Lichtenstein Halloween Demo: Two Ways

After my last tutorial, I had some requests for videos. This was my first real attempt at making a tutorial video. And because it was way harder than I imagined, it turned into more of a demonstration. I didn't do a voice over or music and I sped it up so that it wouldn't be 30 minutes long.

Things I learned while making these videos:

• Making videos is hard
• I need a tripod for my phone
• I need to shoot landscape and not portrait
• Videos take up an enormous amount of memory. Yikes!
• I had no idea how to use iMovie. 

I'm not going to give up on more videos in the future, but there is definitely a learning curve. That's enough bitching about the process, let's talk about the actual makeup.

I decided to do this look on myself and my friend Jessica. She was a wonderful and willing model. I wanted to show a similar look on two different skin shades and how it translates. This is a look that I had contemplated on doing for a while and we had a lot of fun taking our photos afterwards. The final result accentuates your expression, so it's really easy to make funny faces. I'll post some of those at the end.

Lichtenstein Demo 1 (on myself)

After I applied my usual foundation and concealer routine to create a clean palette, I started by mapping out my lines with a brown eyebrow pencil. This allowed me the freedom to explore what I wanted to do without making a mess of my face. Once I got it the way I wanted it, I then went over the lines with black. If you do wear this look out for Halloween, keep in mind that this is a look that can get pretty messed up throughout the night. And you should drink out of a straw. Don't hug anyone and don't scratch your face, which is really hard. The reason it's so hard to keep this look clean is because you can't really set it with powder. You could try a makeup setting spray, but I didn't have any of that to test out.




Lichtenstein Demo 2 (Jessica)

In this demonstration, I used the same techniques, but added different colors and tears. You should search the internet for inspiration and pick and choose which elements you want to include. I used a peach concealer for Jessica's dots because I wanted to give it contrast, but white would be too stark and I saw several examples online with red dots, but to me, they just look like zits.



Here is a list of products that I used in both videos:

Brushes:

• MAC 239 (eye shadow)
• Ulta angled fine point liner brush (fine detail)
• Sephora angled liner brush (strong lines)
• Sephora flat brush (clean up)
• Real Techniques detailer brush (lips)
• Real Techniques deluxe crease brush (concealer)
• Real Techniques setting brush (blush)
• Real Techniques fine liner brush (lip highlights)

Makeup:

• Make Up For Ever Flash Palette (bright colors for lips, eyes, face dots in white and black)
• Make Up For Ever HD Foundation
• Make Up For Ever Concealer Palette (face dots on Jessica)
• Make Up For Ever Aqua liner (fine lines)
• MAC Rapidblack Penultimate eye liner (fine lines)
• Sleek Makeup eye shadow palette (i-Divine Ultra Matts) (eyes)
• Anastasia Brow Wiz Pencil (Caramel) (sketching the lines)
• Stila Blush (blush)
• Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Mascara (eyelashes)

Funny Photos

Marilyn Monroe Halloween Tutorial

It has been a really long time since I've posted a tutorial. I hoping that the upcoming Halloween holiday will inspire me to start back up. If you have any ideas for tutorials that you would like to see, email me at ali@redroosterdesign.com.

So to start, here is a Marilyn Monroe tutorial because she is one of my favorite vintage inspirations and I've actually never been her for Halloween.

I started with a black and white photo of Marilyn, but I wanted to make this look more severe to really emphasize all of her famous features and because it's for Halloween. It's a bit of a mix between a regular Marilyn makeup and and a pop art Marylin with muted colors.

Marilyn photo used for reference.

I used my Make Up For Ever Flash Palettes. They are creams so they blend easily and they are very pigmented.

Make Up For Ever Flash Palettes

I started by adding the highlights. I just roughly applied them using a flat brush.

Highlights

Then I added the shadows using browns. I used the photograph as a reference as to where to put the shadows and highlights. Marilyn was known for her bedroom eyes and that's achieved with the defined shadows and highlights.

Shadows

I then added the signature arched eyebrows. They are pointy and thicker at the points.

Eyebrows

I then blended the face with a blending sponge by patting the areas lightly.

Blending Sponge

Results of blending the face

Then I used a smaller brush to blend around the eyes.

Real Techniques brush

Next, I went over the brown areas with a brown eye shadow from my naked palette to set it.

Naked Palette

I also went over the highlights with a white eye shadow to set it and even it out.

Sleek palette

Then it was time for the signature Marilyn lips. Her lips have a big bow and are red. I used the same brown cream that I used on my face to outline the lips. Marilyn actually used many shades of red to create her dramatic dimensional lip. After I blended the lips I added different shades of red and pink to the center and finished it off with a dramatic white highlight on the bottom center lip.

Lined Lips

Blended Lips

Lips with Red in the middle

Lip Highlight

Finally, I added eyeliner. You don't have to be super precise. If you look at photos of Marilyn, you can see that her eyeliner has a bit of an angle down on the ends and she usually had liner on the outside bottom of her eye to create that droopy shadow.

Eyeliner

 The look wouldn't be complete without her signature beauty mark and her blonde hair.

Final makeup and a wig cap

Here is the final look. If I were really wearing this out, I would have also applied makeup to my neck to make it match my face.

Final Look

Final Look

Final Look

Final Look