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    9 Easy-to-do Face Painting Designs for Halloween

    Get creative and let your child pretend to be her favorite fantasy characters or animals with these face paint designs perfect for Halloween.

  • With Halloween only a week away, kids are surely excited to go Trick or Treating, whether it’s around the village, at their parents’ office, or even just to attend a class party. If you’re on a budget, buying expensive costumes from stores may not be an option, especially because your kid will only use it once a year. But who says you have to wear something extraordinary? Why not just paint the scare on?  

    These 9 face paint “costumes” are not only economical, they are also easy to do with these step-by-step instructions, so with your brush and your creativity, paint away! Happy Halloween!

     

    Face painting by Groove Paint Party Needs, Mobile No. 0926-7480716 c/o Kath Ramos.

    Photography by Carlo Cecilio and Larry Uy Leong-Faypon for Imagine Nation Photography

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      Kittycat

      1. Cover the entire face with white face paint, except the tip of the nose, eyebrows and lips.

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      2. Fill those areas with black face paint.
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      3. Draw the whiskers using black face paint.
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      5. Use gray face paint or mix white and black paints to draw the “fur” around the face.
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      Cyborg

      1. Paint half of the face with white paint.

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      2. Shade the temple and jaw area with gray paint.
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      3. Using black paint, draw the hinges and bolts.
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      4. Mix white and black paints to put depth into the eye area. Draw white lines to accentuate the parts.
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      Flower Fairy

      1. Use green paint as base on the forehead and around the eyes.

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      2. Using white paint, make a line from the inner eyelid outward. Draw flower patterns across the forehead and put highlights as you wish (in this case, the color pink was used).
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      3. Put some fairy dust by dotting some white paint onto the forehead and near the eyes.
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      Frog-face

      1. Draw the outline of a frog using black paint.

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      2. Fill the space with shades of green – light green for the base, and strokes of darker green to create depth around the edges.
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      3. Make the illustration come alive by drawing black spots all over, and by painting the eys red and white.
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      Peacock

      1. Frame the face using dark green paint, then apply a thin coat of light green paint over the eye and cheek area.

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      2. Draw branch-like details over the area.
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      3. Make “peacock feathers” using blue and white paint.
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      4. Put white highlights to complete the look.
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      Pirate

      1. “Thicken” the eyebrows using black paint, and make an eyepatch using the same.

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      2. Draw a beard and a moustache using bushy strokes.
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      3. What’s a pirate without a scar? Here we used red paint for a fresh wound, and “white thread” to sew it up.
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      Avatar

      1. Use light blue paint to cover the entire face.

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      2. Draw dark blue lines from the middle of the face upwards, across the forehead. Shade the jaw area with dark blue paint as well.
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      3. Dot the area with white face paint.
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      Puppy

      1. Use white paint to define the puppy’s nose and mouth area.

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      2. Cover the remaining area with light brown paint, and the eyes with dark brown or gray paint.
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      3. Add the nose, eyebrows and the tongue.
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      Gothic Skeleton

      1. Draw black circles around the eyes, and create a spade shape by the tip of the nose and the chin using black paint.

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      2. Cover the remaining portion with white, except the eyes.
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      3. Fill the eye area with red face paint.
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      4. Using black paint, draw the cobwebs on the forehead, and an imaginary stitch running from one side of the mouth to the other.
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      5. Shade the cobweb and add details on the eye area.
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      Then again, you can easily transform a simple dress into a Halloween costume with these accessories:

      Gold mask

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      Witch's hat

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      Tiara




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