Special Effects & Makeup Tricks for Witches
As Halloween approaches, let your imagination fly on a broomstick as you develop ideas for a witch costume. The stereotypical images may depict green-faced, wart-covered, ugly women, but you can choose instead to become bewitchingly beautiful. However you decide to customize your look for the evening, there are numerous ideas to choose from.
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Paint Your Face
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Instead of wearing a mask, your face becomes one. Paint your face goth-pale for a strong dramatic effect. Tradition holds that witches can communicate with the dead, so the vampire-like effect creates an impact. Experiment with darker, dramatic lipstick shades, either blood-red or near-black. Darken your eyebrows and dramatize their shape with an exaggerated arch or by extending them outward and up toward your temples. Give your eyes plenty of drama with black mascara or false eyelashes, eyeliner, and eye shadow in smoky, mysterious shades.
Make Yourself Sparkle
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In movie special effects, magical events have a sparkle and glow. Display your confidence in your personal magic by strategically sprinkling a bit of glitter over yourself. You might choose your hair, your eyes, your costume, or anywhere you want people's eyes to alight; but don't overdo it, a little goes a long way.
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Add a Scary Creature
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Witches have a special affinity with nature, even those creatures most people find a bit scary. Buy a tall, pointed witch's hat, then add a spider's web complete with a fake spider from the party decoration section of the store. Or you can use body paints to create a snake twining around your neck, its tail emerging from your plunging neckline. If your witch relates more to feathers than scales, you can paint the suggestion of raven feathers along your cheekbones and outside the brow line as if you were just beginning to transform into winged form.
Accessorize
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Paint your nails black, dark green or midnight blue, perfect for when you wave your hand to cast a spell. Adorn your fingers with carved silver rings with large gemstones. Wear fishnet stockings or striped tights beneath a witchy black costume. You can wear the traditional pointed hat or be the queen of the coven with a circlet crown holding a crescent moon or an open-winged bat sitting atop your third eye.
Bewitch Your Hair
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Especially if you opt to forgo the hat, complete your look with appropriately unusual hair. You can sprinkle your own hair with glitter or weave toy spiders or bats into your tresses. Or choose a wig, either in black or one that mingles black tresses with violet, blue or red highlights.
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References
- Photo Credit witch image by Wolfgang Zintl from Fotolia.com
