Hot Makeup How-Tos
How To: Create a Japanese dolly inspired makeup look
If you've ever been to the Harajuku district of Japan then you know that nothing is off limits to Japanese girls (and sometimes guys) when it comes to makeup. Whether they're dolled up in the Lolita style or the slightly racist Ganguro style (in which girls dress up as black-faced "average American teenager"), makeup shows off each person's personality.
How To: Create a rhinestone-studded cherries and hearts nail look
If you're in the mood for girly, sassy nails that'll get a guy's attention from a mile away then these cute rhinestone-studded nails are it.
How To: Conceal dark circles and blemishes with Benefit Cosmetics
Every makeup artist knows that great makeup starts with good skin. And for those of us who weren't born with Halle Berry type flawless skin there's concealer to help get us there. We'll fake it till we make it, right?
How To: Do the makeup for a Princess Midna Zelda cosplay costume
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the last and most epic large console title in the series, and Princes Midna it's awesome new heroine. In this video you'll learn how to do really spot-on makeup for a Princess Midna (human form) costume for Halloween or cosplay.
How To: Apply stunning blue rhinestone-embellished false eyelashes easily
Applying black false eyelashes is scary enough for most girls. But if you've been one of the brave few to venture out and stick on that wad of fake hair to your eye then you know that falsies can easily take your eyes from blah to wow. Falsies make your eyes look wider and more awake and are pretty easy to apply, so what reason is there not to use them?
How To: Add crystals to your eye makeup for a pop of color
Generally we recommend you keep your eye makeup natural when going out to the office or even out for cocktails (easy transition from daytime makeup, and also you could pair it with a red lip).
How To: Apply Jack Skellington skull Halloween makeup
In this tutorial, we learn how to apply Jack Skellington skull Halloween makeup. Start off by applying black eyeliner around your eyes on both the top and the bottom in thick lines. From here, draw a circle around the eyes with black paint and then draw a white circle around the face. Next, fill the white circle completely in with white paint. Now, fill in the black circles with black paint until it's completely finished. Then, use a thin brush to paint on the smile with black and draw on sti...
How To: Apply Nina Flowers inspired drag makeup
In this video we learn how to apply Nina Flowers inspired drag makeup. Start out by using black eyeliner to draw on the mask around the eyes. Fill this in with black face paint and then create lines above it for the rest of the mask. After this, apply white makeup over the top of the black and underneath the eyebrows. Apply bronzer on the cheeks and underneath the chin. Add in green glitter to the mask and then false eyelashes and mascara. Apply black eyeliner on the lips and then fill in wit...
How To: Get perfect red lips for African American skin
In this tutorial, we learn how to get perfect red lips for African American skin. First, take a dark red lip line from Studio Gear named "red wood" and apply it to the lines of the lips. Once your lips are fully lines, grab your lipstick and apply it to your lips carefully. The liner will be darker than the lipstick, so make sure you blend them in together lightly. After you are finished applying, clean up any smudges on the edges of your mouth. Then, apply makeup on the bottom an sides of th...
How To: Create Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts makeup
In this video we learn how to create Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts makeup. First, color the face white with paint and then apply blue eyeshadow to both of the eyes going up and over the eyebrows. Paint in black where the blue stops to create a new brow at the top of the head. Then, draw on a red hear to your lips and apply glitter over it. After this, apply false lashes to the top of the eyes and on the bottom. Then, apply eyeliners and blush to the cheekbones. When finished, go out a...
How To: Apply a "black widow" mask with makeup for Halloween
In this makeup video, we learn how to apply a "black widow" mask with makeup for Halloween. Start out by applying silver and black shadow to the eyes along with mascara and eyeliner around the eyes. Now, take a white eyeliner pencil and draw a spider web around your eyes and going down your face. When finished with this, use a black liquid eyeliner pen to draw over the white that you just drew. Use a black shadow to mix in with the thick white crossing lines to create a sort of web look to th...
How To: Get Leona Lewis' Avatar themed "I See You" makeup look
In this tutorial, we learn how to get Leona Lewis' Avatar themed "I See You" makeup look. First, you will need to apply black eyeshadow to your entire lid up until you reach the crease. After this, use a brush to blend the color out and create a winged effect on the outside corner of the eye. Next, apply this color on the bottom lash line, making a slightly smudged effect with your finger. From here, you will apply a teal colored shadow all over the eye and on the outside flare as well. Then,...
How To: Create a double winged eyeliner look with Kim K
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a double winged eyeliner look with Kim K. First, you will need to apply a medium toner color to your eye, then apply a brown to the crease and other edge. From here, use an eyeliner brush to apply liner at the lash line all the way in. Create the winged effect by dragging out the liner brush while it's damp. Apply liner on the bottom of the eye, then smear it with your finger. Use a smaller brush to create the wing from the bottom of the eye going up u...
