Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Billy the Puppet/ Jigsaw Makeup How-to


I know I said the Zombie Makeup Tutorial would be my last Halloween tutorial but my Cousin asked me to help her do this look, so I thought I'd have a go and share it on here too. It's probably the easiest of the tutorials I've done this year, and all you need is a white shirt, black jeans, black blazer and red bow tie to complete the look.


1// Cover the face in white face paint or a very pale foundation.
2// Stick circular stickers on your cheeks and blend black eyeshadow around the edges.
3// Peel of the stickers and you'll be left with a clean black edge on the inside making it look like the swirls stick out.
4// Draw swirls in the circles using red lipstick or facepaint and a thin brush.
5// Fill in your brows with black shadow or a dark pencil.
6// Ring your eyes with a black pencil and blend out.
7// Add black eyeshadow to intensify the eyes.
8// Using a thin brush drag the shadow down from your brows to your nose, to contour slightly.
9// Add red Lipstick to your lips, dragging it out slightly at the edges.
10// Use a black pencil to draw lines vertically down from the edges of your lips, to give you a puppet mouth.

If any of you give this look a go, send me a pic on twitter @KatieCorbett98

Saturday, 17 October 2015

DIY Bloody Candles for Halloween

All you need for this super easy Halloween DIY is a white pillar candle, matches, and a red candle. 



Simply light the red candle and let the wax melt, dripping it onto the white one around the circumference of its top and particularly down the sides. Make sure you do this over a protected, non-flammable surface and please be careful! As you can see, I made quite the mess. Make sure you let the candle fully cool before picking it up to move it too! They're the perfect party decoration or would look great in your window on Halloween night, to tempt Trick or Treaters to your door. However you use them they're sure to give someone a scare.

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Easy Simple Zombie DIY Makeup

The third and most likely final of my Halloween tutorials this year is this super easy zombie makeup. If you don't wanna go all out with the zombie look and do bloody cuts and bites, than this is a great option. I wore this to work last Halloween (I work behind a bar), because it was a last minute kinda thing and it actually worked out rather well. I think Halloween is the only time of the year where having a naturally zombie-like  pallor is a good thing.
Step 1// Start with a fresh, makeup free face. Any redness or imperfections kinda helps with the look tbh. Being as ghostly pale as I am does too.
Step 2// Add dark purple eyeshadow all around the eyes, particularly underneath.
Step 3// Use the same purple eyeshadow at the sides of the nose.
Step 4// Add an intense contour using a grey tinged brown eyeshadow.
Step 5// Apply black eyeliner or eyeshadow just under the waterline.
Step 6// and Step 7// Add 'bruises' to your face by sponging layers of yellow, green, purple and red face paints. I added one on my forehead, one on my chin and one on the top of my left cheekbone.
Step 8// Apply concealer all over the lips.
Step 9// Add a dark red lipstick at the sides of the mouth, I'd recommend MUA lipstick in shade one.
Step 10// Perfect that dead eyed stare.

If any of you try out any of my halloween tutorials please send me a pic on twitter @KatieCorbett98.

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Dia De Los Muertos Skull Makeup Tutorial


So last year for Halloween I did this(^) to my face and received quite a few compliments on it so thought maybe this year I'd show ya'll how to recreate this look super easily, with almost entirely makeup you'll already have. Ain't nobody got the dollah for that.
All you'll need is white face paint, black eyeliner(pencil or gel are best), coloured eyeshadow/facepaint (I used a blue Barry M dazzle dust), and a dark preferably black eyeshadow. Optionally you can also use false lashes and rhinestones around the eyes like I did.

