My favorite part of Halloween isn’t necessarily dressing up—it’s being able to play with all the crazy makeup that I love, but never have the chance to use. And that’s actually how I came up with this year’s costume. After finding a collection of iridescent sequins stashed under my desk and a hair gel that makes your hair look like rubber, an idea popped into my mind—I could be a fish! Random, yes, but when I started looking around online, I realized it could be very, very cool. I knew I needed some help coming up with a look, so I called MAC makeup artist Gina Bettelli. To give her an sense of what I was thinking, I sent her inspiration shots as diverse as makeup from the couture runways to the CoverGirl Captiol Collection ad campaign. Together, we came up with a plan, picking the colors, the features we wanted to focus on, and the fact I wanted to look beautiful rather than like the creature from the black lagoon. When we got together, she put together a makeup look that went above and beyond what even I could imagine. It looks complicated, but Bettelli helped break the process down into easy steps. Check it out by clicking here, then read below for some of her great tips for creating costume makeup look like this.
Never skip foundation. “It keeps everything looking pretty and clean,” explains Bettelli. Also, always rim your eyes in black, especially when wearing crazy colors. Not only does it make the colors stand out even more, it does the same for your eyes.
Always lay down a cream first. “You need something for powder shadows or loose pigments to stick to,” she says.
Easy does it on the glitter. When looking through the inspiration pictures I sent, Bettelli pointed out the difference between the ones we really liked and the ones that were only so-so. “The ones that are a little crazy looking have glitter all over the face,” she said. “It looks prettier if you only use glitter in small doses.”
Get the right tools. Applying sequins and crystals requires a steady hand and a lot of patience, especially if you’re using tweezers. Bettelli has an easier method: Pick up the iridescent flakes with a waxy brow grooming stick (she used the MAC Brow Finisher), or anything waxy like a crayon. Oh, and dot the glue on your skin first. Bettelli used the end of a makeup brush to apply the perfectly sized dollop.
Stand back. The most important thing about this type of makeup is making things symmetrical, which you can only really do by stepping away from the mirror a bit.
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