Halloween is your annual invitation to exercise creative freedom when it comes to your hair and makeup. On this night, there are no rules. So when deciding on your costume, who better to take inspiration from than the original rule breakers: the artists.
Andy Warhol saw Marilyn Monroe’s ubiquitous image as an opportunity for daubed-on, neon re-creation—an emboldened approach you could borrow to ensure your likeness is one of a kind no matter how many Monroe imitators show up at your party in a white silk dress. Makeup enthusiasts can take a cue from Pablo Picasso’s muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in Girl Before a Mirror, who predated the clown contour movement with unblended foundation and didn’t skimp on lipstick, blush, or green eyeshadow, to boot.
For the art-world equivalent of the sexy kitten, look no further than Adele Bloch-Bauer I, who has unapologetically invited a lingering gaze for more than a century. Enveloped in Klimt’s gold symbols of fertility, she boasts a post-coital flush and bedhead enlivened with what looks like an early form of dry shampoo. Instantly recognizable and easily replicated with the right beauty tools, paintings from Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring to Gainsborough’s Lady in Blue will guarantee a signature and successful Halloween. Let’s put it this way: Why be a fleeting pop culture moment when you can be an icon?
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