How To: Apply a black & white masquerade mask with makeup
In this video we learn how to apply a black & white masquerade mask with makeup. Start off by drawing on a white mask around your face with white eyeliner, filling it in. Then, apply white shadow over this to make it a matte finish. From here, draw lines coming out of the mask with the white eyeliner all around the mask. Color in around the lines with black and then blend them out gently towards the outer area of the face. Then, define the inner mask with black eyeshadow and apply false lashe...
How To: Create a two faced fairy tale makeup look
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a two faced fairy tale makeup look. First, apply green paint to half of the face. After this, apply yellow paint to the opposite eye and dab the same color throughout the green paint. Next, paint red shadow onto the eye and then darken the surrounding areas of the red eye. Create red circles on the side of the face with the green, then draw on a mouth to make it longer and smiling. To finish this, apply eyeliner and glitter to the yellow eye. Then, app...
How To: Do David Bowie-like inspired makeup
In this video we learn how to do Bowie-like inspired makeup. Start off by applying white makeup to the face all over around the lips and on the bridge of the nose. From here, apply red color to the side of the face and on the right eyelid going up to the corner of the face. Then, contour the nose with this same color, connecting the sides to each other. Now, apply red paint and blue paint to the face to create the design that is on the left hand side of the face. Once your design is finished,...
How To: Create a sexy wench/pirate makeup look for Halloween
Ahoy, landlubber! Next to vampires and werewolves, seafaring pirates are going to be the most popular costumes this Halloween. And luckily, you don't need to pillage or plunder in order to prove your scoundrel worthiness.
How To: Create a purple dark fairy makeup look for Halloween
Fairies tend to get portrayed as nymphy, blond playgirls in popular culture. They're always the good girls who love having a good time. But those are just the good fairies.
How To: Create a dark Victorian Gothic circus girl makeup look for Halloween
It's funny to us that so many Victorian makeup looks done for Halloween emphasize heavy, dead makeup with lots of deep plums and reds because the Victorians wore little to no makeup (women were basically considered whores if they wore rouge).
How To: Create a sultry she-wolf makeup look for Halloween
Over the past few years we've had more than enough exposure to handsome werewolves (Team Jacob, anyone?), but what about beautiful, sexy werewolves? It seems we always hear about the guys but never the gals turning into these creatures of the moon.
How To: Create Dr. Frank N Furter's makeup look from "Rocky Horror" for Halloween
Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the mad doctor played by equally strange Tim Curry, has one hell of a makeup look. Extremely darkened brows, matte black shadow extended out in an evil upturned cat eye, and two stripes of black shadow extended down the sides of the nose made his face look almost cartoonish.
How To: Apply red eyeshadow with glitter eyeliner for a party
In this tutorial, we learn how to apply red eyeshadow with glitter eyeliner for a party. Start by applying a red shadow all over the eye, out into the outer corner of your eyes. Next, add a black color to the outer edge of the eye and blend in with the red in the crease of the eye so there are no hard edges. From here, apply a pink and white shadow underneath the eyebrow to create a highlight. Next, you will take a glitter eyeliner and apply it to your upper lash line, then take a small brush...
How To: Apply a silver smokey makeup look for a hooded eye
In this tutorial, we learn how to apply a silver smoky makeup look for a hooded eye. Start out with a silver color brushed all over the eyelid. After this, brush a darker color in the crease of the eye, blending in the outer corner of the eye. From here, blend this up towards the brow bone. Place black on the outer corner of the eye to deepen the area, then blend out. After this, apply a light shimmer underneath the brow for a highlight and blend with the bottom colors. Apply the silver color...
How To: Create a dramatic tropical look with Bitch Slap makeup
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a dramatic tropical look with Bitch Slap makeup. Start off by applying a primer to the eye and a yellow shadow on the inner corner of the eye. Next, apply an orange color next to this and blend in on the edges. After this, apply a red color on the edge of the orange and blend together. From here, you will apply purple to the crease of your eye and blend it to the outer corner of the eye. Then, apply black on the outside corner of the eye and blend with...
How To: Create a masquerade ball mask with makeup
In this tutorial, we learn how to create a masquerade ball mask with makeup. First, draw the outline of the mask around your eyes. After you do this, paint on light blue eyeshadow in circles around your eyes. Then, take a dark blue color and apply it on the outer edge of the light blue and inside the outline that you created. Apply glitter to the dark blue portion of the eyes, then draw on black around the outline of the mask, smudging it onto the outer edges of the face. After this, apply ey...
