Students from the Marinello School of Beauty gave their input on this year’s beauty fads and shared helpful tips to perfecting a Halloween costume.
Cosmetology student and former Bakersfield College student, Corrinna McCullough, shared what she has been doing for clients this Halloween season, including pixie and asymmetrical hair cuts as well as hair extensions.
“People who really want to get into their character by coloring their hair should be careful,” McCullough said. “If you only want to have your hair temporarily colored, look for containers that are labeled semi or temporary.
“For a more permanent color, I think it’s best if you get it done by someone who knows what they’re doing.”
McCullough believes her creativity with cosmetology comes from everything around her.
“I draw inspiration from song titles, lyrics, and get ideas from what I see and hear,” she said, giving an example of a recent client. “She wasn’t sure what she wanted but was going for a fairy theme, so I drew from ‘Good Girls Go Bad’ from Cobra Starship.”
The look involved shorter hair and using light and dark eye shadow.
“This year it seems pretty is in and gory is out,” she said.
Cosmetology student Esmeralda Botello also gave her personal tips.
“We had a Halloween contest and I was struggling to find an idea,” said Botello.
“I didn’t have the products I needed and I wanted to go with a zombie-type theme.
“I remember as a little kid playing with glue and how it would dry on my skin and I would have to peal it off. That gave me the inspiration to use Elmer’s Glue as dead skin.
“You apply the glue to your skin. Pick at the edges and put red eye shadow in the middle to give it that open wound look. Put dark colors around it gray or black, whatever you think will look good.
“If you wanted to make boils, an easy way is to mix oatmeal with glue, cover it with a dark eye shadow, or possibly nail polish if you want to get creative. Then just glue it on.
“The only problem I’ve had with that is, if I make it too big then I had to use more glue or repeatedly glue it back on.”
Botello described how she gave a client with acrylic nails a special manicure for her witch-themed look.
“I used nail clippers and cut the nails so they look jagged,” she said.
“Then [I applied] dark nail polish and red on the tips. That turned out really well,” said Botello.
Manicurists at Marinello can do many different designs and a lot of them can be made into a Halloween theme, including Minnie and Mickey mouse, ladybugs, and characters from ‘The Avengers.”