Set the Tone with Dias de los Muertos
Thinking forward to this year’s Halloween costume? I am…
This is a prize winning costume I am sharing with you so that you no longer need to wrack your brain to figure something out! I must say, this turned out pretty amazing…
This gal decided that “The Day of the Dead” was perfectly fitting for her theme this last year, but just the tone of “Dias de los Muertos” makes it sound all the more eerie, spooky even. So how did she pull this one off?
This costume will probably take you about three hours to complete. Here are the parts and pieces:
- The dress was a period style zombie wedding gown.
- The scarf/shawl can be found at a local Walgreens store. That is a small drugstore, if you don’t have one.
- Made the headdress using a plastic headband and six big roses, all hot glued onto the headband.
- White face paint
- Baby Powder
- White eyeliner
- Black eyeliner
- A palette of several shades and colors of eye shadow
- Faceted decorative jewels
- Black nail polish
- False eyelashes
- Eyelash adhesive
- Various eye shadow brushes
This gal got up at 4:30am to be able to make it to work by 7:00am. She was 30 minutes late. Plan accordingly! The tutorial used to paint herself up only lasted eight minutes so she thought an hour was plenty of time! It was not.
Dress after you shower and brush your teeth before applying makeup. Be certain you are starting with a clean face. Use a headband to hold your hair away from your face.
Here is the tutorial this gal followed. It is a great one. And yes, she did the makeup all by herself. It was pretty easy! If you don’t have things like stage makeup and fancy brushes, you can make do with clown makeup, baby powder, and a few brushes. She bought a compact of shadows at Target. It was a smaller size. She didn’t use the feather eyelashes, she just accented with longer ones. She also did not put makeup on her lips, she used the white eye liner instead so it would last longer.
Once you finish your makeup, put the shawl over your head like a veil. Place the headdress of roses over the shawl to hold it in place. A pair of some old fashioned looking boots would top the whole thing off. Painting your nails the night before saves time in the morning and you can fix any errors before you start to run low on time in the morning.
The costume turned out amazing. It is a contest contender for certain! The thing about costumes is that many of them are uncomfortable and you want to just get out of it before the fun ever starts! This one wore very well, she touched up the liner once during the day, but everything else was perfectly comfortable. Give it a shot! You will be amazed at how simple it is!
