The image of a witch is loved by many girls. It fits well into the holiday concept and allows you to realize bold ideas. You can choose the image of an ancient old woman with a hooked nose, or you can become a fatal, mysterious beauty that can turn anyone’s head. Before applying makeup and choosing suitable accessories, you should decide what kind of witch you want to become, and then move on to realizing your idea.
Below you will find ideas for inspiration and creating a witch makeup for Halloween, as well as useful tips, photos and videos.
What you need for DIY Halloween witch makeup at home
If you want to create a spectacular witch makeup for Halloween and at the same time support the theme of Russian folklore, then take a closer look at image of Baba Yaga. Do not forget that she is a lady of respectable age, so the main principle in this makeup is "aging" of the skin. Theatrical makeup will cope with this task, but if it is not possible to purchase it, you can do everything using ordinary cosmetics.
To create the image of Baba Yaga for Halloween you will need:
- foundation;
- powder;
- shades of brown, gray, red, white.
Making a Baba Yaga costume for Halloween is not difficult: her appearance is not particularly neat. Take a long old skirt or dress that can be torn or stained. Put a scarf on your head, from under which the strands will stick out. You can color them with white chalk to create a gray effect.
Step-by-step execution of Baba Yaga's Halloween makeup
Don’t be afraid to embody this image because “aging” your skin seems like a complicated process. This is easy to do, following the scheme described below:
- Apply a tone that is several shades lighter than your natural skin color. Then powder your skin;
- take a thin brush and use brown-gray shadows to draw wrinkles near the nasolabial folds. Using the same colors, draw “bags” under the eyes;
- Wrinkle your forehead and move your eyebrows: draw the resulting folds with shadows;
- Draw a downward arrow with brown shadows - this will “lower” the eyes. Draw the outline of the lips in the same way - their corners should be lowered;
- line your eyes with red shadows - this will create the effect of “tired” eyes;
- Take a wider brush and apply brown shadows to the wings of the nose from the nostrils to create the effect of a hooked nose. Apply shadows in the shape of a triangle to the chin, blend to make the chin visually sharper;
- Apply white shadow to your eyebrows and eyelashes, and apply foundation to your lips.
If you want to make complex makeup, you can build a false nose from theatrical wax or papier-mâché. Also, for the image of Baba Yaga for Halloween, you can make warts from PVA glue and flour with the addition of cocoa so that they look more natural.
Video: step-by-step makeup to create the look of Baba Yaga for Halloween.
The image is fatalwitches for Halloween - step by step instructions
A witch does not have to be old and scary; she can also be a fatal beauty, captivating at first sight. Below are step-by-step instructions for implementing the fatal witch makeup for Halloween:
- The skin of such a witch should be perfect and very pale. Apply foundation to your face, then a light shade. Use concealers to mask all skin imperfections and secure the result with loose powder.
- Apply dark blush to your temples, upper forehead and cheekbones.
- For eye makeup, use bright shadows and liquid eyeliner. You can use glitter and rhinestones.
- Using liquid eyeliner, you can draw a spider web near the outer corner of the eye.
- To embody this look, be sure to use false eyelashes that need to be glued to the upper eyelid.
- Apply lipstick in bright red or plum or burgundy shades to your lips. You can draw a fly above the lip to add more attractiveness to the image.
Video: makeup and hair steps to create a fatal witch look for Halloween.
In addition to makeup, you can complement the image of the fatal witch with a pointed black hat, a dress with a corset or a long robe. Use your imagination and you can charm all your guests.
Maleficent Halloween Makeup
Nowadays, Halloween makeup is becoming increasingly popular not only with witches from fairy tales, but also from films. For example, many try to create the image of Maleficent. The distinctive features of this heroine are:
- long black and purple robe with a high collar;
- headdress with curved horns;
- very pale face with pronounced cheekbones;
- bright eye and lip makeup.
Video: step-by-step makeup of the witch Maleficent for Halloween.
Photo gallery of ideas and images of a witch for Halloween
Below you can explore photos of various witch makeup options for Halloween:
You can see more complex witch makeup below. But with due diligence, it is not so difficult to accomplish!
