Theatrical Fairy Makeup Ideas

Extending eye makeup helps to create a theatrical fairy look.

Creating fairy makeup provides the opportunity to let your imagination run wild, inventing a wildly theatrical look. Whether you’re creating a fairy princess, dark fairy or woodland fairy look for Halloween or a dramatic performance, you can amp up the volume with fantastical artistic touches. Or create makeup for a character such as one of Shakespeare’s fairies from the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Fairy Princess Makeup

Give your fairy princess makeup a theatrical flair by exaggerating your makeup choices. Extend your eye makeup beyond the eyes to create swirls of color that sweep onto the cheeks and the temples. Add onto your bottom row of eyelashes, drawing extensions on the skin just below your eye. For the top row of lashes, go super-theatrical with the most extravagant false eyelashes you can find. Try layering a few pairs on to suggest the flutter of fairy wings when you blink your eyes. Up the drama on your lips by applying a ruby red, water-based nail polish instead of lipstick to give your mouth an otherworldly shine.

Dark Fairy Makeup

Using deep purple, dark blue and black as your palette will give you a theatrically mysterious, dark fairy look. Use liquid or pencil eyeliner in black to create swirling vines around your eyes. Take this dramatic effect a step further by applying small rhinestones or sequins in purple and blue along the swirls of black. Use spirit gum to adhere these decorations to your face. Use a dark purple or black color for your lips, extending the color in swirling down-turned shapes, to give your mouth a sinister cast. Sprinkle silver glitter over your eyes or on your cheeks to reinforce this magically mysterious fairy look.

Woodland Fairy Makeup

Create a woodland or nature fairy that is inspired by the colors of the forest foliage. Green is the most predominant color in the forest, so use the color green liberally. Center your makeup application on the eye area, beginning by covering your lids with a deep green eye shadow. Once this base is applied, create a tree-branch effect by lining your eyes with black and extending the liner up on to your temple. Use your liner to outline leaf shapes on your temple and even onto your forehead, filling these in with green. You might also choose to extend the limbs and leaves effect down onto your cheeks. Apply green to your lips and use a dusting of green glitter to highlight your cheeks.

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Fairy Makeup

Some of literature’s most famous fairies can be found in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” To create makeup for this play’s fairy named Peaseblossom, allow your choices to be inspired by the delicate white and pink flowers that blossom on the pea plant in spring. Decorate each eye as a flower bud, using green face paint to connect the flowers to your nose, painted in green to resemble a stalk. For the fairy Cobweb, paint delicate strands of white webbing on one side of your face, accenting the web by adding silver glitter. Apply a rhinestone to the opposite cheek, gluing it on with spirit gum. Transform this rhinestone into a spider by adding eight legs with liquid eyeliner or black face paint.

References

• Fairies’ Secrets: Very Fairy Makeup
• Wellness W. A.: Makeup Look: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theme Party
• Merriam-Webster: Theatrical