IN PICTURES: The Wirral make up artists creating 'drop dead' gorgeous looks for Halloween

So much so that some make up artists in Wirral are now booked up two years in advance.

It's thought the trend for a more extravagant look for parties around October 31 started with the James Bond film Spectre.

Mexican tourism officials were inspired by parts of the 2015 film, which were filmed in Mexico City and featured 007 chasing a villain through a Day of the Dead celebration in the historical centre, and as a result Mexico City held its first Day of the Dead parade, complete with floats, giant skeleton marionettes and more than 1,000 actors, dancers and acrobats in costumes last year.

And this year with Festival of the Dead shows in Liverpool and Manchester this month there's no sign of the sugar skull craze slowing anytime soon.

We took a look at some of the frightful creations on offer in Wirral this Halloween.

Click the gallery above to see Wirral make up artists' work and read more below:

Picture one:

Your name: Rachel Murray

Your age: 29

Area you live: Hoylake, Wirral

Name of your business: Rachel Murray Artistry

Instagram/Facebook/website: Instagram: @rachelllmurray / Facebook: Rachel Murray Artistry / Website: www.rachelmurrayartistry.com

How long you've been doing make up for: 8 years

Your favourite look for Halloween: Queen Arachne - a spider illusion creation

What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: I recently recreated a Glam Clown facechart by the talented @milk1422 from Instragram & this has been super popular with clients for Halloween weekend. However, classic spooky skeletons never to go out of style!

Picture two:

Your name: Caroline Robertson

Your age: 30

Area you live: Leasowe

Name of your business: Cazzadoodle Face Painting

Instagram/Facebook/website:

Www.facebook.com/cazzadoodlefacepainting

http://www.cazzadoodle.weebly.com/

How long you've been doing make up for: I have been doing face painting professionally for over 3 years

Your favourite look for Halloween: Sugar skulls, there are so many different looks you can do! Adding pops of colour, glitter and jewels to create an eye-catching unique design

What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: So far for me it has been The Joker! I think Pennywise clown will be popular for men with the IT movie reboot, definitely blinged sugar skulls for

women! 

Picture three:

Your name: Topaz Diable

Your age: 24

Area you live: Bebington 

Name of your business: Makeup By Topaz 

Instagram/Facebook/website: @makeupbytopaz_

How long you've been doing make up for: 6 years 

Your favourite look for Halloween: Halloween horror with a glam twist! Anything involving lots of colour and sparkles!

What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween:  Glitter skulls

Picture four:

Name: Lauren Callcott

Age: 23

Area I live: Oxton

Name of my business: 'Lauren Makeup Artist'

Facebook Link- www.facebook.com/laurenmakeupartist8

Instagram Link- www.instagram.com/laurenmakeupartist

Been doing makeup for- 5 years

My favourite Halloween look- Unzipped face

I think the most popular Halloween look this year will be: Pennywise clown from It!

Picture five:

Your name: Maddie Williams
Your age: 21 years old 
Area you live: Wirral, Prenton 
Name of your business: Maddie Williams MUA 
Instagram/Facebook/website: Instagram - maddiewilliamsmua 
Facebook - Maddie Williams MUA 
How long you've been doing make up for: Around a year and a half
Your favourite look for Halloween: I like more gory, scary Halloween looks for example half a cut face but with a glam side too!
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: I think there will be a lot of clowns inspired from the IT film and glam skeletons but I think a lot more people will go for scary, traditional looks this year I hope! 

Picture six:

Name: Gemma Buckley

I live in prenton

My business name is: Blushed hair and make up

https://www.facebook.com/blushedhair/

Instagram blushedhairandmakeupmoreton

Website blushedhairandmakeup.vistaprintdigital.com

I've been doing make up around 10 years but it's only the last couple of years I have been brave enough to offer Halloween looks

My favourite Halloween look so far this year is the stretched skin skull look. I named her pretty scary

So far my most requested looks have been half skulls .. due to the fact that one side is beautiful glam make up ..and the other can be dramatic and spooky.

Picture seven:

Your name: Lauren Burridge
Your age: 21
Area: Wallasey
Name of your business: Lauren MUA & Face Painting
Instagram/Facebook/website: Facebook: Lauren MUA & Face Painting Instagram: Budgiieee 
https://www.facebook.com/Lauren-MUA-Face-Painting
How long you've been doing make up for: I've played round with make up for about 8 years. I've only just started doing make up for clients. I'm loving every minute of it too! 
Your favourite look for Halloween: Gypsy/Psychic has been my favourite so far
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: I think this year it'll be Sugar skulls and 'IT' the killer clown.