Video: bright and “terribly beautiful” witch makeup for Halloween from Elena Krygina.
The image of a witch for Halloween can be both beautiful and seductive, and fun. In this case, simple witch makeup is not enough; wigs, silicone extensions, and bright colors will be used:
There are many ideas for creating the image of a witch - you just have to choose: do you want to be an ancient old woman or an attractive woman? Think carefully about the concept so that your costume and makeup complement each other, creating the perfect image.
Video: step-by-step implementation of witch makeup for Halloween.
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Every parent wants to please their children on New Year's holidays not only with gifts, but also to take them to a matinee that immerses them in a fairy tale. In order for a child to really feel like he is among fairy-tale characters, acting skills will not be enough. An important component of the complete picture is professional makeup. Baba Yaga is a complex character who must have an old, angry and scary face. With the help of cosmetics and makeup, a young and attractive woman can be turned into a fabulous Baba Yaga.
Image of an evil old lady
There are many ways to create the appearance of a witch. The main elements of the image are a long and upturned chin. Also, wrinkles, warts, sallow-dirty complexion, disheveled gray hair and eyebrows - all these are integral features of Baba Yaga. Makeup is applied last, after large parts have been sculpted. The skin color should not only be gray and scary, but also emphasize the ancient age of the character.
Creating Basic Elements
Before creating an image and applying Baba Yaga’s makeup, you need to determine what your nose will look like. Then, using gummosis, sculpt a detail corresponding to the appearance of the headstock. Often it is long, hanging down and has a hump. After complete drying, the nose is placed on the actress’s face and glued with a special facial composition made from natural substances that are harmless to human skin. The chin is created from the same material as the previous element and glued to its place using face glue. Its shape has elongated features and an upturned, sharp tip that extends towards the nose.
Applying makeup
Baba Yaga has a swampy complexion, as she constantly lives in dampness and dirt. Therefore, it is advisable to use a gray-green eyeshadow color. But before that, you need to moisturize your face with cream. Then even out the spaces between the natural skin and artificial parts with theatrical makeup. After this, apply several layers of foundation to your face. This Baba Yaga makeup is easy to do at home.
Emphasize wrinkles with shades of green and brown. If you don’t have them, then frown your forehead and eyebrows and cover the resulting folds. Straighten your face, the paint will smear, giving your appearance a scary look. Fill in the wrinkles in the corners of the eyes with brown shadows, moving the arrows down. Repeat the same with the corners of your lips. Red eyeshadow will add a tired look if applied under the eyes. Paint the nose with a dark color, especially thickly outline it. Visually sharpen your chin by drawing a triangle on it and blending the powder a little. Use green blush to cover your entire face, as well as your neck and ears. This way you can do Baba Yaga's makeup at home. You can apply gray hair to your hair using white chalk.
Small parts
Baba Yaga has a lot of nasty warts of different sizes on her face. Most of them are located on the nose and chin, and can also be on the forehead and cheekbones. To create artificial warts, you will need regular wheat flour and PVA glue. From a mixture of these components you need to twist balls and stick them on your face using special glue. You can do this after you have applied your makeup. Then cover them with the same eye shadow color as the face.
Artificial wrinkles can be made from ordinary dry wipes soaked in latex. They are applied to a clean face and, after drying, lubricated again with the latex mixture and smoothed. The effect is amazing; the photo of Baba Yaga’s makeup clearly demonstrates this.
In place of the eyebrows, you can randomly stick pieces of wool of different lengths so that they stick out in different directions. The image of Baba Yaga is emphasized by tousled hair escaping from under the scarf. To do this, comb and dishevel a regular wig, do not forget to whiten the strands, creating gray hair on them.
Modern look
Today, the voluminous flow of information that has overwhelmed children has long replaced the image of the Soviet Baba Yaga. Many of the guys don’t even know what kind of kikimora came out to greet them.
