Awesome Terminator Genisys-inspired Makeup Tutorial for Halloween

Tools and materials: 

• Glue
• Brown eyeliner
• Foundation
• Beauty blender
• Concealer
• Setting powder
• Eyebrow pencil
• Eye primer
• Eyeshadow
• Makeup brushes
• Illuminator
• Eyelash curler
• Mascara
• Felt tip pen
• Metallic cream makeup
• Fake skin
• Fake blood
• Lipstick
• Nuts and bolts
• Eyelash glue
• Sponge
• Scissors
• LED light
• Double-sided tape
• Paint

1. Set down eyebrows

Use some non-toxic glue to set your eyebrow on the left side, making it easier to paint over them.

2. Outline half of your face

Outline the area of your face with a brown eyeliner where you want it to be torn.

3. Apply foundation and concealer

Use a liquid mousse foundation in the area outside of the border that you just drew first.

First, apply it with your fingers and then set it with a beauty blender. Proceed to use concealer in areas on your “glam” side where you want to highlight.

4. Contour face

Contour your face using a concealer in a darker shade.

Make the contouring pretty strong because, as you know, robots like to look strong and have that chiseled look.

Next, apply some setting powder under your eyes.

5. Groom eyebrows

Groom and glam up your eyebrows only on your glam side using an eyebrow pencil.

6. Apply eyeshadow

Use an eye primer on your eyelids as a base before applying eye shadow. Paint the inner corners of your lids with silver eyeshadow.

Then, use a light gray shade right in the center of your lids and a darker gray shade in the outer corners. Proceed to intensify the outer V using the dark gray and as you do that, pull out a small wing.

Once done, take a large blending brush and blend out everything and just use the excess color on the outside as a transition color.

7. Apply eyeliner

Line the waterlines of your eyes and then take this flat shader brush to smudge out the color and intensify the outer V as well as the wing.

Next, go in with a felt tip pen and pull out a small wing on your upper lash line to give that cat-eye look. 

8. Apply illuminator and mascara

Use an illuminator to illuminate your brow bone as well as the inner corner of your eyes. Then curl your lashes and apply some mascara.

9. Draw around your eye

Moving back to the SFX side of your makeup, intensify the border that you initially drew with a felt tip pen. Also, draw a circle around your eye.

10. Apply silver makeup

Next, apply some metallic cream makeup within the borders to give the illusion of metal skin. 

11. Apply black makeup

Use a regular cream gel liner in black within the circle around your eye.

Then, use the leftover black to draw small marks around the rest of your skin. This will give the illusion of skin that has charred or has some soot around it.

12. Apply fake skin

Apply some flesh fake skin (it is cotton mixed with some latex) around the border of the silver sections.

You can use any blunt tool to set the skin, I'm using a regular manicure tool to blend out the fake skin with my skin as well as to pull it out a bit.

13. Draw detail and add fake blood

Using black eyeliner, draw some lines as well as some nuts and bolts on the silver makeup.

Then, around the outline of the silver part, apply some fake blood. Mix it with a little bit of black gel liner to give the illusion of charred skin.

14. Paint lips

Paint your lips in a nude color and then outline them with a gray glitter color.

15. Attach nuts and bolts

Now take some nuts and bolts and fix them onto the silver part using some eyelash glue.

16. Attach fake eye

For your Terminator eyes, cut out a piece of sponge and make a circle right in the middle.

Then, pop an LED light in the middle and add some double-sided tape on the back. Paint the sponge black and now turn on the light and fix it on your eye.

Completed terminator makeup look

Here we have the finished Terminator Genisys look.

I am not a special effects makeup artist and yet I was able to recreate this realistic and authentic robot look. I’m so happy with it and I hope you’ll try it out for yourself!

Products used:

• Maybelline Dream Liquid™ Mousse
• Physicians Formula Bronzer
• Maybelline Face Studio Master Conceal
• Laura Mercier lose setting powder
• Covergirl Tru Blend Fixstick Concealer
• Rubie's Costume Co Silver Cream Make-Up
• Special effects Fake skin and fake blood
• Physicians formula bronzer
• MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre
• Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner
• Smashbox cosmetics Full Exposure Palette
• Rimmel London Magnify'eyes Kohl Kajal Shadow Liner
• e.l.f. Cosmetics Waterproof Eyeliner Pen
• Dose of Colours Bare with me