For Halloween enthusiasts who want to go all-out ghoul with a touch of girliness, a calavera (also called a "sugar skull" because ... Mix a black and purple face paint or cream shadow (Blair ...

"Day of the Dead is about celebrating your deceased loved ones," says Judith Bautista, an artist who specializes in sugar skull face-painting. "This is a topic that can be relatable to anybody.

Calavera – Sugar skulls that are created to resemble the deceased. Do you want to try face painting? Rios has some advice. “There’s no right or wrong way,” she said. “As long as it’s a ...

It is a celebration of life, with pageantry, traditional music and dance, storytelling and puppetry, paper maché artistry, sugar skull and mask making, face painting, special foods and more.

Families or friends use the days to gather with one another to construct an altar, visit the graves of loved ones, use paint to create a skull-like figure on their face, dress up, make sugar ...