Jane Fonda as Barbarella
Barbarella (1968) is a cult classic starring Jane Fonda, one of my favorite movies. The thing that appeals to me the most is how sexual Barbarella is, yet innocent at the same time. She uses sex as currency throughout the whole film, but does it in an utterly non-perverse way. I love it!
Ok, so I tricked you into thinking I was going as something else for Halloween. ;) *smug smile* I’m actually going as Barbarella. Except, more of an Electric Barbarella, who is a sex robot from Duran Duran video (yes, the band is obsessed with the film too and got their name from the character Durand Durand!). This is the look I developed for my costume (yeah, good luck reproducing it tonight, Doe!):
INGREDIENTS
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- Eyeshadows: Shoe Addict, Empress, Fairy Wings, Treasure Chest
- Black mascara, black liquid liner, purple liner, false eyelashes, black pencil
- Face: foundation, bronzer
Eyes
When working with high-pigment shadows, it’s always a good idea to start with the eyes first and do the foundation later (particles of pigment might ruin it). In this look, I used one of my favorite colors – Shoe Addict, the brightest, most beautiful electric blue I’ve ever seen!! With a round brush (like #3), apply Shoe Addict on inner corners and, using a smaller brush like #6, about halfway under the eye. You may apply several layers, until the desired brightness is achieved. Darken the crease with Empress purple (try the crease definer brush #5) and a bit under the brow towards the nose, then blend into the blue. Use Fairy Wings, a magical violet-sparkle highlighter, on the brow bone, blending into the purple.
Draw a thin line along the lashes with black eyeliner. Glue falsies on top of that line. If you are paranoid they’ll come off, put on an extra coat of mascara, bonding the falsies with your own. Apply purple or black liner on the waterline.
Face
Wondering why my face doesn’t look like my face? It’s not Photoshop – it’s contouring. You can alter your features pretty dramatically by highlighting and darkening certain parts. Here, I used a darker foundation to shade the sides of my nose and then applied a highlighter over the bridge to make it appear skinnier. I also used bronzer under my cheeks to make the cheek bones stand out more.
But most importantly, I made my skin look like a real robot!!! Treasure Chest has some serious metallic sheen to it, so I applied it all over my face, using a large brush. The result took my breath away – my skin was a striking glittery metallic-gold!
Eyebrows
I like dramatic eyebrows, so I drew mine in a theatrical shape using a black brow pencil. If you have darker eyebrows, apply foundation over them first with some setting powder on top. This won’t make them completely invisible but will allow you to draw a different shape.
Lips
Apply foundation over your lips. If you have beige lipstick, use that. If not, colorless lip balm will do. You want to create a sticky surface for the pigment to adhere to. Once again, Goldilocks to the rescue – I dabbed on the pigment, which is lip-safe, all over my lips, concentrating on the top corners and center of the mouth. Voila!
Photos of full costume coming soon!
Deerlings: what’s your costume for tonight???
Wow! what a transformation, I didn’t recognize you at all. And I am still having issues believing its you. Its the darker foundation on the nose that gets me. Its not your nose anymore.
I am being Alice, and OMG!!! is my costume cute! Im Disney’s Alice, not the ‘barely cover your butt’ stuff you can buy in stores.
Value Village for the dress (plus a stack of safety pins to shorten it): $6
Evening Blue Rite Dye x2 : $6
= a dress that is the PERFECT Alice blue.
You look amazing! I also love Barbarella.
I’m staying in tonight to watch horror movies with bf. We already dressed up twice (halloween party last saturday night and zombie pub crawl the week before) so we decided to stay in tonight. Our original costume was ciao ciao & adios from tokidoki (http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/images/adiosciaociao.jpg) but we didn’t quite finish the costumes since we’ve been busy and it involled a lot of paper mache. So our back up zombies. This is me from zombie pub crawl (http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL777/3353837/20790352/339425703.jpg)
countouring, eh? …i’ve done that!
one year, i wanted to see what the big deal about wearing lots of makeup in a driver’s license photo was… so i did a lot of contouring and stuff. extra mascara, eye shadow on my nose, the works…
end result? they turned the contrast on the photo wayy up because i”m so pale! :P i was also wearing dark grey and green eye makeup. that was kinda fun.
i’m not celebrating halloween this year, though i wish i were! maybe i’ll think something up last minute.
thank you for turning me on to that video–i’m reading a book called female chauvinist pigs: women and the rise of raunch culture>, and seeing this video makes me wonder if duran duran were commenting on the exact same thing as the book i am reading! if not, they are certainly unintentionally doing so! and it’s a beautiful video…
That is an awesome make up tutorial, and I love the wig! Haha. but no, seriously, contouring is a great tip for those of us who really like to change up their look once in a while. If you have any more tips, I’d love to see more tutorials about this!
Happy Halloween =)
This is my favourite look that you’ve done a tutorial for. That blue is absolutely amazing.
