so halloween is coming up and i am really really excited. In this post i will be showing you how to recreate this elphaba look, i know i found it really fun to do. this look is really simple and also really effective, also it is really strange being green like the wicked witch of the west!
for this look, i am wearing a simple black, turtle neck dress from boohoo.com. Underneath, i am wearing just a long sleeved black shirt and black tights just so i dont have to paint my whole arms aswell as my face, neck and hands. for my hair, i just pulled it into a simple plait, it doesnt have to be neat. if you want, you can wear a black wig to make the look more accurate.
next, you need a light green face paint; i used the classic colours snazaroo face and body paint in lime green and i used a damp sponge just to apply that all over my face and neck, not forgetting my ears. make sure to paint your neck to where your shirt/dress collar starts so you don’t have any skin showing. also make sure your sponge isnt too wet because that means your facepaint will go streaky and wont look as good.
Then, add dimension to your face with a darker green face paint, i used the same snazaroo face and body paint but in the shade dark green. i applied this as a contour for my nose and cheeks with the sponge. to make sure the darker colours arent too harsh, dab some more of the lime green colour over the edges and over the darker colour so it is noticeable but also blends in better.
Next, i am going to do my eyes. the eyes for this look are really simple and you can add things and take things away depending on the look you are trying to achieve. i just took a black eyeshadow (you can use a black facepaint if you want to) and used that with a fluffy brush over the outer corner of my eye lid and blended it through the crease; i also took some of it under my eye to cover any of it i missed with the green. I then applied some mascara and moved onto my eyebrows. since i had covered them with green paint, i decided to fill in my eyebrows with the black eyeshadow.
for my lips, i simply painted them with the dark green face paint and thats the face completed. The final step is to paint your hands or any other exposed pieces of skin green. the paint does come off on all kinds of furniture and clothes so beware when you are touching things even though i found it was really easy to remove from these things and also i didnt go into school the next day with green all over me.
and that is the whole look completed. I hope you enjoyed this and that some of you can now recreate this Elphaba look. I also filmed a video of me singing ‘The Wizard and I’ from Wicked, i hope you like it. sorry its a bit out of time at parts, i was too loud for the music.
heres the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-RzUK_F0E&list=UUWE5jIGnzQoSsT7JHBLdScA
Lucy Jones 