I am hugely proud of this look I created for work on Halloween day! I was little bit nervous to wear complete face paint since I do work in a corporate environment, but my Sugar Skull look was well received so I was pretty pleased with myself. /brushes off shoulder

I had been inspired to do this look by Shaaanxo’s pink sugar skull tutorial on YouTube. I liked her concept and how it was “pretty” enough. Since I knew I was going to be wearing green face and body paint that evening (you’ll see that in next Wednesday’s post) for my Gamora costume, I wanted something that was on the “lovelier” side of things.  I opted for different colours than the tutorial, primarily because I didn’t have two matte pink shadows that would work well together.  I also incorporated other ideas from different sugar skull looks I had seen on the internet.

The look started off a bit weird. When I just had the colour blobs on and none of the shading, I looked really, REALLY bizarre. And I was starting to wonder if this was even going to come together. Luckily, adding on the black liner helped tie everything together.

I first layed down a base using the lightest foundation shade I had, which was Revlon Colorstay in Buff (very little of this) mixed with a *lot* of Inglot‘s Cream Concealer in 37 (white). I sponged this onto my face and managed to get a pretty smooth and even layer of product covering my whole face.

I then started to fill in the eye sockets with Inglot‘s Matte eyeshadow in 334 all over the lid. I filled in my brows with Matte 325. I then dotted on alternating colours around the purple usingInglot‘s AMC Shine 454 and Matte 317 shadows. When those were done, I used Kat Von D‘s Tattoo Liner in Trooper to create the black outline.

Using the same liner, I then drew lines coming straight out of my mouth, under my cheekbones. I used Urban Decay Blackout eyeshadow to create a fade down from the liner. And then drew on sewing lines to make it look (somewhat) like my face was sewn back together. I really could’ve done that better, but I was running out of time!

I filled in my nose with the same liner and then added some shading to the back of my cheeks and the top of my forehead with Inglot’s Matte 334 eyeshadow.

The last few steps were drawing on some random dots and swirls, as well as the lotus flower in the middle of my chin which was then shaded with the same purple Inglot eyeshadows.

My lips were easy to do with the liquid liner: I drew lines vertically to demonstrate teeth and then patted some black eyeshadow on the inner part of my lips to add some depth.

In the end, I was so pleased with how this turned out! I’ve never done any kind of makeup like this before and was really happy with the results. I didn’t need much touching up aside from my lips after I had eaten lunch and a little bit around my nose where the concealer got a bit cakey. All in all though… super successful!