White and purple shadow, cream black eyeliner, and a steady hand is all that's needed to make Liz into a creepy broken doll.

Most traditional cream and cake makeup from Halloween Express, Spirit, or other Halloween stores are very heavy, low quality, and possibly comedogenic (clogs pores). It can be tempting to buy the makeup kits sold at these stores, but they're such low quality that it's really not worth it. Generally they are not packaged very well and start drying out, meaning they will be good for one or two uses and next year you'll have to buy more.

There are a lot of ways to make traditional beauty makeup that's already sitting on your bathroom counter into a great costume look. Not only does this save money, but the chance of developing an allergic reaction or a severe acne breakout from new costume makeup is far lower.

Of course, this all depends on the size of your personal makeup stash and what you're planning on dressing up as for Halloween. If you want to try a full prosthetic Walking Dead zombie, or you own a single eye pencil and one translucent powder, this might not cut it for you.

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