1// Cover face in white face paint.
2// Add black rings around the eyes and fill in with colour of your choice. Cover nose in black eyeliner and add a v over the bridge of your nose.
3// Draw 7-8 lines from between your eyebrows out to your hair line. Try and make them as straight as possible, I sucked at this.
4// Add curved lines between each of those lines to create a spider's web effect on your forehead.
5// Run black/dark eyeshadow through the crease of your eyelids and then add eyeliner if you choose to. I just did a small flick.
6// Draw swirling vines through the hollows of your cheeks, where you would usually contour.
7// Add petals to the ends of the vines and fill in with colour of your choice.
8// Draw a line horizontally through the lips and then some shorter ones vertically over your lips, to make them look like teeth.
Optional
9// Glue rhinestones around the eye sockets either with eyelash glue or use ready glued ones like I did from The Works.
10// Add false eyelashes for a more dramatic eye look.

I hope those instructions were somewhat helpful to you, I paired this makeup look with a  black velvet skater skirt, black heels and a skeleton print t-shirt that I picked up in Primark the year previously. But you can get really nice skeleton dresses online like my friends Niamh did (See photo above [She's the one that makes me look like a dwarf])  
If you try it out please,please, please, pleaseeeeeee send me a pic on twitter, I would love to see it.

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

DIY Comic Book/Pop Art Makeup

All you need for this simple Halloween DIY look is 
  • Black eyeliner (pencil and liquid preferably)
  • White eyeliner
  • Red lipstick
  • Blue eyeshadow/face paint

1// Start by putting your usual face makeup on, such as foundation, concealer and a slight contour, but don't set it with powder.
2//  Use a black eyeliner (I used my NYX jumbo eye pencil in Black Bean) to fill in your eyebrows, frame your face and draw around the curves of your nose , as in the picture above.
2// Use black eyeliner (I used by Bourjois smoky effect eyeliner pencil) to draw around the lips and to draw tear drops on. Then fill in the tear drops with a blue eyeshadow or face paint (I used a Barry M dazzle dust).
4// Fill in the lips with the brightest red lipstick you own.
5// Use black pencil liner to line your water line and black liquid liner to do a cat eye (I used my L'oreal Super liner slim).
6// Take a white eyeliner and cover your face in white dots (I  used my NYX jumbo eyeliner in milk.)
Fin

How easy was that? It's the perfect last minute costume/makeup look!

Sunday, 4 October 2015

Autumn Essentials





So who's excited for Halloween? It's October now so I'm finally allowed to be! This year I have also tried out some makeup ideas for Halloween to show you all, so look forward to those! I love going all out on the makeup as there aren't many other opportunities to. But anyway, now that Autumn is definitely here I thought I'd show you some of my essentials. First is the super cosy scarf from New Look that I used as the backdrop for the photos. The colours are super autumnal and will go with most outfits plus its just so soft I wish I could sleep in it, which i definitely could considering the size of it. My autumnal nail picks are very similar to last years with a deep matte burgundy polish Crush by Barry M and a light slate grey from Illamasqua called DWS (Which I picked up for the bargain price of £4 at TKMaxx which greatly excited me). Most of the year, red is my favourite lip colour but over autumn it switches to purples and plums, my favourite of which is Topshop's Lipstick in Wicked, its a very dark purple on the lips though looks more of a brick red in the bullet. It's just gorgeous and I always get compliments whenever I wear it. It's lasting power is also pretty fab. If I'm looking for a less statement lip I have also been loving Burt's Bees Hibiscus Lip Balm to add a slight tint to my lips and moisturise them simultaneously. To make it feel all cosy in my room I've also started burning less summery scents and picked up this lovely pack of yankee samplers from Asda for only £3. Unfortunately though I have noticed that the 'Simply Home' scents aren't quite as good as the usual ones and often don't smell as strong. It contains Apple Crumble, Simply Vanilla and Raspberry Sundae  which I can't wait to try.
Let me know your Autumn essentials in the comments!

Friday, 31 October 2014

Halloween 2014

So last friday me and my sister had a Halloween party with about 30 of our friends, it was like a week early but some of our friends were going on holiday for October Half Term so yea. Anyway, I went as a sugar skull in the end as you can see below... 
I followed this tutorial that I found on youtube which also happens to be in my Costume Ideas post.

