We can take your Halloween look to the next level this year and give you the edge on creating that professional makeup look at home.
We put TAFE NSW Beauty Therapy and Makeup teacher Ellen Lewis under the spotlight to tease out a few industry secrets and give you the edge.
Normally Ms Lewis is teaching advanced beauty techniques but she says a modern Halloween look can be achieved with everyday makeup, a light-coloured face paint and some fun experimentation.
Start with a base of white face paint or foundation to the face and neck before working on the eyes, lips and cheeks.
"To create a skeleton style look, use eye liner to draw lines across the lips then slightly smudge the sharp edges of those lines out with a cotton bud," Ms Lewis said.
For the eyes, she said, it's a matter of building up to the colour you want to achieve.
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"The aim here is to darken out to the edge of the eye socket. You can feel the eye socket bone around the eyes. Apply eye shadow right out to the bone and keep building up layers until you have the colour you need. Now smudge that out at the edges."
Next, Ms Lewis said, is to hollow out the cheekbones and that will require some contouring.
"You will need to use a lot of dark eye shadow on the cheeks. Start on the edge of the cheekbone and then build on that colour moving down into the hollow of the cheek. Use a contour brush to feather the edges for that hollow cheek look."
"Halloween is about having some fun, so don't be afraid to experiment with your look," she said.
According to research by IBIS World, the hair and beauty services industry employs more than 76,000 people nationally.
If you would like to learn more about beauty techniques or gain qualifications to work in the industry, visit the NSW TAFE website or phone 131 601.
What you'll need to get the look:
- White face paint
- Light foundation
- Translucent powder
- Dark maroon eyeshadow
- Black eyeshadow
- Grey eyeshadow
- Red eyeshadow
- Charcoal eyeshadow
- Mascara
- Eye liner pencil and liquid
What next?
- Mix white face paint and foundation and cover face and neck area.
- Set face with translucent powder.
- Fill eyebrows in with black eyeliner.
- Apply maroon eyeshadow to eyelids and shade eye socket with black or grey blending with an eye shadow brush. Keep building this colour to reach the desired look.
- Apply black eyeliner to the water lines of the eye.
- As an option apply false eyelashes and mascara.
- Contour cheeks with grey eyeshadow and a contouring bush.
- Apply eyeshadow to the lips.
- Draw the lines and smudge out with a cotton bud.
- Now, go get spooky!
