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Jack-o’-lantern SFX Makeup

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For my 5th Halloween look, I recycled one of my concepts from last year. This one’s bloodier so we can all pretend that I’ve progressed so muchwhen it’s literally the same thing. Creating this was a very humbling moment for me, because I’ve finally accepted the truth: holy crap I AM getting old. I could’ve gone for a new idea or tried a new technique (like creating fake teeth from polymorph thermoplastic beads that I will then stick to my eye socket) but nope, let’s stick with the bloody usual…because I have responsibilities and priorities now. This is my 5th look already, and I doubt I can continue my tradition of one-upping the number of Halloween looks I created from the previous year (7 for 2018, 6 for 2017, and 5 for 2016), because alas, there are bills to be paid, work to be done, an apartment to keep free of hair and fur to prevent my cat from releasing a dangling poop train from her anus, and future plans to work on.

My maturity level now: I say “Jack *pause* o’ *pause* lantern” (my teenage self would’ve turned this into a very inappropriate Pinoy pun).

What I did:

  1. I rummaged inside my office bag to look for tissue paper (Yes, I’ve become the type of Tita who saves and collects and recycles free tissue from different establishments now)
  2. I swiped a stick of Elmer’s Glue on my eyebrows to make the tissue stick and to protect my sparse-but-real eyebrows from the liquid latex and scar wax I’ll be using (and it’s what drag queens do as a pre-concealer measure in hiding their real eyebrows.
  3. I drew the triangles (over my eye sockets and nose) and the jagged mouth with a black NYX Retractable Eyeliner and filled them with black Snazaroo facepaint.
  4. I wanted to add a rough-looking texture for the gouged-out areas so I stuck little bits of cotton inside them with Graftobian liquid latex. Once the latex is dry, I painted the cotton bits with dark red facepaint (3 parts red facepaint + 1 part black) and red facepaint from my Flash Color Palette.
  5. I framed the gouged areas with little rolls of my DIY scar wax (equal parts of flour + petroleum jelly and a bit of liquid foundation) that I stuck to my face using mooore liquid latex.
  6. I veeery carefully applied L’Oreal Liquid Foundation in Golden Sande on my face with a damp beauty sponge, making sure that the sponge can also cover the scar wax’d areas so they’ll appear as if they’re my real skin…then dusted the stickiness away with Bare Minerals Mineral Foundation in Neutral Medium.
  7. I did my usual contour routine using Fashion 21’s Contour Kit (contour for the nose line and cheeks), focusing on my cheeks & nose area so my face can still look three dimensional.
  8. Dabbed a generous amount of Graftobian blood paste over the facepainted areas of my gouged-out face and let Graftobian blood gel drip all over my cheeks.
  9. I feel pretty pleased that I barely had to make an effort with this step-by-step outline; seeing as I simply revised last year’s how-to. Heh.

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Under Pressure SFX Makeup

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I’ve finally done my 6th Halloween makeup (which makes this set up to par with the amount of Halloween makeup looks I made last year huzzaaah), and tbh, I’m not really happy with this one. See, I was planning a melted face SFX look (think skin dripping as if I’m made of wax), but unfortunately, my college years of making jello shots did not prepare me for the DIY gelatin prosthetics scene. For THREE DAYS I’ve scoured the bowels of Youtube for a recipe that will work (like I even tried cooking in May’s place in Hellmouth) without sliding off my face and I’ve even Googled for local online stores selling Mehron 3D gel just to save me from my DIY misery (result: there is none), but alas, it’s not meant to be. 

So since I’ve already borrowed a crown for this look (LOL #effort), I went ahead and did it anyway (sans the skin dripping) just so I can claim that I’ve already done 6 Halloween makeup looks (…and I can peacefully obsess about how the heck am I going to execute my 7th/last one):

Judge: And now, for your final round question: If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
Me:

What I did…

…for the right side of my face:

