In October, ordinary makeup simply will not do.
We want blood-red lashes. Hollowed eyes. Faces painted strange with spectral colours. Glitter that catches the light like something glimpsed moving between the trees.
Halloween is the one night of the year when too much is precisely the right amount (although, at Glisten, this is all year round).
So, whether you’re planning to arrive at the party freshly risen from a grave, dripping in gothic glamour, hauntingly beautiful or painted into something nobody can quite identify, we’ve opened the Glisten crypt and gathered nine of our favourite Halloween makeup products for creating a face worthy of the night.
Black Spectra Base
Our Spectra Bases are colourful foundations created for exactly the kind of night where looking human is entirely optional. And for this particular Halloween edit, we’re descending into the darkness with Black Spectra Base.
Its full-coverage formula gives you a canvas to build upon, whether you’re transforming the entire face or using it strategically to carve shadows, deepen features and create the illusion of something altogether less mortal.
Blood Lust lipstick
From our Glisten Cosmetics X Philosofay collection, Blood Lust Lipstick feels as though it was unearthed from the dressing table of a particularly glamorous vampire. Deep, bloody and dramatic, it is made for the kind of Halloween look that should probably come with a warning.
Paint it perfectly for old-Hollywood gothic glamour, blur it beyond the lip line for something freshly bitten, or pair it with black liner and let things become a little more sinister.
Either way, you’ll look positively murderous.
Blood Red Spectra Lash
You could wear black mascara for Halloween, I guess… But you could also have blood-red eyelashes.
Our Spectra Lash collection is made for colour lovers, with shades spanning practically every corner of the rainbow, meaning that whatever creature you’re becoming this Halloween, there is probably a mascara waiting to complete it.
For spooky season, however, Blood Red Spectra Lash has our heart.
Pair it with a vampiric eye. Smudge darkness around it for something demonic. Wear it with an otherwise bare face and let those red lashes do something quietly unsettling all by themselves.
Beautiful?
Yes.
Slightly possessed?
Also yes.
Liquorice Glis Gloss
Liquorice Glis Gloss is a bold black gloss made for bringing instant darkness to the lips. Wear it alone for a sheer gothic finish or layer it over deeper lip colours when you want your Halloween makeup to feel particularly decadent.
Perfect for witches, demons, vampires, fallen angels and anyone whose Halloween Pinterest board contains an unreasonable amount of black lace.
Consider it darkness with a shine.
Time Warp Palette
Not every Halloween creature crawls from a grave.
Some arrive through a portal.
For makeup that feels a little more extraterrestrial, enchanted or beautifully uncanny, enter the Time Warp Pressed Pigment Palette.
Its shifting pressed pigments are exactly what Halloween demands when ordinary colour begins to feel terribly boring. Layer luminous, multidimensional shades over dark eyeshadow; catch different colours beneath club lights; create scales, strange skin, alien eyes or the glimmering face of a creature that probably lives somewhere it is permanently midnight.
There is something wonderfully eerie about colour that refuses to remain one colour.
Cola Wet Liner
Halloween makeup is essentially an excuse to paint on your face like nobody ever told you not to.
Spiderwebs curling from the eyes. Stitched mouths. Cracked porcelain. Tiny bats. Skeleton teeth. Gothic filigree. Tears. Stars. Symbols of questionable origin.
You know. The essentials.
For that, we’re reaching for Cola Wet Liner.
Our black matte water-activated Wet Liner gives you the deep pigment and precision needed for intricate Halloween makeup, whether you’re drawing the smallest details or mapping out an entire skeletal face.
And because it is water activated, you can control your brush, build your shapes and treat your face like the tiny haunted canvas it deserves to be.
Just add water, then summon whatever you like.
Liner Brush 7
There is nothing more tragic than planning an elaborate Halloween look only to discover your brush has approximately the same level of precision as a broomstick.
I give you – Liner Brush 7.
Its thin, long bristles make it particularly useful for detailed and graphic work, exactly what you need when your makeup plans involve spider legs, tiny veins, elaborate gothic shapes or an anatomically questionable number of additional eyes.
Halloween makeup lives in the details.
The tiny crack through porcelain skin. The fine line of blood at the corner of a mouth. The delicate little web that transforms ordinary eyeliner into something wonderfully macabre.
The devil, as they say, is in them.
Gold Rush Chroma Flakes
Picture the wings of a dead fairy.
A beetle shell beneath moonlight.
The strange rainbow sheen across something you found in the woods and definitely should have left there.
That is the territory of Gold Rush Chroma Flakes.
These multichrome rainbow flakes sit suspended in a gel base, creating an iridescent finish that shifts as the light moves. Press them over eyeshadow, scatter them across the cheekbones or use them as the final detail on scales, celestial skin and otherworldly Halloween creations.
After Bite Glis Gloss
And finally, something for those who prefer their Halloween makeup with a little blood.
After Bite Glis Gloss, another creation from our Philosofay collaboration, brings a glossy blood-red finish to the lips: rich, wet-looking and suspiciously vampiric.
Wear it neatly if you’re the sort of vampire who still receives invitations to dinner.
Smudge it if dinner was the invitation.
Layer it over Blood Lust for a deep, lacquered gothic lip, or let a little colour escape beyond the edges for that beautifully undone, freshly-fed effect.
We would say use responsibly, but it is Halloween.
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By Ellie Black
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