This year’s dressing up Halloween trend is one that I can totally get into–Sugar Skulls are in all the hot costume and party trend this year. The skulls themselves are from the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos that is celebrated on November 1st by the latin american community. Nicole from Tikkido did a fabulous themed party with Dia de los Muertos several years ago when we published Festivities Magazine that is full of inspiration! The beauty of a sugar skull costume is that it is are pretty easy to put together on the cheap, especially if you have some great paints to work with, like the ones from Tulip Body Art! #TulipBodyArt #FacePaintHOA This post is part of the CraftyHangouts.com Halloween series.
I’ve got a friend who is a professional face painter, and these nontoxic, cosmetic-grade paints are pretty close to the super high-end paints she uses at her job. They are really pigmented and go on smoothly and evenly but still wash off easy with soap and water. To make our sugar skull face, we used a combination of the shimmer paints and the neon & black light paints…and it was pretty fun to see our skull glow in the dark once we found a black light!
Tulip also has a neat glitter tattoo set you can get crazy creative with! A sugar skull with a little more glam and glitter would be pretty fabulous.
After painting up our model’s face with Tulip paints, I added a headband with some dollar store flowers glued to it and a plain black dress she already owned to complete the outfit. Super easy! See the how-to tutorial in my YouTube video below.
Abby Davis
Sunday 26th of October 2014
This is gorgeous! You did a fabulous job!
Erin
Saturday 25th of October 2014
Great job, I can't decide if I should let my daughter try this out or if I should just try it out on myself! :)
Paula
Sunday 26th of October 2014
We went (adults) with sugar skull paint last night to a trunk or treat--it was really fun!
Susan Noble
Thursday 16th of October 2014
What a GREAT TUTORIAL love it and GREAT JOB MADDIE beautiful model! Paula your amazing!
Paula
Wednesday 22nd of October 2014
Thanks, Susan! Maddie did enjoy herself on this one!