Harley Quinn - Batman comic book heroine, Joker girlfriend, is now one of the most popular cosplay characters among girls. Bright, eccentric, daring and at the same time feminine - this is what girls who choose her image want to feel like. Makeup Harley - one of the types of pop art make-up that they try to repeat for going to theme parties, in particular Halloween. The article describes how to step-by-step make-up in the style of the brightest heroine of the “Suicide Squad”.
Harley Quinn Makeup Features
The combination of folly, sexuality and mesmerizing appeal is something that many Harley likes. Her vivid image cannot be overlooked, so those who choose such a make-up for the party will certainly be in the spotlight.
If you look closely at the photo of the heroine, you can note several features of her appearance:
- deathly pale skin (here, one powder will not be enough);
- bright accents - both lips and eyes are highlighted with contrasting colors, so that her makeup is not inferior in expressiveness to the image of the Joker;
- spreading shadows and a fuzzy contour of the eyes - such negligence was invented for a reason: Harley is crazy, and this detail externally shows the features of the heroine's inner world;
- eyes are tinted with shades of different shades;
- tattoos in the form of a black heart on the cheekbone and an inscription on the cheek of ROTTEN, which means "terrible, rotten, ugly";
- bright lips with a clear black outline;
- eyebrows are prominent, but not very dark and wide.
What do you need to create makeup?
Before you do Harley makeup, you should collect all the necessary tools and cosmetics:
- Base makeup;
- powder of a light and darker shade;
- concealer;
- theatrical white makeup;
- shadows of black, blue, pink shades;
- black pencil;
- cherry color lipstick ;
- pencil or eye shadow, brush and eyebrow gel;
- lipstick shine.
Makeup like Harley Quinn step by step
- The first step is to prepare your face for color accents. Use the tonal base to even out its color, lighten dark circles, bags under the eyes and other skin irregularities with a concealer.
- Getting to the contouring of the face: with light powder, you need to fix the foundation for makeup in the T-zone - the middle of the forehead, nose and chin. With a darker shade of powder, you should slightly emphasize the cheekbones, darken the wings of the nose and the side of the forehead. At the same time, no clear color boundaries should form on the face. If there are no skills in contouring, it is better not to do it at all.
- If you want to create the closest to the classic Harley look, you can use theatrical white makeup. It is suitable if the natural complexion and light powder give a grayish tint - this often happens, but Harley's makeup does not imply this. Make-up is applied with a special brush or just with your fingers (driving in) in a small amount so that such a mask does not resemble a clown mask. Top makeup should also be powdered, not forgetting the neck: it should not differ in color from the face.
- Next is the eyebrow line. At Harley, they stand out quite well, but do not attract attention. It is better to choose the colors suitable for your color type - gray-black, gray-brown. It can be a pencil or shadow. After applying the color of the eyebrows, you need to comb with a brush, shading the dye in this way, and fix with eyebrow gel.
- The eyes in this make-up are made up in different colors: the right one is red-pink, the left one is blue-blue. Apply shadows on the movable and lower eyelids, continuing to lead to the cheekbones. Thus, you need to create the effect of spreading shadows. The contour of the eye is highlighted with a black pencil. It must be well shaded - accuracy is not as important as the lack of clear lines.
- If the task is to create pop art makeup, as shown in the photo (which repeats the picture from the comic book), you will need an eyeliner-marker or marker for eyebrows. With it, you can draw lines of the cheekbones, eyebrows, nose, chin, as in the photo. Dirty streaks or ashes on the face can be depicted with the help of dark (black or gray) shadows.
- The final touch is lip makeup. At Harley they are not red, but a rich cherry or red-plum shade. It is such a lipstick that will be needed. They can be outlined in black pencil. If desired, add a little shine to the center of each lip. Sometimes they still create the effect of negligence, smearing lipstick from the lip to the chin.
Makeup details
Harley makeup is easy to do on its own. But its main feature is in the details. In addition to stains of shadows and lipstick, on the face of the heroine there are 2 tattoos. This is a small black heart on the cheekbone near the right eye and on the same cheek, but below, the inscription ROTTEN. They can be drawn with the same cosmetic marker or felt-tip pen. To make the letters even, you can use a stencil.
How to create a complete image?
Makeup Harley Quinn is not the only feature of this image. To be as similar to the heroine as possible, you should take care of other details:
- The hair must be tinted at the ends in red-pink and blue shades using colored varnish or hair powder, then assemble them into two high tails with rubber bands (pink and blue).
- Clothing: T-shirt or T-shirt with white tears, but with a red top, a bright sports jacket in red and blue, short shorts with the same symmetrical division of colors, one or two leather gloves in the same gamut, torn tights, sneakers.
- Accessories: a wide choker with a metal inscription PUDDIN and a baseball bat with the words Good Night.
If you consider all the recommendations for creating such an image, you will have to prepare for increased attention to your person.