How To: Create a creepy dead doll makeup look for Halloween
Is it just us, or do dolls get scarier as we get older? When we were younger, there was nothing more fun to do on a Sunday afternoon than to play dress up and do pretend tea time with our American Girl dolls. Yet now those unmoving, lifelike eyes and disarming smiles creep the living daylights out of us.
How To: Get glitter makeup to stay on your face and hair
With Halloween coming up in a matter of weeks, it's more important than ever to know how to get your makeup to STAY. While you can always slap on primer to get even the boldest makeup colors to adhere to your skin for hours, getting glitter to stay on your skin is a whole other problem.
How To: Create a quick deathly zombie-like makeup look for Halloween
Got lots to do on Halloween and have little time to spare for throwing on a costume or putting on fierce makeup? Then you've hit the right makeup video. Whether you're simply in a pinch for time or you don't feel like going with the whole shebang for Halloween, this zombie makeup look is totally festive and creepy but so easy and quick to do.
How To: Create a deathly beautiful Medusa makeup look for Halloween
Wear this Medusa makeup look out on Halloween and guys will literally die in awe of your beauty. The infamous Greek monster Medusa was, after all, once a beautiful woman, and still quite beautiful even after she turned into a large snake with a headpiece of writing, slippery snakes.
How To: Create four makeup looks from "Clockwork Orange" in three minutes
"Clockwork Orange," Stanley Kubrick's oddball crime film, features several teenage characters whose intentions are...questionable, to say the least. After all, Alex DeLarge, the main character of the story, sociopathically rapes a few women in his youth, runs around with a gang, and takes drugs.
How To: Create Beyonce's retro '70s makeup look from "Dreamgirls"
Beyonce honestly looks drop dead gorgeous with or without makeup, but she looks just about heavenly when she puts her best face forward for a movie or red carpet premiere. In the movie "Dreamgirls" Beyonce got to have a lot of fun with sparkly, deeply hued '70s makeup.
How To: Create a Simple Sexy Zombie Makeup Look for Halloween
Of all the things that go bump in the night, zombies are the most often neglected in popular culture. We've got more vampires than we'll need for a lifetime with the Twilight yuppies, True Blood hotties, and Vampire Diaries boys, and we've got werewolves intermixed with these vamps in the movies/shows, but zombies haven't been all that big until The Walking Dead came out. And let's face it—you don't see many good-looking zombies on there.
How To: Create Katy Perry's vibrant "California Gurls" makeup look for Halloween
Katy Perry is a stunner in both senses of the term: She shocks with unexpected looks like oompa loompa nails and blue wigs, and of course she's hot as hell. And the singer doesn't fail to impress and shock in her music video for the single "California Gurls."
How To: Create a Minnie Mouse Lady Gaga "Paparazzi" look for Halloween
"True Blood" hottie Alexander Skarsgard is handsomely distracting in any scene he enters, but even his gorgeousness wasn't enough to pry our eyes away from Lady Gaga's outrageous Minnie Mouse inspired getup in her music video for "Paparazzi."
How To: Create a sultry lion makeup look for Halloween
You'll be the queen of the jungle once you don this sexy and cute lioness makeup look for Halloween. This makeup look is a costume in itself, with a cute pink black nose and incredibly large eyes with mega thick lashes and sharp feline tearducts.
How To: Create a sweet pink bridal makeup look for Asians
Doing makeup on Asian women is a lot different to doing makeup on any other ethnicity, mostly because they have different face shapes and eye shapes. More than half of Asians don't have a crease, or a fold above the eye, so their eyes are monolids.
How To: Create a stained glass mosaic makeup look for Halloween
Feel like you're too old to still wear a costume on Halloween? We hear you. If you're past the whole "dress up as a pumpkin" phase of Halloween but still want to look festive for the occasion, why not consider a face mask?
How To: Create sultry amethyst smoky eyes using drugstore products
You don't need to be packing some in the wallet to create a dazzling makeup look. In fact, many drugstores offer great beauty products that work just as well to create intense eye or lip looks.
How To: Create a Katy Perry inspired silvery thick cat eye
Katy Perry would never step foot on the red carpet without wearing something - on her face or body - that shocks and entertains. Recently, the singer has been sporting multicolored extensions in magenta and blue as well as really thick cat eyes and silver eye makeup (with a bright pink or red pout, of course).
How To: Create a sexy "Batman" Catwoman makeup look for Halloween
Who is the hottest "Batman" villainess of all time? It's a hard question, we know, since there are so many fiesty - and sexy - women to choose from, but the most well known is probably Catwoman. Batman's female counterpart in many ways, Catwoman is fierce, plays rough, and is downright gorgeous.