La Catrina

I know its after Halloween but still I am going to post this.  I saw on Pinterest the coolest way paint your face.  It is called La Catrina or Sugar Skull.  In Mexico they celebrate the Day of the Dead not Halloween and it is really popular to paint your face like this.

 When I saw it on Pinterest I had to try it.  I had seen the La Catrina figurines when I was in Mexico, but I had never seen some one paint there face like it.  I looked at a lot of pictures before deciding on a style and I watched a really helpful you tube video as well.

This really helped me out as far as having a basic idea of how to apply and design.

At first I went out and just bought your typical Halloween face make up that you would get from a Halloween store.  I got the white creme make up to make you look really pale and then I got the black creme make up.  I got a few different colors in the crayon style applicator of face paint make up.  I thought this would all be great. It was what I had used before to make myself look like a witch or a zombie for Halloween   However when I got started on this project using this make up, it turned out totally disastrous!

The creme make up was not going on smooth at all and it dried super quick! It would crack when I smiled and it looked really sheer in spots and heavy in others.  I tried my best to keep going and make it work with the other make up but I just ran into problem after problem.  I could not make the designs with any of the Halloween store make up.  My black eyeliner pencil did not go on well at all.

I was SO frustrated and really put out about it.  So I washed it all off, jumped in my car and ran to Walmart.  I bought a Cover Girl liquid foundation in the absolute palest color I could find.  I bought Wet N Wild creme make up pencils in different colors.  I bought some orange creme eye shadow and basically just got normal make up but in crazy colors.  Then I went and I bought some white powder.  Yes white.  If you go to Hot Topic you can by a compact of face make up just like you would get a compact of face make up at the grocery store, in your skin tone, but at Hot Topic you can get it in stark white.

So I went home and I used wedges to put on the Cover Girl liquid concealer.  I put it all over my face and my neck.  Then I took my Hot Topic white powder and I applied that all over my face and neck.  In the exact way you would apply your daily foundation.  Since I was using normal make up this time I did not worry about avoiding my eye area. I went right over it.  I followed the same steps as in the video I shared  I just used everyday make up instead.  I used creme eye liner to line my lids and around my orbital area then filled it in with a creme black eye shadow. It worked so much better. Then for fun I put gold shimmer powder on top for dimension.  After I got all of that on I just stared at picture after picture and referred to that youtube video and just got creative with application.  All I used where different colored creme eye shadows and eye liners.  It worked out GREAT.  I would have to constantly wipe off my eye liner pencils because the white powder would come off on it but that was fine.  I should have sharpened the pencils  more, it would have helped keep everything more defined and smooth looking.

This whole process took me an hour and a half because I was not sure how I wanted to do the designs and I kept staring at pictures.  In the end this is what it ended up looking like.

I put on fake eyelashes too, they really topped this look off.  Again all I used was normal make up aside and from the Hot Topic white face powder compact, I got everything at Walmart.  Once I got going I just played around and went over lines with different colors to add dimension.  I loved this project.  I wore it to school for Halloween and it got a lot of attention and compliments.  HOWEVER in my opinion do not use the typical Halloween make up and  brushes.  They did not work AT ALL!! Do what I did and just use all the fun crazy colors of make up at your local grocery store.