Why not get creative and imagine Grandma Hedgehog in his youth. She wasn't always an old woman. In this case, you will have to work thoroughly with makeup, based on the fact that Baba Yaga’s life is mainly nocturnal, she rarely comes out into the light and hides in the wilderness. Accordingly, the witch’s face is pale and bloodless. To do this, you will need a perfect and uniform skin color. It can be created by using foundation a tone lighter than your complexion, and apply thickly to the skin. Apply shadows of dark burgundy or another color to the moving eyelids and around the eyes and shade them. We also tint the eyebrows with black mascara, clearly drawing the outline. Using liquid eyeliner, you can draw wide arrows pointing upward. Bright red, purple or black lip colors look original. You can draw a large mole, cobwebs, cracks or stains from tears on your face.
Baba Yaga's New Year's celebration can be varied and unique. The main thing is to maintain certain differences in recognition. In this case, the children will be delighted and the holiday will be wonderful.
Nelly Nikolaevna Kostyukova
Target: Creating a bright, impressive image with minimal recognition for students.
Before applying makeup:
After applying makeup:
Makeup progress:
For makeup I used real theatrical makeup:
If you don't have one, you can use regular cosmetic shadows. Remember one rule - before using makeup, apply a rich, nourishing cream to your face so that the paint does not clog too much in the pores (it will be difficult to wash off).
1. Step One: Apply brown eye shadow around your eyes to create a sunken eye effect. Paint over your natural expression lines around the eyes, nose and lips:
2. Shade the sides of the bridge of the nose and highlight the top. The edges must be carefully shaded so that the transition from light to dark is less noticeable (to give naturalness). This way you will get a thin and long nose.
3. Then you need to lighten the upper cheekbones and darken the cheek hollows. Carefully blend the color transitions.
Make the remaining parts of the face: chin, forehead, lips pale brown, carefully look at all the nuances and shade all the color transitions, achieve maximum naturalness.
Add costume details - the image is ready!
Acting is something that no good film or theater production can do without. More than half of the final reaction of the viewer to the film depends on the performance of the actors. An actor’s ability to get used to the role is important, but it’s hard to imagine, for example, a girl in the role of the Minotaur or a handsome man playing Anna Karenina, isn’t it? The above cases, of course, represent a real hyperbole (exaggeration), however, for example, a young man can easily play an old man, and an older woman can play a fifteen-year-old girl. In moments of such need, it takes on special significance. A qualified, experienced specialist can easily cope with tasks such as aging a face with makeup or giving a fifty-year-old actress the look of a teenage girl. There are many ways to artificially age a person, and some of them will be discussed below.
Old man makeup
The main components that the viewer pays attention to are the actor’s face, hair and hands. This is not surprising, because the rest of the actor’s body is most often under clothes. And if the hair issue is easily resolved (a wig or, at worst, you can even re-dye your hair), then special old-age makeup will help to present your skin in the right light. 
The idea is based on a slight change in skin color and the creation of artificial wrinkles on it - main signs of aging. In Russian film and theater production, paper napkins soaked in latex are often used. The principle of application is breathtakingly simple: a moistened napkin is applied to the skin, and after drying, it is again moistened with latex, and then smoothed onto the skin with some effort. The chemical effect, supported by physical action, leaves clearly visible wrinkles on the hands or face, which, however, disappear the next day. 
The color that the old man envisions, firstly, does not have a specific expression: skin varies, and secondly, it is achieved in a huge number of ways: from gouache to special tights of a certain color. However, the devil is in the details. Forgetting to cover the actor’s temples or mustache with light gray hair, or not applying makeup evenly enough to the face, the would-be make-up artist risks both destroying the performance and losing his job.
Women's old makeup
If the situation with men is not so difficult, then aging a woman sometimes becomes a serious problem: the physiological characteristics of women's skin make the task somewhat more difficult. In addition, women change more with age than men, and therefore the make-up artist has an order of magnitude more work. However, you shouldn’t be upset: the work is difficult, but not impossible. 
To make the story about how to make an old woman’s makeup more clear, let’s take as an example a familiar image to all of us from childhood - Baba Yaga.
