WATCH: Halloween 2024 Is For The Pop Superstars
October 24 | 3 minute watch
Words by Ruby Devlin
Or at least that’s how it goes in my head…
It’s downright spooky that Halloween 2023 was almost 365 days ago, and if you’ve also left your 2024 costume planning to the last minute and are feeling Girl, So Confused, Please, Please, Please do not fret.
We’re serving up three Casual, easy-to-achieve makeup looks, inspired by 2024’s pop It girls that will leave you HOT TO GO! (and not others having to Guess who you’re dressed up as). Hit play!
LOOK ONE: SHORT AND SWEET, INSPIRED BY SABRINA CARPENTER
1. Start with a soft matte, full-coverage base, then make your cheeks pop with a cream blush. To achieve Sabrina’s iconic bright pink, we used Westman Atelier’s Baby Cheeks Blush in 'Poppet'.
2. Use a pencil to lightly define your brows before sweeping a warm brown shadow across your lid. We reached for a combination of ‘Seashell’ and ‘Maple’ from the Too Faced Born This Way The Natural Nudes Eye Shadow Palette.
3. Tap a cream coloured shadow (like ‘Swan’ from the same Too Faced palette) over half your lid and layer with the Half Magic Sparklestik Eye Crayon in 'Champagne Snowflake', bringing the shimmer to your inner corner.
4. Add a small wing with Too Faced’s Killer Liner 36 Hour Waterproof Gel Eyeliner in 'Chocolate', blending lightly with a brush as you go. Then wrap up the eyes with MECCA COSMETICA Enhancing False Lashes.
5. Get your glow on with the Anastasia Beverly Hills Sugar Glow Kit®, before finishing the look with lips! Swipe on the MECCA MAX Pout Pencil in 'Classy', followed by the Too Faced Kissing Jelly Lip Oil Gloss in 'Raspberry'.
LOOK TWO: HOT TO GO, INSPIRED BY CHAPPELL ROAN
1. First, apply a lighter-than-usual base – aim for one to two shades lighter than your usual foundation. Then, reshape your brows with a pencil, focusing on creating a sharp tip towards the front of the brow.
2. Apply Half Magic’s Chromaddiction Matte Eye Paint & Liner in 'We Are Aliens' along the centre of the lid, using a brush to diffuse the colour up and out. Use what’s left on the brush and sweep along the lower lash line.
3. Wing it out and add some depth with the Chromaddiction Matte Eye Paint & Liner in 'Serving Sirens' in the outer corner.
4. No bold eye look is complete without shine. Swipe on your favourite shimmer and don’t forget mascara.
5. Blush it up with a purple-toned shade like Tower28’s BeachPlease Lip + Cheek Cream Blush in 'Party Hour'.
6. Keep your lips lowkey. We used a nude liner and layered under VIOLETTE_FR’s Bisou Balm in 'Calisson'.
7. Finish the look off with a few Half Magic Face Gems to accentuate the shape of the eye and you are H-O-T-T-O-G-O!
LOOK THREE: BRAT SUMMER, INSPIRED BY CHARLI XCX
1. Begin this look with a ‘no-makeup makeup’ base and then sculpt the cheeks with cool-toned contour , adding just a touch of warmth with a brown-toned blush.
2. For the eyes, apply MECCA MAX’s Zoom Shadow Stick Matte in 'Espresso' to the lower lash line and smudge with a brush. Apply to the outer corner too and blend outwards to create a wing, before swiping a little more just above the inner corner. Buff it all out with a taupe shade across the centre of the lid.
3. For a Brat-ty liner look that would make Charli XCX proud, apply Urban Decay’s 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in 'Perversion' along your waterline and smudge.
4. Tap Half Magic’s Glitterpill Glitter Eye Paint & Liner in 'Microcosm' across the whole lid – no need for precision here, just swipe and blend!
5. Define your lips with the M.A.C Cosmetics Lip Pencil in 'Stone' and finish with a coat of their Squirt Plumping Gloss Stick in 'Clear'.
