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Some 2011 Halloween Face Paint Ideas for Kids

October 19th, 2011 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Face Painting Ideas for Girls, Halloween Face Painting Designs

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Thanks for all your visits and support for Face Paint Heaven. I’m delighted that again this year lots of you are visiting to discover some fun and easy face painting ideas for Halloween 2011.

Sadly I had a lot of my content stolen, so if it doesn’t say Face Paint Heaven in the banner of the page, this is being used without permission. Hopefully you are reading this on the site I created for people just like you, though.

I wanted to check in with you all with some awesome face paint designs for this Halloween. This post is for the kids and those of you who will be face painting children for parties and trick-or-treating, though there is plenty to inspire teens and adults too. I’ll be back with a round-up of adult spooky makeup designs in my next post.

My top 5 Halloween face paint ideas for kids are as follows:

Witch — The classic Halloween face paint that never goes out of style.
Cat — Who wants to be a Halloween kitty? I think I see a few paws there…
Dog — Face painting for puppy and pooch fans, dog makeup is cute and just a bit different.
Lion — Rawr! Lion makeup is adorable for your little cubs, and can be as cute or fearsome as they want.
Vampire — Dracula or Twilight, vampire makeup is always a Halloween hit.

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Christmas Face Painting: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

December 6th, 2010 Posted in Christmas Face Painting Designs, Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Face Painting Ideas for Girls, Step by Step Face Painting

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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Face Painting

Are you looking forward to Christmas? I know I am! Now is the time to start planning your Christmas face painting for plays, parties, or just for fun!

And what could be a more fun face painting for kids in particular than this cute Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer face paint? After all, Rudolph is everyone’s favorite reindeer. If you want to be one of the other reindeer you can simply change that red nose to a black one.

There are several versions of Rudolph available online and I’m not sure who first came up with this adorable face painting but have linked to one of my favorite examples in the video further below.

It is a fairly easy face painting to do and only needs 4 colors of face paint. If you don’t have the red sparkle face paint you might also want to add some face glitter to your Rudolph face paint supplies.

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How to Paint a Puppy Dog Face

October 19th, 2010 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Face Painting Ideas for Girls, Step by Step Face Painting

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How to do a Puppy Dog Face Painting

Isn’t this puppy dog face paint adorable? We’ve had the cat face paint so now it is time to make the dog lovers happy too!

This is a great example of a face painting that doesn’t cover the whole face. Your own skin color can provide contrast with the white and black areas of this design. The only tricky part of this dog face paint design is the fine brush work. But you can add as much or little detail as you like to your puppy dog face.

Kids will of course love to be a puppy or dog but you can have a lot of fun with this look if you are older too. Couples can even go to costume parties as a cat and a dog… but no fighting, please!

This clever face painting design is from makeup artist Lyn and you can see her video below. Her finished dog look is fantastic! It just shows what you can do with only 3 colors of face paint.

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Avatar Face Painting is the Coolest Blue Face Paint Design for 2010

October 12th, 2010 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Face Painting Ideas for Girls, Step by Step Face Painting

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No matter whether you are face painting for boys or girls, this makeup inspired by the movie Avatar is going to be popular! Girls and women will love to be the beautiful and brave heroine Neytiri but boys can be one of the young male Na’vi warriors.

The Avatar makeup here is that of Neytiri but can be adapted for boys.

An Avatar face painting is mostly blue paint or makeup. You will need a pale blue and a darker blue, and also a pink and some white for details.

Not all face painting designs work well on a digital example. If the images here don’t look like the Avatar makeup effect you want to achieve, I do recommend watching the wonderful video from FancifulFaces where you can see both how she painted the Neytiri face paint on herself and the effectiveness of her finished result.

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Cheek Face Painting: A Halloween Spider Web

October 1st, 2010 Posted in Cheek Face Painting, Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Halloween Face Painting Designs

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Spider Web Cheek Art Face Painting Design

Sometimes you don’t have time to paint a full face, or maybe you have a kid who isn’t keen on sitting still… or a teen or adult who likes something more subtle than the bold full face paintings.

Cheek face painting is ideal for these situations. And what better design for Halloween than a spider web?

This can be quite a quick and easy face painting design once you know how. I’m going to leave it to Stacy Parzik at expertvillage to do the explaining with this nice, clear face painting video tutorial.

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A Batman Mask is a Popular Face Painting for Kids

September 29th, 2010 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Step by Step Face Painting

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Batman face painting -- bat mask

Well, the last face painting example we did here was The Joker from Batman, so I thought today we should have Batman himself. He is a popular superhero especially with little boys.

