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2010 Halloween Makeup and Costume Ideas

Retire your usual (yawn-worthy) cat or witch looks for one of these new Halloween makeup and costume ideas

by Anna Jimenez

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Queen of Hearts from "Alice in Wonderland" "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" is a frightening thing to hear when it's your head in question. Thank goodness the Queen of Hearts only exists in the fairytale world of Wonderland. The Queen's top-heavy head is the focal point of this costume. "This is an amazing look," says Jennings.

Get the look: You want to prep your face with a light moisturizer so that you have a smooth base for the white paint. For this look, her eyebrows are uncomfortably high and are pretty much in the middle of her forehead. To redraw these brows, you must erase your own. With clear eyebrow mascara, go over your brow hair in an "up and out" direction and pat it down, says Jennings. Then with a taupe-colored eye pencil lightly pencil in where your new eyebrows will go. Then with the pencil, draw a line connecting the new brows to your eyes, creating a rectangular shape. With white face paint, cover your entire face with the paint, stippling as you go. Make sure to carefully apply the white paint in the direction of your brow so that you don't mess them up, covering them completely. Also steer clear of the rectangular space you've penciled. Then, with a bright powder blue paint, fill in the space. This way, the blue's pigment is as clear as possible.

With black liquid eyeliner, draw in the high-arched eyebrows of the Queen, and then dot a beauty mark right underneath the left eye. Using the same liner, line both your top and bottom lash lines, then add false lashes to both top and bottom lids. Finally, draw in your heart-shaped lips with a cherry red lip pencil. Then color it in with a matching red lipstick like Maybelline New York Color Sensational Lipcolor in Red Revival, $7.50. Finish the look with a red wig and you're ready to go behead someone -- an ex, maybe?

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