Witch Makeup Tutorial: Create A Cute But Scary Look In Easy Steps

Who said witches can’t look cute and glamorous? The spooky season shouldn’t be a reason to pass on chic and style. Ditch those typical and cliche avatars, and switch on your glamorous witch face with our step-by-step Halloween makeup guide. From expressing your personal style to bringing a bit of oomph to the table, let your witch makeup go from spooky-cute to absolutely terrifying in no time.  

 

Whether you’re up for a costume party or in it for the thrill of Halloween, the right witch makeup ideas can elevate your outfit and capture the spirit of the season. Dive into this tutorial for the essentials of eye makeup, face makeup, and lip makeup, and put everybody under your spell. 

Eye Makeup Tutorial

Once you’re well versed with the basics, you can experiment with the strokes and colours to personalise your witch makeup ideas. Simply follow the step-by-step tutorial for your Halloween makeup and make tweaks along the way. 

Step 1: Prep Your Eyes

Even in the spooky season, starting makeup without a primer is way too scary. Make sure you apply a good coat of a dewy or matte primer on your eyelids before starting your witch makeup for the eyes. 

 

Our recommendation: Fit Me Primer 

Step 2: Base layer

Like your face makeup, your Halloween makeup for the eyes needs a base layer too. Dot your eyelids and under eyes with some concealer or a neutral eye shadow to create an even tone of the skin. This will help you with a blank slate for your witch makeup, allowing the colours to stand out. 

 

Our recommendation: Maybelline New York Super Stay Lumi Matte Foundation 

Step 3: Colour the Crease

Now is the time to be decisive about your Halloween witch outfit. Once you know what you’re wearing you can narrow down eyeshadow shades to create a perfect colour palette. Try opting for deep, iridescent colours. Combine your purples, blues, and goldens for a hued witch makeup look. On the other hand, you can pick reds, greens, and smokey black colours if you want to opt for a monochrome Halloween look. Start colouring your crease with your eyeshadow shade and blend it inward. Follow our two-tone eyeshadow tutorial for blending techniques.  

 

Our recommendation: The Nudes Eyeshadow Palette, City Mini Eyeshadow Palette - Central Park Brights, City Mini Palette - Rooftop Bronze 

Step 4: Shadow the Outer Corner

It’s time to add drama to your witch face makeup. With two tones on your eyelids already, grab your third shade and apply it on the outer corner of your eye. Make sure you choose the black eyeshadow or the darkest show of your colour palette for this step of your witch makeup. If the witch makeup ideas seem a bit too much, stick to the classics and go for the timeless smokey eye for your Halloween makeup. 

Step 5: Highlight

Now it’s time to look into the inner crease of your eye. Grab your highlighter makeup and dab the shimmer in the inner corner of your eyelids for a pop of colour. Use your fingertips or a flat eyeshadow brush to precisely finesse your witch makeup. 

 

Our recommendation: Facestudio Master Chrome 

Step 6: Eyeliner

If you want to keep things simple, simply choose a black or coloured eyeliner to add a dramatic winged liner to your witch makeup. If you want to keep things creative, try your hands at drawing cobwebs, bats, spiders, or even edgy horns with your eyeliner. A few mistakes with your witch makeup are completely okay, as long as they’re not too spooky.  

 

Our recommendation: Tattoo Studio Smokey Gel Pencil 

Step 7: Lashes

Halloween makeup is not the time or opportunity to stay subtle. It’s the one time of the year to go all out and that’s what your lashes must do. Apply lifting, and curling mascara to add full and flirty lashes. Mascara is a great element to balance the cute and scary line of your witch makeup idea. 

 

Our recommendation: Hypercurl Mascara 

Step 8: Kajal

Kajal is the perfect touch to your Halloween makeup. It comes to aid no matter what. If your eyeshadow makes your lookers appear too small, add some white kajal to your lower lash line. If you want to add more definition to your Halloween makeup, use black kajal instead. 

 

Our recommendation: Colossal Kajal Super Black 

Face Makeup Tutorial

With eye makeup taken care of, it’s time to create a perfect contrast using your witch face makeup. The trick is to keep things simple to let your eyes do the treating. 

Step 1: Prime

Just the way you went about your eyes, primer is in order for your witch face makeup too. Add a layer of dewy or matte primer and keep your witch makeup intact all day long. 

Step 2: Base layer

Try to use a lightweight, airy foundation that matches your skin colour. This will help you create a strong base for your witch face makeup. Blend out the foundation smoothly to avoid cakey patches. Add dots of concealer on any blemishes you want to colour. This will inch you closer to an even-tone, porcelain-like witch face makeup. 

 

Our recommendation: Instant Age Rewind Concealer 

Step 3: Contour

Nothing says chiselled cheeks and jutting jaw like a witch! To add an exaggerated effect to your witch face makeup, draw sharp lines along your cheeks and jawlines to get an animated face. 

Step 4: Highlight

With plenty of colour in your eyes and cheeks, try to skip the blush for your face makeup. Dive into the highlighter instead. Sprinkle on slight shine all over to get the exaggerated witch face makeup. 

Step 5: Set it away

With all that going on, it’s vital to set your Halloween makeup. Especially if you intend to take over at night. 

 

Our recommendation: Fit Me Poreless Setting Spray 

Lip Makeup Tutorial

The last bit of your Halloween makeup, your lip witch makeup is absolutely crucial. This part is essential to balance out your exaggerated eye makeup. 

Step 1: Prep Your Lips

Nothing is spookier than flaky lips. And not the cute-spooky. This is why exfoliating your lips and using a lip balm regularly is a must. Try to keep up your lip care to boast baby-soft lips. 

 

Our recommendation: Baby lips lip care 

Step 2: Lip Liner

Just like everything else about your witch makeup idea, your lips have to be defined too. Take a lip liner and overline your cupid’s bow to give it an exaggerated look. Draw broader lines and go beyond the corners of your lips for the infamous witch look. Make sure you use a dark lip liner. 

Step 3: Lipstick

Picking the right shade makes the world of a difference when it comes to pulling off a cute but scary witch look. Depending on the shades you use for the eye makeup, pick purple, black, brown, or red lipstick. 

 

Our recommendation: Super Stay Vinyl Ink Music Collection

 

And there you have it—a completely cute but scary step-by-step witch makeup tutorial! With a Halloween look spelt out for you, it’s time to select the shades. If you’re hesitant to try out all that bold makeup, simply visit Maybelline’s Virtual Try-On tool. Using your camera or a selfie, try out the entire eye and lip makeup collection by Maybelline India. Back it up with your fitting foundation shade using the Foundation Finder Tool. 

 

Don’t forget to accessorise with your witchy gear and a pointy hat! Happy Halloween!