There are days you might want to skip work, school, or an event, so you need to pretend to fall sick. Makeup can help you achieve a really sick look. It will make your skin look sallow and unhealthy.
This is exactly what you’re going for when you want to portray yourself as someone who has had the flu recently. Let’s dive right into tips to look sick with makeup.
How to Look Sick With Makeup
These simple makeup tricks will have you looking sick like a pro in no time.
1. Sculpt Facial Features
1. Start with a clean face
To create a sickly effect, start by cleaning your face. Ensure you get rid of all makeup till you achieve a clean face. To achieve a sickly face, you don’t need perfectly carved brows and neatly done eyeliner. Instead, exfoliate and moisturize your skin in preparation for the application of other products.
2. Apply primer under your foundation
Apply primer before using foundation. This will help the foundation and other products sit on your face longer. Choose a primer that addresses specific concerns, such as pore-minimizing or hydrating formulas, to achieve the desired sickly complexion. Apply a thin layer of primer evenly onto the skin after moisturizing, focusing on areas where makeup tends to fade or crease.
3. Use a foundation that is 2-3 shades lighter than your natural shade
Using a foundation that is 2-3 shades lighter than your natural skin tone, coat your cheeks, chin, and brow. Next, use two shades of foundation to create smudges under your eyes to make them appear hollow and sunken. To do that, blend a lighter shade into the inner corner of your eyes and blend a darker shade into the outer corners.
If you’re unsure about which foundation to use, start with a shade closer to your skin tone and work your way up.
4. Contour your cheeks to create hollow look
Next, contour your cheeks to make your sick face look more believable. Add an extra layer of drama, by using contouring powder to darken your temples and jawline so it looks like you’ve lost weight over time. This will give you the appearance of sunken cheeks and a skeletal face.
5. Use bronzer to create sickly effect
Dab a brush of bronzer or highlighter on your forehead, cheeks, chin, and jawline to seal the skeletal look created by contour. Use a brush with a rounded tip for small areas like under the eyes or around the mouth, but use a flat brush for larger areas like your cheeks or forehead.
Also, create shadows on the sides of your nose, under your eyes and those areas of your face that would naturally appear darker if you were sick.
6. Create pale chapped lips
Apply some foundation on your lips. Go further into the sides and inside corners of the lips. Afterward, apply a nude lipstick that is a few shades lighter than your natural lip color on the entire lips.
2. Accentuate the Eyes
1. Create dark circles under your eyes
Begin by smudging the corner of your eyes with mauve or bluish eyeshadow to simulate dark circles. If you don’t have any of these colours, apply a neutral eyeshadow that is a shade darker than your normal skin tone to create neutral looking dark circles.
2. Emphasize a swollen circle around your eyes
You already have dark circles but you need to accentuate them. To achieve this look, take up some red blush, eyeshadow, or lipstick with your fingertip and place it in a corner beside your eyelids. Blend it gently along the rim of your eyes with your fingertip or cotton to accentuate your dark eye bags
3. Create eye bags
Next, apply a darker shade of eyeshadow or eyeliner to your eye bags. Use an angled eyeliner brush or liner brush with stiff bristles to apply the product in an upward motion from the outer corner of your eye toward the inner corner. This will make your eye bag look bigger and darker than it actually is.
Finally, add some blush under your eyes so that they look even more sunken than they already do. Add extra mascara on the lower lashes to make them appear darker and heavier than usual.
4. Use blush to create a tired look
Gently blush up for a pale, washed-out look and make your skin appear more translucent. For best result avoid, avoid concentration of blush. Otherwise, you risk looking like you’re wearing too much makeup.
Use a powder blush instead of a cream blush so you can get more control over how much color gets on your face. Dab a little reddish cream blush around the tip of the nose. Use a light hand if you want it to look sore but not clown-red. Also, use blush on the upper tip of your lip to make it look swollen and raw from constant coughing.
5. Create a sunken look
To get sunken look, use brown eyeshadow along the sides of your nose and across your nostrils to create a sunken appearance. Also, add color to the hollows under your cheekbones by applying blush just above them with the nostrils.
6. Use eye drops to create an illusion of teary and puffy eyes
Add a few normal saline drops to your eyes and blink several times. to give the runny or teary appearance of a sick person. Saline is safe to use without causing any irritation. It will temporarily puff up your eyes as if you have severe allergies. Take care not to use so much that you cry.
3. Choose Complementary Hairstyles
1. Go for messy or disheveled hairstyle
To contribute to the sickly aesthetic, opt for hairstyles that complement the makeup look, such as messy or disheveled styles. Consider incorporating elements like bedhead texture, tousled waves, or unkempt braids to evoke a sense of fatigue or illness. Avoid overly polished or pristine hairstyles.
2. Spritz a dewy setting spray
Finish your makeup by spritzing some dewy setting spray. A setting spray will keep your makeup from smudging or becoming too light. Furthermore, the setting spray will add luster to your entire makeup look. As a result, it would elevate the eye and make it appear more realistic.
To achieve a sickly appearance without makeup, consider using cool spoons to mimic under-eye circles and applying a green-tinted moisturizer for a pallid complexion.
FAQ
How do I achieve a sickly appearance without makeup?
To achieve a sickly appearance without makeup, consider using cool spoons to mimic under-eye circles and applying a green-tinted moisturizer for a pallid complexion. You can also wash your face with cold water to give pale effect.
How to look sick with makeup
To achieve a sickly appearance with makeup, start by applying a light foundation or face paint to create a pale complexion. Emphasize under-eye circles using dark eyeshadow and blend it well to achieve a tired look.
Final Thought
Once you are done with the sick makeup look, avoid touching your face as much as possible. This can ruin your makeup, revealing that it is false and wasting all of your efforts. However, whatever you do, don’t go overboard. Overdoing the makeup may get you busted because it appears overdone and unnatural. To make sure that the makeup looks realistic, go through each step carefully.
