Naturals in a forest effect.

I could not turn this picture away. So I borrowed it from the dreadlocks site.

With a little bit of  Red, Yellow then White and Orange paint  a master impression of bejewelled simplicity has come into being.

Step by Step

Had I painted this effect the steps I would have progressed with would be

• The red around the eyes.
• The outer plain red of the necklace layer.
• The yellow of the necklace.
• A white band around the top of the necklace yellows.
• Then worked the yellow out from around the eyes - over forehead, cheeks and nose.
•  Put aside the yellow brush -do not wash the colour off.
• Reapplying another set of  reds in layers to the face while the yellow was still damp and working from complementarity bottom level layers upwards.
• With a slightly smaller brush and full red paint apply as a lace effect directly around the eyes.
• bottom first of both eyes.
• As brush mixes with yellow you are working to completing the eye effects.
• using the same red brush [mixed with yellow from the face application] the completed the red paint brush sized dobs around the necklace would be done. The yellow/ red mix that was still on the paintbrush is used for effect between the red and yellow layers at the front of the necklace. 
• Start at the upper chests middle zone and evenly work your way out until no more combined paint on the brush.
• As 'dobbing' occurs revolve the brush around to evenly use the paint up.
• Go back to yellow brush and cover it with orange. Again working your way from the middle zone apply the orange allowing the appreciation of yellow to evolve through.

 Simplistic full brushes of paint dabbed around in concentric circles until the desired necklace effect was completed.

Washable nail polish

• Washable Glitter Glue
• Small Containers
• Paint Brushes

1. Take empty containers and fill with glitter glue, add a small brushes.
2. Paint the glue on the nails.
3. Let Dry.

Fairy Dust

• Corn Starch
• Green Food Dye
• Green Glitter
• Essential Oil
• Plastic Bag

1. Put cornstarch in bag. 
2. Put in a few drops of food coloring. 
3. Mix it up a little. 
4. Then put in green glitter. 
5. Put in essentil oil, then mix up real good. 
1. label the oil essence on the bag in case of allergies.

You can use this for makeup, costume, 'magic', and as a few say, getting in touch with the fairy realm.

Fx Fingers

• Disposable rubber gloves
• Plaster of paris 
• Skin colored and red acrylic Paints 
• Elastic band
• Fx Blood

1. Make up enough plaster to fill the fingers of the gloves. 
1. To measure this fill the fingers in the glove with water and pour into a measuring cup.
2. This is the amount of plaster mix you will require.
2. There is no need to prepare the gloves as we will just rip the glove off afterwards.
3.  Pour your plaster mix into the fingers of the glove and tie off with a rubber band to stop the mix running out. 
4. Sit the filled glove down on a flat table to allow it to set.
5. Once the plaster has set remove the glove and take out the fingers. 
1. Break off any mis-shaped pieces.
2. You should have what looks like a broken off finger.
6. Use your paints to paint the stumps of the fingers red like dripping blood and the other parts a natural skin color.

Fx Bruses

• Eye shadows in blue, yellow, charcoal, grey and green.
• Applicators

1. Start by layering the eye shadows beginning with blue. 
2. Add blots of grey, blue and green.
3. Layer the colors until you have a bruise like coloring.
4. Add a little green and yellow to the edges.
5. With a little bit of practice you can get some great results.

Liquid Blood

• 1/2 bottle of light corn syrup 
• Hot water 
• Liquid soap _ Keep away from face.
• Red food coloring
• green or blue food dye if required

1. Place the corn syrup into a bowl and mix in some hot water.
2. Add a small amount at a time until your have a nice consistency. (not too runny, not too lumpy).
3. Add a few drops of liquid soap which will help with the clean up later and keep the blood moist on the skin.
4. Stir through the red food coloring.
5. You can darken it will a little green or blue if required.
6. Store in a fridge and just apply to the skin where needed.

Core ingredients of hair Styling Gel.

Ingredients

• 1 part beeswax.
• 1 part Aloe Juice

Method

1. Blend ingredients together in a double boiler.
2. Bring to boil.
3. Let cool
4. Place in container.

And a Squib is?

