The Effect of fX Makeup
Aria Marizza | Colorado State University Journalism
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved doing makeup. I grew up always watching YouTube makeup artists, astounded by their skills, and wished some day I could be just as good as them. After years of scraping up money to get cheap sets of makeup you could get from the local drugstore, I tried to follow along, grow my skills, and even someday pursue makeup artistry as a career. Unfortunately, I never seemed to get the blending right, the colors looked off, and I just didn’t have the skills the artists I used to idolize had to pull of such amazing looks. That was until Halloween time came around in 2015.
Still watching those same creators on YouTube doing fun makeup looks, I came across a video doing a makeup look, but nothing like I had seen in before. Instead of using traditional makeup and doing a typical makeup look, the creator had used special fX makeup, and had done a scary makeup look that transformed her entire face into a ripped up scarecrow. It was one of the most amazing transformations I had seen and I was immediately hooked. Unlike the traditional makeup looks I had tried previously, this type of makeup came naturally to me and after the first time trying it out, I had transformed my entire face into a ripped up, slit-eyed monster. It sounds bizarre, but doing such intense facial transformations intrigued me like no other. That week I experimented with new looks, and brought my own creativity into it, which was my favorite part about it; this new form of makeup allowed me to express my creativity in ways that traditional makeup couldn’t.
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Soon enough, I was doing fX makeup almost everyday after school, and for years in the future looking forward to October. I advertised and got paid to do local haunted houses and individual halloween looks, at one point even seeing myself pursuing this as a career in the future. Today, I still pursue fX makeup as a hobby, and every October I go back into a full-swing of doing new looks every few days, and loving every second of it.
