Butterfly Skull Makeup
by MsMaoMaoz in Craft > Costumes & Cosplay
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Butterfly Skull Makeup
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Hey guys! I'm here with a new Instructables, and this one is a butterfly skull. It would really help me out if you liked the video and maybe shared it as this is an entry into a contest. =) Thanks for all your support and I'll see you in my next post! Youtube.com/msmaomaoz Please subscribe to help support me! <3
Set Up
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To start off I had a clean primed face, then I took a glue stick and put that on my brows to make sure they were flat and ready to paint over, I also had on a wig cap. After that I took a white eyeliner pencil and outlined the 'crack' of the skin to the skull and also the shape of the skull.
Skull Base
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I then took this lavender colored body paint from Mehron and I put it on where the skull is going to be.
Black
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Using a black body paint from Mehron I put that in the hollows of my face. That would be my temple, eye, and nose. I also used a detail brush to add any fine lines and cracks.
Shadow
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I need to shadow around the skull and to do this I used two darker purple shadows to start off. I also made sure to shadow where the skin and the skull meet to make sure it looked like the skull was sitting under the skin. I then took a tad bit of black eyeshadow to deepen up the shadows even more.
Teeth
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Taking a white body paint I used it to make the teeth for the skull.
Fill In
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Taking that black body paint I filled in the cheek hole
Teeth Detail
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I used black eyeshadow to shadow around the teeth, and I took purple and black eyeshadow to deepen up the gum section.
Pink
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to add a little more color I added some pink shadow around the skull.
Other Side
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I took a foundation and put it on then set it with translucent powder.
Outline
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I used the white eyeliner to outline the eye look witch it going to be a butterfly wing. I used a reference photo to help me.
Base
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For the base of the wing I used dark purple and light purple body paint.
Base of Lid
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For the base of the lid I used a white jumbo pencil from NYX.
Detail
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For some detail lined I used some black body paint and a small brush.
Pink and Detail
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I put some pink on the lid then used a black liner to make a wing and added some dots on my inner corner .
White Body Paint
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I used the white body paint to add dots on the wings and some other little details
Lips
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I put on some nice pink lipstick.
Random Face Stuff
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I contoured my cheeks and added blush.
Drips
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I decided to take some black body paint and add drips under the eye.
Shadow
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To make it look even more like the skin was pooping up I added a shadow around the crack.
Body Start
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I used the white eyeliner to map out the crack on my neck.
Fill It In
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I used the purple to fill in the bones, and black to fill in the rest.
Shadow
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Using the same to purple shadows and black shadow I shadowed around that neck hole.
Hole
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I filled in a black hole on my chest where the butterflies are coming from then I used brown shadow to create the lifted skin look
Butterfly
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I used lash glue to attach the butterflies