21 Easy Halloween Makeup Ideas For Last-Minute Costumes

Directions

1. For a creepy doll look, dampen Kryolan's Aquacolor Wet Makeup in TV White then use a sponge to coat the face, neck, and any exposed skin. Using the Eye Shadow Trio Set in Smokey Grey (Stone color), add shadow to the cheek hollows, hairline, and eyelids; blend Black Star G into the crease. Apply Lip Stain in Jazz to the apples of the cheeks and lips. With a black contour pencil, sketch cracks and fractures over the face and body, line the lower lash line, draw extra lashes downward from the lower line and outward from the upper line, and create arched brows using the brown side.
2. For Ursula, wear a black dress and a white wig with hairspray to style it. Use a multi-kit Halloween face paint to apply the makeup.
3. Achieve a zombie bride by using a foundation that is two shades lighter than your natural skin tone to appear pale. Accent with dark eyeshadow and fake blood, and finish with a veil.
4. For a vampire, apply several layers of dark eyeshadow to the eyes and create bloodstains around the mouth.
5. Create a butterfly look with orange and red eyeshadow, black eyeliner, and fluttery false eyelashes.
6. For a unicorn, build the look with pink shades from the Urban Decay Naked Cherry palette. Add a pink wig and a rainbow unicorn headband.
7. To mimic the Black Swan, use MAC Blacktrack Longwear Fluidline and a detail liner brush for defined outer eye lines, then smudge the liner underneath the eyes.
8. For a mermaid, use Violet Voss's 'Sea You Later' palette and fishnet tights as a stencil to stamp iridescent scales onto the skin.
9. To become a leopard, blend brown eyeshadow and use a double-ended eyeliner pen to draw spots, dots, lines, and whiskers. Employ a palette with both matte and shimmery browns and golds.
10. For a clown, apply a colorful kit like the Violet Voss Rainbow Palette. Add shimmery dots at the outer corners of the eyes and line the lashes with Urban Decay Glide-On Pencil in purple.
11. For a deer, use creamy brown shades or a cream contour kit. Reference a Snapchat deer filter to guide your makeup placement, and finish details with liquid eyeliner.
12. For Pikachu, cover your face with yellow paint and add rosy red circles on the cheeks.
13. For a bear, use brown eyeshadow and a liner pencil to create thick, fluffy brown brows. Add a brown button nose. Set your work with translucent powder both before and after application to avoid streaks and minimize flashback.
14. For a cat face, use gel eyeliner to draw precise whisker lines. Combine with dramatic, dark eyeshadow.
15. For an easy zombie, use red and darker shades to create hollowed eyes and bloody veins. Wrap bandages to simulate open wounds. Dip sewing thread into red lipstick and apply to create vein patterns like tree branches.
16. For a pirate, choose dark, red, burnt orange, and shimmery gold colors. Smudge the eyeliner and shadows to achieve a messy, weathered appearance.
17. For a devil, start with a white face paint base. Then, using vibrant makeup crayons in Tangerine Orange, Dove White, and Night Black, craft a statement eye or an original design.
18. For a witch, blend green eyeshadows. Make an ombre lip by applying chapstick then pressing eyeshadow colors onto lips—darkest at the corners and lighter on the cupid's bow.
19. For Amy Winehouse, draw the signature thick black winged liner.
20. For David Bowie, use an F/X palette to create opaque, sharp designs. Sweep blush all over the face and use concealer as needed.
21. For Marilyn Monroe, add a beauty mark and finish with a glossy ruby red lip liner and matching gloss.