Vampire Makeup Tips for Halloween

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #1: The standard Halloween vampire costume
If you want to disguise yourself as the typical Bela Lugosi type of vampire, you will need an all-black dress or tuxedo, black shoes, and a convincing black vampire cape, preferably one that you can drape mysteriously over your arm before you attack your next victim.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #2: The baby vampire Halloween costume
If you want to complete your Halloween vampire costume look with matching children, simply dress your children up in all black, with the appropriate Halloween vampire makeup. Instead of a vampire cape, add kid-sized black bat wings. You can purchase these from your local Halloween costume shop or make a pair of your own Halloween costume bat wings with cardboard covered with black fabric or paint.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #3: The naughty vampire Halloween costume
For an adult twist, visit your local Halloween costume shop or a novelty shop like Spencer's where you can purchase a more grown-up version of the typical vampire Halloween costume. Usually such a costume will consist of scintillating Halloween lingerie in black or amusing outfits for men. Vampire makeup application for a more adult vampire makeup look can be sparse and reflect more of a Gothic and fashion makeup hybrid.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #4: Sleeked back Dracula hair
To get that true Dracula makeup look, you need to sleek back your hair. Use some heavy hair gel to get that true Dracula makeup look, then if you do not have a natural Dracula widow's peak, you can draw it in with a dark pencil.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #5: Getting that Dracula dead look
To create that more dead than alive Dracula makeup look, you need to apply a vampire makeup base to your face that is either white, green, or yellow in color. Try to blend the Dracula makeup with your natural skin color for a more naturally dead look. After all, you do not want to look like a vampire clown! Fill in your natural wrinkles with a dark makeup pencil. Add dark circles under your eyes and add dark lipstick to your lips.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #6: Vampire blood
Add to your Dracula makeup by adding some fake blood to the sides of your mouth, as if you have just engorged with your latest vampire victim. Homemade blood is made up of corn syrup and red food coloring, or you can purchase fake blood at your local Halloween costume shop.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #7: Fangs
Naturally, no vampire makeup look is complete without some fangs. You can opt for the cheap plastic Dracula fangs at the local dollar shop or visit the Halloween costume shop for some more authentic looking Dracula fangs.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #8: Vampire nails
It is entirely up to you if you want to complete your Dracula makeup with manicured or more sickly looking nails. You can opt to maximize on your dead Dracula makeup look by painting your nails a sickly yellow, green, or greenish blue, or go for a more classy vampire makeup look with clean manicured nails. In either case, be sure to have a few fingers dipped in fake blood or dried fake blood under your nails.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #9: The vampire victim Halloween costume
If your Halloween date has opted to be Dracula for the evening you can dress up as his or her latest victim. Follow the classic Halloween damsel-in-distress costume by dressing in a sheer white dress (to symbolize purity) or go for a modern twist by being the dude-in-distress and dressing in a very average outfit of white shirt and jeans, possibly with the first few buttons of your shirt buttoned down to show off some chiseled pecs. Add two dots to the neck, covered in crusted fake blood and splatter some on your clothes for effect. For a turned vampire victim, add Dracula fangs and blood dripping from the sides of your mouth.

Halloween Vampire Makeup Tip #10: The evil vampire clown Halloween costume
Combine two horrifying Halloween characters by dressing as a vampire clown. Find the shoddiest clown outfit possible or make your own with a colorful shirt, ripped up overalls, and oversized very worn shoes. Begin applying typical clown Halloween makeup fair to your face, but add in dark circles under your eyes, yellow instead of pure white vampire makeup, and wrinkles for a more aged look. Add fangs and fake vampire blood oozing from your mouth. Be extra gross by painting your fangs with fake red blood.