How To: Create a darkly beautiful Mother Earth/nymph makeup look for Halloween

We expect everyone and their mother to dress up as a vampire this Halloween, so why not stand out from the crowd by donning a costume that's pretty rather than scary and creepy?

Bring pretty back by dressing up as Mother Earth or a nymph/fairy. Take a look at this makeup tutorial to learn how to create the surreal glowing skin, magnificent cat eyes, and gold leaf eyebrows.

Best of all, the gold leaf looks like flames so just a few tweaks and voila! You have a bird instead.

Using more red and orange hues would make it look like a phoenix.