Different face painters have done variations on the Batman design, and you can play around with this one too. Start with the basic bat face paint and add any color or details that you or the child would like.

In terms of color and technique it is a simple face painting, but if you want to create this one for a client or in a busy venue it makes sense to practise painting the outline of the bat shape first.

I’ve given you a couple of options to begin with. If you are creating the bat as part of a scene, as in the video further down, applying the black paint close to the eyes will make the illusion more effective. But with younger kids it is sometimes best to leave an unpainted area around their eyes. This works well with the Batman design as it will look as though the painting itself is a mask — and since Batman also wears a mask that is OK with his young fans.

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The Joker — Creepy Clown Face Paint

September 27th, 2010 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Halloween Face Painting Designs, Step by Step Face Painting

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The Joker creepy clown face from Batman

A lot of people are creeped out by clowns. I think we can (at least in part) blame Stephen King for that. And Batman, of course.

Jack Nicholson took the creepy clown comic-book figure of The Joker and brought him to life on our screens. More recently, Heath Ledger came along and gave us a new, even creepier reinterpretation of The Joker, before his own young life was cut short.

But the green-haired maniac with the creepy clown face is immortal. Many of us grew up with the comics or the first Batman movies, and kids now can almost all recognize The Joker, even those too young to watch the latest movie.

No wonder The Joker is a popular face painting design for all ages. Heath Ledger made this creepy villain a look that teens and tweens want to be seen with. And it is a look that never gets tired for adults, especially since Ledger’s makeup brought a new edge to it. Men who would normally shy away from face paint are going to look fantastic as The Joker. Of course, as the paint is anything but subtle and disguises your own features, a woman can wear the look just as well as a man.

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Be King of the Jungle with Lion Face Paint

September 22nd, 2010 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Face Painting Ideas for Girls, Halloween Face Painting Designs, Step by Step Face Painting

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lion face paint example

Lion face paint is fun for all ages and is a jungle cat face painting design that will come in handy not just for Halloween costumes but also for stage productions of The Wizard of Oz or The Lion King.

Whether you need to paint a Simba or Nala, a Cowardly Lion, or just have a kid who is big cat crazy (and you don’t want to paint those tiger stripes), this lion face paint is the perfect basis for the king of animals.

You can use this example to create either a male lion or a lioness, or a little lion cub. To suggest a full grown male lion you will need to add a wig, hood or hairpiece to suggest a mane (unless you have big hair!).

This example is fine just as it is for a lioness or lion cub. You could always add a pair of cute cub ears on a hairband.

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A Devil Face Painting Example for your Inner Demon

September 8th, 2010 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Face Painting Ideas for Girls, Halloween Face Painting Designs, Step by Step Face Painting

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Devil Face Painting Example

Go on, be a devil! This demon is a fun face painting idea for Halloween or any time you want to let your wicked side out. After all, if you are going to reveal your naughty side what could be more perfect than devil face makeup and of course a costume to go with it (got your pitchfork at the ready?).

The devil face painting is a great excuse to be dramatic with your paints with the intense red and black combination. I can just imagine this one with some yellow Devil-themed contact lenses.

Another advantage of devil face paint is that it is suitable for all the family. In fact many adults love to dress up as devils and she-devils (and not only at Halloween!). You might turn some heads but there is nothing childish about devil faint paint on a grown up. As for kids, well, just try keeping them away from this one! Seems there’s an inner demon in us all…

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Easy Dracula Face Paint Tutorial

September 1st, 2010 Posted in Face Painting Ideas for Boys, Face Painting Ideas for Girls, Halloween Face Painting Designs, Step by Step Face Painting

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Dracula face paint

Vampires are so popular right now… but there’s nothing new in that. Long before Twilight people were (and still are) fascinated by Count Dracula. The Dracula face paint is a little more dramatic than the teen vampires on our screens today, but it is a look that works wonderfully at Halloween when drama is exactly what is needed!

This Dracula face paint design has all the elements of the classic Count Dracula of the silver screen, with a widow’s peak ‘hairstyle’, arched eyebrows and menacing features.

The vampire face painting example below (and the alternative design in the video I’ve linked to) can be created with just 3 colors of face paint: black, white and red. If you have fake blood or want to make some as a fun Halloween activity, you could use this instead for the dribbling blood. And of course you can use a set of theatrical fangs instead of painting them on.

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