  1. I drew a line in the middle of my face using my black NYX Retractable Eyeliner, and shielded my left eyebrow for the liquid latex later on with Elmer’s Glue Stick (I like using the purple variant that smells like grapes because the color change from purple-to-clear lets you know that the glue has dried)
  2. Prepped the right side of my face using Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer, then applied Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige with a damp beauty sponge all over this area. I also used a cooopious amount of Maybelline Liquid Concealer in Medium to hide my eyebags.
  3. I shaped and groomed and filled in my right eyebrow using Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread and Coastal Scents Brow Palette until you can see my eyebrow from Mars because I was aiming for that Brooke Shields-in-the-80s look. Then I defined it further by dabbing liquid concealer around that eyebrow. Bleeend.
  4. I defined my nose and my cheek using Fashion 21’s Contour Kit, highlighted my browbone, cheekbone and cupid’s bow using Sleek’s Highlighting Palette in Precious Metals over Benefit’s watt’s up, and colored my cheek with the blush powder from Sleek’s Contour Kit until it looks like I was slapped in a backstage catfight.
  5. I dabbed a bit of NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk over my lid because I’ll need a white base to make the super bright eyeshadow colors pop. Then I mixed blue and pink facepaint from my Flash palette to create the purple I applied on the crease, and applied the sky blue facepaint from the same palette on my lid. I made the colors pop out even more by dabbing a shimmery sky blue eyeshadow called Peace over my lid, and a shimmery purplish pink eyeshadow called Fishnet over the crease (both from the Urban Decay Deluxe Shadowbox Palette). I used the same colors for my lower lashline, then blend. Blend to infinity and beyond.
  6.  I tightlined using the same black eyeliner I used to divide the areas of my face earlier, created a winged eye using LifeFord Hi-Precise Eye Pen, and finished that off with #BT03 Bohktoh falsies that I applied using my favorite Nichido eyelash glue.
  7. Because I was aiming for that 80’s look (thus the thick Brooke Shields eyebrow), aka the time when nobody batted an eye if you match a BLUE! and PURPLE! eyeshadow combo with PINK! cheeks and a RED! lipstick, I used Gloss Skin and Beyond’s Diva matte liquid lippie.

 

…for the left side of my face:

  1. The rough texture is composed of uneven bits and pieces of dried tissue paper that were dipped in Elmers Glue.
  2. Sooo basically I just covered my left face with Graftobian liquid latex and attached those bits of tissue paper to my skin. I covered my eyesocket with a round cotton pad so the liquid latex (and tissue) won’t get to my left eye, and then sandwiched that with another layer of tissue paper and liquid latex.
  3. I traced the middle line (that I drew with my eyeliner earlier) with liquid latex, which I then covered with a thin roll of DIY scar wax (equal amounts of petroleum jelly and flour with a few drops of your liquid foundation)…which I then pressed and blended to my real skin.
  4. Once everything’s dry, I painted my paper mache’d face and scar wax with the same liquid foundation, blush, eyeshadow and lipstick that I used on my real skin–the wonkier the better since I want the left side of my face to be disintegrating (if not melting!), and hey, I’m freakin doing this step with only one seeing eye.
  5. Added some black drips (for the mascara) and even glued the other half of my falsies to make it look a bit more “real” (heh).
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Love Is Blind SFX Makeup

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Because I’m running out of doable ideas (and because my supposed 5th Halloween makeup look should’ve involved DIY prosthetic!) I settled with another makeup look that’s a little too literal. Now, I’m just gonna go straight to the What I Did’s because I’m running out of time and I still promised to facepaint some of my colleagues for today’s kid-friendly, non-gory Halloween office party so I’ll just let my imaginary childhood boyfriends Nick and Landon explain why the idealist in me still believes in “love is blind”.

 

Makuha ka sa tingin.

What I Did:

  1. I swiped a stick of Elmer’s Glue on my eyebrows to protect them from the liquid latex and scar wax I’ll be using (and it’s what drag queens do as a pre-concealer measure in hiding their real eyebrows).
  2. I drew the lines and hearts over my eye sockets with a black NYX Retractable Eyeliner and filled them with black Snazaroo facepaint.
  3. I wanted to add a rough-looking texture for the gouged-out eye sockets so I stuck little bits of cotton inside the black hearts with Graftobian liquid latex. Once the latex is dry, I painted the cotton bits with black facepaint too.
  4. I framed the hearts with little rolls of my DIY scar wax (equal parts of flour + petroleum jelly and a bit of liquid foundation) that I stuck to my face using mooore liquid latex. Once they’re in place, I gently rubbed and blended the scar wax to my actual skin.
  5. I veeery carefully applied Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beige on my face with a damp beauty sponge, making sure that the sponge can also cover the scar wax’d areas so they’ll appear as if they’re my real skin.
  6. Did my usual contour-highlight routine using Fashion 21’s Contour Kit (contour for the nose line and cheeks), Sleek’s Contour Kit (blush), Sleek’s Highlighting Palette in Precious Metals and Benefit’s watts up highlighter (for the nose and cupid’s bow).
  7. Added a bruising effect to the frames of my gouged-out eyes using red and purple eyeshadow from the Coastal Scents Creative Me palette.
  8. Covered my lips with a very sinister-looking, velvety dark red matte liquid lippie appropriately called Revenge from Gloss Skin and Beyond.
  9. Dabbed a generous amount of Graftobian blood paste over the black facepainted areas of my gouged-out eyes and let Graftobian blood gel drip all over my cheeks.
  10. Stuck bits of wire to the scar wax frame to make it appear as if the wires are holding my face together.
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Snow Why?! SFX Makeup

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To be honest, I wasn’t so hot about this makeup look. But like I said, I’m aiming to create 7 Halloween makeup looks this year so I can’t really afford to be picky. All I know is that when I saw this makeup look in Instagram ages ago, I thought, “Hmm looks doable enough, I’ll just have to substitute the melted skin with rolls of tissue bits like the last time.”

