How To Do Easy Skull Makeup For Halloween

Master an easy skull makeup look with these 7 steps, perfect for Halloween spookiness without the fuss.

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Create a convincing skull makeup by starting with facial bone mapping and outlining key areas in black. Build teeth with white paint, fill in large color blocks, then add shading with black and white eyeshadow for depth. Finish with setting spray to keep your look intact all night.

Directions

Feel your face to locate key bone areas like jaw and teeth, using a photo for reference.

With black liquid eyeliner or black Paradise paint on a thin brush, outline the main skull features: jaw/cheeks (elongated S), nose (triangles tapering to bridge), and eyes/brows (rounded square).

Using white Paradise paint and a flat packing brush, create teeth shapes by stamping on the lower lip, drawing a long triangle root down to chin, flipping for top tooth, building equally on both sides following your real teeth.

Fill in large color areas with a big flat foundation brush: black Mehron paint for eyes, nose, and under jawline; white paint for forehead, around nose, bottom of jaw bone, and between teeth triangles.

Final details: line upper and lower waterlines with black pencil eyeliner, set black eye area with shadow. Use liquid liner to sharpen nose edges and set. Lightly fill in black portions on lips between teeth for depth.

Shade with black and white eyeshadows: use tapered fluffy brush to run black shadow between each tooth, blending softer toward center, blending out to white areas below nose and chin. Add black shadow in jaw hollows to blend into teeth, small shadow lines around eye corners and jaw edges, contour face edges with black shadow.

Set entire makeup with setting spray for all-night wear.