Kid's Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Ghoulish Vampire

Turn your little one into a bloodthirsty vampire for Halloween with our easy-to-follow makeup tutorial.

Vampire Halloween Costume

Turn your teen into a bloodthirsty vampire for Halloween with our easy-to-follow makeup tutorial.

By: Traci Hines, Becky Sapp, and Jason Amos

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Materials Needed:

sponge
white base (foundation or creme makeup)
white or light powder
powder puff or brush

eye shadow (colors: brown, black, gray, red, pink)
eyeliner (dark brown or black)
stage blood
vampire fangs

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Vampire Halloween Makeup

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Our easy makeup tips will turn any kid or adult into a horrifying Halloween vampire quicker than you can say 'boo!'

Apply White Base and Powder

Cover entire face with a white or pale base and dust with powder to set it and remove any sheen.

Dust entire face with powder to set face makeup and remove any sheen.

Covering Face With Pale Makeup

Cover entire face with a white or pale base.

Brushing Face With Powder

Dust entire face with powder to set face makeup and remove any sheen.

Shade Skin

To achieve an undead look, shade hollows of cheeks, under chin, around nose and under eyes. Use blending brushes and eye shadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken. This also enhances and sharpens features.

Shade under eyes by blending with brushes and eyeshadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken in.

Shade under eyes and hollow of cheeks by blending with brushes and eyeshadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken in.

Shade under chin by blending with brushes and eyeshadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken in.

Applying Eyeshadow Under Eyes

Shade under eyes by blending with brushes and eyeshadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken in.

Shading Around Eyes With Brown Eyeshadow

Shade under eyes and hollow of cheeks by blending with brushes and eyeshadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken in.

Applying Eyeshadow Under Chin

Shade under chin by blending with brushes and eyeshadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken in.

Shading Under Eyes With Eyeshadow

Shade under eyes by blending with brushes and eyeshadows in brown, gray, pink and red shades to make skin look sickly and sunken in.

Darken Eyebrows

Darken eyebrows with brown or black shadow or liner. Tip: Make the arches more severe for a villainous look.

Darkening Boy's Eyebrows With Dark Eyeliner

Darkening Eyebrows With Brown Eyeliner

Darken eyebrows with brown or black shadow or liner. Tip: Make the arches more severe for a villainous look.

Add Blood and Fangs

Stop here to be a ghoul, but continue on with the final step to turn this look into a full-fledged vampire. Add stage blood at edges of the mouth, letting it run down the chin (Image 1). Tip: Let blood drip all the way down the neck if you have a flair for the dramatic. Finish the look with vampire fangs (Image 2).

Adding Stage Blood by Mouth

Stop here to be a ghoul, but continue on with the final step to turn this look into a full-fledged vampire. Add stage blood at edges of the mouth, letting it run down the chin. Tip: Let blood drip all the way down the neck if you have a flair for the dramatic.