From David Bowie to Gwen Stefani, the Best Musician-Inspired Halloween Costumes Are All About the Beauty

This Halloween, instead of standing in exhaustive lines or scrolling through pages of stomach-turning incorrect costumes, why not simply open your makeup bag and unearth a bottle of hairspray from the back of your medicine cabinet? Paying dead-ringer homage to your favorite musical icon is as simple as flipping through your playlists for inspiration and choosing a pitch-perfect shade of lipstick to match.

Fans of face paint—and group getups—could look to Kiss, whose white-washed complexions were ever-elevated by graphic, over-the-top touches of black paint that framed eyes, brows, and lips alike. Debbie Harry’s namesake mane is easily achievable with heady doses of dry shampoo, the look further defined by a smudging of extended onyx liner; while Courtney Love’s mussed blonde is individualized by way of spidery lashes, crimson lips, and a tiara topper.

Graphic pops of pigment can turn holiday revelers into either Grace Jones or Boy George—the separation found in application, accessories, and trademark ’dos—just as similarly striking liner (and a static-shocked mane) instantly echoes Siouxsie Sioux. Gwen Stefani’s cotton candy blue, double-knotted chop, and facial adornments; Madonna’s bouncy blonde ponytail and power brow; Tina Turner’s out-to-there hair; Marilyn Manson’s off-kilter color contacts—all costumes that require attention focused above-the-neck. And those wishing to honor David Bowie this season are invited to channel Ziggy Stardust’s otherworldly air by way of cosmic-inspired metallic additions, washes of eyeshadow and blush, gilded lips, and—if you dare—burnished mullets. Here, 11 musicians who prove icon-inspired Halloween costumes are all about the beauty.

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