HALLOWEEN | Here Comes the Bride of Frankenstein!

Happy Halloween everyone! I honestly was not planning on doing any Halloween makeup as I have been rushing to share all of my Fall beauty posts with you before December descends, but I was determined to do something with the MAKE UP FOR EVER Flash Palette that I was given last year by MUFE as a prize for participating in their Halloween campaign. This palette is a rainbow of grease paints that can literally turn you into anything you wish to be and this year, I wished to be the "Bride of Frankenstein"!

As I have mentioned before, I'm really terrible at makeup. I have dexterity only for nails, but unfortunately not for my face and I'm ok with that so I went hunting for a look that didn't require a whole lot of precision, BUT would still have a bit of a WOW factor. Painting your entire face a bright colour accomplishes like 75% of that! I have never used grease paint and I really had issues making it even. It was patchy in some areas and after trying to fix it for 20 minutes, I had to move on. I had also applied it to my ears because my body parts had to match and let me tell ya, I still had some green in my ears the next day at work despite scrubbing!

Face:
MAKE UP FOR EVER Flash Color Cream Palette in Artistic*
Shade: Leaf Green

Eyebrows:
MAKE UP FOR EVER Flash Color Cream Palette in Artistic
Shade: Black

Eyes:
Apply primer all over the lid and under eyes.
Using fingers and patting motion, apply the purple shade "2am" by Sugarpill all over the lid and roughly under the eyes. I wasn't neat about it since this was a bit of a messy look.
Line lower waterline with a black smudgeable liner. I used Charlotte Tilbury's Rock n Kohl Iconic Eye Pencil in Bedroom Black*.

Thickly line upper lash line and create a wing with Kat Von D Liquid Eyeliner in Trooper.

Apply mascara to top and bottom lashes. I'm using MAKE UP FOR EVER's Excessive Lash Mascara*.

Apply false lashes. I am using Eden Lashes in Sarai*.

Lips:
Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Disturbed*

Once your face is done, add some random stitches all over your face using the black grease paint from the MUFE Flash Palette and a small makeup brush. I added some black shadows with matte black eyeshadow in between the stitches to give some realism. Make sure to do this in a patting motion as I discovered why it is VERY difficult to mix mediums like cream and powder! I had to touch up the green a few times because I was "brushing" instead of dabbing.

If you plan on going out, spray your face with setting spray to lock everything in place! I realized I couldn't use setting powder (unless you can and I just didn't realize??) because I was so lost with using this Flash Palette being the amateur that I am. I will say that this is a FUN palette to play with though and I cannot imagine how much fun a MUA would have with something like this!

I hope everyone is having a great Halloween and I will show you how I managed to take all of this off in my next post ;-)