How to apply make-up for ghost costume??

Hey guys! Need a bit of help! I want to try and make a pretty realistic looking ghost costume for halloween. I have the clothes and all, but Im having trouble with the make-up... I need to try making a white face, but not super bright white like with actual face paint... I tried baby powder but it just wont hold, it just fades into the skin... Anyone got other ideas??? I dont want to go buy anything, so homemade is prefered. I also want to make my face look a lil bit dirty and bruised... I got make-up for the bruising effect, but how can I make my face look slightly dirty mixed in with white as the main background of the face??? Thanks a LOADS! (btw, would need to also hold on arms and not just face)


hope to get lots of answers ^^


Seeya!


FynixHow to apply make-up for ghost costume??
For this particular look, it may be easiest to go out and buy a Halloween makeup kit. That'll include quite a bit of white or grayish-white cream base, and you'll need that for all or most of your visible skin. If that won't work for you, try theatre makeup companies like Ben Nye to get your hands on exactly what you need.





Most regular drugstore and department store cosmetics lines won't have exactly the right white shade available (as all naturally fair-skinned girls have probably discovered over and over again in their search for the perfect shade).





[edit]Face


Once you have your face makeup picked out, apply that to your whole face and neck (if visible). The rest of your Halloween ghost makeup is in the details. Sponges work better than fingers or foundation brushes for this type of application.





Skip the rouge completely. Even if you're a ghost bride, you won't be blushing at all. If you feel like you want to sculp your face for a harsher look, you can use a matte gray shadow and swipe it under your cheekbones, on the sides of your nose, around your jaw line, and near your hairline. This is basically the same technique used to warm your face up with bronzer, but you're cooling it off to look ghastly instead.





[edit]Eyes


Since ghosts stay up all night walking the halls and rattling chains, and facial and eye creams won't work on them; they're bound to have dark circles under their eyes. You can use two shades of gray here, a navy blue and gray, or gray and black. It's up to you.





Using an eye shadow brush (the application doesn't have to be too precise, so any fluffy brush should do), put the darker color under your eye in the inner corner. Blend that out and down. On the outer corner, add the lighter color and blend in (to meet the dark color) and down.





If you want to add dimension to your eyes, use a black liner along the upper and lower lash lines. Unless you just want to be the sexy ghost on the block with cat eye liner, try to make the line thicker in the middle of the lid to give a more rounded appearance to the eye.





[edit]Lips


Black, blue, deep burgundy鈥攁ny of those lip colors will do. You could even opt for a nude lip color like MAC Myth and tone it down and cool it off further with a blue-tinged gloss or lipstick on top. If all else fails and you really want your lips to disappear, use a very light concealer.





Want lips that appear cracked? Use a concealer with a dry consistency. Or a matte lipstick in a nude shade. If you don't apply chapstick or exfoliate lips first, they tend to give the look of a dry, chapped mouth without any special effects skills needed