After himming and hawing for a bit, I decided Halloween should have it’s own category. I don’t just go willy-nilly adding categories, so this is kind of a big deal. But deserved, no? I’ll post makeup ideas for halloween throughout the month, and if you have questions about a specific look just email me.

The easiest and coolest halloween makeup idea is to get a prosthetic makeup kit (or appliance kit). These include fingers coming through the face, screws in the head, oozing brains, huge gash marks, third eyeballs, and the like. I love these because the makeup can be your entire costume if you want. Running to a party straight from work? Just stick a bullet hole on your forehead, add a trickle of blood and -done. And it’s good. Not like the cop-out Jason mask you’ve been dragging around for years.

There’s various skill levels with the prosthetics, but if you can achieve it with just what comes in the kit and it’s less than, say 8 things, it’s probably easy enough for someone with little experience. The gory look is pretty much on the prosthetic already, so once it’s stuck on it looks like a work of art in itself.

Online, The Nightmare Factory looks like it has a good selection of easy ones, or if you consider yourself a near-pro halloween makeup enthusiast, check out Mostly Dead . FYI- probably not the best idea if you’re allergic to latex.

Here’s one I stuck on in like 10 min a couple years ago….