The essence of Halloween lies in the clever use of makeup to transform yourself into something magical or spooky. Whatever you decide to be , take inspiration from these awesome DIY Halloween Makeup ideas that will make you the trick-or-treater of the year.
You can choose to go any direction with your Halloween makeup – for example you could choose fantastical creatures such as unicorns or you could transform yourself into a spooky pumpkin. Whatever you choose, you are sure to get some inspiration from the ideas below. Happy haunting !
1. Unicorn Makeup
Capture the ethereal magic of the unicorn with this awesome Halloween makeup look. It’s especially great for those that love to wear glitter.
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2. Mermaid Makeup
Transform into a fantastical creature such as the mermaid with bright makeups in blues and purples and using fishnet tights for your pattern.
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3. Coraline Makeup
Recreate the character from this dark animation to freak out guests at your fright night party.
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4. Pennywise
Try your hands at this glammed up version of the characer from the IT movie.
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5. Zombie Dentist
Things could get a little bloody if you go to this dentist for a checkup.
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6. Devil Vs Angel
So, which one are you ? With this clever makup look you don’t have to choose if you’ll be nice or naughty this Halloween.
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7. Extreme Melt Makeup
If you have the patience – try and recreate this !
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8. Hook Face
This is a really good one to frighten everyone and it’s a fantastic illusion – no one will ever know your tricking them!
9. Coraline’s Other Mother
With the right makeup – make yourself look as creepy as the other mother from Coraline.
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10. Ghost
If ghosts are the things of nightmares – then this makeup look goes one step above.
11. Melting Skull
If you are fed up of the usual skull face paint then this twist is perfect to try out – and there’s no need for a costume you can just team it with a black outfit to look great.
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12. Masquerade Flesh Mask
This tutorial teaches you how to make a masquerade flesh mask and the mask represents the torn off part of your face. Start with a blank white eye mask and then apply scar wax. Now you can paint the mask in the color of your skin tone.
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13. Wonder Woman
With the recent Hollywood release of this film, wonder woman has increased in popularity so this is a great and powerful look to wear on fright night.
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14. Mermaid
This colorful take on the mermaid is achieved with bright colors applied to the chheks over fishnet tights for the pattern.
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15. Pumpkin
When you cross a pumpkin with a skull – this is what you get.
16. Medusa
You’ll need to purchase plenty of fake snakes and spray paint them gold to get this look.
17. Lion
If you want to go for cute over creepy then this is a great look for you .
18. The Joker
The joke won’t be on you when your Halloween makeup looks this good!
19. Sugar Skull
You really can’t go wrong with any kind of sugar skull look for fright night.
20. Spider Eye
Make it look like the spider got your eye!
21. Skeleton
The contouring on this look is amazing!
22. Heaven & Hell
23. Black & White Skeleton
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24. Mummy
Get bandaged and become a Mummy.
25. Red Heart Freckles
Inject the romance into Halloween with red heart freckles.
26. Black & Orange Halloween Makeup
Embrace the colors of Halloween with this look.
27. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Create a blue explosion on your face to look like Violet from the film Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.
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28. Zombie Nun
29. Maleficent