Day of the Dead Makeup
Are you planning to celebrate Dia de los Muertos with calavera makeup? It's a traditional part of the celebrations today, and whether paired with costume or worn alone, it's as much fun as it is symbolic. Our Day of the Dead makeup collection is here to help you create a sugar skull makeup appropriate for the occasion.
You've probably seen both elaborate, glittering sugar skull makeups and simpler styles. Either are welcome! Which means, whether you consider yourself an expert makeup artist or a beginner, you're good to go. You just need the right tools! We can help get you started.
Whether doing el Catrin makeup or la Catrina designs, you'll want to start with a white foundation—unless you're using a sugar skull temporary tattoo. We offer classic white cream face paints and foundations to ensure you can create a smooth base. Try a Mehron skeleton makeup character kit for extra guidance on how to get the right skull shaping, along with a few tools and additional colors for shading.
With a base set, it's time to decorate. A black liner pencil is a great tool for defining the shapes you'll add to your sugar skull design. But sugar skull makeup, as the name may have you assume, isn't black-and-white. Sugar skull makeup is as colorful as the sugar skull sculptures placed on ofrenda, so you'll want a rainbow color or two, too!
Add florals to your look with brighter shades perfect for marigolds, dahlias, camellia, and roses. You'll find fuchsia, purple, and green right here to shape petals and leaves. Meanwhile, our full base paint and cream collection offers blues, yellows, and more to perfect your bouquet. Pair the florals with scallops around eyes and create flourishes under drawn webs or at the corners of skeleton smiles.
Give your sugar skull more definition with skin-safe accessories. A pair of false eyelashes suit la Calavera Catrina and her fancy clothing perfectly! Meanwhile, self-adhesive face jewels incorporate a bit of the rhinestones seen on sugar skull sculptures without complicating your makeup design. Face glitter makeup can offer the same sparkle with even less fuss—shop our collection to add the festive accent to your look!
Before you race off to put your excitement and new makeup collection to work, be sure you have just a few more essentials. Shop sponges, stencils, and more in our complete makeup collection. And be sure to grab a setting spray like Mehron barrier spray to help your costume hold through the celebrations. Now, off you go! Enjoy your Day of the Dead creating and celebrations!
