Hair metal bands were a hallmark of 1980s rock.
Exploding onto stages with big hair, lots of makeup and the occasional animal print pants, 1980s hair metal band's styles were as loud and wild as their music. Say what you will about the look, it was fun. Creating 1980s metal makeup and hair is both easy and fun to do for someone looking for a quick costume.
Instructions
Metal Hair from the 1980s
1. Put on the long hair wig if you don't have long hair of your own. Use your own long hair if you have it.
2. Take a few strands of hair from the front and spray these with hair spray.
3. Hold the hair-sprayed hair by its tip and tease by vigorously running the brush from tip to scalp until it has lots of volume.
4. Continue these steps with other strands of hair until all the hair is standing like 1980s hair metal bands. Add some glitter to accent this hair if you want.
Metal Makeup from the 1980s
5. Add two coats of foundation to your face with the foundation brush.
6. Apply blush over your cheeks using the blush brush. How you apply the blush will depend on what type of metal look you want to convey. Apply the blush specifically to the indents of your face (i.e. the bottoms of your cheeks, temples, etc.) to have an outer space look. Apply blush on your cheek bones for a more traditional hair metal look.
7. Add eyeliner to the top and bottom of your eyes. Add teal eye shadow to your top and bottom eyelids using an eye shadow brush. Add orange eye shadow from just below your eye brows to the teal eye shadow. Extend this orange eye shadow beyond your eye lids towards your ear and hair line on either side.
8. Add the silver eye shadow to your temples, cheek bone and jaw area.
9. Add the red lipstick. Add glitter to your face (make sure you close your eyes when applying).
