“Scary Doll” – Halloween Glam looks (part 1)

Halloween is just around the corner! And I think the reason why everyone loves it so much is that it gives us the chance to have fun dressing up in costumes! But instead of just buying a pair of devil horns or dressing in black, I decided I wanted a Halloween-glam hair and make-up collection that can inspire you to come up with your own head-turning look.

Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing with you the step-by-step process to get the looks. And for our first, we’ll do a “Scary Doll”!

“Will you play with me?”

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To make the project possible, I called in a lot of talents from the industry. For hair, freelance stylists Borge Aloba and Raymond Santiago volunteered to do two looks each. For make-up, four artists from Shu Uemura came together. And for styling, I’m super excited that Stylebible‘s Nikki Santiago agreed to do two looks, while Marie Claire’s former fashion editor Pam Quiñones would do the others. Photography was done by Pranz Kaeno-Billones.

Since I’ve never handled a shoot before, let alone transform models into monsters, I asked my office mates to be the volunteers (at least I think they’ll forgive me if something bad happens hehehe).

The volunteer for the first look, my office mate Caro Pan.

Make-up

For the make-up, Grace wanted to make everything doll-like and sweet by using lots of pink and light colors. But it will be contrasted by a creepy black mascara running down the eyes like a crying possessed toy.

To start off, apply Shu Uemura UV Underbase all over the face and then let it set.

Apply the foundation (Shu Face Architect 754) evenly and set with loose powder.

Apply the white eyeshadow all over the lid and then add silver eyshadow on top of it (both from the Shu Tsumori Chisato Holiday pallete).

Line the eyes with a black eye-liner to make the eyes look bigger.

Get a round brush and apply pink blush-on with a circular motion on the apple of your cheeks.

Put big false eye lashes on top as close as possible to your real eye lash, and small false lashes on your lower lid.

Apply pink lipstick

Get a fan brush (or a small mascara wand) and apply black waterproof mascara from the lower lid down to your cheeks to get the effect of black tears. Apply some clear gloss to make it look like you just cried.

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Hair

For the hair, Borge wanted to make Caro into a blond doll with wild curly hair but without using bleaching or permanent coloring products. He also didn’t use any hair extensions.

To start, spray L’Oréal Professionnel Hot Style Constructor all over the hair to protect it against heat-styling.

Borge used a double-curling iron, which isn’t very commonly seen. This created a unique S-shaped curl compared to the usual O-shapes.

Keep curling the hair. Note that Borge is wearing a glove as the iron is tricky to use and you might accidentally touch the hot metal.

Wild curves made by the iron. Now run your hands through it to mess it up.

Use a strong hold hairspray like Tecni.Art Air Fix to keep the hair’s shape in place.

Tease the hair by combing the curly strands toward the scalp. This creates a very wild messy look. And don’t worry, all of this will return to normal after washing.

To emphasize the doll face more, Borge tied-up the bangs and crown upward.

Now its time to make Caro’s dark hair turn blond!  Borge uses temporary hair color sprays bought in local stores. Undercoat first with white.

Next layer is brown!

Finally, spray gold-yellow to create highlights and dimension to the hair.

All done! Now time for the clothes and the shoot!

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Styling

Nikki and the Stylebible.ph crew completed the look with the following clothes and accessories!

Dress from Sassa Jimenez
Shoes from Carlos Santana at What Shoe Wearing
Fur stole from Ac+632
Necklace from Religioso
Bracelet from the stylist’s own

The fox is way cooler and chic than a boring teddy bear!

It looks great in black and white too!

And we’re done!!! Whoo hoo!!! Again, one big thanks to the following people who made it all possible!

Hair: Borge Aloba of L’Oréal Professionnel

Make-up: Grace Deang of Shu Uemura

Styling: Nikki Santiago and the Stylebible.ph

Photographs: Pranz Kaeno-Billones

Special thanks to Arlene Sy for teaching me new things about editing and fine-tuning my entries

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s second look!