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Make Your Own Ant-Man Costume with Nothing More Than Makeup

Oct 11, 2015 07:13 PM

If you don't have the time or patience to build a complete Ant-Man suit from scratch, there's another way to make a Ant-Man costume for Halloween. If you're more skilled with brushes and makeup rather than drills and cardboard, this is the Halloween DIY for you—especially if you're a fan of the Marvel universe.

YouTube user and makeup professional SmashinBeauty offers a step-by-step tutorial on recreating Ant-Man's face mask with nothing more than shadowing, contouring, and coloring.

Begin by covering your entire face in grey face paint or makeup. Leave just two strips—the places for the red stripes of Ant-Man's helmets—clear of the paint for later.

Person applying grey face paint to their face.

Apply a dark red face paint in two stripes, one on either side of the forehead. Then, begin darkening the area around your nose with an even deeper, darker shade of grey face paint.

Person applying face paint with red and gray colors for a creative makeup look.

The middle of the mask needs highlighting, so apply a lighter shade around the base of the nose.

Makeup tutorial demonstrating highlighting techniques with face paint.

Basing your next movements and decorations on an image of the Ant-Man helmet, apply (with black face paint) the intricate details of the mask. Continue to fill in the below-nose, chin, sides of face, and other lined details accordingly. To enhance the mouth, fill in the grey areas with a very light, close to white, shade of grey.

Woman applying grey contour makeup on her face.

Makeup tutorial demonstrating face painting techniques with grey and red colors.

Person applying face paint with a reference picture for details.

Person applying silver and red face paint for a creative makeup look.

Person applying face paint with attention to mouth details.

Artistic face painting with a silver and red design.

For your ears, you'll need some spirit gum and some cotton to apply the sides of the helmet.

Person with artistic face paint demonstrating a makeup technique.

Person displaying artistic face makeup resembling a futuristic or robotic design.

Whether you get as detail-oriented as the recreation created on SmashinBeauty's face, or stick with a less delineated version, your own unique Ant-Man mask can be created out of nothing more than faceprint—so go ahead, get creative!

Make Your Own Ant-Man Costume with Nothing More Than Makeup

Photos via SmashinBeauty

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