This Halloween, artistry gets an eerie edge. The Broken Doll look blends beauty and distortion soft porcelain skin meets fractured details, with pastel eyes and a deep, haunting lip.
Created using pro-level MYKITCO tools and a mix of high-performance products, this look transforms timeless elegance into something wonderfully unsettling. Whether you’re a makeup artist, content creator, or Halloween enthusiast, here’s how to achieve this hauntingly beautiful transformation step by step.
💀 The Inspiration: Porcelain Beauty with a Twist
The Broken Doll aesthetic is inspired by the porcelain dolls of the 18th century delicate, decorative, and unnervingly perfect. For this version, we took that historical beauty and added a modern, editorial spin: cracked detailing, feather accessories, and a powdered finish that’s both haunting and high fashion.
Think Marie Antoinette meets makeup artistry madness pretty, precise, and just a little bit cracked.
🧰 What You’ll Need: Brushes & Products
🖌️ MYKITCO Tools
Perfect for smoothing and setting all powder formulas. The soft synthetic fibres evenly distribute product for a flawless, airbrushed finish ideal for locking in your porcelain base.
Precision perfected. This ultra-fine liner brush allows for controlled, detailed line work essential for painting those intricate “crack” details across the face.
The ultimate tool for defining and filling lips with control. Its flat, synthetic tip ensures even coverage and crisp edges.
A velvety powder puff that presses product seamlessly into the skin, delivering that doll-like matte finish.
💄 Makeup Products
- Danessa Myricks Vision Cream Cover – full coverage and easy to blend, ideal for building that porcelain-perfect base.
- RCMA Loose Powder – pressed in with the MY PLUSH PUFFS for a soft-focus, airbrushed finish.
- Danessa Myricks Colorfix – a budge-proof lip pigment, perfect for crisp, long-lasting definition.
- BPerfect Eyeshadow Palette – use soft violet-blue tones (avoid green undertones) for that vintage “duck-egg blue” eye look.
- Glue Stick (brow blocking) – to flatten and disguise natural brows before redrawing them in a doll-like shape.
- Water-activated black eyeliner – to create realistic porcelain cracks using MY FELINER (262).
👻 Step-by-Step: How to Create the Broken Doll Look
Step 1: Build a Porcelain Base
Start by applying Danessa Myricks Vision Cream Cover evenly over the skin using a sponge or brush. Focus on achieving a full-coverage, satin finish you want to mimic the smooth, flawless surface of porcelain.
Set everything in place using RCMA Loose Powder, pressed in with the MY PLUSH PUFF. The puff’s velvety texture ensures your base looks soft, matte, and completely airbrushed a flawless canvas for what comes next.
Pro Tip: Use your MY FLAWLESS POWDER (140) brush to sweep away excess powder and refine texture. This brush gives you precision and control while maintaining that doll-like smoothness.
Step 2: Block & Redraw the Brows
To achieve the wide-eyed doll effect, block your brows completely with a standard glue stick, then set with powder. Once smooth and dry, cover with Vision Cream Cover for a seamless finish.
Redraw your brows higher and thinner using a pencil or shadow to create that exaggerated, innocent expression typical of classic dolls.
Step 3: Create the Doll Eyes
Dip into your BPerfect Eyeshadow Palette and blend a soft violet-blue tone across the lid avoiding any green undertones to keep the look vintage and authentic.
Extend the shadow outward and slightly downward beneath the lower lash line to exaggerate the eye shape. Add highlight to the inner corners and brow bone for that wide, open-eyed illusion.
Finish with dramatic lashes and liner to define and lift the eyes.
Step 4: Paint the Cracks
This is the signature detail of the look the “broken porcelain” effect.
Activate your black water liner and use MY FELINER (262) to draw fine, jagged lines from the centre of the face outward. Keep the cracks irregular and organic for realism.
The precision of MY FELINER (262) allows for total control perfect for thin, sharp lines that branch naturally across the forehead and cheeks.
Pro Tip: Less is more. A few well-placed cracks make a bigger impact than over-detailing.
Step 5: Blush & Finish
Apply a soft, pink-toned blush high on the apples of the cheeks. This pop of colour contrasts beautifully with the pale base, giving that doll-like flush. Use MY FLAWLESS POWDER (140) again to diffuse edges for a seamless blend.
Add highlighter sparingly to the tops of the cheeks and nose for a gentle glow think glass skin, not glitter.
Step 6: Define the Lips
Apply Danessa Myricks Colorfix using MY CLASSIC LIP (500). This brush gives you that clean, defined edge that completes the doll aesthetic.
Choose a rich, deep shade for contrast something vampy and bold that won’t budge through the night. Colorfix dries down matte and stays locked in, making it ideal for long wear at parties or shoots.
🪩 Finishing Touches
Complete your look with pearl accessories, a lace collar, or a feather fan to echo that 18th-century luxury. A powdered wig or high-piled hairstyle adds theatrical flair perfect for photos or editorial content.
🧡 MYKITCO Artist Insight
“This look is all about precision and contrast soft, flawless base meets fractured, detailed artistry. The MY FELINER was essential for achieving those ultra-fine cracks, while MY FLAWLESS POWDER made the base look airbrushed in every light.”
— James Molloy, MYKITCO Co-Founder & Celebrity Makeup Artist
🖤 Final Thoughts
This Halloween, go beyond spooky go sculptural. The Broken Doll Look is the perfect fusion of beauty and fear, brought to life by artistry, precision, and the tools that make it all possible.
Share your version using #mykitcohalloween and tag @mykitco for a chance to be featured on our socials. Let your makeup crack beautifully.
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