Students Prepare to Face Off for Halloween

By: Emily Connell

Students gathered in Main Hall to hear what kind of makeup tips Katie Beddingfield had to share with them for Halloween. Katie is junior at the University of Montevallo and an RA in Main Residents Hall. She is also a costume design and makeup major.

Katie talking to students about how to do makeup

 Katie says, "I wanted to for my first big program as an RA I wanted to try and do a makeup event and since it was close to Halloween, I thought it would be a good idea to try and do one to where I can help and show people how to do some special effects makeup without having to buy high end makeup and high end brushes that not every college student has the money to buy."

Theater, costume design and makeup major Harley Jenninngs said this about her makeup design for this event, "I worked at a haunted house for three years so this is actually like a really quick rein diction of a clown that I did while I was there."

Harley Jennings

Morgan McDonald painting her face as a sugar skull

Morgan McDonald, an art major, also attended the event. "I really love the day of the dead and all of the designs like the sugar skulls this is kinda what inspired that so its their all very colorful and like sort of a beautiful aspect of skulls rather than creepy," said McDonald.

Makeup from Target

Katie wanted to show students that doing special effects makeup isn't hard, it just takes patience. One simple way that Katie showed students was to use Elmer's Glue to make it look like your skin is peeling or burnt. You take the glue and smear it in the place where you want the wound to be. Let the glue dry, then take your finger nail and scratch upward along the edges. After that you can color it with paint or makeup to the color of your choice.

 If you were unable to attend this event and you would like to learn more about special effects makeup, check out the picture below for 7 Halloween Makeup Tricks using common household items.