Fantastic! I love Barbarella, and you’ve done a smashing good job with this tutorial– I think it’s by far my favorite yet (and you know how long I’ve been following those!).
Is there any chance you’ll ever do sample sizes of the colors or gift sets of them? I’d love to try out certain colors without committing to a whole guy just yet!
I’m in love with this look! I’m thinking of recreating this for a upcoming shoot. The model has mocha color skin. Could you suggest contouring products for darker skin? Thank you!
Love it chickie!!! I’m a going as a sexy witch lol ironic….I’m wiccan lol I will be taking pics later to post on my myspace. Still tryin to figure out how I wanna do my make-up lol. Hopefully you’ll check out the pics Xenia, as well as everyone else :)
Awesome look! I love purple and blue together.. and the lips look super cool! I don’t care much for gold looking things but I like this a lot.
Happy Halloween! <3
i thought you used a different model! you look fantastic and drastically different–excellent work. beautiful either way :)
this is gorgeous! my room is painted blue and purple i just love those colors together.
definitely my favorite tutorial of yours, i’m going to try the contouring tonight when i dress up as padme!
Holy crap that’s you?! You look amazing!
I’m being an Amy Brown fairy. :D
I love the makeup! The blue-purple combo is just amazing… and yes, you are truely a cameleon. Stunning :P ahaha; I’m going as a vampire.. yes I’m so original, I know… *cries* but it’s the one outfit that’s very comfy and looks the best on me. I really hope the lime crime shadows arrive today.. can’t decide if I should just do the outfit… or go all out with long fake nails and everything… involves last minute mall trip..
Absolutely lovely! I totally didn’t even recognize you with the different hair and the contouring that you did! Amazing amazing.
Just curious, what kind of camera do you use? Because your photos are always fantastic and whenever I take photos with my cam it always washes me out.
Those eyebrows are amazing!!! Very artistic! O_O!
I love this! The eyebrows are spectacular.
I’m going to a midnight Rocky Horror showing so I’m going to look completely cracked-out. Fishnets and tacky corset!
Oh my gosh, you look so different! Love it.
I’m between one of the seven deadly sins (either lust or wrath) or Nancy from Sin City.
This is gorgeous. :]
You look stunning, fer real. I can’t help but love those eyebrows. Haha.
And the look your lips have are just to die for. <3
I’m not really going as anything in particular. But I did buy a vinyl dress with lace and fishnets here and there. Paired with my GoGo Boots, black and red striped stockings, and a red fishnet shirt made at home, I think it’ll look great. (:
I also just got my white tulle petticoat/skirt from MTCoffinz. Whoo. :D
I never would have believed it was you!
Happy Halloween xx
We go all out for Halloween at my house, so the costuming is a bit intense. I have to pale myself up to look kind of dead, then I do sunken eyes with dark shadow. I have these awesome false lashes with giant feathers on the end, and then I line under my eyes with red rhinestones (ah, eyelash glue: so versatile!). Bright red lipstick, and more dark shadow….to contour my boobs. I’m supposed to look deathly, but I’m still allowed to up the sex appeal, right?
The best make-up contouring job I’ve ever seen is in Mel Brook’s movie Spaceballs. There’s a one-scene character, a robot-mobster called Vinnie, whose make up makes him look like a robot — like his face is plates of metal bolted together. It’s completely convincing…I had to look really closely to tell it was make up. Super. Cool.
i stumbled upon your site while searching for makeup tutorial for cabaret makeup. your site is just what i was looking for! your talent is just amazing! i am a sometime theatre performer and i am glad to know you’re into artistic makeup.i know i’ll learn a lot from you through this site. now if i can have some of your makeup…i’ll ask my sister, who’s based in houston, to check your site out. and hope she can send some stuff to me.
love, love this barbarella look!
WOW! You look absolutely stunning :) I love this look so much. In the second picture you actually remind me of Lady Gaga (and I mean that as a compliment!)
The lips are the best – she looks smokin hot!
it took me a while to figure out it was you!
i had to wear an old pair of black heels i’ve never found and occasion for yet. (you have the same pair, just magenta) so i dug out an old purple witch costume that i managed to shorten after carving my pumpkin and put an awesome bustier on it.
My boyfriend and I are going as Batman and the Joker. It’s going to be awesome! Happy Halloween :)
Go bronzer! I LUFF that stuff!
I was a P.I . . . REALLY kinda boring. Meh. I had fun takeing a little girl out trick or treating!
So, I just noticed that they’re remaking Barbarella. Hmm, wonder if it’ll be any good.
Wow, amazing make up skills. You look exactly like Barbarella!
I’m going as Little Bo Peep. Again, not the slutty store-bought costume type, but I’ve got a white bonnet, shepherd’s staff, white heels, and the sweetest, frilliest cream-colored BCBG dress ever. Seriously, it’s my favorite dress – I can wear it to parties, to the cafe, or use it for costumes.
