25 Halloween Makeup Ideas That Are Legitimately Terrifying
These gory YouTube SFX tutorials are beyond a few fake blood drips.
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1. Create a splash as Regan from The Exorcist, complete with fake vomit.
@Ellimacs SFX / Via youtube.com
3rd Degree sculpting silicone builds up Regan's wounds for too-realistic injuries.
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Get it from Alcone Company for $24+.
2. Sing “Let It Go” about layers of skin as frostbitten Elsa.
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Flesh latex lets you peel away faux skin in patches for that frostbitten look.
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Get it from Amazon for $7.93.
3. Take your favorite Disney Princess for a dark turn with a clawed-up Belle makeup tutorial.
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A pro bruise-and-injury cream color circle gives depth to Belle's wax gouges.
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Get it from Kryolan for $17.30.
4. Terrify Muggles as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named himself, Voldemort. (Yeah, we said it.)
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Liquid latex and flour on a face mold lays the groundwork for the Dark Lord's snakelike visage.
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Get it from Costume Discounters for $15.98.
5. Eat, drink, and look deadly with a stitched-up mouth that won't hinder your partying.
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Clear, brush-on lash adhesive will keep your heavy black-thread stitches in place.
6. Play it two-faced with a glam 3D melting skull.
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Fleshtone 3D gel adds dimension without weighing down your face.
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Get it from Clown Antics for $5.60.
7. Get OG (and wear a warm outfit) as the Crypt Keeper.
@Jordan Hanz / Via youtube.com
PS: Jordan is releasing a Halloween makeup tutorial every day of October here.
Vaseline, latex, wedge sponges, cotton balls, and sooo much patience is key here, young grasshopper.
8. Create the appearance of gouged-out eyes with the ability to judge others' subpar costumes.
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Scab blood and vampire blood help mask the window-screen eye-socket covers.
9. Go a little less gruesome with a pencil through the nose.
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Cine-Wax makes the broken pencil stay put.
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Get it from Kryolan for $13.10.
10. Go half glam with a graphic stapled-on face.
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Nose and scar wax mimics the edge of lifted skin.
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Get it from Amazon for $26.99.
11. Give Beauty and the Beast fans their fantasy as an arrow-to-the-eye Gaston.
@Kat Sketch / Via youtube.com
Pros-Aide, a medical-grade adhesive, keeps a prosthetic chin and nose in place for this misogynist Disney villain's look.
12. Keep the focus on your torn-flesh zombie mouth.
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OG school glue keeps skin (aka toilet paper) in place.
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Get a pair of 4-ounce bottles from Amazon for $6.20.
13. Make an aquatic/environmental statement as a hooked mermaid.
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A large fish hook (through a faux skin patch of tissues and liquid latex) will pull the look together.
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Get it from Amazon for $5.99+.
14. Get dramatic with a drag-inspired Marie Antoinette featuring a gruesome (but essential!) neck injury.
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A slit-neck prosthetic saves you tedious work on your slash.
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Get it from Titanic FX Store for $12.23.
15. Leave a trail of dead bodies in your wake as the Bride of Frankenstein.
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White body paint creates an on-point undead appearance.
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Get it from Amazon for $13.99.
16. Look infected with a 3D zombie bite that will terrify all the apocalypse preppers.
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Extra flesh helps you sculpt out realistic teeth marks.
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17. Sport a vampire bite as a victim of a creature of the night.
@Kait Nichole / Via youtube.com
Check out more of Kait's eerie tutorials in her SFX playlist here.
A bottle of blood creates a realistic drip.
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Get it from Spirit Halloween for $6.99.
18. Scare little children (and adults) as a gory voodoo doll.
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Black cream makeup makes your mouth and eye look like dead space. Plus, it transforms a round makeup sponge into a doll eye.
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Get it from Amazon for $12.99.
19. Paint on a glam face and gory décolletage with a torn-out neck.
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Plain cotton rounds cut and stack nicely into exposed bones.
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Get a 240-pack from Amazon for $9.
20. Ready your poisoned apples to distribute as an evil witch.
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Fresh scab goo puts the finishing touches on the hag.
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Get it from Amazon for $19.50.
21. Make everyone bow down before you as zombie Cleopatra.
@Amanda Ensing / Via youtube.com
Also check out Amanda's glam (gore-less) Cleopatra makeup tutorial here.
A thrifty Halloween makeup palette darkens a cheek wound.
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Get it from Spirit Halloween for $3.99.
22. Reveal what's underneath with this peeled-snakeskin look.
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An airbrush stencil in "reptiliana" creates a no-fuss snake-scale pattern.
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23. Test-run a bigger pout as a botched plastic surgery patient.
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Stick-on lip prosthetics make it easy to get a Real Housewives pucker.
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Get them from Halloween Costumes for $14.99.
24. Stay out past midnight as a gruesome pumpkin head.
@Jordan Hanz / Via youtube.com
Model Magic is a kid-friendly trick for making a 3D stem.
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Get it from Amazon for $16.49.
25. Capitalize on current clown hysteria as a creepy clown.
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Coagulated blood gel adds a finishing touch to your hairline.
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Get it from Amazon for $9.30.