Sugar skull tutorials are a dime a dozen on YouTube, but this one from makeup artist Shonagh Scott is the perfect blend of intricate-looking and easy to do. Scott recommends using a professional cream makeup, such as Kryolan Supracolor, $8.50, to create your black lines, but regular old face paint works in a pinch.
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Fantasy Mermaid
If you're going for pretty instead of creepy (because, #realtalk, we want the cutest Halloween Instagrams possible), embrace your inner mermaid with this vibrant look. Beauty vlogger MakeupByAlli blended an assortment of regular pressed eye shadows for the watercolor effect; then, she stuck on rhinestones, gold flakes and glitter from the craft store to create the look of scales.
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A Super Quick Superhero
The hand-drawn mask is infinitely more comfortable than its heavy, plastic counterpart. Not only does the iconic symbol obviously ID that you are indeed Batgirl -- even if you're not wearing the long cap or rubber onesie -- but you only need on item to create it: black face paint.
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Seductive vampire makeup
Youtube makeup guru Michelle Phan creepily demonstrates how to perfect the always apropos vampire costume. All you have to do is decide: Are you a "True Blood" night crawler or an angsty "Twilight" sucker? You can possibly go old school with an Anne Rice "Interview with the Vampire" throw back -- whichever you choose, this video will inspire you to get sinister.
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.
