STEP 1:
Prime your eyes.
What I did: Nothing. I did not prime my eyes because I cannot keep this on for the rest of the evening. In any other situation (aka tonight when I will be wearing this makeup), prime your eyes.
STEP 2:
Pick out false lashes.
What I did: Again, nothing. I am broke and will be drawing on lashes later!
STEP 3:
Line your waterline and cover your lid with a white pencil.
What I did/thoughts:
Finally, I'm doing something. I'm using Milk by Nyx to do this step. Make sure it comes out to a cat wing on the end, and extend to the inner corner of your eye.
STEP 4: Line the white with an orange-red eyeshadow and blend upwards. Highlight your brow with white, and then pat the white on the white eyeliner on the lid to help it stay.
What I did/thoughts: I used a reddish color and a white found in a Beauty Gems palette. BEWARE OF FALLOUT!
STEP 5:
Add a black powder between the red-orange and the white on the lid. Blend upward. Outline with a liquid liner, then fill in with a pencil.
What I did/thoughts:
I used a black shadow found in the same Beauty Gems palette. Then, I outlined the crease of my eye (the lower part of this black shadow) with a Nyx Collection Noir liquid eyeliner. Finally, I filled in with a black gel liner by ELF. Precision is key here. I had to touch up with the white pencil a little bit. |
| LOL at how sad I look here. Just trying to help you see where I was at this point. |
What I did/thoughts: Ruh-roh. I don't have an orange eyeshadow. I blended Goldmine by MAC and a red in my BG palette together to try and make a light orange. For all intents and purposes, it was fine. I used the same white to highlight as I did before.
STEP 7:
Outline the top of your eye with a liquid eyeliner, running parallel to the cut crease you made before.
What I did/thoughts:
Did exactly that! I should have made my cut crease shorter, but oh well.
STEP 8:
Apply false lashes to the top of your eye.What I did/thoughts:
Nope. I don't have false lashes, so I applied mascara here. I used Make Up Forever Smoky Extravagant.
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| Sorry for this facial expression. |
What I did/thoughts: I used a white eyeliner by Wet'n'wild for this step and the same ol' white I've been using this whole time for eyeshadow. I tried recreating the color combo for the light orange I did in an earlier step to line below this part. Again, worked fine. I also extended the white between my lower lashline and the black on my top lash line to make things connect a little better. I also didn't blend as far down as she does in the video. I don't have the same false lashes she will be using in an upcoming step, so didn't feel it necessary to make it as extravagant.
STEP 10: Line between the orange and white below your bottom lashline with a black pencil and then a black liquid liner. Extend your top lashline with the liquid, too. Apply false lashes to the black line below your lower lash line.
What I did/thoughts: Ahh. Here is where I have to make my own fake lashes. I did not use a liquid liner to line the top of the gel I used (the same ELF gel I used in an earlier step, again instead of a pencil.) This is because I wouldn't be covering this line with false lashes and felt the liquid would be too harsh. Instead, I stuck with just the gel, and using the gel I made tiny, thin and long triangles to mimic eyelashes. I decided to do the same to my cut crease on my lid to give the appearance of longer, fake eyelashes on both lashlines. I then went in between these lashes with a thin brush with black eyeshadow to make them appear more feathery and realistic. Yikes. I should have looked up how to do this before. The top don't look terrible, but the bottom look real crappy. I should not have used such thick application. Notes for later.
What I did/thoughts: Ahh. Here is where I have to make my own fake lashes. I did not use a liquid liner to line the top of the gel I used (the same ELF gel I used in an earlier step, again instead of a pencil.) This is because I wouldn't be covering this line with false lashes and felt the liquid would be too harsh. Instead, I stuck with just the gel, and using the gel I made tiny, thin and long triangles to mimic eyelashes. I decided to do the same to my cut crease on my lid to give the appearance of longer, fake eyelashes on both lashlines. I then went in between these lashes with a thin brush with black eyeshadow to make them appear more feathery and realistic. Yikes. I should have looked up how to do this before. The top don't look terrible, but the bottom look real crappy. I should not have used such thick application. Notes for later.
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| Don't judge me. I'm hoping this looks better with the hat. |
STEP 11:Do the other eye almost exactly the same, but with no orange and no false lashes.
What I did/thoughts:Meh. Over it at this point.
STEP 12:
Use an orange lipstick to finish the look.
What I did/thoughts:I literally look like a clown. People will think I'm a clown. I put my hat on and used Purty Permisson by Wet'n'wild and now want to ditch the whole costume.
What I did/thoughts:I literally look like a clown. People will think I'm a clown. I put my hat on and used Purty Permisson by Wet'n'wild and now want to ditch the whole costume.
WINNER/LOSER?
Winner. the only faults in this process were my own. I'll be sure to post an updated photo of my final costume and makeup when I learn from my mistakes and do something about the lashes.UPDATE:
I tried again. Here it is with slightly altered eyelashes!
What are you being for Halloween? Lemme know in the comments, and be sure to post any pins you may have used to help you out!
