Clowns have undeniable range. They began as an emblem of comic relief, but have turn out to be beacons of mischief (take Harley Quinn, for instance) and even the antagonists of horror movies (Pennywise is bone-chilling.) That’s probably why they make such great Halloween costumes.
For those who’re not up for the head-to-toe Bozo the Clown get-up, that’s totally comprehensible. You may still be party-ready with only a clown makeup look. I worked with Latest Jersey-based makeup artist Cara Lovello to create one which’s really easy to do. (No, really — you’ll breeze through this three-step tutorial.)
- Berny Ferreira is a makeup artist based in London, England, with a bachelor’s degree in Makeup for Fashion from the London College of Fashion.
- Cara Lovello makeup artist based in Bridgewater, Latest Jersey, whose clients include Dolores Catania and Dorothy Wang.
Learn how to prepare for clown makeup
Your first step is to choose what sort of clown you would like to be. Do you would like to be scary like Twisty? Funny like Krusty? And, Lovello asks a really valid query: “Are you fully committing to a personality or are you attempting to be ‘cute?’”
When you mull over what sort of clown you’d wish to be (I went with creepy for this one), prep your face with a hydrating moisturizer and layer on a coat of facial primer as you’d with way less spooky glam. Lovello primed my skin with Tarte Double Duty Beauty Base Tape Hydrating Primer. The suitable primer will make it easier to use a clown’s signature all-over white base with none blotchy areas.
Tools you would like for clown makeup
- White face paint
- White translucent powder
- Black face paint
- Black powder eye shadow
- Red liquid lipstick
- Dense foundation brush
- Thin paintbrush
- Lip brush
- Small eye shadow brush
- Angled medium-sized face brush
Clown makeup tutorial
Use a dense and flat foundation brush to color your entire face with white face paint. Lovello blended Mehron Makeup Clown White Professional Face Paint across my brow, eyelids, cheeks, chin, and hairline. “Getting into with a number of product creates more room for mistakes as you’re essentially just cementing the makeup on as an alternative of slowly constructing the opacity up, layer by layer,” says London-based makeup artist Berny Ferreira.
That’s exactly what Lovello did. She carved out a piece of white paint from the Mehron paint pod with the handle of her paintbrush and warmed the product up on the back of her hand before applying it to my face. Then, she set the white face paint with RCMA Makeup The Original No Color Powdera translucent setting powder. We found that a tapered and fluffy powder brush worked best to use the loose powder especially to set the attention area.
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