The Art of Gaga's Evil Clown Makeup: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this installment of Lady Gaga-themed makeup tutorials, we're taking inspiration from the pop star's infamous "Crazy Clown" look. Our artist, Nikki, is walking us through a step-by-step guide on how to create this eye-catching and bold makeup design.

The Look Begins with Coverage

Nikki starts by applying Cryin TV paint stick in number white (number 70) to her face, using it to highlight and give dimension to her features. She emphasizes the need for imperfection in this look, encouraging viewers not to strive for perfection. The Cryin paint stick adds a sense of crispness and cleanliness to the overall design.

Next, Nikki focuses on defining her eyes with a black eyeshadow. She selects Sugar Pills Bulletproof as her base product and uses it to create a round, oval shape around her nose trick. This is an essential part of creating the look's signature "clown" effect. The makeup artist then takes a Makeup Forever flash color palette and experiments with different shades, particularly yellow and silver, to add depth and dimension to her eyes.

The Eyes Take Center Stage

Nikki emphasizes that this look is all about messy fun, so she chooses to blend colors together rather than creating a sharp, defined shape. She focuses on the yellow as the primary pop-out color, applying it to highlight points and spots where she wants it to stand out. The black eyeshadow is used sparingly to create depth and definition around the eyes.

To add an extra layer of drama to her look, Nikki sculpts her cheeks with Ilasa powder blush in a "clown-like" shape. She darkens this look with Bulletproof by Sugar Pill, creating a bold and eye-catching effect. To further enhance the look's edginess, she mixes some Love Plus red eyeshadow from Sugar Pill into her blend.

Getting Crazy

Nikki encourages viewers to not be too perfect with their makeup application; instead, aim for a splotchy, messy look that captures the essence of Gaga's "Crazy Clown" persona. She takes a mini fan brush and begins applying the Makeup Forever flesh color palette – focusing on gold, silver, and yellow shades – to create an almost chaotic effect.

To define her brow bone, Nikki uses Mac acrylic paint in black. She lines up her eyebrows with precision and creates a sharp, defined shape that complements the rest of the design. This is an essential part of creating the look's signature "Gaga-esque" brow.

Moving on to the Lips

For this makeup tutorial, Nikki selects Prince Newr by Mac as her lip color. She applies it liberally to create a bold, eye-catching effect. To finish off the look, she takes Elizabeth Ardan's 8 Hour cream and adds an abundance of gloss to her lips, eyeballs, and brow bone.

Finishing Touches

In this final section, Nikki emphasizes the importance of adding shiny, glossy finishes to her makeup design. She applies more Makeup Forever flesh color palette to enhance her overall look, using it to blend out any harsh lines or edges.

The Look is Complete!

As the tutorial comes to a close, Nikki shows off her finished "Crazy Clown" makeup design, complete with bold eyeliner, darkening eye shadow, and a radiant lip gloss. This look is not for the faint of heart; it's meant to be edgy and attention-grabbing.

A Special Message

Nikki concludes by thanking viewers for watching and invites them to visit her website for more tutorials and product information. She will be sharing installment number two in this Lady Gaga-themed makeup series soon, so stay tuned!

