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Famed rock musician Alice Cooper is known for his hitting makeup onstage simply as well as he is for his archetype hits like "School's Out," "I'm Eighteen," and "No More Mister Squeamish Guy." If y'all want to replicate his stage makeup, it'due south easy to practise. Alice Cooper himself one time claimed that it only took him 45 seconds to put information technology on. All you'll need are a few makeup brushes, some greasepaint, a mirror, and makeup wipes.

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    Get a concealer brush, a tub of black grease paint, and a mirror. Alice Cooper'due south archetype eye makeup only has one ingredient: black grease paint. To put it on, it'll exist helpful to have a brush and a mirror. For Alice Cooper's eyes, employ a concealer brush with a width nether .v in (1.3 cm).[ane]

    • Y'all can become a concealer brush at a general or makeup store. Pocket-size tubs of black grease paint can be bought at costume shops.
    • Alice Cooper calls his makeup style "demented clown makeup."[2]

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    Make an outline of your eye socket with the grease paint. Find your centre socket by running your finger along the outside of your eye. The eye socket is the dense, hard bone that encircles your eye and gives it its shape. This should be the purlieus of your outline. Barely dip the brush into the greasepaint and draw an outline of your eye socket, following the bone.[three]

    • Be sure to close your eye while making the outline, as an adventitious poke in the eye with a makeup brush would be painful.
    • Alice Cooper achieves his startling wait past making his eyes await large. This is used and then that the people in the back of the audience can see his expressions.[four]

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    Fill in the outline, including the eyelid, with greasepaint. Using the concealer castor, apply the blackness grease paint thickly inside the outline of your center socket. Looking in the mirror while yous do this will help you lot keep the brush inside the lines.[5] Fill in the outline heavily: yous want the eye to be completely black.

    • If y'all get some pigment outside of the outline, y'all can either wipe information technology away with a makeup wipe (or a washcloth and warm water) or extend the outline to include the mistake—your eyes don't accept to be perfect!

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    Repeat on your other eye. Use the concealer brush and apply the aforementioned technique on your other center. Again, go on in mind that it doesn't demand to be perfect. If you expect at pictures of Alice Cooper onstage, you'll see that frequently his eye makeup is a little mismatched; sometimes one middle is more filled in than the other.

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    Discover a apartment-edged eyeliner brush with a width of less than .5 in (i.3 cm). For the scar-like lines through the eyes and the pout trailing from the oral cavity, you'll need a small-scale, thin makeup castor; an eyeliner brush is perfect for this.[six]

    • You can buy an eyeliner brush from a makeup or general store.

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    Press the castor to the bottom of your eye outline and move down. Utilize the greasepaint to the bottom edge of your heart makeup, and release pressure equally you move down. Make sure that the sparse edge of the castor is vertical equally yous make the marker. With each ane⁄8  in (iii.ii mm) you describe, release a fiddling bit of pressure from the brush.[seven]

    • Your goal is to make the line wide at the beginning and taper off to a fine indicate at the end. If the line turns out wider than you lot meant it to, endeavour accepting information technology and letting the mark stay large; while his marks were often paper-thin, sometimes Cooper made his marks large likewise.[8]

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    Repeat this mark on the tops and bottoms of both optics. Echo the previous mark for each eye, going up and down from the middle sockets. Alice Cooper's makeup involves a small-scale line trailing up and downwards from each centre socket, making it look as if he has a black scar through each eye.[nine]

    • If you accidentally printing the brush too hard and the brush trails off, utilise a makeup wipe to clean off the mark and outset once more.

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    Make multiple lines or squiggles off of the eye if you lot similar. Draw multiple lines or squiggles coming off of the heart if you'd similar to mimic the alternative expect that Alice Cooper sometimes uses. Trail the marks outwards from the eye sockets in a sunburst fashion.

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    Trail blackface down the side of your oral fissure with the eyeliner brush. Starting with one side of your lips, utilize a 1⁄8  in (3.2 mm) line curving downwards the outside of your mentum. If y'all accept a natural pucker in your face where your cheek meets your chin, you lot can follow this line with the brush; it should lucifer upward perfectly.[10]

    • Imagine that y'all've bitten into a blackberry and let the juice run out of the side of your mouth. This is the trajectory the paint should have.

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    Employ the greasepaint on the other side of your oral cavity. Use the eyeliner brush to utilise the greasepaint to the opposite side of your oral cavity, keeping the marking the same size.

    • Once you've applied both lines, it should look like you're frowning.

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    Darken your lines if they're uneven. Look in the mirror and bank check your handiwork. If any of your lines aren't the same darkness, utilise another coat of greasepaint on meridian of the sometime layer.

    • Also make sure that your lines are the same size. If one line is bigger than another, utilize the eyeliner castor to go far wider.

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  • Try practicing your lines on a piece of paper earlier working on your face; this can help with your thin lines.

  • Even if your face makeup isn't perfect, you lot tin can make yourself await like Alice Cooper through dress, with a blackness, spiky outfit and lid; don't forget the classic black gloves.

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Things You'll Need

  • Concealer brush
  • Eyeliner brush
  • Black blackface (costume paint)
  • Mirror
  • Makeup wipes

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