This Barbie tutorial by celebrity makeup artist Kandee Johnson is our childhood dream come true. And since we can't get away with wearing this pink, plasticky makeup the other 364 days of the year, we're using Halloween as the perfect excuse to plaster on sparkly pink lips.
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Puppet Master
Here's a look that takes less than 30 minutes. The real trick is exaggerating a rosy flush by piling on cheek tint into two neat circles and drawing two lines on your chin to represent the drop-jaw. Dolls can also add patches of defined freckles (try the Topshop Freckle Pencil) and doe-like eyes by cutting false lashes and applying to the middle of the upper lash line à la the models at Altuzzara S/S '15 Fashion Week.
Pinocchio impersonators should go for exaggerated facial hair -- in this case a cute mustache worked just fine.
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Dia de los Muertos
If you're a makeup pro, we've got the ultimate challenge for you. How about trying your hand at a Day of the Dead skull?
Not only is this pretty much an anything-goes look where you can add as many colors, stitches and flowers as you want, but you can recreate the whole look with some makeup brushes, the palest shade of foundation from the drugstore and Aqua Eyes Eyeliner Pencils.
Here's the perfect last-minute solution for all you artsy types: create a unique Lichtenstein masterpiece on your face. To keep the look really authentic, add large blue tears under your eyes and act really lovelorn -- lots of sighs and eyelash batting -- to complete the emo effect.
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Zombie Nightmare
This deceptively intimidating look requires no artistic skills whatsoever -- just your basic contouring technique, liquid latex and fake blood from the party store. Mess up your hair, splatter some red paint on an old outfit and you've got yourself a terrifyingly awesome last-minute costume.
Halloween makeup might seem daunting to do yourself, but in reality, it presents the perfect opportunity for a beauty hoarder. Finally, an excuse to use all that yellow eyeshadow, purple lipstick and snow white foundation you bought on an ill-advised beauty binge. (Starting to get a few Halloween makeup ideas already, aren't you?)
Okay, Halloween makeup isn't quite that simple. Because, even after digging through Google images for trendy Halloween makeup ideas and rooting through our makeup collections for costumey colors, we're pretty confident that without a detailed how-to, it'd all end in a textbook Pinterest fail.
So to find our last-minute DIY Halloween costume, we hunkered down with a bowl of candy corn to uncover the best Halloween makeup tutorials on YouTube. And there are so many good ones this year — especially Halloween makeup inspired by popular upcoming movies, like "Jem and the Holograms" and "Suicide Squad." Thanks to the world of DIY beauty gurus and costume geniuses, mastering the coolest Halloween makeup looks of the year is actually possible.
After all, a pricey costume from a picked-over Halloween store won't earn you half as many compliments as turning yourself into Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn with nothing but a little face paint. Convinced? Here, our favorite Halloween makeup ideas for 2015.
