I Go All Out With Halloween Makeup Every Year, Here Are 13 Crazy Looks

Can you tell this is a model and a friend I work with all the time? Yes, it’s Alex again! I recommend taking a closer look at this picture, because I sculpted so many bizarre little details for it. There’s the skull cherry, the lashes with bows, the collar made with teeth, and strawberries with eyes. The tongue nails were especially unsettling, even I was grossed out while making them, haha. And of course, the cupcake creatures with eyes and tongues. Honestly, I lost count of how many tongues I sculpted for this shoot; they even ended up in the background!

THIS was such a passion project, and it brought me so much joy to hand-sculpt this angler fish piece. We all know the part in Finding Nemo when the angler fish appears, so I couldn’t resist sculpting a little Nemo hanging from a fishing line for the shoot. How ironic, hehe! The model is my boyfriend again, rocking colorful makeup, and I also painted the backdrop with acrylics and airbrush to mimic an underwater atmosphere. The angler fish headpiece includes LEDs in the little bulb and along its back, shimmering in shades of blue, turquoise, and purple.

It’s my boyfriend again for the (almost) yearly skull look I create on him! I love making intricate skull masks, and I also design them regularly for wrestler Malakai Black. This particular black skull mask is completely hand-sculpted. To complete the look, I also made sculpted shoulder pieces. For the shoot, I built an LED background, actually, two layers of background. The first had black and green swirls, and the second was a circular frame placed in front. I added a green LED to shine onto the swirls, making them glow beautifully. No post-editing here, everything is done in real life. No AI in this household, haha! I also created this gown, sewing on every single coin by hand with needle and thread. And do you see the scales? One holds a feather and the other a heart. The feather represents lightness, truth, and purity, while the heart symbolizes humanity and emotion. Together they play on the idea of balance, an eternal weighing of soul versus spirit.

It’s me again! I created this look a few years ago, making these huge foam horns and giving them a cool oxidized copper finish, my favorite color-wise. I did the makeup myself, and this stunning photo was taken by Sanne van Bergenhenegouwen.

I still think this is a really cool picture! It’s me as the model again. The Medusa headdress was a lot of work. Every little snake head was hand-sculpted individually. The finished headpiece ended up being quite heavy, too!

Even though it’s a little hard to see here, this is Poeka again, absolutely badass as a mythical harpy creature. This costume took me six full-time weeks to complete. Every single feather was hand-cut, and every strand of hair was painted by hand. It was one of the most painstaking projects I’ve ever done with all those feathers!

My boyfriend is a Venus flytrap! I’ve wanted to create this look for a long time, but it kept getting postponed because it was such a complex design in my head, and I wasn’t sure how I’d achieve the shape of the beak. This look was also photographed by me using UV light to make those bright colors really pop. And if you look closely, you can even spot the little fly, Friedrich, in mid-flight!

This is my latest Halloween work! I’ve been creating these flower people for about seven years now, and I still need to make enough for a full calendar. This project is very dear to me. The model is Lara, who started as a model for me and has become a friend. I just love working with her; she is so fierce! For the shoot, I made this flower frame mask from foam and hand-painted every detail. It’s finished with piercings to give that cool goth look. I also created two smaller flowers to give a bouquet-like feel, and if you look closer, you’ll notice those are wearing a harness as well. The spider is completely hand-sculpted and painted. I even made the tiniest harness that acts as its thread, so she can appear to be hanging from it. The spider’s name is Francis.

At first glance, it looks like a spider creature, but look closer and you’ll spot the face! That’s actually my boyfriend, who has modeled for me countless times. I love creating with him; he’s the most supportive partner and a total badass model. Nothing is ever too crazy. For this look, I hand-sculpted the spider face frame. The legs and the tiny face with seven eyes were attached to a frame that fit perfectly around his face. I then did a full face makeup to blend everything into one seamless piece. For the photo, I bought an old picture frame and added some fake spider webs. With his face peeking through the frame, voilà!

It’s Poeka again! I had this craaaazy idea for this shoot. She’s actually lying under my bed here, haha. We have a wooden frame bed, so we removed the mattresses, placed a huge transparent acrylic sheet on the frame, and positioned Poeka underneath. Then we added dirt and leaves on top to make it look like she’s buried. It was SO tricky to get the photos right because the plastic sheet reflected so much light, but I think the end result looks pretty cool! She’s also wearing an antique hand-beaded Victorian shrug from 1890. I made the headpiece and hand jewelry to match this amazing antique fashion.

My dear boyfriend, again for this demon-inspired photoshoot. This one was sooo challenging. After all, I’m not a professional photographer and I don’t have super fancy equipment. I wanted to work with UV light, and it was really tricky to get the colors to pop while still keeping that UV glow visible. The UV swirls you see are actually pieces of plastic, airbrushed with transparent UV paint. This made it look like he was sucking in all the souls muahahah!

Poeka, two times in a row! I told you she’s my most featured model, haha. For this witchy look, I created crystal-like appliqués that were applied directly to her skin.

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