After Halloween Guide: How to Remove Makeup, Face Paint, Fake Blood & Body Glue from Skin & Clothing

Becoming someone else for Halloween is a lot of fun, but it can take a ton of tools to accomplish. An elaborate costume can require you to slather yourself in all kinds of makeup, paints, and glues, and putting it on is only half the work. The real fun starts when the party’s over, and you have to remove it all. Mat McDermott/Flickr Every product has different ingredients, so the way you wash it off will differ from one to another. Some are as easy as washing your face, and others may require you to use something a little more potent than water. But before you try anything… Read the Label FirstAs the FDA suggests, the best place to start is to read the label on a product and see if it has instructions for how to wash it off. If they tell you what to use on the bottle, that’s probably your best bet. But some of them don’t give you any hints as to what will remove that particular type of gunk from your skin. As annoying as it is, going to bed in your costume makeup just isn’t an…more