Easy Owl Halloween Makeup Tutorial

Loepsie
by Loepsie
5 Materials
$10
20 Minutes
Easy

Celtic mythology time! This look is based on a story from the medieval Welsh branches of the Mabinogi legends.


Blodeuedd, the flower maiden, is transfigured into Blodeuwedd, the owl. Follow along for a step-by-step owl Halloween makeup tutorial.

Tools and materials: 

  • Jumbo white eye pencil
  • Black eyeliner pencil
  • Small eyeshadow brush
  • Medium brown eyeshadow
  • False eyelashes
Applying white base to eyes

1. Apply a white base and feather-like lines

Using a jumbo white eye pencil, apply a generous white base to your eyelids and the surrounding portion underneath the eyes.


Extend the white by making feather-like lines underneath. 

Owl eye makeup

Then blend the parts on and around your eye with your fingers.

Owl eye makeup

Draw two curved lines above your brows using the white pencil, then smudge slightly with your fingers.

Owl eye makeup

2. Add dark accents

With a black eye pencil, follow the brow line, extending each brow with shorter and denser lines.

Owl eye makeup

Using the same pencil, line your upper lids.

Lining upper eyelids

Next, extend those lines midway into the crease of your eyes as well as downward, beside your nose.

Extending lines

Now draw on the beak with the same black pencil at the tip of your nose.

Drawing on beak

3. Add brown details

Using a medium brown shadow and small brush, apply small, feather-like lines in the space between the white base around your eyes and the white feather lines you applied earlier. 

Adding details

Add 3D-like definition to your nose (the beak) by shading in two vertical lines leading down to the black tip of the beak.

Adding definition to beak

Then stretch the brown in the area between your brows.

Half completed Owl Halloween makeup

Add more depth to your cheeks by drawing short, brown lines on the outside of the white feather lines. 

Adding lines

Add some brown lines to the black eyebrow lines, as well as to the two white lines above the brows.

Adding lines

4. Add a layer of contrast with the black pencil

Draw short black lines, wisped outward, on the edges of what you’ve already drawn so far. Continue all around.

Adding lines with black pencil

5. Line the bottom lashline

Line your lower eyelash lines with the black pencil.

Lining eyelash line

Next, fill in under the eyes with the white pencil. Then blend the white with your fingers. 

Lining waterline

6. Add brown feather lines to your forehead

Use your brown eyeshadow and small brush to draw small lines on your forehead, between the two curved, white lines. You may need to brighten those white lines again with the white pencil.

Adding feather lines

7. Add drama with false lashes

Apply false eyelashes according to their instructions.

Adding false eyelashes

8. Define the eye creases

Go over the eye creases again with the brown shadow, using the small brush. 

Defining eye creases

9. Color your lips

Finish the look by applying a nude/peach lip color.

Coloring lips

Owl Halloween makeup

That’s it for this owl Halloween costume. It’s fairly simple and you don’t need many supplies. Here’s the final look:

Completed owl Halloween makeup

What is your favorite mythical creature? Share with me in the comments below!


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Suggested materials:
  • Jumbo white eye pencil
  • Black eyeliner pencil
  • Small eyeshadow brush
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