Picture eight:

Your name: Chloe Pickstock

Your age: 17

Area you live: Bromborough

Name of your business: Chloe Pickstock FX 

Instagram/Facebook/website: chloepickstock.fx 

How long you've been doing make up for: Im self taught and have been doing make up for 2/3 years now, I mainly learn from experimenting with different materials, to create different and exiting looks. My eventual career goal is to work on movie/tv sets as a prosthetic make up artist.

Your favourite look for Halloween: Anything that's gory, but still has a glam twist to it, like adding glitter or gems to any makeup look always makes the make up look more exciting. I still love the classical skeleton look, with harsh black tones with whites and greys for highlights, I think these look amazing at halloween time and especially at parties and in photos. Something that I like doing for Halloween, is taking a normal character from one of my favourite movies, and using make up to turn myself into this character, with a slight gory touch. 

What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: I think the most popular halloween look this year will be Pennywise the clown,  I've watched so many tutorials of this make up look and each one has been done differently and all look amazing, especially the glam looks, its amazing how exact some of these make up artists get the make up in comparison the the original pennywise. I love any type of clown look, especially the clown looks with the glitter striped neck, I love the way the glitter gives the look a twist and makes it look original. 

Picture nine:

Your name: Nickie Marl

Your age: 40

Area you live: Eastham, Wirral

Name of your business: NickieNacks Face Painting

Instagram/Facebook/website:  facebook NickieNacks Face Painting. Instagram nickienacksxx

How long you've been doing make up for: just over 3 years

Your favourite look for Halloween: skeletons and gore

What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween:

Sugarskulls for the girls with lots of glitter and IT for the men

Picture 10:

Your name: Jessie Campbell

Your age: 27

Area you live: Bromborough

Name of your business: Beauty by Jessie-Rose

Instagram/Facebook/website: IG- jessierose608 FB- jessie-rose HD MUA

How long you've been doing make up for: 4 years self employed

Your favourite look for Halloween: i absolutely love creating a 'creepy doll'. I like to combine makeup, facepaint and special effects. You can create prominent cheekbones and make the eyes appear larger. It is always fun to do!

What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween:

I have had requests for Harley Quinn again this year but I think clowns are always going to be most popular. Also, day of the dead Mexican style is popular, more popular for people who don't want to go too extreme.

Picture 11: 

Your name:  Rebecca Mullineux 

Your age:23

Area you live:wallasey liscard 

Name of your business:becky mua 

Instagram/Facebook/website: becky mua Facebook 

How long you've been doing make up for:5 years self taught before having my son I was a makeup guru on YouTube got really far was sponsored by companies in America then stopped when I fell pregnant 

Your favourite look for Halloween: my fave look for Halloween has to be the sugar skulls 

What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: half face half nice makeup is always a winner for Halloween as most of my clients prefer that 

Picture 12:

Name: Katy birch

Age: I'm 34 years old

Area: Prenton

My business is called little faces face paint

I'm a professional face painter not a make up artist

I've been face painting for just a little over 4 years and while Halloween is usually spent with my children and family and friends I do usually paint for them but this year I am booked to paint at little als urban farm for a 5 hour event which I am really looking forward to.

I think the main design people are looking for is the sugar skulls, I've had lots of requests for these for nights out.

I also do baby bump paintings, on top of the face paint.

Picture 13:

Name- Olivia Houghton 

Age- 23

Area- Greasby / West Kirby

Name of business- Liv Grace Artistry 

Instagram and Facebook- @livgraceartistry 

How long have I been doing makeup- 6 years 

Favourite look for Halloween- I absolutely love the harlequin look,  as you can get really creative and colourful but you can also hit both ends of the spectrum to suit everyone's style for Halloween! You can make it gory and creepy of you want but then you can also go the complete opposite and get out the Glitter and gems and create an eye catching glam look for the occasion

The most popular look- I think an all round popular look is the sugar skull which every one loves! However also this year I think we are going to be seeing alot of glam and mysterious fortune teller looks. 

Picture 14:

Your name: Shannon Johnston
Your age: 25
Area you live: Bidston, Wirral
Name of your business: Shannon Johnston Makeup
Instagram/Facebook/website: @Shan.johnston/ @shannonjohnstonmakeup
How long you've been doing make up for: I've been doing makeup professionally for 2 years now. I started in a salon in Liverpool last year and this year I've been doing my own thing as a freelance makeup artist!
Your favourite look for Halloween: My favourite look is a Skull. I love how you can create so many different looks with a skull, it can be super detailed and scary or it can be dressed up with roses and gems to look glam
What you think the most popular look will be this Halloween: I definitely think one of the most popular looks this year with be IT -Pennywise the Dancing Clown.