(Re)Discover the hottest trends of the ’80s with this easy make-up look. It’s so easy that fits any ’80s Halloween costume and character just by adding more colours and accessories.
I was born in the ’80s when colours run free…
bold “stripes” of blush along the cheeks and way up to the cheek bones and temples, pops of saturated and bright eyeshadows outside the natural V, metallic and glossy lipsticks, wild brows and neon nail polishes. Singers like Cindy Lauper and Madonna wore memorable eccentric looks, other singers and actresses sported these trends in a more ‘ladylike manner’ – think of Whitney Houston and Cybill Sheperd, to cite a few. But the same thing was on the little screen, magazine and daily life… in short, everywhere!
For this look, I’ve exaggerated with my blush. I chose a bold fuchsia tinted blush which lasts for hours and hours without fading; for my lips, I played with moisturizing and iridescent lipcolours and topped them with a metallic eyeshadow. It’s a fun ‘game’ that creates a shifting effect! The eyeshadow – to be ’80s – must to be metallic and, to play safe, it has to be “lipsafe”.
Face:
- (base) Pupa Professional Primer Corrective 02 Green
- Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Fatigue Blur in Warm Apricot
- Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid Foundation in 30 (Sand) and 45 (Miel)
- Pupa Cover cream concealer 004
- Avon True Ideal Flawless concealer in Medium
- Pupa Like a Doll Nude Skin compact powder in 003
- (highlight, contour, colour) Avon True Colour Flawless Mattifying Pressed Powder in Fair
- Pupa Extreme Bronze compact bronzing powder 001
- Pupa Lumynis Touch completion highlighter
- Touch in Sol Technicolor Lip&Cheek tint with powder finish in #03 Desire Fuchsia
Eyes
- (base) Avon True Ideal Flawless concealer in Medium
- (colour) Pupa Like a Doll Nude Skin compact powder in 003
- (highlight) Avon True Colour Flawless Mattifying Pressed Powder in Fair
- (colour) Neve Cosmetics Limelight and Grass pressed mineral eyeshadows
- Marc Jacobs Beauty Velvet Noir Major Volume mascara
- Avon True Colour Eyeshadow Quad in Mocha Latte
- (eyebrows) essence eyebrow fixing pencil
- essence eyebrow stylist set in 01 natural brunette style
- (base colour) Avon Shine Burst lipstick in Dragonfruit Pink
- Touch in Sol Technicolor Lip&Cheek tint with powder finish in #03 Desire Fuchsia
- (highlight) Neve Cosmetics Snob pressed mineral eyeshadow
- dress and accessories by WSDear
- nail polish Avon GEL SHINE in Parfait Pink
More ’80s but younger? Do this to look a couple years fresher: emphasise your eyes with electric eyeshadows, and add more bijou and accessories, (lace half gloves, long necklaces, etc… ) to your costume.
The ’80s mantra was ‘I wear what I like and I don’t **** care!’, so go wild and have fun…
