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Make this a freakishly fantastic Halloween with expert makeup tips from DCPA Teaching Artist Rachel Taylor.
Don’t host a Halloween party for bacteria on your face. Makeup, just like food, has a shelf life and expiration date. Do a little fall cleaning of your makeup supplies each year and toss out the old because nothing can ruin a good makeup job like an eye infection, skin irritation or breakout. All products are different but here is a good rule of thumb:
If you are using a Halloween Makeup Kit to create your look, remember the cheaper the kit the higher the odds that it will irritate your skin! It’s worth a little investment to avoid discomfort.
The most common makeup mistake is neglecting to blend. This boo-boo can turn a fantastic makeup job into more of a mask look. Don’t let your lovely green Frankenstein hue end abruptly at the neck! Make sure your makeup job is cohesive and believable by including ears, necks, hairlines, arms, legs and hands. If your grizzly swamp monster has pink people ears…the scare factor is minimized and the comic factor increases.
The wicked of this witch ends right at her jawline!
Any successful Halloween look can be created with the basic rules of simple contouring. Contouring is the use of light and dark shadowing to change the shape of your face. Create sunken or recessed areas with black and gray tones. Highlight and accentuate areas you would like to appear more prominent and forward with light shades or metallic hues. Use your own bone structure as a guide. Anywhere you feel a bone on your face, a highlight goes above it and a low light or shadow goes underneath it. Skeletal or rotting makeups would be heavy on the lowlights whereas storybook or ethereal characters would likely lean toward heavy highlighting.
A school glue stick (because it is safe and non-toxic) and a Kleenex are all you need for DIY mini prosthetics! Make a little ‘paste’ of glue and tissue, apply to face and use a cosmetic brush, toothpick or Q-tip to sculpt the paste into scars, pox, gashes, and warts. Let glue dry. Cover with foundation and detail with color and fake blood.
Rachel Taylor is a Teaching Arts and Program Manager with DCPA Education. She occasionally offers classes on theatrical makeup application, so visit denvercenter.org/education for a full class lineup for all ages.
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