Hot Makeup How-Tos
How To: Create a Harry Potter inspired "Queen of Lightning" look for Halloween
Dressing up as a character from the "Harry Potter" series is so appropriate for Halloween because you've got a wide selection of witches, wizards, house elves, fluffy pets, trolls, evildoers, and other miscellaneous wacky characters to choose from.
How To: Create a sparkly treasure chest makeup look for Halloween
We have nothing against pirate costumes, but after seeing the 1,000 one on Halloween the look gets a little tired, yar? Embrace the pirate spirit of plundering without going the trite route of the pirate costume by dressing up as a treasure chest this Halloween.
How To: Create a witchy cat eye makeup look for Halloween
Halloween is the one day of the year you could paint your face blue, wear a clown costume, and walk down the street with no one giving you a second glance. The spooktacular holiday is the perfect time to go crazy with your makeup and do wild looks, but we understand if you prefer to look more pretty than pretty scary this year.
How To: Create a bewitching, elegant masquerade makeup look for Halloween
Even during the first Halloween celebrations, masks, disguise, and deceit were the focus of the holiday. Commemorate those tender beginnings by dressing up as a masked masquerade attendee. Wear whatever fancy ball gown you want and then check out this Halloween makeup tutorial by Michelle Phan to learn how to create a drop dead gorgeous masquerade look.
How To: Create Snooki's trashy "Jersey Shore" makeup look for Halloween
In terms of Halloween costume popularity, we think dressing up as Snooki from "Jersey Shore" only falls behind going as a vampire and as Lady Gaga. After all, the Jersey gal has a whole lotta fun personality and personal style to work with.
How To: Create Evan Rachel Wood's Gucci Guilty ad makeup look
Evan Rachel Wood, also known by "True Blood" fans as vampire Queen Sophie Anne, has for the past few years been a big fan of retro, glamorous makeup inspired by screen sirens of the 1950s. She adopts this retro look on "True Blood" with voluminous curls, winged cat liner, and red lips.
How To: Create the Evil Queen's wart-y makeup from "Snow White" for Halloween
Even decades later, the Evil Queen from "Snow White" still remains one of the creepiest and nastiest animated villains out there. Not only did she poison our favorite heroine, Snow White, but her long, wart infested nose gave us the heebie jeebies.
How To: Get Kat Von D's signature retro cat eyes and red lips
Tattoo lady and reality TV star Kat Von D is obviously extremely talented with the tattoo needle. Creating interesting designs for clients that include celebrities, Kat Von D exudes a distinctive style that includes looking like a tougher version of a classic pin up.
How To: Create a fierce Rihanna-inspired makeup look with blue eyeliner
Rihanna, like her BFF Katy Perry, is not one to shy away from color and craziness when it comes to makeup. Rules were made to be broken, right?
How To: Make it look like you have been stabbed with a pencil
Looks like teacher wasn't paying attention! This tutorial shows you how to make it look like you have been bloodily and violently stabbed with a basic school pencil. This tutorial is for the back of the hand, but you can use this technique anywhere.
How To: Make it look like you have bloody gouges using makeup effects
This tutorial uses the Bloody Gouges kit put out by cosmetics and special effects company Cinema Secrets. Apply using spirit gum, and then use the Injury palette and stage blood to make it look like you're really and truly wounded.
How To: Make yourself look like a dark elf
This tutorial is aimed at a specific larp, but you can use this tutorial for any dark elf or svartaelf costume. You will need charcoal powder, whic you can buy from Ben Nye, and some pre-painted elf ear tips you can apply with spirit gum.
How To: Apply latex ear tips to make yourself look like an elf or faerie
Looking for a good way to apply latex ear tips to make you look like you have elf ears or faerie ears? All you really need are the latex ear tips and some spirit gum, and maybe some jewelry if you'd like to accessorize.
How To: Make yourself look like a dark elf warrior
Why be a bright elf when you can dress up like an angry dark elven warrior instead? This tutorial shows you a fun makeup tutorial you can use to make yourself look like a svartaelfr as a costume or larp character.
How To: Make a realistic zombie bite cheaply
When the zombie apocalypse comes, you might be able to sneak by them by disguising yourself as a zombie. Or maybe you just want to dress up like a zombie. This tutorial shows you how to make a realistic looking zombie bite for around twenty dollars.
How To: Make your eyeshadow look like a blood elf hunter from World of Warcraft
Whether this is for Halloween, cosplay or some other event, this tutorial shows you how to do up your eye makeup to make yourself look like a Blood Elf hunter from the ever popular MMO, World of Warcraft. You don't need much, just some red and gold powder cosmetics.
How To: Make yourself look like a fallen angel for Halloween
This look is guaranteed to have an impact at your Halloween party or next costumed event! Give yourself a dramatic fallen angel look with pale foundation, dark eye makeup and small gems you can apply with a few dabs of spirit gum. Spooky!
How To: Make it look like you have slashed wrists
Want an extra creepy and gritty costume for this Halloween? Make yourself look like you have slashed wrists! This tutorial uses Cinema Secrets slashed wrists kit, and shows you how to apply it for the maximum creepy impact at your next party.
How To: Make it look like your eyball has popped out of its socket
This is a great tutorial you can use for any costume or special effects you can think of. Make it look like your eyeball has popped out of it's socket by using Cinema Secrets makeup, especially the Injury colors palette.
How To: Make yourself up to look like a scary witch
Go beyond the broomstick and pointy hat! Use the Cinema Secrets special effects prosthetics and makeup collection to make yourself look like a warty, scary witch. This is a perfect way to make an impact with a traditional Halloween costume.
