How to dress up as Catrina

This Halloween or Carnival dazzles everyone with an original costume that, besides, is very feminine! Yes, we talk about Catrina's costume (or also known as " Mexican skull "), a dress in which makeup has a great importance because it plays with colors and elements that move between the gloomy and beauty. If this year you want to know how to disguise yourself as Catrina, in the following article we are going to discover the steps you must follow to show off an ideal costume for your party. With simple tricks you will learn to make your own homemade costume with which you will be spectacularly beautiful, do we try it?

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You can buy your mexican skull costume or learn to do it yourself at home. If you opt for this second option, you should know that one of the most important elements of this dress is, without a doubt, makeup. For this reason, we will start talking about how makeup has to be to disguise yourself as Catrina and achieve a perfect result, take note!

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Although there are many variations regarding the makeup of the Catrina costume, the truth is that there are some common points that are decisive for this costume:

• All the white face : you must paint all your face with white makeup so that you are completely covered in this color. If you want, you can only make up the face without painting your neck and, thus, make a mask effect.
• The nose painted black : it is another of the essential points of the makeup of the Mexican skull. The design you give to this part of the face may be the one you want, although usually a black diamond is drawn on the tip of the nose.
• Highlighted eyes : to emulate that your face is that of a skull, we must also mark the black eye cavity. Here you can be as creative as you want since you can make the contour have a flower shape, put glitter, combine several colors with black, and so on.
• Scarred mouth: and the last essential element so that your costume is the one we are looking for is that, in addition to painting your lips (it may be the same white with which you have covered your skin, black or red) draw a straight line that occupies your cheeks. Above it you should make two or three vertical stripes emulating scars.

In this video we will show you how to make up your Mexican skull .

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Within your makeup of Catrina you can add some personalized elements and that go to the taste of each person. For example, you can combine different colors besides black and red (which are the traditional disguise) and dare with more vivid and striking tones such as, for example, pink, blue, lilac, and so on.

There are also women who perform some detail or decorative motif in the chin area such as, for example, a flower, a tribal, a heart, etc .; drawing that highlights femininity and brings a sweet touch to makeup. The same happens with the area of ​​the forehead that many women also choose to make up with some tribal element or with the drawing of a spider's web.

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Once we have the makeup ready, it's time to start thinking about the dress. In general, you should know that the basic colors of Catrina are red, black and white and that, being a woman that represents death, aesthetics will always have Gothic reminiscences. Anyway, we find costumes that also incorporate other more striking colors such as pink, yellow, among others and, equally, they will fit perfectly with your suit!

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In order to disguise as Catrina it is important that you look for a skirt that is black or red and, yes, that has a bit of flight because we look for a dark image. While the skirt is flared, the top of the suit should be as tight as possible and, if you can, buy a corset to further fit your waist. If it is black, it will be enough, we only want it to be fitted and to mark your curves well.

You also have another option: take a black shirt that you have old and draw a human skeleton . If it is long-sleeved, you can also draw the bones on the arms with white paint and let it dry for at least 2 hours before putting it on. In we tell you how to disguise yourself as a skeleton.

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The legs of the costume can be covered with black stockings (thick or transparent, as you prefer!) Or, also, you can take advantage of this part of the body to draw the bones that we have in the lower extremities. Of course: to enhance your female figure and enhance your body we recommend that, on your feet, wear shoes with a heel or platform as, thus, you will get to stylize your figure and be perfect.

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And finally, we are going to talk about the hairstyle of the Mexican skull costume . Surely you have noticed that all of them are always dressed with large and colorful flowers scattered through their hair. This is an essential element for the suit and, therefore, you will not be able to do without it if you want a 100% flattering result.

There are many hairstyles that you can do for this costume but the simplest of all is to choose to wear the hair floor and put different large clip or hairpin flowers in the area of ​​the bangs or as if it were a band running through the head. You can opt for red flowers or, also, for a mixture of bright and bold colors.

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If you want an original hairstyle, a great option for this suit is that you opt for peintarte sideways, that is, move all your hair to one side of your body (picking well the hair of the collected part) and fill all your hair with flowers big and showy This look is perfect for women with longer and more lush hair.

If you have short hair, the best thing you can do is leave it on the ground or, alternatively, make yourself a semi-contracted by giving volume to the top of the head with a card. In this other article we tell you how to pile your hair so you can wear your Catrina costume in the best way.