Anyway, heres a couple of photos I got on the night, you can tell how late it is by how many jewels fell off my face/how smudged my makeup is haha!










I hope none of my friends mind being on here...

Wednesday, 29 October 2014

The Halloween Tag

Picture off We Heart It and I added the text

I was tagged to do the Halloween Tag by the lovely Lily from LilyPad, you should go check her out!

Q1. What is your favourite Halloween movie?

I've got to be honest I've never really seen a 'halloween' movie. I only watched my first ever horror movie like two weeks ago (Annabelle, in case your wondering!) but I am going to see Ouija on Friday and I'm kinda terrified!

Q2. What is your fondest Halloween memory?
I never really celebrated Halloween much as a kid, we didn't really go trick or treating or get dressed up that much, though to be fair, for a couple of years our friends who lived across the road did have halloween parties which were pretty awesome. But I think the best Halloween memory I have so far is my party last week! Post coming soon.

Q3. Favourite Halloween decoration?

Ummmm, thats kinda hard, obviously I love a good old Jack O Lantern but at the moment we have this awesome Yellow Tape up that says ' CAUTION ZOMBIES LIVE HERE' Which I love :)

Q4. Vampires or Zombies?
Well it depends really, cus obvs vampires are pretty sexy (Not the twilight kind) but I am very partial to the Walking Dead so I love them both really!

Q5. What is your weird/odd fear?
Hmmmmm, now thats a hard one, I have loads of fears really, but I guess my weirdest one is having sharp things touch my wrists, like I cant even write on my wrists cus it just freaks me out, and I hate when people hold me by the wrists.

Q6. Do you believe in ghosts?
Not really nope, but there are those times when you're home alone in the dark and there are noises and things when I'm like maybe, but then I'm just like ' Well, Jace Lightwood/Wayland/Morgenstern will protect me' (I'm obsessed with Mortal Instruments right now!)

And I'll tag- 

Saturday, 18 October 2014

Halloween Costume Ideas

Sooo, who loves halloween?! 
Meeeee.
Who always forgets about Halloween until practically the day before?
Also, meeeeeee.
So this year I decided to get ahead, I love love love dressing up for halloween, its the best thing about October, so I thought I'd share with you a couple of the things that I considered dressing up as this year :) 

Vampire
A good old traditional halloween costume with a modern twist.
I loveeeeee this video that Emma has done for sexy vampire makeup!

This video is absolutely ingenious, it's just so clever using false nails and denture glue to make fangs!
For the actual costume, you can just pair any LBD with some black stilettos and look instantly badass. All in all it would be quite a cheap, yet effective outfit.

Zombie
This girls youtube channel is amazing, I have just discovered it and I love it! This makeup tutorial is so good if you want to go as a zombie but don't want to go all out walking-dead-type-zombie as its so simple.

For the costume you can just cover any of your clothes in dirt and fake blood really, but this video is a really good example of how to do this. 

This video is just a bonus that I found in my subscriptions box and I think its soooooo cool, the devil is in the detail as they say.

Frozen Costumes
Not really a halloween costume but how could I resist because it's FROZEN.
Another brilliant tutorial from Katherine Elizabeth, showing makeup for both Elsa and Anna.

This video was a collab so there are also links to Elsa and Olaf costumes too, but they are really simple, easy DIY costumes.

Sugar Skull
How beautiful/creepy are Sugar Skulls? I think this might be what I go as for my halloween party, but I'm not sure yet? I tried it out and this was the result (It needs a few improvements)...


Well that was a lot of videos, sorry, I'm just so excited for Halloween, I can't decide whether to go as a  vampire, a zombie or a sugar skull, what do you think? Let me know in the comments...



Saturday, 5 October 2013

October Printable

Happy Halloween everyone! (In almost a month, but its good to be early... for a change...)

Got any Halloween plans? Any DIY costume ideas? Let me know in the comments!