Here’s How to Do Galaxy Makeup For Halloween

Spacing out on how to dress up for Halloween? Take a page from Instagram, and try galaxy makeup. Both professional and amateur makeup artists have been covering their faces with constellations, and the results are out-of-this-world cool.

The idea is to dust the middle of your face (from your brow bones to your eyes to the bridge of your nose) with purple, blue, and pink eye shadows (try the shimmer-filled Urban Decay Moondust Palette) to look like a night sky. Then, you draw stars along your cheeks with white liquid eye liner. (NYX's aptly named White Liquid Liner is always a good option.)

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PopSugar reports that we have artist Qinni, known on Instagram as @Qinniart, to thank for the celestial-inspired makeup trend. Last year, she posted a picture of a watercolor painting of a girl with galactic freckles with the words, "Her face was like the night sky...you could almost trace out the constellations with her star-like freckles."

Months later, the intergalactic look took over everyone's Instagram feeds with real-life interpretations of astronomical proportions, and the trend hasn't slowed down since. Here are some of my favorite galaxy makeup looks.

You can cover more than just your cheeks with a starry night, too.

Now that I have Fenty Beauty's Galaxy Eyeshadow Palette, it's only right that I break it in with a galaxy makeup look for Halloween. I have two cousins named after constellations — here's looking at you, Orion and Lyra! — so I just have to decide who I want to give a shout out to on my face. (Orion did buy me dinner recently.)

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