Many of you may already be familiar with Geisha culture, thanks to movies such as, Memoirs of a Geisha. However for those of us who are not.... In Japanese culture, a Geisha, is a woman entertainer and hostess that is skilled in many different areas of the arts. The Geisha culture evolved over time to include the beauty obsessed elite of Japan. Geisha have their own set of beauty ideals that include pail skin and graphic makeup aesthetic. While the look I am sharing with you today is not traditional Geisha makeup, it is bright, colorful, and striking enough to fair well on any Halloween night. I plan to explore traditional Geisha makeup techniques in a future series. I hope you enjoy!
As always, try to use things in your current collection. Switch colors out to suit your costume and get
creative!
the skin:
-First apply a white cream base to your entire face. (NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk)
-Next, set with translucent face powder. (Covergirl True Radiance Face Powder in Translucent)
-Now you will need several different color eye shadows that complement each other. I used a matte orange, a dark purple, and a light iridescent purple.
-First apply one of the colors, I started with the dark purple, to your temple area and blend upwards around the side of your forehead and up over the arch and tail area of your brows.
-With the second color, I chose the matte orange, sweep the shadow all along your cheek bones and leave the apples white.
-Using the last of the three colors, the iridescent purple, blend this over the tops of your cheek bones, and along your brow bone.
(Layering these in such a way should give the look more depth.)
the brows:
-Using a black gel eyeliner, draw in sharp, flat and upturned brows above your natural brow that should be covered with white cream base and shadow at this point. (Lorac Pro Cream Liner in Black)
the eyes:
-Pack a shimmery white shadow all over your lid.
-Second, blend the orange shadow lightly along your lower lashline.
-Next, with the black gel liner draw an exaggerated winged liner taking the wing almost to your hair line. Also you can add the front wings and connect them over the nose as I did for fun if you like. (Lorac Pro Cream Liner in Black)
-Lastly, apply your favorite mascara to the top lashes only. (L'oreal Butterfly Mascara in Blackest Black)
the lips:
-First make sure your lips are whited out with the cream base. (NYX Jumbo Pencil in Milk)
-Next, ignoring your natural lip lines, draw on a smaller bottom lip that is very rounded with a purple lipstick or lip liner. (Maybelline ColorSensational Lipstick in Violet Intrigue)
-Then repeat the same step on the top lip with a red lipstick, making sure to round out your cupids bow. (Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm in Standout)
-Finally, with your finger, apply a dark purple eyeshadow to the inner most part of your "new" lips.
There you have it folks! A colorful, ghostly pale geisha that is perfect for this Halloween! Please send me photos of any recreations your do on social media! Don't forget to hashtag! #iamalizarin
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