Unleash Your Inner Vamp: Dark Lipstick and White Nude Color for a Vampire Halloween Makeup Look
Before the end of October, or better, before Halloween, it is an excellent time to pull out the most creative makeup ideas and to make a change! Undoubtedly, one of the most popular trends of the season is the vampire makeup, the timeless make up that is dark mysterious yet chic. If you’re aiming for the sultry silent film style vamped up many times in movies, or the contemporary look best exemplified by “Kiera Knightley in all her Gothic movie” queeness-ness, then the weapons of choice are dark lip liner and lipstick, against a pale nude canvas. This dramatic combination should set the mood for the spooky, yet chic Halloween costume.
Why Dark Lipstick and White Nude Complexion?
Wearing black lipstick with white or pale nude makeup can easily recreate the image of vampires, old and eternal inhabitants of the night. It is an elegant, audacious fashion with much of fifties sci-fi horror and very little of the modernity, except from the ragged and raw edge that is perfect for today’s dark chilling fashion.
Here’s why this makeup combination is the ultimate choice for your vampire look:
1. Timeless Elegance: It is well understood that vampires are never old and are very sensual. Sexy red or black lip color gives some kind of mysterious look and on the other hand, pale or ‘’snow white’’ nude look makes one look like an otherworldly being.
2. Gothic Drama: Lipstick in dark colors like plum, bright red or black will give your face a nude look since the main focus is the lips. This is important to achieve the gothic dramatic and vampiric lustful character of the vampire.
3. Retro and Vintage Glam: The vamp look has been inspired from the makeup trends of the past where matte, deep shades of lips and porcelain like skin was the norm. This hair and makeup look can especially be appreciated by fans of the movies from the 20s-30s dark Hollywood style.
4. Versatile Creativity: In this case, whether you want to get that sexy, glamorous vampire kind or the eerie creepy one, pale skin teamed with a dark lip is pretty experimental. There are many extra things you can do to the mask such as give it some smoky eyes, glitter touches or even paint fake blood on a darker shade of lipstick as the base.
How to Achieve the Perfect Vampire Makeup Look
Ready to embrace your inner vampire? Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating the ultimate “dark lipstick and white nude complexion” for your Halloween makeup look.
- Prepare Your Skin
- For that classic vampire pallor, you'll need a flawless, pale base:
- Start with a Primer: Apply a good face primer before applying your make up to keep the makeup on for the entire night. Vampires are depicted to have smooth skin and almost a papery feel to it, this step aids in erasing that possibility.
- Choose the Right Foundation: Choose foundation or face paint which is a shade or two lighter than your skin tone. The said look is best set by applying either a white or pale type of nude foundation. Apply it smoothly over your face and the neck, upper chest, in a manner to give you a zombie like appearance.
- Set with Powder: To accomplish this, apply a sheer finish powder that will restrict movement and seal in the ghostly shade. This not only helps in preventing smudging but also helps in maintaining the needed matte effect that goes with retro feel of the vampires.
- Sculpt with Contour
- In some ways though vampires are portrayed to be pale creatures, they still have sharp features on their faces. Here’s how to sculpt your face:
- Contour: To contour apply a cool-toned contour powder to the hollows of the cheeks, jawline, and temples. This allows your face to have that sickly pale look, like that of sunken cheeks, often needed for a vampire’s appearance. Mix gently for a hint of eerie within.
- Highlight: Take an eyeshadow brush and dab it in a frosty highlight color – apply it on the high planes of the face – the cheek bones, brow bone and the nose.
3. Focus on the Eyes
As everyone knows, a vampire’s stare at one’s victims are irresistible; therefore, your eye make must show them as mysterious and deadly.
• Smoky Eyes: Go for a timeless glamorous sultry look with shades of black, grey, or deep red/burgundy respectively. Stroika the eyeshadow to give a sultry drama look at feel free to add water or rubbing alcohol. You can also put few flashes of red or plum to extend more gothic look and feel.
• Winged Eyeliner: Heavy winged eyeliner gives more of the retro touch and at the same time taunts the vampire side. With the help of black liquid liner put on thick and clear lines.
• Dramatic Lashes: Lastly, complete the eyes with full and dark mascara or opt for eyelashes to intensify the gothic feel of the makeup. For that extra daring try adding in the glitter or shimmer to the inner corner to resembled a touch of the night sky.
4. The Dark Lipstick
Now for the star of the show: dark lipstick. Any color from ultra-goth black to seriously sultry deep burgundy or even almost Halloween appropriate blood red will make your lips the focus.
• Prep Your Lips: When choosing your lipstick, and applying it, lips should be clean, soft, and moist. First apply a lip scrub, and is follow it up with a lip balm to prepare the lip surface for the lipstick.
• Line Your Lips: Next, I use a lip liner that is in the same color as the lipstick to line my lips. To get the 50s pin-up girl lip, stick to cupid’s bow.
• Apply the Dark Lipstick: Line your lips with pretty, dark colour—plum, oxblood or black will do the job. If you want a more contemporary appearance, the matte is perfect, whereas the glossy makes it seductive.
• Optional: Blood Drip Effect: It is all about going vamp if you have an idea, use red lip gloss, or fake blood to create a drip down the side of the mouth. This gives you a murderous but fashionable feel to your outfit.
5. Finishing Touches
Final Thoughts: Glamorous and Ghoulish
Red lipstick and white resign are still a favorite when it comes to Halloween outfit ideas. Whether you wish to go for a ‘70s vampire diva-esque look or something more contemporary and Gothic, this makeup is the best means of channeling your artistic sensibility while not straying far from the eternal beauty of the vampire.
Tell them what they need to know this Halloween – that your makeup says it all. Amazingly plumpy lips, ghost like cheeks, and sultry mysterious eyes painted will make you look ready to leave a spell of mystery on any night you hit. Happy haunting!