Take Your Basic Halloween Costume And Make It Amazing

We're all about Halloween beauty this week. Okay so you don't want to fork out for all the Gladrags required for a head-to-toe costume; you'd prefer to work with what you've got. Well just about everyone could pull together something that resembles a school girl. It's a tired, typical fancy-dress idea but here's how to make it fresh, terrifying and put you in the running for best dressed at whatever soiree you find yourself at. Ellinor Rosander is known to YouTube fans as Ellimacs, and her special FX tutorial here, in which she demonstrates how to make it look like you've had a pencil shoved through your nose - blood and all - has been doing the rounds among beauty bloggers once again, despite the fact that it was first filmed back in 2014. 

Take a look, we've certainly been inspired to add a little gore to our Britney Spears impersonation. 

Here's another one, just in case that one didn't freak you out enough...