Don't you wish life came with a filter? Particularly the butterfly Snapchat filter that makes everyone look just downright flawless? Well, lucky for you, you can rock the flattering filter IRL this Halloween with the right makeup and a few sparkly homemade butterflies.
To create a filtered-looking finish, use a full coverage foundation, like Marc Jacobs Re(marc)able Full Cover Foundation Concentrate, $55, paired with a gold-tinged watercolor blush like Daniel Sandler Watercolour Liquid Blush, $15.50. Another trick? Pick a highlighter two shades lighter than your skin tone for that perfect iridescent glow. Now you're ready to snap photos all night long -- no filter needed.
We're kind of obsessed with everything galaxy. Galaxy hair, galaxy nails -- and you guessed it -- galaxy makeup. It's mesmerizing, gorgeous and 100 percent recreateable. You just need teal, blue, purple and pink eye shadow (between NYX Cosmetics Primal Colors, $5, in Hot Pink and Hot Blue and NYX Full Throttle Shadow Palette, $10, in Stunner you'll be covered). You'll use the eye shadow for your out-of-this-world eye look, as well as your stellar face makeup. A shimmery silver eyeliner, like NYX Glam Liner Aqua Luxe Collection in Glam Platinum, $5.50, will also come in handy, and you may want a pro face paint, such asMehron Paradise Makeup AQ - Detailz, $8.50, to accentuate your eyes and draw your star freckles. Oh, and don't be shy with the face glitter (try NYX Face & Body Glitter, $6, in Crystal) -- it's a must for this look.
With this costume you're guaranteed to be the star of the costume contest (duh, they're painted on your face).
This deer makeup is almost too cute for words. Exaggerated eye makeup, a colored-in nose and white spots make the look. If you've got long hair and a bit of extra time, you can even style your strands into faux-ears. Simply place a thin, stretchy black headband around your forehead, loop your hair into it and secure it with bobby pins. Now, all you have to do is enlist your friends to go as Thumper and Flower, and you've got a full on "Bambi" squad.
This mermaid makeup may look complicated, but you really only need some fishnet stockings and colorful eye shadow (the NYX Cosmetics Avant Pop! Shadow Palette, $17, has most of the shades you need. You'll also want to pick up Make Up For Ever Star Powder, $20, and the Make Up For Ever Flash Palette, $99). Hold the fishnet up to your face as a stencil, and apply shades of green and blue shadow onto your skin with a damp stippling brush. Create a smoky eye using the same shades as your scales, and apply stick-on jewels as needed. Voila. Your under-the-sea-inspired look is complete.
Make Halloween great again by masquerading as maybe the hugeest presidential candidate of all time (and certainly the most controversial one). The first part of your Trump transformation: your eyebrows. To mimic The Donald's bushy blonde brows, conceal your own eyebrows using a glue stick (yes, really) to tamp them down, and use foundation to cover them. This'll give you a smooth canvas for drawing in bigger brows. Then, practice your "anti-contouring" skills, by darkening the face areas you wouldn't normally. To achieve a more masculine outline, shade the outside of your face near your hairline, and darken your jawline near the edge of your face, by the ears, to make your face appear wider. Finish the look by loading up on blush, which will help recreate Trump's "rosy glow." Now, look in the mirror and tell yourself that, "you're hired!"
Listen up, lazy girls: A cool Halloween makeup look is all you need to pull off a costume worthy of every partygoers' envy.
If you think planning a unique last-minute Halloween costume sounds exhausting (especially for those of us who like to leave things to the eleventh hour), fear not. After all, how original can any costume be when it comes in a plastic bag? The only real way to ensure you'll be one-of-a-kind is to do it yourself.
Therein lies the problem though, right? DIY usually means days of sewing and gluing -- the exact opposite of a last-minute solution.
To help you (and ourselves), we've rounded up some amazing Halloween makeup ideas that don't require weeks of preparation, or spending a whole day's pay on a costume you'll wear once before throwing it into the back of your closet. In fact, you've probably got most of the goods in your makeup bin already. Keep reading to see some of our favorite Halloween makeup looks to solve your costume dilemma, stat.
