If you look at that title and say “yep, that’s me” then yeah keep reading!
I hope this helps all of you out there that are panicking, running around the kitchen dreading that moment when you turn up in a room full of ghosts, wearing jeans and a bright pink tee. Chances are if you’re in that situation you won’t be looking at my lil’ blog but anyways…. it might help someone, somewhere at some point. Today I was planning to do a vampire face-paint tutorial, but then that sorta spiraled and now I have tons of Halloween ideas so you got this instead! Hopefully after reading this, you will look dead gorgeous tomorrow (excuse the feeble pun….I just couldn’t resist).
For the ghost look:
Using a white blusher, foundation or sponge with white face paint on, cover your entire face with a light coat. Now use a light grey colour and make a sweeping motion up your cheekbones. Using a finger blend with the white, until it looks like your cheeks are hollowed out. You may need to put another dusting of white over the top for it to look fully natural. Do the same around the eyes, being very careful. Take a black eyeshadow and apply just to the eyelids. Above this put on a thin layer of grey eyeshadow, using the black eyeshadow brush to blend together creating a smoky look. Apply thick black mascara, eyeliner and a dark burgundy lipstick to complete the look! It might be cool to put some white streaks in your hair (make sure whatever you use can be washed off!!) then scoop half of your hair into a messy bun then twist the other half up and around it, in separate strands, bulking it out and crazifying it. You could attach some long strips of netting to a skirt and wear with long gloves and a little veil.
To make a skirt:
Take the biggest piece of white netting you can find and do a running stitch along the whole of the longest side. Make sure you use one entire length of thread because we are now going to gather it all up by pulling on one end of the thread and scrunching it up to the other end. Arrange the gathers so that there is enough material left to go around your waist. Attach the gathered side to an already existing skirt then sew up the sides.
To make a veil:
Scrunch up a piece of white material into a flower shape and put a few stitches through it. Cut out a square of white netting and fold one edge around a metal headband, stitch or glue to secure. Glue the flower on to the headband off to one side along with a bow made of lace scraps. You could make more than one flower and have a whole cluster of them, or alternately you could use fake flowers.
Off-duty vampire
Layer black and grey eyeshadow, like I did for the ghost look, but make it darker than before. Apply a thick layer of black eyeliner with decent sized flicks and mascara. Wear with dark lips in burgundy, red or if you’re feeling brave try black. If you want to go that tiny bit over the top use grey blusher along your cheekbones to hollow them out. Wear with “Just-woke-up hair” with a few strands plaited and pinned at the back of your head and a black-on-black outfit.
China doll
Cover your entire face with a thick layer of white blusher. Using a thin brush with black face paint on it or a black eyeliner draw lots of little cracks coming out of your hairline and along your cheeks like you’ve been dropped several times but always not quite broken. Apply white lipstick then using a stand-out pink lip-liner draw a lil’ rosebud heart in the middle of your mouth that goes over both lips. Using the black again draw two cracks going out sideways on each side of your mouth. Pale blue eyeshadow and black lashes. Do neat bunches with ribbons tied around in loopy bows. Wear with several full skirts layered underneath a dress, preferably in a pastel colour. Sew strips of lace around the hem of the skirts so they peek out from underneath the dress to look like petticoats. Lace sleeves or puffed sleeves could really complete the whole Miss Perfect thing.
Go out and kill the party (*cringe* I'm so not funny!) with your awesome outfit tomorrow.
