How to Do Scary Halloween Cinderella Makeup With a Glass Slipper Wound

Tools and materials:

• Clip-in bangs
• Hair tube
• Plastic heel (mine is made by Gorilla Props - you find them on Instagram or Facebook)
• Foundation in pale medium color
• Lip liner in red
• Lipstick in pale pink
• Blush in pale pink
• Makeup brushes
• Gel Sculpt flesh tone A, B, and C
• Metal spatula
• Sigma FX brushes
• Skin illustrator FX palette
• Alcohol
• TV blood in dark
• Spirit gum
• Splatter blood (optional)
• Witch hazel
• Cotton pads
• Blue Cinderella dress
• Blue headband
• Black choker

1. Make Cinderella hair

First, I put on the clip-in fringe. Then, I pulled my hair back into a low pony. 

I wrapped my hair into a French twist and used bobby pins to keep it secure. 

I placed the top of the twist on the hair tube and rolled the tube with the hair on it towards the face. Then, I spread and pulled the hair around until it met the French twist and pinned it in place. 

I put on the pale blue headband to finish the hair, along with the black choker.

2. Cinderella makeup

For the Disney-style eye makeup, I used the same techniques as I did for my Belle from Beauty and the Beast Halloween makeup. You can take a look at that tutorial for the full details, or do your eye makeup how you prefer.

I used a medium pale foundation on my skin and added blue contact lenses.

3. Prep the skin

Now for the gore! First, I cleaned the skin where the wound will be with witch hazel and a cotton pad to remove any oils.

4. Create the Cinderella cheek wound

When I originally created this Halloween Cinderella makeup, I used a real shoe and cut the heel off. This was quite heavy, so I recommend that you use something lightweight instead, like a costume prop, especially if you want your FX makeup to last all night.

This 3D plastic heel from Gorilla Props is super lightweight. I placed the heel on my cheek and used a red lip liner to draw around the outline of the heel.  

I mixed several shades of the blood tones from the FX skin illustrator palette and diluted them with alcohol. Then, I built up layers of color.

I added some black to the red tones and stippled it to give a slightly uneven finish. The idea is to create texture.

5. Add wound filler

Wound filler gives the effect of thick, congealed blood. I applied it with a spatula on the painted area. Don’t worry about being neat.

6. Glue the glass slipper

I coated the entire edge in spirit gum, then applied it directly to the skin on the outline. Hold it in place until it’s secure.

7. Apply sculpt gel

I mixed equal amounts of sculpt gel A and B and a smaller amount of C in flesh color to create tear marks in the skin. I added a small amount to completely surround the heel. It takes time to set.

Once the heel is surrounded by sculpt gel, I smoothed it and tried to get it as flush as possible to the skin.

As the material hardened, I manipulated small areas to look like tear marks. I pulled the gel to form small strings and used the spatula to widen the space between the jagged edges to make the shapes more distinctive.

8. Build up the wound

I used the FX skin illustrator, mixing flesh tones and using a brush with 2 different length fibers. I flicked the color over the sculpt gel. The 2 lengths help prevent color concentration in any one area.

Then, I mixed 2 blood tones while using the same brush, flicking the blood color all around the gel. I alternated layering the blood and flesh tones until I’m happy with how it looks.

I used my finger to dab more color off of the “cut” and onto my cheek. Then, I added some more flesh tones to the tear marks.

I used a small angled lip liner brush to apply black mixed with red, just to the seams of the tears.

Next, I added some more wound filler with a spatula and placed it on the tear marks to make it look like the wound is deep. 

I applied a small amount of the lightest flesh tone to the edge of the tear marks.

I then used some of the aged blood on a fluffy brush to make it look like the heel is really pushing through the skin. I added some more light flesh tone to highlight the area.

I added some dark TV blood by dabbing it on the heel, seams, tear marks, the base of the sculpt gel, and face. 

If you prefer more gore, you can create splatter blood as well. 

9. Lipstick and blush

For a final touch, I applied a light pink lipstick and blush.

Halloween Cinderella makeup tutorial

There you have it! A scary Cinderella makeup look for Halloween! I hope this fun tutorial has given you some Cinderella Halloween makeup ideas for your costume, whether you decide to do full FX makeup like me or something creative with what you have to hand.

Let me know what you think of this glass slipper wound in the comments below and please share any photos if you try this out yourself. Happy Halloween!

Products used

• Gorilla Props heel
• Sculpt gel
• Skin Illustrator FX palette
• Metal spatula
• Spirit gum
• TV blood