Broken Doll for Halloween - Arts, Crafts and DIY

A little bit fiddly, but the end result is pretty cool.

Material

1 White face paint
1 Black eye liner
2 Eye shadows (which ever colours you like)
1 Red lipstick

Method

Put a light coating of white face paint over entire face, covering eye brows and lips and blending down onto neck.
EYES: Draw new eye brows with black eyeliner (about 1 cm above where eyebrows are covered), draw line along egde of top lid flicking out at edges, then draw semi-circle under eyes with eyeliner and draw eyelashes under semi-circles. Apply 2 colours of eyeshadow (one over entire eyelid, the other apply up to fake eyebrow line). Lastly fill in semi-circle with thicker application of white face paint. Touch up eyeliner if needed.
CHEEKS: Use lipstick (I used the pink eyeshadow I used on eyes) to draw a circle on each cheek then blend with fingertips
MOUTH: Draw heart shape on centre of lips with red lipstick, then using eyeliner, draw lines from corners of mouth to look like stitch lines (by adding smaller lines to cross the lines just drawn.

Notes

The costume was relatively cheap the only thing I actually had to purchase was the top and the socks. The skirts was made from a netting skirt and a skirt from a previous costume. The pink on top of skirt was tulle strips attached to a piece of elastic and the belt was one of mine that I made shorter.

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- Therese Mudge
- 16 Apr 2014
  3:21 pm

79 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 15 Jan 2022
    12:08 pm
Awesome…..works for any type of fancy dress also.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 17 Oct 2020
    5:32 pm
Looks like a good one for a halloween dress up

- - Mumofboysx4 said
  - 17 Nov 2019
    2:27 pm
this looks great, they did an awesome job

- - mom81879 said
  - 21 Oct 2019
    9:34 am
I didn’t realise there was such a costume as a broken doll for Halloween. Reminds me of Harley Quin

- - kjgarner said
  - 19 Jun 2018
    8:59 pm
That is quite scary, great for Halloween

- - mom81879 said
  - 20 Apr 2017
    8:01 am
Looks fabulous. I can’t quite see the broken bit of this costume tho, looks way too good to be broken
- mggarner replied
  
  28 Aug 2018 , 8:48 pm
  Maybe if you tare the dress up a bit it would look broken
- - Stef said
  - 23 Feb 2017
    9:47 pm
This is really cool!!! I love it! Well done with the face painting..nailed it!!

- - ella12 said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    12:32 pm
Very colourful and creative, thank you.
- kjgarner replied
  
  20 Jun 2018 , 1:58 pm
  Very talented to paint that
- - mom111059 said
  - 23 Aug 2016
    8:26 am
OOh not for me. She does still look pretty though, even though the makeup is scary.

- - mom90758 said
  - 29 May 2016
    12:53 pm
It’s a great result indeed. Your daughter looks gorgeous, sorry… scary!!

- - BellaB said
  - 27 Feb 2016
    12:11 am
This migh be a bit challenging for my drawing skills!

- - june11 said
  - 15 Feb 2016
    9:59 am
I didn’t look at the “doll” properly and there was I thinking I had a way of decorating are real old doll. ha ha.

- - mom81879 said
  - 30 Nov 2015
    5:25 pm
I just don’t get the broken doll theme, but I think it’s a good costume

- - EllenG89 said
  - 30 Oct 2015
    2:19 pm
seems easy and looks amazingly effective! Great job

- - yummy_mummy88 said
  - 29 Oct 2015
    5:29 pm
This scares me LOL

- - rovermum said
  - 29 Oct 2015
    10:02 am
Ooh, she looks fantastic. Look at how that make-up/face paints changes her look so dramatically. Very clever and just a different take on a Halloween character.

- - aliceou said
  - 29 Oct 2015
    6:38 am
We can make this easily, great.

- - mom101628 said
  - 28 Oct 2015
    8:51 pm
What a terrific outfit and it won’t break the bank. Thanks for sharing.

- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Sep 2015
    9:48 am
Cute idea. Very Tim Burton. I love it!
- mom94125 replied
  
  07 Oct 2015 , 2:09 am
  lol yes. great for halloween for sure. cool idea.
  - mom19782016 replied
    
    12 Mar 2019 , 2:33 pm
    
    Yes, I was thinking the same thing!
- - dannsbuild said
  - 12 Sep 2015
    4:59 pm
A really cool outfit! Thanks for sharing!