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:

Warrington Guardian:

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