybe I would draw some spiders on the side of my face with eyeliner, but this is just the simplest version of what you can do with this look. Have a fun and safe Halloween!

Halloween Leopard

Quick Halloween Idea: Leopard Print

For my third Halloween tutorial, I wanted to do something super easy that could be done with makeup that most people would already have or be able to get easily. I did this on the back of my hand, but you could do it on your face and neck and pair it with my cat tutorial for a great leopard costume. It only takes a few minutes and it comes of easily.

Start with a brown base. I used the sixth shade from the left in the Makeup Revolution Essential Mattes palette.

Using a brown eyeliner, draw on some spots. Make them random but still somewhat circular or ovular. You could just leave it here, or do the next step.

Outline the spots with a black eyeliner. A matte black is preferable, because as you can see the shimmer doesn't look too good. You can also leave this step out and still have it look perfectly fine.

Halloween Bruise

Quick Halloween Idea: Simple Bruise

For this Halloween tutorial, you'll need black makeup, green makeup, yellow makeup, red makeup, and blue makeup, as well as a makeup sponge. I used a face paint set from Rite Aid and the sponges included with it. You could also use eyeliner and eyeshadow, but I don't know if it would turn out the same.

Starting with black, put some face paint (or whatever you are using) on a sponge and use a stippling technique to cover an area slightly smaller than you want the bruise to be. This provides a dark base for the bruise.

Cover the black with green. It's looking more like a grass stain than a bruise right now, but it'll get there.

Layer blue and red to achieve a bruise-like purple near the center of the bruise.

Keep layering colors until you get the effect you want. I also added some yellow around the edges to make it look like the edges of the bruise were starting to heal, but this is optional. It will make the bruise look older. I think it makes the bruise more realistic, but again, this is optional.

Halloween Cat

Quick Halloween Idea: Easy Cat

In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to do a few quick and easy fun little Halloween costume ideas. I decided to start with the easiest I know how to do, a cat. I used face paint for this, but you could use black and white eyeliner or cream eyeshadow to do the same thing.

Start with the cat's muzzle (is that what it's called on cats?). I used white face paint I got in a set from Rite Aid, but a white shadow stick would probably work just as well.

The next step is the nose. You could also use pink for this, but I only had black.

After that, draw a line from the middle of the nose down to the middle of your upper lip and fill in your upper lip with black.

Lastly, whiskers! Mine are a bit messy because I used too stiff of a brush, but you get the idea. You could do as few as three or do even more than this if you wanted to. I would pair this with a cat-eye eye makeup and big false eyelashes, but you could also leave it at this. If you want it to last all night, set it with a translucent powder and setting spray.