I went out as a Japanese school girl (sailor dress) and tons of Hello Kitty stuff on my backback and handed out Hello Kitty stickers to people who’s outfits I liked the best. Ever notice how Halloween seems to be the excuse for girls to go out in fishnets/stilettos/no pants? What’s that?
LOVE the make-up. It doesn’t even look like you. You did an amazing job, probably one of my favorites =].
I went as GoGo Yubari from Kill Bill, only I couldn’t find her weapon ANYWHERE so I kind of looked like a bloody school girl with a chain.
WOAH. That is just *scary* how different you look. Super makeups, too! ^^
I went as a super-cute witch. I combined a lot of colors I don’t usually use (purple, orange, turquoise) with black to get a cutesy, yet balanced look. I attempted some interesting make-up, but alas, I haven’t ordered my LimeCrime make-ups yet… ;)
What an awesome tutorial! I played with the contouring, but I found that what looked good from the front would look odd from the side or at an angle. Is there any way to fix this?
For Halloween I dressed as a 1930s Army Pin-up Girl:
Picture 1
Picture 2
I also did my friend’s Tyler Durden make-up:
Picture 1
Fantastic! Dfinitely doesn’t look like you, but it’s still stunning. Contouring for the win!
I was supposed to be an awesome mermaid, with crazy makeup and stuff, lots of glitter, crazy lashes… but at the last minute(very last, actually), I started feeling sick, and had to cancel any plans of having fun for the night, because of the flu. :(
You look absolutely gorgeous (as always) but wow!! You look like a completely different person! You are very talented makeup artist, and I can’t wait to get my hands on some of your products and try them out! If you can give me any tips and advice on how to get a career in becoming a makeup artist going, please let me know! Thanks ^_^
WOW you look sooo HOT (not that you don’t always). I think you look great with blonde hair…wow.
You are a makeup goddess!! I am usually very impressed by your makeup tutorials but this one took my breath away… the contouring is amazing. I’ve never done it before and I don’t know how I’d attempt it, but it looks fabulous. Great job!
Looking good!
I didn’t do Halloween, I never do really, instead I spent the entire night on a fund raising Ghost Hunt at my little theatre. Spending time there was far more fun that any party and I got to see my other half, I mean BONUS! lol Still got Ghosties in there I guess.
Oh and I must say, I got my LimeCrime delivery today, seriously, I love it! The Pink Brush is beautiful, and the powder feels so nice! And I’m so impressed with how fast it got here, thank you! I’ll be saving to buy a big order of shadows after christmas!
wow, you look so different! gorgeous :D and awesome idea!
OMG!!! This is just AMAZING! BTW thanks for your comment girl :)Man I’ve been in Chicago this past week and your post has def made me feel glad to be back to in the most amazing city in the world NYC
I was supposed to be Harley Quinn this year but the place where I ordered my costume told me last minute they ran out >.< Im so MAD so I might be harley quinn next year but my boyfriend and I are thinking (Asian) Prince and Sheila E. LOL and yeah we’ll party like its 1989
Hey Xenia! I love your looks with your makeup! You look really awesome. I wish I could afford your new line of stuffies but alas.
I don’t know what to call my halloween costume. I was just bruised and busted :).
I’m glad I found your blog after so much time again. Great job on the makeup as always! I’ll put your banner on my deviantart account.
Hello! :)
I don’t want to look like a stalker, but I just wanted to say that I really love your blogazine! And I do like you. You just have the best personality. You’re just so … gleeful :D and optimistic and … this might sound stupid but I like obsessive people … well, people who are able to really DO something and do it well. I wish I was like that. Most of the time, I’m just … well, boring, not at all interesting, ugly, just a person of no interest, your complete opposite! As I already said, I don’t want to be like, stalkerish, but I just have to say that I really wish being a bit like you. Don’t worry, I’m not going to change my face into yours or come to America or stalk you. I just want to be as optimistic and wonderful as you are, which is probably a huge wish.
I’m sorry that this comment is … well, quite messed up and probably really stupid. I just felt like telling you my opinion. Besides, I’m sorry if my English sometimes is a bit troubling.
Vanessa from Germany
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beautiful look! i especially love the lips.
Oh my gosh! I can’t believe how breathe taking your make up is!
I love it when people really take the time to come up with amazing Halloween ideas, rather than an excuse to wear as little clothing as possible.
Well done to you!!
xox
well, it’s been two years, but i just acme across this great turotial and LOVE it! we have a costume party in three weeks and i definitely wanna go as barbarella. i just have two questions: Goldilocks for the lips and Teasure Chest for your face – do you have any idea what else I could use for that as it is not longer available and the names dont really tell me what kind of products they are ;-) and second: have you uploaded pics of your whole costume? i saw the golden top, i actually have something similar in silver and am always looking for some more inspiration!
i hope you still check your comments, thanks!
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