Don’t forget to get your makeup ahead of time, and get enough makeup and plan ahead for time with it to experiment.  Have fun seeing how creepy, scary or weird you can look. Ask parents or siblings for advice with how you’ll wear it on the big night. Take notes on how you apply it, you’ll want to remember the best way later!

Is makeup too garish? With a stark black costume, makeup and effects will really stand out. If you feel shy about wearing witch makeup, blot with baby powder. Try makeup “rehearsals” with the costume on. Take pictures along the way. You’ll see how rubbed down makeup looks faded with the costume on.

Not sure about wearing full witch makeup? Even a forehead “wound” with red blood or both eyelids painted with solid eyeshadow will be enough drama for the big night. Draw an outline to blood “stains” with lip liner. Heavy black eyebrows can be drawn in. Gold or silver hoop earrings work too.

No money for makeup? Try this:

Homemade Witch Dress Halloween Makeup:

Ingredients:

* Popsicle sticks or coffee stirrers(or plastic forks)
* Few small sprinkles of baby powder
* 2 Tbsp cornstarch
* 1 Tbsp solid shortening Crisco/baby oil)
* 1 Red /1 Yellow or 1 Blue or 2 Green food color drops

This paste can be thinned out with mineral oil (baby oil) if it gets gloppy. Some recipes suggest using Crisco, which is fine unless you have sensitive skin. Corn syrup and peanut butter can be used but these attract flies and ants, too much bother and not recommended.

Note: Glue should be used for prosthetics only, it blocks pores and skin aspiration when it dries and can be toxic to skin. Fake noses and chins might held on with elastic, too. Never use glue or any product other than mascara near eyes. Don’t use kitchen items that look like the right color, ask an adult first.

Prosthetics/Effects

For grisly vampire-type witches, red “blood” may be dripping from mouth, etc. Oatmeal mixed with red food coloring makes zombie witch gore that can be papier mache’d to the face in layers. Use glue in corresponding areas between fake noses and chins, and natural cornstarch mixture on skin.

An EYEPATCH makes an excellent witch dress-up accessory. You can make one by taping black felt and gluing it onto a black ribbon, or taking a piece of black elastic and sewing or stapling it to make a headband. Cover with velcro or use a velcro fastener to close the elastic strap. If the eyepatch band elastic is long enough, you can tie it in the back and hide it under long hair.

Witch makeup from stores can be sheer and sparkly, like a lip gloss or liquid blush, or deep toned makeup like the green or blue skin makeup from movies.

For a sheer ace makeup, use a lip gloss with extra glitter added on forehead, cheeks and chin if no solid color witch makeup is desired. Use a gray eyeliner to draw “wrinkled” on forehead, nose, chin and from corner of nostrils to end of mouth. Blend each line equally into makeup.