Oh no.
It’s 4 p.m. on Halloween night and you don’t have a costume.
Plans have changed the only costume-like thing in your closet is a bathrobe and shower cap. What. Now.
Inanutshell.ca to the rescue (possibly dressed as super-heros).
By now you know that we are big fans of costumes here on the ‘shell. We vouched for a few of our faves on our latest live TV appearance, but let it be known, we have a couple “Best Costume” titles under our belts. Nbd.
Original inspiration.
Often these costumes take careful planning and consideration. Possibly months of blueprints, hours of glue-gunning or several trips to area craft stores and Value Villages. But we’re here, today, to say you can pull-off something pretty bad-ass in just one hour that will outshine all the “athletes”, “ghosts” and other “sexy cats” out there.
In a pickle, last year, my friends quickly thought up this super-easy costume, and as I bar-hopped beside them as a little pink piggy (way, way, way less cool) I can assure you the she-skeletons turned heads.
What you will need:
– Black and white face paint
– 1 makeup sponge
– makeup brush (preferably with a flat tip)
– Q-tips for touch ups
Step by Step instruction even an amateur can accomplish (like me!)
Step 1: Find a pretty girl to make look super scary
Step 2: Use makeup brush to paint entire face white
Step 3: Outline large eye circles with black paint (Puppy or skeleton? Could go either way at this point.)
Step 4: Fill eyes in with black paint
Step 5: Draw nose. Remember, you can take liberties with this. Our first attempt at a nose was unsuccessful (pictured beside) so we tried again. For the simplest nose just paint the entire thing black.
Step 6: Make outline of mouth and jaw line. We made a large rectangle mouth to start. Stretching way past where Kate’s lips normally are. We angled it upwards near her jaw line and then created some more angles coming down her face starting at her hairline just above the eyebrow. Make sure both sides of the face are symmetrical.
Step 7: Fill in jaw line.
Step 8: Until now the face painting extravaganza (can you believe it was my first face paint) was pretty simple. This part took a little more creativity because my model INSISTED on having teeth. For a simpler mouth you fill the whole thing in black or draw stitches across the lips (see original skeletons above).
For these lips, we started off by painting Kate’s actual lips black, but only about halfway on her top lip. We then stretched a middle line horizontally from the corner of her actual mouth to the end of the rectangle we had already drawn.
I used the flat part of the brush to draw vertical lines across both the top and bottom parts of the rectangle to make teeth. Not all the teeth have to be even and the bottom row should be a little smaller than the top. We also angled the teeth in places because we figured after all those years, some decay had built up – naturally. We finished it of by rounding the upper teeth on the top so it didn’t look so straight-edged.
Step 9: The final touches. You may need to add white in places or fix certain things. You can also add little creative touches like the cracks in the skull we added to Kate’s eyes, forehead and chin.
Step 10: Put on your favourite black outfit. Sexy skeleton? Conservative skeleton? The choice is yours! If you’re wearing a low cut shirt, extend the white face paint to your chest and add some horizontal stripes for added effect.
BOOM! or should I say BOO! you’re done.
And you’ll make a pretty sweet Instagram photo, if I do say so myself.
What have I done?
Happy Halloween from all of us. Stay spooky. Stay safe.
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