Woman looks unrecognisable after terrifying Halloween make-up transformation

A woman has amazed her TikTok followers with her incredible makeup skills as she shared 31 different spooky looks on the run-up to Halloween - which can take her up to seven hours to create with prosthetics

Halloween is the time of year where people can get seriously creative - and one woman has stunned people with her impressive makeup transformations.

Trinity Rudman, 23, really puts her artistic talents to the test as she takes up to seven hours at a time to create the looks with special makeup and prosthetics to create eerily realistic designs.

The childminder and self-taught makeup artist promised a 'big prosthetic' finale on October 31 for Halloween and has already created impressive looks including the clown from Terrifier, The Mad Hatter, Coraline and Beetlejuice. So far, she has created 31 different looks on the run-up to the big day.

The makeup whiz, from Durrington, Salisbury, turned to makeup as a coping mechanism when her dad passed away. She taught herself how to use water-activated face paint, special effects and prosthetics through YouTube tutorials, where makeup artists such as Patrick Star and Nikkie de Jager inspired her to get creative with bold looks.

"I'm not a very outgoing person, I'm not a very social person, which is why I think I tend to stay in and spend seven hours painting my face. That's what I want to do,'' Trinity explained. "I think it's hard to get original ideas for looks, especially around Halloween, as there are only so many iconic Halloween characters and that's what I love to do. I'll have the plan in front of me, I'll put some music on and normally I just kind of wing it," she added.

Her passion for experimenting with different makeup looks started in 2016 after her father, Gary, died from cancer aged 48 in 2015, and she found makeup to be a coping mechanism and a form of "therapy''. Trinity explained: "I watched YouTube videos by Patrick Starrr and NikkieTutorials (Nikkie de Jager) and those doing drag makeup.

"I was seeing a whole new world of crazy colours and people fully painting their faces - I thought it was really cool.'' She then started to share images of her makeup looks before she launched her TikTok account three years later. Beforehand she had always struggled to pluck up the confidence to post her full looks online.

Trinity explained: "I started with eye looks because I had anxiety of posting my face whole online, which took me a while to overcome. I started TikTok in 2019 and that's when I started getting really more out there and doing crazy looks, branching into prosthetics, special effects, wigs and costumes.''

This year, Trinity set herself the ultimate challenge to create 31 individual looks, sharing one each day on her TikTok page, in the run-up to Halloween. The planning started all the way back in June so she would have enough ideas to take her through the month and she started creating them at the beginning of September.

She quipped: "It's hard to come up with 31 separate makeup looks, which in my head, all need to be original and amazing and crazy." The most popular has been her handmade Demogorgon prosthetic from TV show Stranger Things, and one of her favourites was her Coraline creation.

"I was really proud of this one because I did yarn for half of my hair to make it look like half a doll. I was also very proud of the robot because that took so long, doing all of the details, and the butterfly skull is one of my favourites as well - it's hard to pick," she explained.

In her videos, the artist shares exactly how she creates each look, starting with a bare face and building up her terrifying creations until they are fully formed with fake blood, accessories and clothing items. She uses a mix of water-activated face paints, eyeshadows and props.

When she first started out she used lipsticks and eyeliner pencils, but has since advanced to water-activated face paints, or alcohol-activated face paints for looks with more special effects, cream-based face paints and eyeshadows. For the accessories, she will make sure the clothes and headwear are thoroughly thought about.

She will either order in specifically or rummage around in charity shops, and has built up a collection of 30 different wigs, several tiaras and mountains of jewellery. But it isn't a quick task creating her looks as they can vary from two hours to seven hours. "Some looks I can smash out in two hours but then you've got one like the robot, that was about seven hours,'' she recalled.

"The Demogorgon was a whole prosthetic I made from scratch and that took about three days to make by following YouTube tutorials to get a basic understanding of how they are made. For that, I used tin foil to get the basic shape, liquid latex and toilet paper, acrylic paint and fake blood, to make it.

"A few years ago I made a plaster cast mould of my face so I can build prosthetics onto my face without doing it on my actual face.'' Although she enjoys it, she said the response from her followers on TikTok and Instagram has been 'motivating' her to complete the challenge this October.

"My finale look on Halloween is a big prosthetic job, I'm not that experienced in prosthetics, but I've been really trying to incorporate them more and branch out,'' she said. "I'm completely teaching myself and winging it as I go and I've wanted to do this look for ages. I'm going to keep it a secret for now.''

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