Make-up of Baba Yaga with your own hands
The most complex and at the same time recognizable element of Baba Yaga’s image is her nose. Creating a long, hooked, narrow old lady nose is half the battle. The first thing you need to do is mold this nose. This is done using specialized theatrical makeup. In principle, you can add the shape and some details like warts at your discretion, but you shouldn’t overdo it here, as in any other matter, because excessive emphasis on the details of the image can distract the viewer from the main thing - the acting. Well, let's assume that your nose turned out great. Now it needs to be glued to where it will be throughout the entire performance - on the actress’s face. 
This is done with the help of a special facial glue, which is based only on natural substances that are harmless to humans. The glue is applied to the nose with neat strokes (and in no case to the actress’s face), after which it is attached to the real nose of the future Baba Yaga. The nose is glued, the next step is to apply makeup to the glued area. Perhaps, for an experienced make-up artist, these words will seem like a long-known truth, but we sincerely hope that experienced make-up artists in our country do not need to read introductory articles like this. 
The makeup is applied with smooth movements from the nose to the gluing line and beyond. You seem to be “covering up” the junction. The end result should be as natural as possible. After creating the nose, you should move on to the chin. Baba Yaga's chin is known to be sharp and pointing upward - that's all you need to know. The degree of sharpness and other factors in the appearance of the chin are at your discretion. It should be remembered that one of the important elements of our heroine’s appearance is an abundant number of warts. They can be stuck in large quantities from a mixture of PVA glue and regular food flour. The resulting balls are quite easily molded onto a face covered with makeup using the skin glue already mentioned in the article. It is worth noting that the color of the warts must absolutely match the overall color scheme of the face. 
A little advice: In order for Baba Yaga to look as intimidating as possible, a good solution would be to use gray-green shadows, and not only when working with the eyes. The general swampy complexion of the villainess will perfectly contribute to her by no means noble image. Of course, there is also work for prop managers - the stupa is an indispensable attribute of a real Baba Yaga. An even bigger advantage is the presence on stage of a hut on chicken legs, and a voluminous hut looks much cooler, rather than a log house hastily drawn on the backdrop. Although, if you need the image of Baba Yaga for personal needs, say, as a quality, then, perhaps, you can get by with a stick and a basket. 
But there is no doubt that the main factor in the success of a theatrical performance is acting. Still, people go to see the actors, not the work. No matter how elegantly the make-up artists do their work, the final touch always remains with those on stage. Attention is drawn to them, extravaganzas are expected from them. Perhaps it is the competent make-up work that will add zest to the already excellent work with the audience. In addition to the article, we have prepared an excellent video tutorial for you, enjoy:
Baba Yaga is a key character in many Russian fairy tales.
The image of the old witch is constantly used in theatrical productions, at children's parties, as well as themed parties.
Sometimes it seems that making Grandma Yaga’s makeup is very simple, but when it comes to it, questions arise. Let's explore all the intricacies of this makeup as much as possible.
5 makeup rules
The purpose of makeup is complete transformation.
The more realistic the makeup is, the more authentic Baba Yaga will turn out.
What nuances should be taken into account:
- The main attraction of Yaga is large hooked nose. It is recommended to make it using papier-mâché or gummosis - skin-safe plasticine. It is possible to contour the nose using theatrical makeup, face painting or makeup products.
- old face always floats down therefore, all expression wrinkles should be visually reduced. The face needs to be given an earthy, unhealthy tone.
- Adds character to the character presence of warts. They can be made using PVA glue and flour.
- Gray and tousled hair is created using a wig or talcum powder. It is possible to use white crayons to color the strands.
- Makeup is applied to the face, neck, décolleté and exposed areas of the arms.
You can learn how to do Little Red Riding Hood’s makeup from ours.
Materials for transformation
To create the image of Baba Yaga at home you will need:
Makeup, gummosis and face glue can be purchased in specialized stores.
Theatrical makeup is usually dry. Sold in sets of 3-12 colors and inexpensive.
If you don't have theatrical makeup or gummosis do not despair! With the help of your regular cosmetics, Baba Yaga's makeup is quite achievable.
