Halloween make-up tips at The London Dungeon

Eleanor sports a whole new look for the spotty teen, complete with buboes and bloody orifices. Quite the in-thing before the Fire of London.

1. Over a pallid foundation, make the face look more skull-like by accentuating the forehead, cheekbones and eye sockets using brown shades, blended in with a sponge.

2. To make plague scabs, add a thick yellowy cream around the sweaty areas of the face (this is where they would have appeared) - the nose and the chin. Soften these out with the sponge.

3. To make the scabs look sore, add a dark red dot in the middle and soften the edges. Use a bit just under the nostril too, as a plague victim would have probably had a bleeding nose.

4. To make the buboes, squeeze a little latex on to the back of your hand and use the wrong end of your make-up brush to blob this on your face.It it will set yellowy. Make up stores will stock tubes of latex, or you can use eyelash glue.

5. Use a costume jelly (referred to simply as 'sweat'), and a pot of yellow 'pus' to look really ill.

For Halloween, the Dungeon's 'Séance!' show is about a medium called Florence Cook who terrified clients in Victorian London. Sabine is our unholy spirit.

1. Start with the light foundation, perhaps a little heavier on this one but still not completely white.

2. Again use blended brown shading around the hairline to create a bony forehead, sunken eyes and cheekbones. Darken each side of the nose, too. This makes the pale elements of the face really stand out.

3. Scrunch up your face to see where your deepest lines are. Follow these natural lines of the face and use the thinner end of the sponge to colour them brown before softening the effect with the other side of the sponge. This will help to age your looks.

4.  Add a pale lipstick on your lips and a little redness with eyeliner under the eyes.

5. To accentuate the cheekbones and other lines, add a thin line of white above the colour already there, then soften it in with your fingertips.

It's nearly Guy Fawkes Night, so our look for Jack suggests he's spent ten days on the rack before being hanged, drawn and quartered. Oh and beheaded. Let's not go easy on him.

1. On top of a light foundation, go over the face with a green powder to add a grey, dead-skin look. Use a sponge to even this out.

2. Take the greenish colour down to the neck (as far as your costume) and make the lips grey.

3. Make the neck look red and sore around where the head would be cut off. Use a dark red or purple cream and the edge of a sponge, criss-crossing for a rougher look, then dabbing it to soften the finish.

4. To make a fresh cut, stipple bits of fake blood into the wound. Put some blood on the back of your hand, then apply it with the wrong end of the make-up brush so it doesn't run down your neck.

5. Add a bit of navy blue in the corners of the eyes and blend this into the grey-green make-up for a really sinister look, and red eyeliner under the eyes for an authentically lifeless stare.

The London Dungeon could have obliged Thea's request to appear tortured, with its ugly collection of hooks and prongs, but happily, Natalie's make-up box came to the rescue.

1. This time use a tired, greyish foundation to show this person's been really suffering.

2. Again, add some redness under the eyes (it makes anyone look ill) and dark lines following the natural lines of the face so that the hollowed eye effect will move with your expression.

3. To make a fresh wound, get a make-up 'black eye' colour wheel with beige, green and purples. This is ideal for bruises and injuries.

4. Build up the colour so you get a good gouged effect. Start with a dulled, jagged line then work into the middle with more intense colour to look like dried blood. Dab similar colours with a sponge for a bruise on the forehead.

5. Add a little fake blood from the nose – she has been tortured, after all – and a light dusting of translucent powder to set it all. Add blusher for a flushed effect, and a bit of dirt and 'sweat'.