Food colouring and corn syrup in small balloon with explosive devises between the blood and the actor.   Not recommended for the untrained - only for professional use.

Just a little chunk of flesh!

You will need:

• Castor Oil
• Make up or paint brush
• Make up Sponge
• Translucent powder.
• Cream make up [foundation close to your skin colour]
• Scar wax
• Liquid latex
• Spirit Gum
• Cotton balls
• Bruising make up
• Fake Blood

Method.

1. Wash and dry the area well.
2. Decide where the injury has occurred [helps also knowing what caused the injury].

Dealing with the surrounding area.

1. Wounds equal discolouration of the surrounding area.  Wounds that have just occurred may not have a lot of 'bruising' yet.  So be careful how much discolouration you actually might want to put on the surrounding area.   
2. Cover the bruising with a translucent powder.

Creating the raw wound

1. Apply reds and purples to the injured area.
1. Keep the color splotchy not blended as the very 'splotchyness' gives dimension to the wounded flesh 
2. Apply a layer of Spirit Gum.
3. Wait till the gum has become  tacky.
4. Mush some pieces of the cotton balls in the Fx wound.
5. Allow some of the cotton balls ends to remain at the Fx wound sight.
6. Repeat the make up on - gum and cotton ball chunk process.
7. Pick at the Fx wound pulling away at the cotton ball chunks so that the cotton hairs still appear.
8. When there is a build up that looks like the Fx wound is thick and fleshy and you are satisfied with stop adding the layers.

Making torn skin.

1. Place a little cold cream or caster oil on your finger tips.
1. Helps stop the wax from sticking on you and getting in your way.
2. Using the scar wax and more cotton balls build up the Fx raw wounds surrounding area.
3. Blend the wax into the skin on the external wound area.
1. Keep the bits near the actual wound area torn and rough.
4. The liquid latex now goes around the scar wax and around the surrounding area.
5. Let the latex dry.
6. Apply again a few more times.
7. Apply a small amount of Caster oil on the wound site where the skin needs to be torn off looking.
1. The Caster Oil application makes sure your Fx does not Stick too or pull at the Fx wound.
8. Carefully dribble then brush out ward [aim from center to out side of wound ] 

Dealing with the surrounding area.

1. Apply the Liquid Latex to the surrounding area.
2. Allow the Liquid Latex to dry.
3. Use a little Caster Oil over the latex.
4. Wipe off the excess Caster Oil with a cotton ball or tissue.
5. Blend the Liquid Foundation over the Fx and real skin area.
6. Apply Fx blood. [ For this Fx wound apply thicker blood]
7. Let the blood get into the crevices.
8. Blot some of the blood off

fFx Zombie bite by the infected

   You will need:

• Green and shades of blue for the surrounding area.
• Red , deep purple and black make up
• Fake blood
• Liquid latex
• Small pin like thing [lancet] 
• Fx maggots
• Fx puss

Method

1. Wash and dry the area you will be working on.
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3. Add a layer of latex to the desired area.
4. Allow the latex to dry.
5. Repeat from 1 to 6 times until there is the desired thickness for the layers you want to work with.
6. When the liquid latex is fully dry begin to lift small amounts of the liquid latex off the skin with the lancet.  This lifting action makes a 'dead blister' look a like.
7. Puncture and gently pull at the dried latex as well.
1. this gets that lacerated and falling off effect.
8. Colour the wound mostly red.
9. Mix in a little black to change the color from bright red to blood red.
10. Add the deep purple colour near the Fx wound'.
11. Work your way through the greens.
12. Finish off with pale green on near by surfaces.
13. The extremities are blackish with a deep purple blue tinge if the wound is still alive.  If not then the colouring becomes a kinda mid blue with white look on the lower sides [ think of gravity sucking things downward.]
14. When you are ready add a very little Fx blood to the wound.  
15. Puss and maggots at this stage is a much better look.

