Supplies for Scary Clown Makeup

Series Summary

Clowns have been bringing joy to children before time began. Even in the Dark Ages, court jesters would put on makeup and entertain the royal children while their parents sent other children out to fight in the crusades. However, in recent history, this time honored role of the clown as joy giver has been threatened, by the attack of evil killer clowns. These joy stealers have been known to come out in hords near the end of October to steal the smiles off of children's faces...and get candy from people's doorsteps. That's right, like no other holiday, Halloween has a profound talent for taking what is fun, innocent and beautiful and turning it into something scary, evil, and tacky.

In this free video series, watch as professional makeup artist Matt Cail teaches how to do scary clown makeup for Halloween. In this step by step makeup lesson learn how to apply the base paint, how to add triangles and fake blood, and really turn clowns into an evil thing. Take a walk down horror lane and pay tribute to IT and John Wayne Gacy Jr. thanks to the help of the experts at ExpertVillage.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make scary clown makeup for Halloween. As we take the first step down the road of creating our evil clown, we need to make sure and have all of supplies in order. First, we're going to have all our brushes. For the brushes we're going to need both the larger wider brushes to apply larger areas of makeup with, as well as the finer tipped brushes for additional detail work. In addition, I suggest having a couple of q-tip applicators on hand. These are basically very similar to q-tips. They're a little sharper and they're also used to apply makeup. you can also use q-tips as well. A lot of people are better able to use these because of familiarity with q-tips. In addition, if you buy makeups in the stores, you're going to get lots of brushes like this, which have kind of a soft side and a bristle end. These are pretty good, but I personally prefer both the q-tips and also the other brushes more so. They're just better for fine details. Next, we're going to have various colors of makeup. We're going to have black grease makeup, which they sell in tubes in most stores. You're going to have a white base makeup, which is really good for putting on a base layers of colors. We're also going to have a black makeup pen to outline some shapes. Also, clowns are colorful, so we're going to have some other colors in here outside of just black and white. We're going to have some red in our clown. Actually, a lot of red. We're also going to be throwing in some blue as well. We may actually use a couple of these other colors as well. I may throw in the orange a little, but again, it's just hints at this point. We're also going to have a couple of our sponges to help apply the makeup, a smaller triangular one and a large cylindrical one. Again, to apply the wider areas of makeup."