Animals & CreaturesNo. 3171 · The 2026 edition
Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Butterfly
Transform into a stunning butterfly this Halloween with this step-by-step makeup tutorial featuring vibrant wings and sparkling details.
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This tutorial guides you through creating a colorful butterfly face using face paints, eyeliner, and glitter. You'll design large wings over the eyes, a body down the nose, and antennae on the forehead, finishing with sparkly pink lips. Perfect for a festive Halloween look that's both fun and beautiful.
Directions
- Using a wide brush, sweep face paint across the eyelid and upward onto the forehead in broad strokes.
- Extend the wing shape below the eye by dragging the brush from the inner corner outward and downward.
- Then, with a small craft brush and orange face paint, add highlights.
- Repeat using gold face paint to further define each wing.
- Outline the edge of the makeup with black liquid eyeliner.
- For highlights, use a small makeup brush with white face paint to dot each wing tip randomly, directly over the black lines.
- Also place a white dot on the inner corner of the eye.
- Carefully use your fingers to dab kid-friendly gel glitter inside the black outlines of the wings.
- Using a wide brush and face paint, form one large wing over each eyelid extending up the forehead.
- Trace the wings with black eyeliner and add white dots with face paint.
- Draw an oval above the nose with a black eyeliner pencil to start the butterfly's body between the wings.
- From the oval's bottom, extend a long, thin teardrop shape down to the tip of the nose to complete the body.
- Above the oval, draw two lines on the forehead that curl at the top to look like antennae.
- Complete the face with sparkly pink lips: apply pink lipstick first, then add a dot of glitter in the center of the lips for shimmer.
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