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How To Get The Look - Halloween Doll
An easy How To Get The Look if you’re digging for a last-minute costume idea!
People get excited about Halloween pretty early on, so there have been a few requests for makeup looks dramatic enough for dressing up, but not so complicated that you can’t do them with the products you already have in your drawer. So here’s an easy-yet-fabulous Halloween costume idea: a Living Doll!
- To begin, start with a foundation that is going to leave you with a flawless, porcelain-like complexion. Flawless Skin Protecting Foundation is my pick, because it gives me a substantial enough coverage without feeling thick.
- Prime your eyes with Skin Primer Matte It. You’ll be putting on a fair amount of eye makeup, and you don’t want it to melt off and lose its punch halfway through the night.
Eyes
- Begin by using Eye Color Shade 40: Baby Pink and applying it to the half of your eye closest to the inner corner. Go ahead and bring it all the way up to the brow and out a bit.
- Next, take a purplish color like Eye Color Shade 04: Granite or Shade 30: Amethyst onto your Eyeshadow Brush. Gently pat it onto the outer corner of your eye, only bringing it up to the crease, and blending it over on the lid until you hit the lighter color.
- Take Eye Shimmer Shade 02: Gold and touch it to the inside of each tear duct area to help eyes stand out.
- Next, take your Liquid Eyeliner and line your upper lid, finishing off the outside of the lid with not one, but two flicks. This will help to give you a more artificial, opened-eye look.
- Then, take the Liquid Eyeliner underneath the lower lashline, and begin dragging it down messily in short, quick little strokes. This is called “twigging” (because the famous model Twiggy popularized it back in the 60’s), and it shouldn’t be done with too much precision. Be messy!
- I finished off the eyes by lining my waterline with Eye Definer Shade 01: Black and putting on lots of coats of Super Volume Mascara.
Cheeks
- Take a fluffy brush, like the Face & Body Brush, and swirl it into Cheek Color Shade 03: Heather Pink. Then work the blush in a careful circle right on the apples of your cheeks. Be sure to use enough blush that the circle is visible, and then gently blend it out.
Lips
- Begin by priming the lips with a concealer that is the same shade as the foundation you used as your base. This will help them to disappear into the skin so that you can recreate a lip shape.
- Next, take Lip Liner Shade 13: Rosy Red and draw in liner vertically just after the peaks of the Cupid’s Bow, then fill in. This will create the illusion of a tiny little set of doll lips.
- Use the Lipstick/Concealer Brush to fill in the outline using your desired shade of lipstick. I used new Colourglide Lip Color Shade 52: Rich Scarlet. Then smudge on just a bit of Sheer Lip Shine Shade 03: Strawberry for just a bit of a gloss.
Remember, your ultimate goal for this look is high drama, so don’t be afraid to really go bold. Throw on some fake eyelashes if you have them, and a big ribbon or bow in your hair to complete the doll look.