Written by Clear Vision Enterprises.

reference : Zombie byite

Slashed body parts

You will need

• Hair grips.
• plastic 
• liquid latex
• face wipes
• pale foundation
• Cake white 
• Brush or application pads
• and an angled brush.
• Translucent powder - to seal.
• Brown mascara.
• Bruising , flesh and fat colours [purple, yellow and red]
• Cotton wool
• Spirit gum
• Scab and liquid blood

Method

1. With the spirit gum trace the lines.
2. On a piece of plastic spread a thin layer of liquid latex out leaving the latex mix to dry and become sticky.
1. Recap the latex bottle.
3. Clean your face.
4. Apply a pale foundation with a cake white mixed through.
5. To seal use a white powder [translucent id good]
6. With a brown mascara and an angled brush draw the slash lines from one side to the other.
7. Add the red colour for open flesh.  
8. Mixed in with yellow colouring for fat layers.
9. Around the edges purple is used for bruising.
1. Give it time to dry a little and thus become sticky.
10. Place cotton wool onto the sticky spirit glue.
11. With the liquid latex put a thin layer on the cotton wool.
12. The latex on the plastic that has begun to dry will be stretchy and sticky.  Stretch this over the Fx wound site.
1. repeat the process for the other side of the wound if the wound is divided in any way - ie by a mouth or on arm and continues across the body.
13. Add 'scab' and blood until the 'wounds' look gross.
14. Pin up the hair so that this does not get in the way.

Open Cut wound

You will need:

• Dust powder [Translucent setting powder or normal face powder]
• Rigid Collodian Liquid [ Scarring Liquid]
• Lip- liner - Reddish Brown [the cheaper the better.
• Liquid Latex

Directions

1. Use some dust powder on the area. Translucent setting powder is good.
2. Use a lip pencil draw a gash. 
3. Brush a layer of rigid collodion over the colour.
4. Let the collodian dry.
5. Repeat this process 4 to 5 times until your gash is as deep as you desire it to be.
1. As the collodian dries it will contract to to your skin, creating a channel.  
2. The more layers and the deeper it gets.
6. Carefully line the outside of the gash with liqiud latex. let it dry.
7. Do this repeatedly.
8. Use the hair drier to speed up the drying process.
1. Remember to let the latex dry between coats.
1. Otherwise it will have a milky appearance.
9. keep adding layers until the 'skin' looks like it's a bit peeled.
10. Add more layers in certain spots so that the skin looks jagged and ripped looking.

For a stubbly bearded look

1. Sprinkle tobacco over a thin layer of Vaseline.
2. Apply to the face where the stubble should go.

Goulish look

 add a dusting of flour to already made up faces.

To lightly blacken faces

1.  Carefully burn a cork
2. Set aside until cool.
3. Rub on the face.

Fake Blood for Halloween Party Make-up

Ingredients

• Karo brand corn syrup
• Red and blue food coloring
• Milk

method

1. Add some red food coloring to the corn syrup, then just a drop or two of blue to get a more realistic dark color. 
2. Milk will make the blood appear more opaque and more realistic.
3.  Note: This mixture is sticky and can stain clothes.
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Clown Make-up

Ingredients

• 2 tblsp. shortening
• 5 tsps. cornstarch
• 1 tsp. flour
• Dab of Vaseline
• Add food coloring for various colors.

Method

1. In bowl, mix shortening, flour and cornstarch until smooth. 
2. Mix in a dab of Vaseline.
3.  Add food coloring one drop at a time until you get the desired color.
4.  Use a sponge or fingers to apply paint to a large area, such as an entire face. 
5. To apply with a small brush, thin paint with a little water first.
6.  Remove with soap and water.
7.  Store paint covered.

Face and Body Paint

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup baby lotion
• 1/2 tsp. dish detergent
• powdered tempera paints

Method

1. Mix all ingredients and store in air-tight jars. (Baby food jars work well.) 
2. Use paint brush to paint designs on skin. 
3. Paint will wash off easily because the dish detergent has been added.

Body Paint recipe #1

Ingredients

• baby shampoo
• powdered tempera paints

Method

1. Add tempera paint to shampoo until desired color is reached.
1. remember that what the colour is in the paint is half the colour will be when on the body.

