14+ Insanely Creative Halloween Makeup Looks To Try This Year
Most of the year, good makeup is the kind nobody notices. Halloween makeup looks are the exact opposite, which is the entire appeal. October is the one month where a full face of green makeup counts as a complete outfit, and where the forty minutes you spent at the bathroom mirror are meant to be seen from across a crowded room. The costume can be the black dress already hanging in your closet, because the face is where the real decision gets made.
This post is about halloween makeup looks.
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15 Best Halloween Makeup Looks to Try
Halloween makeup looks are the best part of scrolling in October. A green face. A stitched mouth. A beehive wig in a color that does not occur in nature. These are the ideas that make you want to be something specific this year instead of grabbing whatever the costume shop has left on the rack, and we rounded up the faces we keep going back to.
The lineup runs from easy halloween makeup looks you can pull off with one cream stick and a steady hand to creative halloween makeup looks that need a wig, a prosthetic nose, and a real time commitment. Some are cartoon characters, some are aliens, a few are scary in the traditional sense and a few are just very pink.
Below are 15 halloween makeup looks to attempt now, so your a pro when the thirty first sneaks up on you.
1. Galactic Babe
Purple skin under a blonde beehive is the rare costume that reads retro and futuristic at the same time. This is one of those halloween makeup looks where the liquid makeup does everything above the neck, so whatever silver or white thing you already own can handle the rest.
2. Pinocchio
Go with the wooden puppet if you want credit for effort without spending a hundred dollars. Brown face paint mapped into hinge lines along the jaw plus a stick on nose puts this squarely in creative halloween makeup looks territory, and the outfit underneath is just suspenders and a bow tie.
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3. Shrek
Two products. That is the whole supply list. Green liquid makeup from hairline to toes and a headband for the ears makes this one of the easiest halloween makeup looks to recreate and still gets the loudest reaction in the room.
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4. Pink Panther
Pink is going to be everywhere on the thirty first, and the cartoon cat is the smartest way to use it. Use a pink and white cream stick to achieve this Halloween makeup look.
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5. The Big Bag Wolf
Wolf makeup lives or dies on the nose. Keep the black tight to the tip, feather the white up the cheeks in short strokes, then add the ears and a nightgown, and the whole thing holds whether you go full fairytale villain or stop at moody.
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6. Sally
Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas is an easy makeup look for even a novice. The key is thin stitch lines drawn with a fine brush instead of thick black scars.
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7. Alien Housewife
Retro housewife from the neck down, extraterrestrial from the neck up. It is the funniest of the hot halloween makeup looks because the green makeup does the heavy lifting while the vintage curls and a fitted dress keep the whole thing from tipping into full alien.
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8. Labubu
The little monster with the serrated grin has taken over every toy shelf and bag keychain, so of course it came for makeup looks for halloween too. Playful makeup across the face, and a drawn on wide toothy smile, and the resemblance lands before anyone has to ask.
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9. Pink Poodle
A pink poodle is the kind of costume you land on and then cannot stop thinking about. Pink body makeup, pink curls, and maybe a little DIYing by turning a wig into a skirt and top.
10. Trollz
This is a great group costume that really only requires body makeup and wigs to be recognizable.
11. Jasmine and Rajah
Jasmine and Rajah is already a good best friends costume, but the makeup is what takes it from recognizable to memorable.
12. Clown
Clowns do not have to be terrifying. The current version runs soft, with a white base, exaggerated lashes, a white heart shaped face, and a red lip, which puts it firmly in the pretty halloween makeup looks category. Set it, or it ends up on your collar by ten.
13. Na’vi
Blue paint with white freckles scattered across the nose bridge is one of the coolest things you can do with a face paint kit, and the pointed ears sell it in a way the paint alone never will.
14. Jennifer Coolidge in A Cinderella Story
Tanning goggles, an overdone pastel eyeshadow, and the most committed expression you can hold for a full evening. It is the funniest reference on this list and one of the halloween eye makeup looks that costs almost nothing, because the goggles are the entire punchline and the pastel palette handles everything else.
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15. Inside Out
Best done as a group, one color each. Everyone gets a feeling, nobody has to sew anything.
Halloween Makeup Looks Are the Costume
The best halloween makeup looks are not the most expensive or the most technically difficult. They are the ones you can finish before you lose patience and still recognize in the mirror. A cream stick and a wig will get you further than a full kit you have never opened, so pick the one that makes you laugh, run through it once on a random Tuesday, and the thirty first takes care of itself.
At Currently Popular, we love a costume that’s really just an excuse to experiment with your makeup.
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