FORGET making a witches cape from a bin bag and layering on the eyeliner...Halloween fancy dress fans have been reaching whole new spooky levels in recent years.
So much so that some make up artists in Warrington are now booked up two years in advance.
It's thought the trend for a more extravagant look for parties around October 31 started with the James Bond film Spectre.
Mexican tourism officials were inspired by parts of the 2015 film, which were filmed in Mexico City and featured 007 chasing a villain through a Day of the Dead celebration in the historical centre, and as a result Mexico City held its first Day of the Dead parade, complete with floats, giant skeleton marionettes and more than 1,000 actors, dancers and acrobats in costumes last year.
This year Festival of the Dead shows will be coming to Liverpool and Manchester this month meaning there's no sign of the sugar skull craze slowing anytime soon.
We took a look at some of the frightful creations on offer in Warrington this Halloween.
Click the gallery above to see Warrington make up artists' work and read more below:
Look 1
Your name: Terrie Hastings
Your age: 29
Area of Warrington you live: Woolston
Name of your business: Makeup by Terrie
Instagram/Facebook/website:
Instagram- makeupby_terrie
Facebook - makeup by Terrie
How long you've been doing make up for: 5 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: cats or broken dolls
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: I always think the sexy cat look is very popular, it’s the most effective at still looking super glam while also fitting in with Halloween
Looks 2 - 3.
Your name: Sarah Watson
Your age: 28
Area of Warrington you live: Padgate
Name of your business: Divine Nails and Beauty
Instagram/Facebook/website: Divine Nails-Beauty, www.divinenailsandbeautywarrington.co.uk
How long you've been doing make up for: 6 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: Don't have a favourite, I like them all
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: seeing a lot of half makeup and half skull still and a lot of doll faces
Looks 4 - 6.
Your name: Amy louise appleton
Your age: 25
Area of Warrington you live: Latchford
Name of your business: Pretty Bruitiful Makeup
Instagram/Facebook/website: Instagram amylou_pretty_bruitiful_makeup
How long you've been doing make up for: 1 year
Your favourite look for Halloween: pop art zombies
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: sugar skulls and pop art zombies
Looks 7 - 8
Your name: Meesha Spurr
Your age: 23
Area of Warrington you live: Great Sankey
Name of your business: Meeshas Media Make-Up, Artistry and prosthetics
Instagram/Facebook/website: MeeshaLou-Cosmetics-Ltd
How long you've been doing make up for: 6 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: My favourite look for Halloween has got to be Zombies. Zombies are not only creepy cool looking things they are so versatile meaning you could make a zombie look into anything and get an costume to go with the make-up and it still look effective in the end.
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: This Halloween I feel gem and glitter Sugar skulls and clowns may be a popular option however every year at least half of people I speak to wish to go as a zombie.
Looks 9 - 10
Your name: Nastassja Victoria Clutton
Your age: 29
Area of Warrington you live: Bewsey but based above Peter Walsh Hairdressing 16 horsemarket street, Wa11xl
Name of your business: NV Beauty MUA
Instagram/Facebook/website: insta : Nvbeautymua , Facebook : www.facebook.com/nvbeautymua website: nvbeautymua.co.uk
How long you've been doing make up for: 5 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: My favourite look is a goretastic zombie, more blood the better...Even fake maggots!
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: This Halloween I think the most popular look will be Pennywise/IT, what could be more scary?
Look 11
Your name: Andrea Pickford / Jessica Brown (my employee who will be doing the main bulk of the Halloween make ups)
Your age: 35/18
Area of Warrington you live: Latchford/Callands
Name of your business: Andrea Pickford Make Up & Beauty
Instagram/Facebook/website: www.instagram.com/andi_p_mua www.facebook.com/andreapickfordmakeupandbeauty www.andreapickfordmakeupandbeauty.com
How long you've been doing make up for: 11 years / 2 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: We are loving the scary skull but also the variation of the sugar skull with glitter and diamantes
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: Definitely the skull look this year we already have bookings and requests for skulls
Look 12
Your name: Emma Dutton
Your age: 20
Area of Warrington you live: Callands
Name of your business: Emma's Make-Up Channel
Instagram/Facebook/website:
Instagram: @emmbutton
Facebook: facebook.com/Emmasmakeupchannel/
How long you've been doing make up for: 2 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: my favourite look for Halloween is a sugar skull!
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween:
I feel this year's Halloween will be all about sugar skulls with the festival of the dead events in Manchester and Liverpool and the amount of people that have enquired about skeletal designs
Look 13
Your name: Marina Ijichi
Your age: 22
Area of Warrington you live: Town Centre
Name of your business: Marina Ijichi Mua
Instagram/Facebook/website:
Instagram: marinaijichimakeup
Facebook: www.facebook.com/marinaijichibhmua
Website: www.marinaijichibhmua.co.uk
How long you've been doing make up for: 3 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: A funky skull
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: Creepy clowns!
Look 14
Your name: Chantelle Whitmore
Your age: 25
Area of Warrington you live: Lower Walton
Name of your business: Chantelle Phillipa MUA
Instagram/Facebook/website:
Chantellewhitmore
How long you've been doing make up for: been qualified since July 2017 but been practising my love of makeup for 3-4 years
Your favourite look for Halloween: my favourite look is day of the dead
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween:
I think day of the dead will be very popular this year!
Look 15
Your name: Bethany Fairclough
Your age: 19 years old
Area of Warrington you live: Orford
Instagram/Facebook/website: instagram account- makeupbybethfairs
How long you've been doing make up for: been doing makeup for a few years, but finally decided to go to college to get qualified in MUA
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: this year I think the most popular look will be pumpkins as there is many make up artists showing this look around.
Look 16
Name: Suzanne Bennett
Age: 33
Lives: Great Sankey
Name of Business: Bella You
Instagram: Suzi_bellayou
Facebook: Bella You
How long have you done makeup for?
I've worked in the beauty industry for over 10 years and have been self employed building my business for 3 years & I love it... still learning and loving it.
Fave Halloween looks: Glittery Skulls being creative with backgrounds & body art.
Popular looks: I think looking at current trends, incorporating a bit of glitter & gems into a popular look works well & looks really effective.
I think Dark mermaids, skulls, fortune tellers will be big this year along with male skulls & body art.
It's all about being creative & just having loads of fun
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