Get ready for a blast from the past! Decade-themed costumes are incredibly popular for Halloween or other events like decade-themed parties. If you want to embrace your new decade-themed style, let's look at makeup to match! What 20s makeup would you need to look like a flapper? How would you style your makeup to look like a 70s disco queen or an 80s workout icon? Follow along with our handy decade-themed makeup tutorials so you can look like you stepped out of your favorite decade.
1920s Makeup Tutorial
Come, let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mitts—puttin' on the ritz.
1920s Makeup Tutorial Transcript
Welcome to HalloweenCostumes.com. Today, we are going to show you a 1920s makeup tutorial.
Apply a light amount of foundation to your face. Place a plum-colored blush on the tops of your cheeks, curving up toward your brow.
Use a pink eyeshadow from lash to brow bone. Pack in a dark plum eyeshadow on the inner corner up to the brow bone. Carve out a dramatic skinny brow over your natural brow with a gel liner or brow pencil darker than your natural brow color. Today, I'm using a dark brown gel liner. Line the outer corner of the upper and lower lash line.
Set the face with translucent setting powder. Overline the center of the lips, almost creating a heart shape using a dark berry lip stain. Draw on a beauty mark or two using a black liquid liner or eye pencil. Apply a couple coats of black mascara, and before it dries, pinch together a few lashes using a tweezer or your fingers for that doll look. Give yourself a chic side twist, and you're ready to shake your fringe.
1920s Costumes
| Black and Gold Flapper | Plus Size Flapper Dress | Child Black and Gold Fringe Flapper | Elegant Flapper |
If you're taking the time to do your own fabulous flapper makeup, you need a costume to go with it. These flapper dresses were quite scandalous back in the day due to their length—or lack thereof! We have come a long way since the 1920s, but it's hard to deny the vintage appeal. With the right costume and makeup, you can look like you stepped off the set of a silent film.
1960s Makeup Tutorial
I feel nice, like sugar and spice
1960s Makeup Tutorial Transcript
Welcome to HalloweenCostume.com. Today, we are going to show you a 1960s makeup tutorial.
Apply a liquid foundation to your face and neck, including the lips. This was the era of the pale lip. Apply bronzer for that sun-kissed look. Use a bit more than you normally would, as this was also the era of the sun worshipers.
Place a matte white eyeshadow from lash to brow. This will make the matte baby blue that we're about to apply stand out. Place the blue eyeshadow up to the brow bone, leaving just a sliver of skin showing. The sliver of skin on the brow is where we're going to add more of that matte white eyeshadow to make the brow bones stand out. Dust off any eyeshadow fallout with a powder on a big fluffy face brush.
Using a gel liner, draw the natural crease just above where your eye crease is. Put on your favorite pale nude lipstick. Put on a couple coats of black mascara. Using a gel liner, line your bottom lash line and draw in two or three fake eyelashes at the outer corners. Line the top lash line and add a wing. Lightly fill your brows. Be sure not to overfill, as the sixties were known for their skinny brows.
And now you're ready for a groovy time!
1960s Costumes
| Patchwork Hippie Costume | Plus Size Hippie | Kids' Flower Child | Adult Fringe Hippie |
Now that you have your '60s makeup figured out, you need a '60s costume! Two costume ideas from the 60s include hippie costumes and mod dresses. You're likely more familiar with the hippies and their fringed vests and floral prints. Mod fashion saw dresses get shorter, with bold prints, colors, and color block designs. That sounds groovy to us!
1970s Makeup Tutorial
Won't you take me to funky town?
1970s Makeup Tutorial Transcript
Welcome to HalloweenCostumes.com. Today, we are going to show you a 1970s makeup tutorial.
Apply liquid foundation to your face and neck. Go in with a warm bronzer and apply it to the highest points of the face where the sun would naturally hit, like the cheeks and the forehead. Finish off with the leftover bronzer under your jaw and down onto your neck for a seamless blend.
Put on your favorite lip color. The Seventies was all about that shimmery, peachy pink. So, that's what we're using today. In this era, they also like to match their blush to their lipstick. So, I'm also applying a shimmery peach blush to the apples of the cheeks and then blending it into the bronzer. Apply a warm gold eyeshadow all over the lid and crease.
Carve out a cat eye shape with a darker bronze shadow and blend it above the crease. Smudge a black liner into the lash line to give your lashes a fuller, thicker look—dust off any eyeshadow fallout with a little powder on a big fluffy face brush. Put on a couple coats of black mascara. Fill your brows by following their natural shape, using soft hair-like strokes. Comb through your brows with a spoolie to blend and shape.
And you're ready to disco!
1970s Costumes
| Gold Disco Jumpsuit | Plus Size Disco Diva | Girls' Dazzling Disco Costume | Disco Doll |
Disco exploded in the 70s, so you're probably looking for a disco costume to match your 70s makeup. If you wanted to be seen in the club scene, you wore bright, flashy colors or shiny fabrics to catch the light from the disco ball. Transform into a disco diva for the night, and get ready to boogie oogie oogie!
We hope you found these decade makeup tutorials handy! Do you have a favorite decade? What other makeup tutorials would you be interested in? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below. Have a great time at your next costume party!