Bet the apple was planted by Banksy (…I wish!)

I’m not even going to yap about Snow White because she’s my least favorite Disney princess (#MulanPaDinMgaOlol), so I’ll just go straight to the step-by-step:

WHAT I DID…

…FOR THE FACE, PART 1:

  1. I prayed to the makeup gods above that I can still squeeze out an ample amount of Urban Decay’s Optical Illusion Complexion Primer because I don’t want to splurge on a new bottle any time soon just so my face can look flawless and make-up ready. Then I breathed a sigh of relief when I discovered that I just have a faulty pump.
  2. I covered my face with Maybelline’s Fit Me Liquid Foundation in Natural Beigeusing a damp beauty sponge. Added more coverage by applying bareMinerals Mineral Foundation in Neutral Medium with a huge foundation brush. Raged and told myself another lie about getting more sleep when I realized that I’m three products in (primer + liquid foundation + mineral foundation) and yeeeet, my eyebags were still visible. Slathered an inverted triangle of Maybelline’s liquid concealer in Medium under each eye and blended that out with my middle finger.
  3. I defined my cheeks and made my noseline pop like it’s for Josh Groban with the powder blush & powder contour from Sleek’s Face Contour Kit, then illuminated my browbone and cheekbones with Benefit’s watts up highlighter because I like goin extra with my highlighters.

…FOR THE EYES:

  1. I shaped my eyebrows and filled in the sparse areas with Nichido Browmaster in Gingerbread, which has been a cheaper, guilt-free-everyday-tool for me compared to Benefit’s Gimme Brow.
  2. I Primed my eyelids with Lorac Behind The Scenes eyeshadow primer because I need the yellow & blue colors to reaaally stick (yeah, poor choice of color combination but they were supposed to represent Snow White’s Ikea-inspired dress).
  3. Dabbed a bit of white facepaint from my Flash palette over my lids (or else the yellow will barely show on my Azn skin). Added a layer of yellow facepaint over the white lids, then I used a lemon yellow powder eyeshadow my Creative Me palette as their setting powder, and theeen lined the crease and my lower lids with the Facebook- blue eyeshadow (also from the Creative Me palette).
  4. Suck at blending two neon colors together, decided to just screw it and leave them looking raw rather than end up with a green eyeshadow look.
  5. Tightlined with Nyx Retractable black eyeliner, created my cat eyeliner look with my black, Lifeford Hi-Precise Eye Pen, and finished that off with my new favorite falsies (#BT03 Bohktoh false eyelashes #ObligatoryHelloThailandILoveYouForThis), used with my favorite, holy-grail-of-an-eyelash-glue from Nichido.

…FOR THE FACE, PART 2:

  1. I rolled bits of tissue paper into little cocoons. THEN I use the same liquid foundation I used on my face to paint all over them so they can appear as the same shade as my skin. Set to dry.
  2. I used one of my random brown eyeliner pencils lying around to create an outline of my bloody mouth (visualize Ronald McDonald’s mouth while you’re at it).
  3. I lined my Ronald McDonald mouth with a layer of pinky-sized tissue paper using Graftobian liquid latex. This will serve as the frame of the melted skin bits.
  4. I mixed red, black and brown facepaint from my Flash palette and painted my Ronald McDonald mouth outline so it will appear as if it’s one gaping hole of a mouth.
  5. Once the liquid foundation-doused tissue cocoons are dry, I started sticking them to the tissue frame of my Ronald McDonald Mouth using more liquid latex and smoothened the creases with Graftobian Modelling Wax. Oh and I also kept an o-face during this whole ordeal to make sure that the tissue cocoons/melted skin will fit nicely haha
  6. Painted the tissue frame of my mouth with the same liquid foundation, then dabbed a geneeerous amount of Graftobian Blood Paste on the painted gaping hole.
  7. Find a red hairband and hold an apple. Pose for a selfie and make your nosy cat wish you’re not her hooman.
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