We normally advocate you don't pile on the glitter for most makeup looks, even nighttime ones, but on Halloween you have no choice but to pull out all the stops - and all your glitter tubes.
Inspired by Susan Hilferty's Elphaba costume, Corinne and Rob from Threadbanger show you how to make a fantastic wicked witch ensemble in this how-to video. You'll need two spools of thread, an old black button-up shirt, interfacing, an old black dress, scrap velvet, and a sewing machine. Watch this video Halloween costume making tutorial and learn how to sew a wicked witch costume.
In this clip, learn how to turn a delicious sandwich into a moldy mess. This sandwich is perfect for Halloween, April Fools Day or just a fantastic way to keep other kids from stealing your school lunch. With a little powdered sugar and a bit of food coloring, you can turn an ordinary PB&J into a fuzzy, green treat.
This fantastic Halloween special effect makeup tutorial teaches you how to create a bloody bolt look using mostly MAC products. The artists teaches you how to create texture and create a distressed look with the base and color makeup. He applies the adhesive and attached the scar effects and adds the "bolt props" with the adhesive. He uses a purple and yellow pigments to distress the skin further. He then takes fire red to create the blood. He also shows you how to make realistic blood with s...
In this tutorial, learn how to make a disgusting looking recipe that actually tastes fantastic. This clip will show you how to make cookies that look like..well.. dog poo! This is great for Halloween, April Fools Day or other types of kid's parties. So, follow along and make these disgustingly delicious treats.
Sally the ragdoll from The Nightmare Before Christmas was a fragile, excellently realized character, and makes a fantastic Halloween costume (especially when paired with a Jack Skellington). In this video you'll learn how to do perfect, and we mean perfect, makeup for a Sally costume using only basic storebought products.
Petrilude brings you a Halloween makeup tutorial on how to create an awesome Halloween skull mask. Learn how to create half a skull with teeth for Halloween. This will be hit at your Halloween party.
IF you don't mind carrying a small table-like protrusion around all night on Halloween, we've got the Halloween costume for you. In this video you'll learn how to make an easy DIY Head for Dinner Halloween costume that will shock and amaze.
Halloween is only a few weeks away, fellow goblinesses, which means it's time to begin planning for your costume, makeup, and nail look. If you're planning to dress up as a vampire this Halloween or simply want a mischevious nail look that screams "Halloween" and "Twihard" all at once, check out this nail tutorial for creating a bloody fang vampire nail look.
Check out this Halloween makeup tutorial and learn how to create this sweet ladybug look. Be creative this Halloween! This Halloween ladybug makeup look will wow everyone.
Petrilude brings you this Halloween makeup tutorial on how to create a look based on Tim Burton's movie 'The Corpse Bride'. Petrilude only did her face, but he HIGHLY suggests if you do this Halloween Corpse bride look, that all exposed skin is painted to match the face! Corpse bride is a hot look for your Halloween party.
Petrilude brings you this Halloween makeup tutorial. Learn how to apply a theatrical rhinestone masquerade mask for Halloween. Perfect costume for your Halloween party.
This beauty video demonstrates how to create a snow angel Halloween makeup look.
Halloween just isn't Halloween without your fair share of spooks, frights, and spine-tingling delights. If you're planning to host a Halloween party this year, why not craft your own favor boxes? It's really not as hard as you think.
This is possibly one of the easiest Halloween cupcakes you will ever make. But that doesn't mean these cupcakes are going to look simple or amateur. In fact, these ghoulish Halloween treats are super cute and will impress little ladies and goblins at any Halloween party.
Halloween is the best time of the year! For this Halloween makeup look the inspiration is Elvira meets Oda May Brown (from Ghost movie). This Halloween makeup tutorial demonstrates how to create a spooky Mistress of the Dark Elvira look. Happy Halloween ya'll!
Just take a piece of square paper, and fold along with this video to get a paper bat! Memorize it (it's really easy!) and show off your skills at your next Halloween party - or use it as decoration, whether for your costume, or the house. Using paper that's black on one side and white on the other is most effective! The video explains how to fold the model "hungry bat" that was designed by Anita Barbour.
Whether you're planning the best Halloween bash on the block, creating a haunted house ride, or just want to scare the living daylights out of your neighbors, this Halloween corpse will be the death of the party. Watch and see how to make one yourself in this series.
Zombies aren't getting as much attention as vampires or werewolves these days, but they're just as darkly entertaining. Bring zombie love back this Halloween by dressing up as this really gross, rotting, bloody zombie.
Alice in Wonderland might contain more separate Halloween costume ideas than any other story ever. The Mad Hatter is always a popular choice, and in this video you'll learn how to make a spot-on female Mad Hatter Halloween costume, both the makeup and the actual costume.
lonelygirl15 may be a thing of the past, but it was still one of the biggest web phenomenon ever and Jessica Rose one of it's biggest stars. If your want to remember her this Halloween check out this video, it will teach you how to make an awesome LG15 Halloween costume.
