How To: Create a gold and green Cleopatra makeup look for Halloween

Cleopatra was not modest about makeup. After all, this was the woman who bathed in tubs filled with rose petals and milk (a good idea even today, if extravagant, since lactic acid exfoliates dead skin cells), invented perfume, and always wore makeup.

So if you want to dress up as someone sexy this Halloween, there really is no better choice than the Queen of Egypt herself. Check out this makeup tutorial to learn how to create a sultry Cleopatra look with shimmery gold and greenish blue eyes, complimented with elaborate black liner, of course.