For those wanting their main character moment this spooky season, our creepy (but also kinda cute) clown makeup look will tick all the right boxes. So put down your face paint and pick up your colourful eyeshadow and liners, as we’re getting you circus-ready in 11 easy steps.
Step 1: Time to prime
To freshly moisturised skin, apply a primer all over your face to ensure your makeup is party proof.
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For any stubborn blemishes or spots peeking through, apply concealer to the area and pat it in using a flat concealer brush.
Now, it’s time to sculpt the complexion using a contour stick. Apply it to the cheekbones, top of the forehead and jawline before blending it in using an angled contour brush.
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For fuller and thicker-looking brows, fill any sparse areas using an eyebrow pencil.
To set them in place, brush through your brows in an upward motion with a clear or tinted brow gel.
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Step 4: Enhance your eyes
To make your eyeshadow colours pop, start by applying white eyeshadow using a flat eyeshadow brush.
Next, apply purple eyeshadow to the outer corner of your eyelid and blend out the edges using a fluffy eyeshadow brush. Then, apply a blue shade to the middle of the eyelid, followed by a yellow shade to the inner section of the eye, blending after each shade. After, add red eyeshadow to the inner corner for a creepy, clown-like effect. Then, follow this order and apply these colours under the bottom lash line using an eyeshadow smudge brush.
For an even more show-stopping effect, apply matching glitter eyeshadow on top of each matte shade.
For an extra hint of colour, apply pink blush to the apples of the cheeks and across the nose. Blend it out using a dense, fluffy blush.
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Step 6: Create the creepy smile
Here’s where things take a more sinister turn. Take a black lip liner and trace the outer edge of your lips, then draw a small, outward-facing triangle at the corners of the lip.
When you’re finished, place a cotton bud in each outer edge of the mouth, then drag them upwards towards your eyes. This will provide the perfect guideline for the rest of the look.
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Step 7: Line it up
Now you have the faint black outline going up your face, use a pink liquid eyeliner to go over the line and continue the line upwards towards the eye. Keep drawing the line so it goes through the middle of the eyelid and up to the brow. At the top of the brow, draw a thin, upward-facing triangle.
To give this clown makeup more of a jester look, draw two downward-facing triangles coming out of the bottom outer corner of each eye.
For a cutesy touch, add some of the pink eyeliner to the back of your hand and use a cotton bud to stamp a heart shape on your nose. You can then fill in the bottom of the heart and neaten the shape using the eyeliner pen.
Finally, add small dots at the end of the triangles under your eye and a heart on top of each triangle above the brow.
Home » Easy Halloween Makeup: Clown
Easy Halloween Makeup: Clown
Home » Easy Halloween Makeup: Clown
For those wanting their main character moment this spooky season, our creepy (but also kinda cute) clown makeup look will tick all the right boxes. So put down your face paint and pick up your colourful eyeshadow and liners, as we’re getting you circus-ready in 11 easy steps.
Step 1: Time to prime
To freshly moisturised skin, apply a primer all over your face to ensure your makeup is party proof.
Step 2: Perfect your complexion
Blend 1-2 pumps of foundation into the face using a beauty sponge or foundation brush for an airbrushed finish.
For any stubborn blemishes or spots peeking through, apply concealer to the area and pat it in using a flat concealer brush.
Now, it’s time to sculpt the complexion using a contour stick. Apply it to the cheekbones, top of the forehead and jawline before blending it in using an angled contour brush.
Step 3: Brush through your brows
For fuller and thicker-looking brows, fill any sparse areas using an eyebrow pencil.
To set them in place, brush through your brows in an upward motion with a clear or tinted brow gel.
Step 4: Enhance your eyes
To make your eyeshadow colours pop, start by applying white eyeshadow using a flat eyeshadow brush.
Next, apply purple eyeshadow to the outer corner of your eyelid and blend out the edges using a fluffy eyeshadow brush. Then, apply a blue shade to the middle of the eyelid, followed by a yellow shade to the inner section of the eye, blending after each shade. After, add red eyeshadow to the inner corner for a creepy, clown-like effect. Then, follow this order and apply these colours under the bottom lash line using an eyeshadow smudge brush.
For an even more show-stopping effect, apply matching glitter eyeshadow on top of each matte shade.
Step 5: Bring out the blush
For an extra hint of colour, apply pink blush to the apples of the cheeks and across the nose. Blend it out using a dense, fluffy blush.
Step 6: Create the creepy smile
Here’s where things take a more sinister turn. Take a black lip liner and trace the outer edge of your lips, then draw a small, outward-facing triangle at the corners of the lip.
When you’re finished, place a cotton bud in each outer edge of the mouth, then drag them upwards towards your eyes. This will provide the perfect guideline for the rest of the look.
Step 7: Line it up
Now you have the faint black outline going up your face, use a pink liquid eyeliner to go over the line and continue the line upwards towards the eye. Keep drawing the line so it goes through the middle of the eyelid and up to the brow. At the top of the brow, draw a thin, upward-facing triangle.
To give this clown makeup more of a jester look, draw two downward-facing triangles coming out of the bottom outer corner of each eye.
For a cutesy touch, add some of the pink eyeliner to the back of your hand and use a cotton bud to stamp a heart shape on your nose. You can then fill in the bottom of the heart and neaten the shape using the eyeliner pen.
Finally, add small dots at the end of the triangles under your eye and a heart on top of each triangle above the brow.
Step 8: Create a cat eye
To balance out all of the colour, use black eyeliner to line your eyes and wing it out once you reach the outer edge.
Step 9: Add another pop of pink
Apply pink lipstick (in a similar shade to the blush), then retrace over your black lip liner if it needs a top-up.
Top your pink lipstick with a swipe of pink lip gloss for the perfect party pout. Mwah!