Are you out of time and need a quick way to get yourself in the Halloween spirit? Then check out this all-inclusive Halloween video. You'll learn how to do three things:
Just a fun Medusa snake mask for halloween. Halloween is a fun time for makeup artists, and everyone who likes to dress up. Get them creative juices flowing this Halloween. Be bold, be brave! Enjoy this Halloween makeup tutorial and learn how to paint some sinisters snakes on your face.
Add a scary spider necklace and bracelet to your Halloween costume. Learn how to make spider necklaces and bracelets in this free crafting video series.
In this video series, watch as professional makeup artist Matt Cail teaches how to do scary clown makeup for Halloween. In this step by step makeup lesson learn how to apply the base paint, how to add triangles and fake blood, and really turn clowns into an evil thing. Take a walk down horror lane and pay tribute to IT and John Wayne Gacy Jr. thanks to the help of the experts at ExpertVillage.
If Halloween is only days away and you don't have the time or money for a very elaborate costume, check out this video, it has a bunch of great ideas for easy DIY costumes that you can make on the cheap, including a paparazzi in a bush, or a half-man half-woman.
Think apples are the only fruit you can dip into liquid caramel/white chocolate and shape into edible pumpkins for Halloween? Then with this video you'll receive an education in how to break out of your Halloween inhibitions and create white chocolate dipped strawberries shaped into pumpkins.
This Halloween, take your costume to the next level with this three part tutorial on how to create the makeup of a Zelda Zoras inspired aquatic, blue-skinned humanoid creature who only exist in Hyrule, Labrynna and/or Termina... Did I loose you? Only Legend of Zelda fans know the "deets" on this look but this costume idea will definitely make for a great conversation starter at the Halloween party...? Part one covers creating the fins and gils, part two goes over the eyes, and lastly, part th...
Throwing a Halloween party this year and looking for theme appetizers? Gross out your Halloween guests, but later win them over, with this cleaver recipe for "severed cheese fingers". Serve them fresh at your next Halloween bash, and successfully creep your friends and family out... and get points for creativity!
Petrilude brings you this Halloween makeup tutorial on how to create a ventriloquist dummy look. Ventriloquist dolls have really deep set creases and lines, so emphasize this with makeup. Ventriloquist dummies make great Halloween costumes, so follow along with this Halloween makeup tutorial.
This how-to video is a guide on how to make a Jack-O-Lantern of Barack Obama, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, in spirit of the upcoming election and Halloween. You will need a pumpkin, a picture of Barack Obama, carving tools, and newspaper. This is one jack-o-lantern you'll want to keep up after Halloween. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to carve a Barack Obama pumpkin for Halloween.
Halloween is just around the corner! Check out this instructional carving video that demonstrates how to carve a portrait on a pumpkin for Halloween. This is part of an instructional tape made in 1997 that reveals pumpkin carving techniques with a portrait of Marilyn Monroe as an example. This video tutorial is great for beginners looking to carve creative pumpkins. Follow the instructions in this tutorial and carve your favorite celebrity onto a pumpkin for this Halloween celebration.
Learn how to create a beautiful Halloween Greek Goddess look. This Halloween makeup tutorial demonstrates how to create the Greek Goddess with at home makeup. For products used for this Halloween look, see below.
This collection of videos will show you, step by step, how to carve a tri-colored pattern into a foam pumpkin. The first video has an introduction, a greeting, and will show you the tools that will be used. Then follow along with the pumpkin carving, shading, and skinning processes in the rest of the instructional videos. Check out this video tutorial series and learn how to carve an elaborate Halloween Jack-o-Lantern.
The trouble with wearing makeup looks inspired by Halloween is there is a VERY fine line between festive and tacky. For instance, painting teeny little candy corns all over your face? Tacky. But painting a glittery candy corn inspired eye look with white, yellow, and orange on your eyelids? Very seasonally pretty.
Can you believe that Halloween is less than a month away? We swear just a few days ago it was 90 degrees out and we were blaring Katy Perry's "California Gurls" while driving down to the beach. Don't get us wrong, though: We're super excited it's fall because our favorite holiday, Halloween, is impending.
Michael Myers from the Halloween movie franchise might be one of the scariest villains ever to be depicted on screen. He is a popular Halloween costume choice, but most of the newer masks and other costume products made of Mike Myers are not very faithful to the original—or they're extremely expensive.
This beauty video demonstrates how to create a dark fairy Halloween makeup look.
Glamor and glitter, fashion and fame Jem is my name, no one else is the same! Watch this Halloween makeup tutorial to learn how to create a Jem 80's inspired Halloween pink rocker look. Jem & the Holograms was this rockin' eighties tv show. Use your own makeup to create this makeup look. Happy Halloween!
Halloween provides one of the best opportunities of the year to dress up like a madman - or woman - and totally get away with it. But let's face it: If you're a gal in your late teens or early twenties, dressing up usually means dressing down on Halloween.
