Glamorous Clown Makeup Tutorial for Halloween
In this tutorial, we will be doing glamorous clown makeup to complement those of you wearing a clown costume for Halloween. Let’s get started!
Tools and materials:
- Foundation
- Face paint
- Eyeshadow
- Liquid liner
- Brow wax and sealant
- Glitter and glue
- False lashes
- Kohl liner
- Matte lipstick
1. Apply white face paint around the jawline
To paint the ruffle around the neck, use white face paint. Start around the jawline and pull that color down the neck, stopping about 2/3rds of the way down. Apply a couple of layers.
2. Draw red lines on your neck
Next, take a dark red shade and roughly draw lines onto the neck. They need to be wider apart at the bottom, then get closer to each other as they come up towards the top of the neck.
3. Fill in
Paint and fill in every other line with red.
4. Draw figure-8s
Below the lines, draw a figure eight on its side. This is going to be the ruffles.
5. Shade
Shade each of the stripes to make them look three-dimensional. Do this by first applying black paint to define the seam between each stripe.
Then, use black eyeshadow down the seam. Use a gray-brown shade to create a nice gradient that fades from the black.
6. Apply white eyeshadow to the center
Use white eyeshadow to the center of the red stripes to make it look more three-dimensional.
7. Fill in the figure eights
Paint the center of the figure eights with white paint.
8. Shade the figure eights
Shade the center of the ruffles to make it look like the centers are slightly darker due to the way the fabric’s been folded.
9. Apply brown eyeshadow under the ruffles
Apply a small amount of brown eyeshadow underneath the ruffles to look like a shadow.
10. Flatten your eyebrows with wax
Using wax, comb your brow hairs upwards and flatten them.
Use a spatula or cotton bud to apply the sealant over the wax.
11. Conceal your brows
Apply a foundation over your dried, waxed brows to conceal them. Apply two layers, setting with translucent powder after each coat.
12. Draw on your brows
With an angled liner brush and red eyeshadow, draw in the eyebrows by creating a slight flick at the front and then dragging the shadow up above your natural eyebrows.
You want to make sure the arch is rounded but really high and curved like drag eyebrows.
Draw another line that runs parallel to the arch and gets thinner at the tail, then color it in.
13. Apply glitter to the brows
This is glam clown makeup, so let's glitz up the eyebrows by applying glitter glue to your eyebrows and then pressing glitter to the glue.
14. Draw on a new eyelid
Using a brown eyeshadow, create a slightly curved triangular shape to draw on the new eyelid.
15. Draw a pointy hat
Draw a triangle with black eyeshadow in the middle of the drawn eyelid and extend the tip of the triangle past the top of the brown to create a pointy hat.
16. Fill in the eyelid
Fill in the curved triangular eyelid with red eyeshadow.
Then fill in the pointy triangle with a black liner.
17. Line your lashes for the brim of the hat
Line across the top lash line very close to the lashes to draw the brim of the hat.
18. Glitter the lids
Apply the glitter glue first, then apply the glitter over the lid.
19. Apply false lashes
Apply a quick coat of mascara and then put on false lashes.
20. Line your undereye
Apply black kohl liner to the waterline and then blend out with red eyeshadow.
Use what’s left on the bristles to work the red eyeshadow down the cheek in a triangular shape and then smudge it with your finger.
21. Line the eyelid
Apply a small amount of the red eyeshadow around the glitter eyelid.
Curve it around the front and flick it upwards to mimic the eyebrows. Soften with your finger.
22. Smoke out waterline
Smoke out the black liner on your waterline with black eyeshadow and pull it downwards.
23. Draw another triangle
Create a point at the inner corner of the eye, then draw a triangle to mirror the top lid. Fill in.
24. Apply glitter to the triangle
Dab some glitter glue around the triangle and then use a fluffy brush to press on some of the red glitter.
25. Overdraw and extend your lips
Use a liquid matte lipstick to overdraw your lips. Fill in your natural shape first then overdraw and exaggerate it.
Extend it outwards using an angled liner brush.
26. Apply glitter to your lips
27. Contour with brown eyeshadow
Use brown eyeshadow to enhance the natural smile lines between the nose and the mouth.
Apply some from the outer corner of the mouth to the outer corner of the chin.
Apply to the nose.
As well as to the hollows of the cheeks.
Use it to create more expression around the eyebrows
28. Apply pink eyeshadow
Apply the same red-pink eyeshadow to the apples of the cheeks.
29. Paint the nose
Apply a red circle of paint to the nose.
Glamorous clown makeup
Here’s the finished clown Halloween makeup! This clown makeup tutorial is long but so worth it if you want to look and feel great this Halloween. Let me know what you think down below!
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Suggested materials:
- Foundation
- Face paint
- Eyeshadow
- Liquid liner
- Brow wax and sealant
- Glitter and glue
- False lashes
- Kohl liner
- Matte lipstick
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