Spooooktacular!

I know Halloween is still 21 days away, but hey, it is never too early to start thinking about it! I will be posting numerous DIY costumes, and this first one is Pretty Little Liars themed! You can do this solo, or you can have some of your friends dress up as other characters! This outfit is designed to look either like Aria, Emily, Spencer, or Hannah. 
Materials:
Black dress
Black shoes
Charcoal dust
Dark brown face paint
Optional:
Dirt

In Pretty Little Liars there are many dark scenes, but on the cover of the first season there is all four girls holding there finger up to their mouth and they are covered in dirt. We will be recreating that look. To start, choose a black dress. It can't really be any other color, but black is a pretty easy color to find. You also want black shoes, probably not heels, because you will be up and walking all night long. Now that you have the outfit done, now it is time to look like you've been outside digging up dirt. Start by dipping a sponge in the brown face paint and lightly applying in different areas on your body. I would focus on knees, elbows, upper arms, etc. While the paint is still wet, sprinkle on charcoal dust. The dust will stick to the paint, but you can also sprinkle it to other parts of your body as well. Since charcoal is black, that is why you have a brown face paint, so that it looks like real dirt. If you want to go all out, sprinkle real dirt on the paint as well. Now time for the makeup!

Materials:
Black eyeliner
Deep plum lip stain
Dark colored blush
Matte dark grey eyeshadow
Shimmery black eyeshadow
Mascara

To make sure your outfit doesn't look trashy, we want to do the makeup nice. Start by applying foundation, powder, eyebrow gel and all that good stuff. Next, take your matte eyeshadow and apply it to your entire lid. Next, taking a crease brush, apply the shimmery black eyeshadow onto your crease. Take a smudge brush it blend the two colors in. Then take your eyeliner and apply a decent amount to your upper lid (thickness wise). Line your bottom line as well. Create whatever sized wing you want with the liner. Apply generous coats of mascara. Next apply a dark colored lip stain to your lips. If you have other friend's dressing up as Pretty Little Liars, each choose a different but still dark lip color. Apply blush to your cheeks and you're done! For extra effect you can add charcoal dust to your face as well.  If you do this I would use the dust as a contouring item to contour my face.

For the hair you want to curl your hair into tight ringlets. Next you can tease the hair, or leave it looking pretty. To go along with your outfit, paint your nails a similar color as your lipstick. You can also wear black earrings. 

***If it is cold, wear tights with the dress and have a black cardigan ready to go.

I hope you guys like this DIY! I didn't post it under the DIY page because I didn't want to have to delete this to post another one. If you want more DIY tutorials comment down below. If you try this out post your outfit on instagram and hashtag it #diyppl so I can see it! 
As always,
xoxo Em

Some Links you can find some of today's post items:
Black Dresses
Charcoal Dust
Lip Stain