To celebrate Halloween, the talented makeup team behind Broadway’s Tony-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch turned me into the eponymous queer rock star. Here’s a step-by-step guide to the process.
Before each performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, now running at New York's Belasco Theatre, hair and makeup designer Mike Potter and assistant hair and makeup designer Nicole Bridgeford turn the show's leading man into glittery rock goddess Hedwig Schmidt. John Cameron Mitchell took on the role in the 2001 film, which he and composer Stephen Trask adapted from the stage production they had created, and the current Broadway run has seen Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, and now Michael C. Hall donning the iconic wig and blue eyeshadow.
For the purposes of BuzzFeed's Hedwig makeup tutorial, Potter and Bridgeford were kind enough to use my face as their canvas.
Below are step-by-step instructions to becoming Hedwig, and you'll find a list of recommended supplies at the bottom. Use it for the perfect Halloween costume, or really, whenever you feel like being fabulous. Note that while you can do this yourself, it really helps to have someone do it for you — so go out there and find your other half.
Cover your eyebrows with a glue stick.
You're going to get brand new eyebrows, so you want to get your real ones totally covered. We'll move on to concealing them in a bit — for now, you just want to let that glue dry. Bridgeford is using a simple Elmer's glue stick here.
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Apply foundation to the face, and use a concealer stick to cover any stubble.
If you have very little facial hair, like I do, this will be one of the easiest steps! Your preferred foundation and concealer will do the trick here.
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Draw on new eyebrows.
Don't worry that your own glued-down eyebrows are still showing — they'll be gone soon. Hedwig has very distinctive eyebrows, so try to match those while also taking your face shape into account. Potter sketched mine out with pencil, and then Bridgeford went over them in black MAC Creme liner.
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