Halloween Costume Ideas

Toil And Trouble - Make Your Own Halloween Makeup

It's the Halloween season again and that means costumes, parties, lots of candy, and makeup to bring out the blood and carnage in all of us. Halloween makeup can be bought in the hoard, stolen from mom's stash of makeup, or make your own. Here are a few ideas and tips for making Halloween makeup easy.

Making goopy Halloween makeup is one of several activities you can do with your kids.  For more activities for children check out the learning haven with free online learning and loads of arts and crafts for kids and parents alike.

It's More Fun in CostumeIf purchasing stock bought makeup that costs five dollars an ounce is out of the question you can make your own Halloween makeup in just a matter of minutes. Here are just a few ideas to compose your own hellish goop.

Everyone needs blood. Not just in your body but also at Halloween. It's almost a requirement to have it all over your body. Remember, this Halloween makeup will wash off skin with soap and mineral water but will most likely mark garments. So if spending five dollars on makeup is not for you I would suggest that you do not be in your Sunday's best when dressing for Halloween

Holloween Makeup can be sloppy so when placing your makeup consider these pointers.

1. Secure your hair back with a scarf while applying makeup.

2. Consider what you crave to do before actually introducing the make up and do all things possibe to only apply this once.

3. Chances are putting on your costume before applying your Halloween makeup will be a good idea. Some costumes can be burdensome to put on without smearing your newly made face stitches all over your kneck and down your back.

4.Remember your Halloween makeup is not part of your furniture or carpeting.

Blood -

Ingredients 2-1/2 Tablespoons water 60-70 drops of red food coloring 10-15 drops yellow food coloring 2-3 drops blue food coloring 5-1/2 Tablespoons creamy corn syrup

Churn all of the food coloring in a bowl and slowly add the corn syrup, stirring

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until it thickens but will still smear.

An even simpler way to make bloody Halloween makeup is to combine red food coloring, corn syrup and

chunky peanut butter.

Next, take your newly brewed potion of Halloween makeup and smudge it all over till it looks like Freddy Kruger has just paid a visit.

I have listed various great websites to help out and should present you with some great Halloween makeup tips.

http://ghoulskool.com/makeup.htm - This site has good tips for placing Halloween makeup.

http://www.osweb.com/kidzkorner/makeup.htm - This site has wonderful suggestions for Halloween makeup and your kids.

One thing to remember when doctoring up your own Halloween makeup is to keep parental supervision at all times and to have fun with this. This is a great activity to do with the children and hey, who says you can only do this at Halloween. Get crazy in the summer too! Now that you can make your own Halloween makeup spook your friends when they least anticipate it.

Trick or Treat!

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