8 Halloween Makeup Costumes (You Only Need Makeup!)

Directions

1. Paint a raindrop shape on your face starting from mid-nose and splashing down to cover your entire chin.
2. Carefully glue the zipper onto your face using the step-by-step instructions from Instructables.
3. Wear black clothing to complete the look.
4. Before starting, decide on a specific clown look you want to create.
5. Apply white and black makeup as a base, then use red for scary accents or primary colors for a happy clown.
6. Borrow a jester hat, top hat, cowboy hat, or any outrageous hat—even a plastic one from the dollar store works.
7. If you don't have a hat, go for huge hair: make it stick out with egg whites, frizz it and spray heavily, or create a sea of two dozen ponytails. Add feathers, a boa, or flowers for extra impact.
8. Cover your entire face with white makeup, leaving large circles for your eyes, nose, and mouth.
9. Fill those circles with black makeup, and add a few vertical 'stitches' across your lips.
10. Add red accents—my friend Meg placed a red flower in her hair, which looked great.
11. Choose black, white, red, and green as the main colors for a zombie bride, dead bride, or monster bride costume.
12. If you don't have a veil, a big white dress makes your costume unmistakable.
13. Focus the makeup on your eyes and mouth—there's plenty of room for creativity, so let your inner artist out.
14. Dress in black pants or jeans with a solid black or red top.
15. Gather black construction paper, glue, scissors, and googly eyes—that's all you need for this costume.
16. Follow a step-by-step tutorial to make a spider hat using those supplies.
17. Wear all black clothing to complete the spider look.
18. Get green and black makeup or face paint.
19. Coat your face with green, then accentuate wrinkles with black: horizontal lines on your forehead, deeply around your eyes, an upside-down mustache between your bottom lip and chin, a diagonal wrinkle from the corner of your eye to your jawline, and another line from the tip of your nose down to your jaw.
20. A black wig is nice but not necessary—if your face makeup is good, everyone will know who you are.
21. Focus your makeup on your mouth, nose, and eyes—you can always erase and redo mistakes.
22. Dress in all black so people focus on your face.
23. Even without cat ears, people will recognize you as a cat.
24. Wear your girliest dress or top—it doesn't matter much as long as your clothes don't distract from your doll face makeup.
25. Choose a creepy, sweet, or scary doll face—there are many options.
26. Focus on the mouth, cheeks, and eyes, and match your makeup to the clothes you plan to wear.
27. For extra effect, wear colored contact lenses.