Medusa Makeup

I was never one for wearing makeup despite the great big red birthmark on my forehead. Never really felt the need to conceal anything about my looks so I never learned to apply makeup. 

I'm thinking that skill would have come in handy right about now when I want to do a little makeup effect for my Halloween costume this year. I could go as a ninja as Butterfly and I planned but unfortunately I have to work at the casino that night and cannot conceal my identity with a ninja mask, no matter how awesome it might be. That left me with no time to figure out a cheap and easy costume. 

I had relegated myself to no costume at all this year when I hit upon a wonderful and cool tutorial for snake lips. This, naturally, morphed into being Medusa. Luckily for me the very same girl also made a tutorial for a super cool Medusa makeup look. Bingo. I set about gathering supplies at the dollar store. $20 later I had makeup galore, nail polish and dozens of snakes to put in my hair. 

I decided to practice tonight and try out the tutorial for the eye and lip makeup. Again this was my first time applying makeup EVER so it didn't come out anywhere near what I wanted. 

Makeup for Medusa

Snake lips

You will need netting or lace of some kind, a fluffy makeup brush and lipstick. The girl in the original tutorial utilized a few other items but I wanted to keep it simple. 

Step 1:  place netting over the lips. Note I used fish net stalkings as I had seen this in another tutorial but it didn't work very well. The netting needs to be non-stretchy material to get the right effect. 

Step 2:  using your makeup brush apply lipstick over the netting. Once you peel off the netting you will be left with super cool snake lips. 

I first outlined my lips with a sparkly green lip liner .  

Then applied black lipstick to the inner lip followed by green lipstick to the outer lip. 

It all just got blended together unfortunately. My technique definitely needs work.  Here is how the whole thing turned out with the eye makeup.  

Here is how it should have looked. 

I plan to keep working at it. Wish me luck.