For those interested in recreating this look at home, Nikki provides a list of products used in the tutorial on her website, which can also be found by following her on social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello guys welcome to Lady Gaga Applause week here on Nikki tutorials welcome to day number one of the three days welcome to this bat chick crazy look which I absolutely love welcome today I'm going to do my first Applause look and this is the evil sort of Gano messy clown look so yeah without any further Ado if you want to know how to get this Lady Gaga Applause evil clown messy artsy clown look then please keep on watching so there's going to be a lot of Stu throughout this video but please just look at what I'm doing and just kind of take notes from that I won't be able to tell you everything that I'm doing because it's sort of like gut feeling as well just kind of doing what feels good um so that's just a little disclaimer so I'm going to start off by making my entire face white sort of like this clownish white because that is what Gaga was wearing as well now there are two products that I suggest you can use this fine Pro Extreme color art in white sensation and this is one of those water activated sort of paints so I'm actually going to do my base with this and then when I have a couple of like uneven Spots I'm going to take my cryolin TV paint stick in number 70 which is white and then just dab it over and then set it all with powder so the base is applied with my f her Extreme color art in white sensation and now I'm going to perfect sort of the coverage with my cryolin TV paint stick in number white number white number 70 so I'm almost kind of highlighting my face with the pain sck by Cryin to give it more Dimension and of course more of that white feeling but still will give my face some structure now it's time for the eyes now I won't be able to talk a lot throughout this because it's really just sort of playing with it what I can tell you is that I'm going to make my fundament my base with a black eyeshadow and for that I will be using sugar pills bulletproof and I'm just going to Define my eyes in a really round oval way and especially around the nose trick and after that I'm just going to take my makeup forever flash color palette and just play with the yellow and the silver and the gold and this look is all about messy fun so the main color that pops out along with the black is the yellow so I just placed the yellow on the Highlight points and just spots where I wanton it basically and now it's time for the black sorry and I noticed that on one side the black was really going down into her nose line so doing that as well so I like to go with powders first and work with wet products sort of greasy products last so I'm going to cheeks now and I'm going to sculpt and sort of make a clown esque cheek with my uh ilasa powder blush and kiss and then I'm going to darken it up with Bulletproof by Sugar Pill again then I'm going to mix some love plus red eyes Shadow from sugar pill in it and even some pink again just have fun with it BL BL BL oh my God we're getting there it's really starting to look like Gaga's crazy clown taking a little bit of black and going bat crazy and again don't be too perfect with this if it's splotchy and not well Blended that's what you're going for Gaga with this evil clown look it's not supposed to look like Perfection it's supposed to look like art it's supposed to look like you had like the time of your life and you got you got dick slapped in the face by a clown the time has come for the awesomeness that I call the makeup forever flesh color palette I'm just going to take the gold and the silver and the yellow and what I'm going to do is take a brush like I'm going to take a mini fan brush and just go crazy with this this already is crazy there's no stopping now just go for it this is awesome I love this going to take some of the white and brush that through a little bit of my brows because she had some brow whiteness going on going in the black I'm just going to run this along the lid and just grease it up all up that nose line crease go for it going to take the silver and mix that on The Middle of the lid and blend it with the black to make it messy again and then you can always take more black and take away any silver that you do not want there some of the gold will be applied to the inner Corners now I'm going to add the sort of Gano Dior inspired wonky eye brow I'm going to take this Mac acrylic paint in black black and take an eyeliner brush and all you literally want to do is Bam and now it's time for the lips and what I'm going to use for that is Prince newr by Mac and just apply this to the lips and go crazy I'm sorry the perfectionist in me couldn't deal with it I changed the brow I didn't like the other one to finish this entire look off I'm going to take my Elizabeth ardan 8 Hour cream put loads and shits of gloss on my lips on my eyeballs and even a little bit up until the brow bone just to give it all that really nice shiny glossy finish I looked really disturbing when I did that on the lid so because I don't have the black headband I just take a pajama shirt and just you can do this with it like do what Gaga was wearing oh she didn't left the ears out you can do that you can sort of sculpt it as if you have nice cartoonish black hair I kind of like it like this so that ladies and gentlemen is installment number one for Lady Gaga Applause week here on Nikki tutorials so thank you guys so much for watching for a full list of every single product use go to my website Nikki tutorial.com you can follow me on Twitter Instagram Facebook K and find that all is Nikki tutorials I'm going to wash my face now thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys in a couple of days for installment number two bye-byehello guys welcome to Lady Gaga Applause week here on Nikki tutorials welcome to day number one of the three days welcome to this bat chick crazy look which I absolutely love welcome today I'm going to do my first Applause look and this is the evil sort of Gano messy clown look so yeah without any further Ado if you want to know how to get this Lady Gaga Applause evil clown messy artsy clown look then please keep on watching so there's going to be a lot of Stu throughout this video but please just look at what I'm doing and just kind of take notes from that I won't be able to tell you everything that I'm doing because it's sort of like gut feeling as well just kind of doing what feels good um so that's just a little disclaimer so I'm going to start off by making my entire face white sort of like this clownish white because that is what Gaga was wearing as well now there are two products that I suggest you can use this fine Pro Extreme color art in white sensation and this is one of those water activated sort of paints so I'm actually going to do my base with this and then when I have a couple of like uneven Spots I'm going to take my cryolin TV paint stick in number 70 which is white and then just dab it over and then set it all with powder so the base is applied with my f her Extreme color art in white sensation and now I'm going to perfect sort of the coverage with my cryolin TV paint stick in number white number white number 70 so I'm almost kind of highlighting my face with the pain sck by Cryin to give it more Dimension and of course more of that white feeling but still will give my face some structure now it's time for the eyes now I won't be able to talk a lot throughout this because it's really just sort of playing with it what I can tell you is that I'm going to make my fundament my base with a black eyeshadow and for that I will be using sugar pills bulletproof and I'm just going to Define my eyes in a really round oval way and especially around the nose trick and after that I'm just going to take my makeup forever flash color palette and just play with the yellow and the silver and the gold and this look is all about messy fun so the main color that pops out along with the black is the yellow so I just placed the yellow on the Highlight points and just spots where I wanton it basically and now it's time for the black sorry and I noticed that on one side the black was really going down into her nose line so doing that as well so I like to go with powders first and work with wet products sort of greasy products last so I'm going to cheeks now and I'm going to sculpt and sort of make a clown esque cheek with my uh ilasa powder blush and kiss and then I'm going to darken it up with Bulletproof by Sugar Pill again then I'm going to mix some love plus red eyes Shadow from sugar pill in it and even some pink again just have fun with it BL BL BL oh my God we're getting there it's really starting to look like Gaga's crazy clown taking a little bit of black and going bat crazy and again don't be too perfect with this if it's splotchy and not well Blended that's what you're going for Gaga with this evil clown look it's not supposed to look like Perfection it's supposed to look like art it's supposed to look like you had like the time of your life and you got you got dick slapped in the face by a clown the time has come for the awesomeness that I call the makeup forever flesh color palette I'm just going to take the gold and the silver and the yellow and what I'm going to do is take a brush like I'm going to take a mini fan brush and just go crazy with this this already is crazy there's no stopping now just go for it this is awesome I love this going to take some of the white and brush that through a little bit of my brows because she had some brow whiteness going on going in the black I'm just going to run this along the lid and just grease it up all up that nose line crease go for it going to take the silver and mix that on The Middle of the lid and blend it with the black to make it messy again and then you can always take more black and take away any silver that you do not want there some of the gold will be applied to the inner Corners now I'm going to add the sort of Gano Dior inspired wonky eye brow I'm going to take this Mac acrylic paint in black black and take an eyeliner brush and all you literally want to do is Bam and now it's time for the lips and what I'm going to use for that is Prince newr by Mac and just apply this to the lips and go crazy I'm sorry the perfectionist in me couldn't deal with it I changed the brow I didn't like the other one to finish this entire look off I'm going to take my Elizabeth ardan 8 Hour cream put loads and shits of gloss on my lips on my eyeballs and even a little bit up until the brow bone just to give it all that really nice shiny glossy finish I looked really disturbing when I did that on the lid so because I don't have the black headband I just take a pajama shirt and just you can do this with it like do what Gaga was wearing oh she didn't left the ears out you can do that you can sort of sculpt it as if you have nice cartoonish black hair I kind of like it like this so that ladies and gentlemen is installment number one for Lady Gaga Applause week here on Nikki tutorials so thank you guys so much for watching for a full list of every single product use go to my website Nikki tutorial.com you can follow me on Twitter Instagram Facebook K and find that all is Nikki tutorials I'm going to wash my face now thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you guys in a couple of days for installment number two bye-bye\n"