Use face paint instead of a mask this Halloween in order to look like a scary witch.
Halloween is the time of year to wear scary disguises. Paint a face to look just as frightening as a costume. With some basic face painting supplies and techniques, you can paint a face to look like a devilish demon, a blood-sucking vampire, a horrifying witch or a scary clown.
Devil
To paint a basic devil face, load a face-painting sponge with water-based red face paint by dipping the edge of the sponge in water and rotating it in paint. Paint the entire face red. With a soft-bristled small round detail brush, paint black upward flicks over the eyebrows. Paint the lips black. Flick the brush upward and outward from each nostril onto the nose. Paint two black horns on the forehead with a patch of hair below. Paint the hair patches by making short downward flicks at the base of the horns.
Vampire
Transform into a vampire by covering the entire face white using a sponge. Dab dark gray over the eyes and under the cheekbones. Paint the lips black with a small round brush. Paint a slick clean line over the eyebrows, but give it a bit of a point, like Vulcan eyebrows. Outline a fang shape coming downward from both corners of the mouth. Put red blood drops coming down from the mouth and fangs. Produce blood drops by squeezing fake blood onto the face or by using a small round brush to make a red teardrop stroke. A teardrop stroke is accomplished by setting the tip of the brush on the face, then dragging a short way and pressing as you drag, then pressing fully down to end the stroke.
Scary Clown
Clowns can have a spookiness about them, but here is a particularly frightening looking clown design. Paint a white base coat on your clown with a sponge. Using a soft-bristled medium round brush, paint red triangles over the eyes and a circle on the nose. Over the mouth, paint a wide upside down red triangle. With a white-loaded medium round brush, paint sharp teeth coming out from all around the mouth. This is done by pressing the brush down on the mouth, then flicking outward and upward, lifting the brush to a quick point. Still using the medium round brush, paint a black check mark over the right eye and a mirror image over the left eye to create scary-looking eyebrows.
Witch
Witches are a classic Halloween horror character. With a sponge, paint the entire face green. Using a small round brush, paint short black flicks going in all directions across the eyebrows and into the center of the forehead to make a uni-brow. Have the subject tighten her face muscles and paint over the wrinkle lines in black. Paint the lips black and paint a mole, with a hair coming out of it, by the lip or on the cheek.
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