How to Do Glamorous Red Skull Makeup for Halloween
With Halloween around the corner, I thought it would be a great idea to show you how to create a red skull makeup look.
The goal of today’s tutorial is to help you create a quick and easy Halloween makeup idea that will not cost a lot of money.
I suggest using as much makeup from your kit at home as possible instead of buying new products. This look is so effective, half the face is glitter skull makeup, while the other half is completely glam. Let’s get into the guide.
Tools and materials:
- Face paint
- Concealer
- Powder
- Eyeshadow
- Setting spray
- Makeup glitter
- White liner
- Black liner
- Red lipstick
- Highlighter
- Mascara
- Makeup brushes
1. Prime and set eyelids
I start by prepping and priming my eyelids, so the colors are more pigmented and last longer.
I am using concealer as that’s what I have at home but use whatever is in your stash. I'm just going to use my fingers to rub that product into my lids and then set it with a powder.
2. Apply a base color
Apply a base color to your lid, you want something with a red undertone.
Before dipping your brush into the eyeshadow, spray it with a bit of setting spray. This will make the color more intense.
3. Enhance the base color
Now you are going to take a deep red eyeshadow and apply it over your base color.
4. Intensify your crease
We now have a base but to enhance that smoky look we need to make our crease pop. I am going in with this color which has a brown tone to it and applying it to my crease.
5. Clean up
This would be a good time to clean up around your eyes.
6. Add glitter
To make this demon look a little more fun and exciting we are going to add glitter to the eyes. Start by applying some concealer on the lid.
Now pat the glitter onto your lids and then blend it with a brush.
7. Add base
You can now apply a base to your whole face.
8. Concealer
Add concealer under your eyes and blend it in and set both the base and concealer with powder.
9. Darken your eyebrows
10. Add blush
11. Add a neutral color under the brow
12. Line your top lid and apply mascara
13. Create three lines as a guide for your skull
And now it's time to start the fun part, making the red skull makeup on half of your face.
Use your white face paint or any white liner to draw the outline of your skull. Your first line should start above the cheekbone and go in a wave pattern (see above), ending just above your lip.
For the second line, you are going to make a straight line under your first line, ending under your bottom lip.
The third line will be just under your second line, and you are going to outline your jaw.
14. Create the teeth
Using a thinner white pencil, for a more precise line, I am going to draw in the teeth of the skull.
15. Fill in the blank space
This is where the demon skull look will start coming together. Using red face paint, fill in the areas between the white outlines.
Using the same red eyeshadow you used on your eyelids, go over the red face paint to set it and enhance the color.
16. Outline the white lines
Using a black liner, outline the white lines to really make them pop.
17. Add sinew
For a little bit more of a gory Halloween makeup feel, add random black lines to resemble sinew.
18. Create the nose
Use black eyeliner to draw in the shape of the nose.
Fill in the outline with black face paint.
Outline with a thin white liner to add dimension.
19. Add depth and dimension
Use a detailer brush and black shadow to underline the black lines, this will help create more of a 3D effect.
20. Finish off
Add some red lipstick to the glam side of your face.
As well as some highlighter.
Red skull makeup look
Here is the final red skull makeup look. It was really quick to create, and I think the effect is amazing. Please let me know in the comments if you decide to try this out. Hope you have a fun Halloween.
Products used:
- maccosmetics red glitter
- thebalm single matte eye shadow “marriage”
- hudabeauty warm obsessions palette
- Maybelline Fit Me Matte Foundation
- nyxcosmetics black matte linear
- ardellbeauty lashes
- maccosmetics Studio Fix Powder NC42
- maccosmetics white Kajal Crayon Liner
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Enjoyed the project?
Suggested materials:
- Face paint
- Concealer
- Powder
- Eyeshadow
- Setting spray
- Makeup glitter
- White liner
- Black liner
- Red lipstick
- Highlighter
- Mascara
- Makeup brushes
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