HAPPY HALLOWEEN

WOW! It was a busy day. Halloween started the night before for me. My oldest had his friend stay the night so they could wake up early and have his makeup done before school. We did a practice run the night before and it seemed like it would be easy enough. I purchased a kit from the Halloween store (might get a picture of it later) for about $20.00. The kit came with two jars of scar stuff, one of liquid latex, one of gel blood, a tower of face paint (drk red, bright red, black and mustard colors), and applicators.

Well we started with a sullen teenager


and after an HOUR of work with that kit and a half shaved wig you will get this:

He got a lot of great reviews from friends at school and even scared a few people. It was a lot of fun to get that final look and make a teenager happy enough to cast a small smile. :D

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Now I know that I said I was going to be a werewolf - but it seems over after 3 attempts. Instead I played around again with more makeup and made a living dead zombie person LOL

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Halloween is around the corner!! :D

I love Halloween. Its my favorite holiday!
if you wanna call it that.

I have been working on a few ideas for this coming trick-or-treating session.

My oldest son is 15 and one of his friends wants to be the character Harvey Dent/Two-Face played by Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight.

So I figured I would share my first installment of images from our trial run this weekend. After sharing these images with a friend about our dilemma with adding more texture to his face, she shared a great link with me:

Homemade Scars

Its given my some great ideas. So I have decided that we are going to use Elmers Glue to create a 'skin' for him with texture and depth. I will probably put food coloring in the glue itself and then make homemade blood and such. Should be so much fun.

On this look I used the following:

1. Applied a dark foundation as a base for the eyeshadow to adhere to and use as a barrier from his skin.
2. I set the foundation with a medium gray eyeshadow from Sally's Beauty supply, but in the end it wasn't dark enough and I used a Revlon Slate Gray eyeshadow instead.
3. The teeth were drawn on with a L'Oreal HiP Cream liner in black using a Sonia Kashuk bent liner brush from Target. I filled the teeth in with white clown makeup that can be found at any local drug store or Walmart.
4. The red areas are actually Wet n Wild lipstick and then drawn over with the liner again.

Here comes the crazy part... He is actually considering shaving HALF his head off. YES OMG!!! I suggested getting a cheap wig from the local Halloween store and just removing half the hair off. And then we will just add the glue and texture afterwards. I will keep you posted. :D