"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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Paris Hilton
This year, Paris was sued by a hair extension company for wearing the wrong hair extensions, then got arrested for toting cocaine in her Chanel bag. Our tribute to Paris' cocaine/Chanel purse drama: Turn her into a Halloween costume.
Get her look: For Paris Hilton, you really want to focus on the lips. Line your lips with a lip pencil, then color them in with a pinky lipstick before layering it with gloss. "Whenever you look at Paris, she always looks pinky," Jennings says, "so you want to focus on the pink tones in your lips and also your cheeks." For your eye shadow, use a taupe nude color like MAC Pigment in Melon, $19.50. Mascara and false lashes will finish the look. Add a blonde wig and carry around a bedazzled cell phone.
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20's flapper
Jazz up this gorgeous look with some key makeup tips:
Get the look: You want to emphasize the cat eye makeup look. Use metallic gray eye shadow on your lids. Then with a small angled brush, create a winged tip to your eye line using Bobbi Brown Long Wear Gel Eyeliner in Black Ink, $21. Finally, apply soft feathery false lashes. Jennings recommends a combination of MAC False Lashes in #4 and #7. Then draw in a small, dark vampy lip with matte red lipstick. Top your makeup look with a chic short black wig, a sparkly feather clasp in your hair and a glitzy dress with an alcohol flask tucked in your fishnet stockings.
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60's hippie
Other than the Electric Daisy Carnival, Halloween is the best time to unleash the peace-loving hippie woman inside of you, using these makeup tips:
Get the look: For the hippie look, feel free to use all the colors of the rainbow. We're all a bit low on cash these days, so Jennings recommends using what you already have in your makeup bag. Use any multi-colored metallic eye shadow on your lids. Use a neutral coral lipstick on your lips topping it off with some neutral lip gloss. For a retro-enhanced blush, dab the same lipstick to the apples of your cheeks using a finger in a gentle pinching motion to blend it in. Try a pinky orange like MAC Lipstick in CB96, $14.50. Add a long, flowing blonde wig, tie-dyed t-shirt, bell-bottom jeans and offer free hugs to everyone -- especially the cute guy standing in the corner.
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70's disco
Disco will never die. Get psychedelic with these makeup tips:
Get the look: Jennings says the disco girl is a "pumped up version of the hippie, with [double the false lashes]: one pair for the top, and a pair for the bottom." Use a white eye pencil in the waterline, then mix silver and gold pigments together "to create a super disco ball eye lid that will reflect all light," says Jennings. Apply a peach cream blush on the apples of the cheeks (try Make Up For Ever HD High Definition Blush in Pinky Nude, $25, then highlight the face and cheekbone with a pearl cream based shadow. Finally, keep the lip neutral and super glossy, and bust a groove under the ball.
There are certain go-to Halloween makeup and costume ideas that we like to call "no fails." They are the tried and true, albeit boring, costumes you can throw together in a flash. These said Halloween costumes usually come out of a pre-packaged bag and contain fairy wings, a witch hat, kitty ears, or fangs and never win you any "Best Costume" awards. They also lack the wow-factor your Trick-or-Treaters hope to see when they arrive at your door. So this Halloween, it's time to spice up more than just your apple cider.
The following Halloween costume and makeup ideas we've dug up for you are bound to do the trick. They are fun, fresh and more importantly will fool your neighbors and friends into thinking you've been planning your costume all year long. Each idea comes with a how-to guide for your makeup, hair and outfit, so you can finally look like you didn't run to the Halloween costume store the night of the 30th frantically picking through half-opened costume bags (there's a first for everything!).
And if you do happen to get to the Lindsay Lohan costume idea (spoiler alert), and think "I'm so sick of her" (as are we), we've got tips on how to jazz up age-old no-fail costumes, with makeup tips from MAC Senior Makeup Artist Romero Jennings. His two rules for Halloween costumes are: "You want people to know who you are without telling them," and "you don't want to look like yourself with a bad wig on."
Jennings also recommends taking a picture of your finished makeup look before walking out the door so you can see how you'll look in all the pictures that will invariably come back to haunt you.
So go ahead and check out the 11 new Halloween makeup and costume ideas -- you might just die over them � moohahaha. C'mon, it's Halloween, give us a break. We couldn't help ourselves.
