3 Scarily Easy Halloween Makeup Looks

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In preparation for Halloween, we headed to Kryolan Professional Make-Up to learn how to transform ourselves into three popular Halloween characters: vampire, cat, and zombie. If you thought elaborate makeup required dozens of pricey products or aesthetician experience, think again. Special effects specialist Jordan Plath showed us how to create these looks in just a few simple steps.


Zombie

1. Apply a foundation with yellow undertones, or mix yellow face paint into regular foundation, and set with translucent powder.
2. Use a lighter foundation to highlight cheekbones, the bridge of your nose, forehead, and jawline, making them look more pronounced and skeletal.
3. With brownish or reddish shadows, emphasize the sunken areas of your face (the cheeks, temples, and forehead ridges), as well as all around your eyes. Add dabs of brick-red shadow around your mouth, ears, nose, and eyes.
4. With your lips pressed together, dab on some foundation to create a cracked, chapped look.
5. Use a cosmetic sponge to press on greenish-brown face paint or shadow, to create a rotting texture.

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Cat

1. Sponge a dark brown foundation or a bright face paint onto the upper half of the face.
2. Cover the lower half of the face with white face paint.
3. Use a very soft face crayon or eyeliner pencil to draw on the shapes of the nose and muzzle, and create a heavy winged liner on the upper eyelid.
4. With the crayon or liner, draw irregular spots all around the face, and then color in the areas between the nose and underneath the nostrils.
5. Finish with a bright pink lipstick on the lower lip.

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Vampire

1. Apply a foundation that's three to four shades lighter than your skin tone (Don't use bright white-it'll look cheesy.) and set it with translucent powder.
2. Use a reddish or purplish eyeshadow on your eyes and in the natural cavities on your face: your temples, under the cheekbones, at the sides of the nose, and on the forehead.
3. Use a darker shadow in the crease of your eyelid to increase depth, then line the lower lashline with a bright red or orange shadow.
4. Line the upper lashes with black pencil, and fill in your eyebrows, exaggerating the arch.

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