Sugar skull makeup tricks complete with characteristic bright colors, flower petals, paisleys, and spirals. Paint your face like this and you'll celebrate Día de los Muertos in style!
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Prep your palette with a white cream makeup base and paint the whole face except for the eye sockets.
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Gently blend in the brush strokes with the broken edge of a makeup sponge.
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Mimicking the crack down the middle of a skull, draw a line down the center of the face with a black kajal pencil.
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Sugar skulls are very colorful and stylized. Pick two of your favorite bright colors; we chose aqua and magenta. Paint the eye, cheek cavity, temple, and lips the same color.
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Outline the eye and lips with the other color. Blend a little bit of the outlining color into the hairline, and on top of the cheek bone.
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Paint a small turquoise and magenta circle side by side on the chin.
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Now take black Aquacolor on a fine-tipped brush and start to draw the teeth.
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Sugar skull teeth are very stylized and neat compared this to the realistic-style skull we did on the left.