How To: Make a kid look like a cute little cat
If you don't want to be something scary or creepy for Halloween, how about going as a cute little kitty cat instead? This is primarily for children, and shows you how to make your child up to look like a cat. Meow!
How To: Make it look like devil horns are sprouting from your head
Want something that goes beyond just a simple pair of devil horns? Make it look like the horns have bloodily and messily sprouted through your forehead! This is a quick and easy tutorial you can use for a creepy, demonic effect.
How To: Beautify yourself with a glittery fairy look
Don't want to be something scary for Halloween? You can be a beautiful faerie instead! Using a blue and white palette with a little silver glitter for accents, this tutorial shows you how to create a lovely sparkly fairy look for yourself!
How To: Make yourself look like a Terminator or a burn victum
This tutorial makes you look like you just stepped off the set of the Terminator movie. You can also use these techniques to make yourself look like a burn victim, an undead or any other creature which has dark, mottled skin.
How To: Create an effect that looks like you have a bolt through your cheek
This is a great horror makeup tutorial that you can use to make it look like a bolt has been shoved through your cheek. This tutorial uses the Cinema Secrets makeup, especially the Injury makeup palette and special effects blood.
How To: Katy Perry Halloween tutorial + Costume Ideas!
Katy Perry's music video for "California Gurls" was irresistably cute and fun - so well done, in fact, that we won't be surprised if we see half the girls dressed up as Katy with her cupcake boobs this Halloween. But before you decide which outfit you want to wear from the video (the candy dots dress? The cupcake boobs?), make sure you get her makeup spot-on.
How To: Create a beautiful blue oceanic Poseidon makeup look for Halloween
Bring pretty back this Halloween by creating this gorgeous blue look inspired by the Greek god Poseidon. A little bit of background: Poseidon, or Neptune, is the god of the sea and storms.
How To: Create a killer clown makeup look for Halloween
There's something so eerily creepy about clowns. We know they're supposed to be the center of children's birthday parties and are meant to be jesters, but their snarling mouths, bulbous red nose, and creepy eye makeup make us shiver.
How To: Create a rotting Beetlejuice makeup look for Halloween
If you really want to get into the spooktastic spirit of Halloween then there's no better costume to ellicit frights and sometimes "ews" than Beetlejuice, the "bio-exorcist" from the movie of the same name.
How To: Create a sexy Medusa makeup look for Halloween
Despite how she's usually portrayed in popular culture, Medusa (the lady with snakes growing out of her head) was once a beautiful woman. She was cursed by Athena, however, to spend eternity as a horrid snake monster, ergo the nasty scales and snake crown.
How To: Create a matte black smoky eye with red liner and red lips
Smoky eyes are all the same, right? Wrong. While it's true that 99.9% of smoky eyes consist of some form of smoked out black, brown, silver, and sometimes purple, you can make your smoky eye interesting by adding an unexpected pop of color.
How To: Create a creepy zombie makeup look and costume for Halloween
What's Halloween without getting your fair share of frights? While the rest of the world will be dressing up as some overly pale character from "Twilight" this Halloween, stand out in the crowd - and maybe scare a passerby or two - by dressing up as a flesh-eating zombie.
How To: Create a sexy peacock makeup look for Halloween
Just because it's Halloween doesn't mean you have to dress up as something gory or creepy. Inject some pretty into the spooky holiday by donning a peacock costume, and check out this makeup video to learn how to create a lovely peacock makeup look.
How To: Create a modern geisha makeup look for Halloween
Geishas were high class courtesans who mixed business with pleasure - or, rather, whose business was pleasure. And seduction was an art to them, down to the very makeup they wore.
How To: Create a deep emerald green leaves-inspired makeup look
Fall is now in full swing, which means that the vibrant, colorchanging leaves on all the trees in your neighborhood are taking center stage in the fall scenery. In lush hues of orange, red, sienna, and emerald green, leaves are the most colorful and multidimensional seasonal treats.
How To: Create a scary pretty marionette doll makeup look for Halloween
We know dolls are supposed to be children's toys, but there's something about them that scares the living daylights out of us. Maybe, just maybe, it's those lifelike eyes that appear almost too real to be fake? That seem to follow us as we move around the room? Okay, maybe we've seen a few too many horror movies, but you have to admit there's just something off about dolls.
How To: Create a sultry dark vampire makeup look for Halloween
This makeup look shows you exactly why vampires are going to be the hottest costume this Halloween: They're hot! This vampiress makeup look features dark silvery black smoky eyes, extremely long false lashes, a made-over brow with a high, malevolent arch, and a deep aubergine lipstick.
How To: Create a dirty sexy swamp mermaid makeup look for Halloween
This Halloween makeup tutorial is great because it can be easily altered to fit the costume you're wearing. While the original look is intended for a sultry mermaid or a sexy swamp girl (yes, swamp girls can be sexy), you can wear this look with a bit of glitter for a forest nymph or fairy look.
How To: Fairy Barbie Princess Make-up ( Halloween special )
Whether you love Barbie or hate her plastic Mattel guts, you have to admit the girl's pretty. And if you were a little girl growing up in the U.S. you more likely than not had a Barbie to play with.
How To: Create Taylor Momsen's punk rock black smoky eyes
Taylor Momsen has long been criticized for her too dark, too ahead of her years goth/rocker style, though you have to admit the girl's got a really good fashion sense. Though she's only 17, she already knows what looks good on her and what she enjoys wearing, which is a hell of a lot better than wearing what everyone else thinks seventeen year olds should wear.