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Halloween Makeup Instructions - Scary Vampire or Vampira Face
Rate it! Votes (10) | Comments (0) By Cheri Sicard Photos: Mitch Mandell Posted August 6th, 2007 FabulousFoods.com Recommends: Halloween: The Best of Martha Stewart Living, by Martha Stewart Living Magazine, (2001, Clarkson Potter)	Halloween: The Best of Martha Stewart Living

Before Starting
It's a good idea to put some alcohol on a cotton ball and go over the face to remove all traces of oil before beginning.

Fill the clean white sock with baby powder and tie a knot in the end. You'll be using this powder sock to set the makeup. Setting greasepaint make-up with powder will make it last and last. To remove the make-up when the evening is finished, use anything grease or oil based to instantly dissolve it -- cold cream, baby oil, etc.

Richard began this face by applying a very thin coating of clown white to the face. The key word here is thin coating, you don't want the makeup to be opaque, but rather you want skin to show through, so the final effect is someone who is extremely pale. At this point don't worry about the make-up looking even. Once it is applied you can even out the streaks by quickly and lightly tapping the face with your hand -- simply make lots of little pats over the entire area of the face and the coat of white will even out and look smooth. Now it's time to go outside (otherwise it makes a mess) and powder. Have your subject lightly close their eyes and hold their breath while you lightly tap the entire surface of the face with the filled powder sock. Take a shaving brush or baby's hairbrush and brush away the excess powder (not shown).

Next we took eyelash adhesive and carefully applied the false eyelashes. These will feel extremely weird at first, but you will get used to them. Richard then took a small amount of red greasepaint on a make-up sponge and made a light "arc" coming out from the side of each eye.

Next came black eyeliner. Beginning at the inner corner, Richard lined underneath the eye, the he lined the top, over where the lashes had been applied and continued this line, blending it with the red "arc." He then used the black greasepaint to paint in some sinister eyebrows.

Blood red greasepaint was used to color the lips. These were then outlined with black greasepaint and the lines slightly blurred. One more coating of powder and brush of the excess and I was ready to get into costume!

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