It’s another day of the Halloween Tea Party! Today it’s another drugstore look because drugstore seems to be the most requested type of looks (don’t panic my bodypaint/sfx lovelies, there’ll still be stuff coming up for you).
For those of you new here, the Halloween Tea Party is my creepy little countdown to Halloween where I’m doing 31 tutorials for the month of October ?!
Anyway, on with the tips and products and all the info you’re really here for.
If you’re not a regular heavy coverage kind of girl/guy you might want to check out a couple of videos on how to not end up with a cake face because there is a whole tonne of product in this one. I got an itch after I’d finished with the foundation/contour/highlight and I was too scared to scratch it because I’m convinced it would have left a huge gouge in the thick layer of products on my face.
“Wood” colour is your friend, basically for the base you want a foundation that is heavy coverage (unless you happen to be wood coloured already) so that it looks solid instead of ashy/patchy. Avoid anything to orange/pink/yellow, probably a cooler toned tan colour is the best for this.
In case you don’t happen to have a wood colour foundation lurking about, you could go with a regular foundation then set it with a darker powder, again, go for something cool toned. An eyeshadow would work (although trying to powder your entire face with eyeshadow is a pain). Or you could mix crushed up eyeshadow with the foundation (or any other mixable type product) to make it a bit easier on yourself.
Go heavy on that contour and highlight, seriously, heavier than you’ve ever been in your life. Especially if your foundation tends to oxidise because that can end up turning everything into a bit of a muddy mess.
Use different face powders (or eyeshadows) for the different areas on your face, so darker powder for the contour, lighter for the highlight, or you know, use a translucent powder.
Leave the wood grain til the end, other wise it’ll get blended out if you want to go back in with more contouring and highlighting.
Bring the chin/mouth piece out further than the lips, if you go from the edges of the lips it can look a bit weird (I tried it, it looked odd), alternatively, overdraw your lips at the corners and give yourself a massive creepy smile and go from the edges of that.
For the wood grain, don’t try and be too pretty and perfect about it, it works better if you kind of just go for it instead of putting a tonne of thought into where each line goes.
As usual with my drugstore looks there’s two product lists, the first is a guide of what you can use, and the second is what products I’ve used just in case you are in love with my lippie or something and want to know what it is.
On the left side of the video there’s a list of all the “stages” of the makeup, so if you don’t care about how I do my foundation, or you want to do a different eye, you can easily skip to the parts you are interested in, although for this look the parts of the effects are scattered throughout the whole thing so you might want to watch it all. I wanted to make the tutorials easy for everyone, so if you want to do the complete look how I’ve done it then it’s in the video from start to finish, but if not, you can just pick and choose. I’d love to hear what you guys think of this new feature, is it helpful? Is it distracting? Would you rather it just popped up for ten seconds when I move onto the next step? Let me know what you think.
If you recreate this look I’d love to see how it turns out, if you want to share you can post it on social media, tag me in the post (@teaisforteagan) and use the hashtag #halloweenteaparty to join in the halloween fun.
Thanks for watching/reading guys! I hope you enjoyed this look, and if you’ve got any requests for looks you’d like to see, or any questions about how to pull off this look let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best to reply quickly.