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Glamorous Vampire Makeup: Fun Looks To Sink Your Teeth Into

Few costumes are as spooky-fabulous as the classic vampire. Whether you’re heading to a party or simply want to elevate your Instagram feed, we’ve gathered up some of our favorite vampire makeup looks to help you stand out.

Grab your makeup brushes and get ready to create looks that are to die for.

1. The Vampire Diaries-style Bruised Eye Sockets

Vampires have long been a part of pop culture, but it was the hit TV show The Vampire Diaries that truly immortalized the bruised-and-bloodied eye socket look perfect for your next Halloween costume.

To achieve this signature vampiric look, begin by doing your eyebrows and priming and contouring your skin as normal. (You want a clean canvas of “regular” makeup in order to make the blood vessels around your eyes pop.) Amp up the volume with winged eyeliner and falsies.

We recommend using the On-Line Dual Eyeliner, which includes both a felt tip and gel eyeliner, making it easy to perfect the most difficult cateye.

Next, use a red makeup crayon to draw thin, spidery lines beneath your eyes, mimicking the shape of blood vessels. (You may want to practice with a pencil on paper to get the hang of this before using makeup.)

Go over those same lines with a white makeup crayon, using a very light touch, to highlight and add depth to your vampire veins.

Finally, take a matte gray eyeshadow (shade Tombstone in the Cursed Chrysalis Palette is perfect for this) and smudge under your bottom lash line to create a tired, hollowed-out look. Use the same red makeup crayon on your bottom waterline to add an extra layer of bloodthirstiness, and voila – you’re officially a vampire.

2. Dark and Smoky Vampire

For a vampire look that’s equal parts scary and seductive, try pairing dark lipstick with a classic smokey eye.

Apply face makeup however you’d like, but be sure to prep your eyelids with a high-quality eyeshadow primer or a few pats of concealer (this look requires a lot of eyeshadow).

Building out your eyeshadow in layers is the key to a good smokey eye. Start off by fluffing light gray or golden-brown eyeshadow all over your eyelids, including above the crease.

Use a good eyeshadow brush to blend the shadow out into your skin.

Next, take an eyeliner pencil and draw a thin wing that extends from the outside edge of your eye to the top of your crease. Using your finger, immediately smudge the eyeliner to create a softer, blurred look.

Use an angled brush to layer matte black or dark brown eyeshadow over the wing, blending out and upwards.

Repeat this process until your smokey eye is as bold as you want. Finish off the eyes by tightlining your waterline with black eyeliner, curling your eyelashes, and applying your most voluminous mascara.

Now it’s time for the lips. We recommend using a lip liner and lipstick in matching shades for a really dramatic, consistent look (Glam 101 Lipstick and Liner duo in shade Deep Caramel is perfect for this assignment). Use the lip liner to trace your lips, feeling free to color slightly outside the lines before filling everything in with the matching lipstick.

Be sure to smack your lips together a few times to make sure that the color is blended evenly, and you’re all set! One sexy, dramatic vampire coming right up.

3. The Victorian Vampire

A classic Victorian vampire is three things: fashionable, pale, and bloodthirsty for revenge.

To start this makeup look, you’ll want to choose a liquid or powder foundation that is several shades lighter than you typically use. (Remember, the goal here is to look like you don’t have any blood circulating beneath your skin.)

We recommend trying the Skin-Focus High Coverage Powder Foundation for a product that will successfully cover up your underlying skin tone while still feeling light. Skip the contour and head straight into the eye makeup. Just like the previous smokey eye, the trick here is to layer eyeshadow shades, slowly building up pigment and dimension.

Start with a light, matte red eyeshadow, such as shade Vein from the Cursed Chrysalis eyeshadow palette. Blend this color into your crease and the corners of your eyes.

Next, choose a darker, sparkly red to create depth (shade Rare from the Cursed Chrysalis palette is perfect for this). Use an eyeshadow brush to lightly fluff this darker shade into your crease and the outside corners of your eyes, blending as you go.

Finally, take a deep brown or matte black eyeshadow and lightly blend it into the outside corners of your eyes. Start close to the top and bottom lash line and blend the color until your blood-colored smokey eye is complete.

Apply mascara or your favorite falsies, round out the look with matte red lipstick or dark lip tint, and tada — you’ve been transformed.

4. Twilight-Inspired Vampire

If you’ve ever seen any of the Twilight movies, you’re probably familiar with the franchise’s classic soft vampire glam. (Spoiler: This is perhaps the easiest vampire look to recreate, and maybe the most flattering, too!)

Start again by applying a liquid or powder foundation one or two shades lighter than your typical. The goal is to look like you haven’t seen the sun in days. Contour with a light hand, and avoid blush or highlighter entirely.

These vamps tend to all have well-defined, arched eyebrows, so grab your favorite spoolie and brow gel and get to work perfecting your brows. Bella’s eyeshadow post-vampire transformation is a warm, very subtle smokey eye, so next, you’ll want to choose an eyeshadow just a shade warmer than your natural eyelid color.

Blend it all the way up into your brow bones before using an angled brush to blend a darker brown just above your upper lash line, almost as if you were going to do a cat eye. But instead of drawing a wing, buff out that dark shade with a rounded eyeshadow brush.

Just like the previous two vampire looks, you should be layering on eyeshadow rather than going in too heavy-handed.

For extra volume, you can take that darker shade into your eyelid crease as well, buffing it out just below the brow bone.
Bella’s eyelashes stole the show after she transformed, so finish this Cullen-esque look by applying
a pair of falsies.

Pro tip: Choose a shade that matches your natural eyelash color to make them look extra-realistic. Bonus points if you add a pair of blood-red contacts to round out the look.

5. The Bloodthirsty Vamp

Perhaps the most unmistakable vampire look of all is this one, which includes fake bloodstains dripping down from your fangs.

Begin this look by prepping your skin with some plump, juicy primer and a few dabs of your go-to foundation. Next, take a liquid contour and dab it underneath your cheekbones all the way up to your temples. Using a beauty blender or angled contour brush, roughly blend the contour into your skin.

Unlike your everyday makeup look, you want the contour to be more severe and obvious than usual.

Next, you’re going to follow the eyeshadow instructions from look #3, the Victorian Vampire, to create a blood-tinged smokey eye. We recommend amping up the drama by smudging red eyeshadow under your bottom lash line as well.

The last and most important step is the lips. Use a dark lip liner to thickly line your lips, smudging the liner with your finger towards the center of your lips.

Take a lighter, bright red lipstick and fill in the rest of your lips, again using your finger to blend the two shades. As with your contour, it’s okay if the contrast between your lip liner and lipstick is a bit severe – the more dramatic, the better for this particular makeup look.

To finish off the look, use a dropper to drip fake costume blood onto your lips and down your chin. Keep it simple or get as messy as you’d like – this part is open to your creative expression! If you’re wearing a fake set of fangs, you can drip the costume blood right where your fangs “poke” into your lip for added effect.

Once you’ve applied the fake blood, your vampire makeup is complete. Try to stay away from garlic.

The Bottom Line

There you have it — five vampire makeup looks that are sure to make your Halloween a glamorous one.

Whether you go for a Vampire Diaries-inspired look or a more traditional take on a vampire, your makeup will turn heads… and with SHEGLAM, you can find the perfect products to take your glam from average to Instagram-worthy.