Face paint Recipe #2

Ingredients

• 3 tblsps. Cornstarch
• 1 tblsp. Flour
• 3/4 cup Karo light corn syrup
• 1/4 cup water
• ½ tsp. Liquid food coloring

Directions

1. Mix cornstarch and flour together in a bowl. 
2. Gradually stir in Karo syrup and water until smooth.
3.  Divide mixture into individual containers as needed and tint each one with the food coloring of your choice.
4.  Leave one batch un-tinted.

Colour wheel method paint tray

Mix them up until analogous shade have formed all around the wheel

On a plastic board spread out the cold cream until it forms a circle that takes up the whole plate.

• In rainbow order add colours in the colour wheel
• In the center combine each colour to make browns

Choosing colours to reflect the eight primary emotion dimensions

When I came across this diagram I realised what it was that drove me to alter the core colours I painted with while at other times I enjoyed the effect of adding the core colours.  Each colour reflected many of the differing inner vibrations the person painted was giving off.  Thus the choice of colours.

I have left what the author has actually written as I could not express the concept any better.
"Author’s three-dimensional circumplex model describes the relations among emotion concepts, which are analogous to the colors on a color wheel. The cone’s vertical dimension represents intensity, and the circle represents degrees of similarity among the emotions. The eight sectors are designed to indicate that there are eight primary emotion dimensions defined by the theory arranged as four pairs of opposites. In the exploded model the emotions in the blank spaces are the primary dyads—emotions that are mixtures of two of the primary emotions. (via The Nature of Emotions)"

Reblogged from marclafontain.com  

When using a cold cream based face paint..

1. Cold cream slide and sweat off with heat.
2. Paint the cold cream base face paint on thinly and your patterns will survive longer.
3. It does take the cold cream face paint longer to dry out so warn those who are being painted of this when using this medium. 
4. Do not get any facepaint in eyes.

Using egg cartons as face paint holders.

1. Scoop the mixture into each egg compartment.
1. leave the mixture about half fulling each compartment to prevent the colours from mix

Cold cream face paint

Equipment needed

• Bowl
• Whisk or spoon

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup cold cream.
• 2 tbsp corn flour
• food colouring

Directions

1. In a bowl combine the cold cream and cornstarch.
2. Continue to add the cornstarch until the mixture is the texture you want for your face paint.
3. Add the colouring and mix until you have the colour you want.
1. Add the food colouring until the colours are 2 times darker than what you want to show up.
4. Store in containers ready for use.

Recording for future use.

The best tips is to have fun while painting.
Keep your customer informed.
Then ask to take a photo for your Face painting scrap book.

• Many people like the idea of having their face paint recorded. 
• Be careful not to take a photo of those who say no.  Respect there decision.

Stencils for use

Craft shops have many varieties of stencils that once cup around may be used for a base for your face paint.

Once a base colour is applied wait for it to become dry.

Take a small brush, dab the bristols with a little paint and fill in the areas on the base color. Use use of stencils is a bit like paint by numbers.  However there is a place and a real need for the stencils use.

Enjoy altering each pastern for every customer.

Note: Wipe the stencils with a wipe straight after the stencil has been used. Also wash out the brushes between colors.

Use paper towels to dab out the excess moisture that is still in the brush.  I prefer the paper towels or wipes  as  these can then be thrown out once that customer has gone away.

Are they ready for you to paint?

If the child can and has the patience to sit still enough the design on the face may be more elaborate.

Use an easier design and you will find that the children do not get bored and crabby.

Have a series of quick fun designs tucked into your repudiator.

First timers [usually small children] may be hesitant... so work up from the painting of the hands.

Home made Face paint

You will need

• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 1/2 tsp water
• 1/2 tsp cold cream
• food colouring

Method

1. Stir together the starch and cold cream until well blended.
2. Add water and stir.
3. Add the desired food colouring.
1. paste colouring will give deeper colouring.

Application:

1. Wash your face and any area that you will be applying the make up to.
2. Dry thoroughly.
3. Use the fingertips to spread onto large area needing to be covered.
4. Use a small paint brush to paint deigns on the face.
5. Removes with soap and water.
6. Stores in an air tight container.

Swirls and twirls of henna

  Henna used on hands and feet has been a traditional occurrance for centuries.  Each swirl and stroke that make up the patterns indicates a different part of the story that is meant to be portaried.