Important advice from the editors
If you want to improve the condition of your skin, you should pay special attention to the creams you use. A frightening figure - 97% of creams from well-known brands contain substances that poison our body. The main components due to which all the troubles on the labels are designated as methylparaben, propylparaben, ethylparaben, E214-E219. Parabens have a negative effect on the skin and can also cause hormonal imbalance. But the worst thing is that this nasty stuff gets into the liver, heart, lungs, accumulates in organs and can cause cancer. We advise you not to use products that contain these substances. Recently, experts from our editorial team conducted an analysis of natural creams, where first place was taken by products from Mulsan Сosmetic, a leader in the production of all-natural cosmetics. All products are manufactured under strict quality control and certification systems. We recommend visiting the official online store mulsan.ru. If you doubt the naturalness of your cosmetics, check the expiration date; it should not exceed one year of storage.
Preparation for application
Before applying paint, apply a rich nourishing cream or Vaseline to your face. Otherwise makeup or cosmetics will clog your pores, and it will be very difficult to remove makeup.
In addition, cheap theatrical makeup does not use the most gentle chemicals. The cream will help protect your facial skin from irritation.
Pull your hair into a bun or tie a bandage on your forehead. This will help protect your hair from contamination. Now you are ready to go.
Step-by-step instruction
Baba Yaga's makeup for the New Year - photo:
How to do your own makeup? Using these instructions, you can easily transform into Grandma Yozhka:
- Shape the nose. Large, hooked and with a hump. Decide on size and proportions. Fashion a nose out of gummose and glue it using special glue. To do this, apply glue to your nose, previously lubricated with protective cream, and press the fake one to it. The fitting lines can also be lightly coated with glue for reliability. Make up the joints.
- Shape your chin. The old witch's is sharp and looks slightly upward. We do it similarly to the nose.
- Glue the warts. They can be easily made by mixing PVA glue with flour to a dough consistency. The sculpted warts are simply attached to the makeup. For reliability, you can use glue.
- Apply foundation. Only after the applied parts have dried! The cream is applied with a sponge or brush to the entire face, masking blemishes.
- Shade a creepy and terrible face. Use gray-green paints or shadows for the entire face. A swampy or earthy tint adds gloominess.
- "Press" the eyes. Outline the eyes with brown shadows to make them visually sink.
- Draw deep wrinkles. Use a black or other dark pencil to deepen your expression lines. You can make an angry face and draw the resulting wrinkles.
- Create a nose. If you haven't shaped your nose using special tools, now is the time to draw your nose. Use dark colors to shade the sides of the nose and lighten the bridge of the nose. You can also pre-draw the shape of the nose and shade the paint with a brush.
- Create your cheekbones. Likewise. Cheekbones are brightened and cheeks are shaded.
- Do your eyebrows. There are two options: darken your eyebrows with a pencil, or make them gray using a camouflage pencil and light shadows.
Remember that the old face floats down. Direct the lines towards the neck. Decorate your forehead with longitudinal grooves.
As a result, you have a real Baba Yaga. Left make gray hair.
The secret of gray hair
Talc or white flour without impurities gives gray hair. They wash off well with shampoo and do not harm the hair.
Rub the powder into the hair roots using your hands or wrist. Baba Yaga usually wears a scarf on her head. Therefore, most likely, root treatment will be enough. Otherwise, pour talc into your hands and spread throughout your hair.
Errors in image creation
If you take into account all our recommendations, you will not make mistakes in Baba Yaga’s makeup. The main mistake– applying makeup only to the face. In addition to your face, cover your ears, neck, décolleté and exposed areas of your arms with foundation.
Creating an image – it's a creative process. And here your flight of imagination is unlimited. The main thing is to use gentle products specially created for the face and be sure to apply some other cream first.
Modern steel granny
Grandmother Yaga has been known since ancient times.
If earlier she was dressed in rags and darned things of dark colors, now it can be modernized and added glamor:
- tie a bright scarf around your head;
- tint your lips with bright lipstick and create some provocation of beauty;
- add decorations to your Yagina, because it’s not only Koschey who languishes over gold;