Halloween has always been one of my favorite commercial holidays. From the haunted houses, to the mounds of chocolates and candies out there for my sweet tooth to enjoy, to watching the kiddies having a blast while trick or treating, and, of course, to choosing a costume for the yearly party.
This year was no exception!
Typically, I find myself raiding the newly installed Halloween store, looking for the perfect idea that suits my mood. Typically, this idea involves more costume and less makeup, because I am very careful with what I apply to my sensitive and ageing skin.
Unusually, this year, my idea consisted of a tremendous amount of makeup, under carefully moisturized skin. Why the exception? Because my beautiful friend Catherine hosted a party that was themed “your biggest fears”, and there’s nothing more fearful in my eyes than the dead rising from the grave.
Although the beautiful tradition of painting yourself as a sugar skull is meant to celebrate the dead during Dia de los muertos, I chose the costume to celebrate my fear of the dead and the power that they hold in this world.
The costume itself was a mix of a few Halloween and dollar store props on top of some clothes I already own, but the makeup was all me (in addition to a couple of cheats that I found at my local drugstore).
To give you a few details of how I put this together, the costume consisted of a pair of Dynamite Clothing snakeskin leggings, a lace long sleeved top from Zara and a black corset. In addition to my closet pieces, I found the skull themed tutu and the flowered shoulder pads/skull choker at the Halloween store, and threw a few dollar store flowers into my hair for good measure.
For the makeup, the whole process took about an hour and a half, and started with me painting my whole face white. For those of you with oily skin, like me, I suggest you try to use as much of your own makeup as possible, as I found that costume makeup does not stay on the skin, regardless of how much primer you use.
The second, and hardest step, was the eyes. I was lucky enough to have a lot of my own makeup at my disposition for this, because my first idea of using drugstore stickers around the eyes clearly did not work well.
The eyes were painted black with an eye pencil from the eyebrows down, forming an oval that “sort of” followed my eye shape. Pink circles could be painted on underneath to give an appearance of “flower petals”. In my case, I was able to make the bottom stickers stay on as an alternative.
After the eyes were done, I worked on the nose, chin and forehead. There are a tremendous amounts of YouTube tutorials as to how to paint a sugar skull. I basically watched a few and drew my own creation based on a combination of ideas from multiple different artists.
Last step, was obviously the mouth. This is the easiest step, but definitely the hardest to keep on all night seeing as there were plenty of finger foods and drinks to challenge my makeup.
The final result was pretty satisfying considering that it was my first time attempting this makeup/costume.
I hope you all had an amazing Halloween! Don’t hesitate to share your beautiful costume creations with me! I’d love to see them all!!
Now that Halloween is over, we need to start focusing on Christmas holidays!
Happy Saturday!
xxx
