Face Painting Ideas for Beginners

Its Halloween and what we have here is easy face painting ideas for beginners! Well, true to the Halloween atmosphere, whacky, gothic and scary face paintings rule the roost. If you 'wanna' scare everyone out of their skins or just look out of the box, check out these Halloween face painting ideas.
Face Painting Ideas for Beginners
Well, well, What do we have here? The off shot of Celtic festival 'Samhain' is on the anvil. Yes, I am talking about the quintessential, supposed-to-be-scary and full of pranks and horror (nothing serious fellas!) HALLOWEEN! The Jack-o'-Lanterns are going to be back now after a year. Are you ready for it with your pumpkins, orange and black costumes and totally weird face paintings? If you have not yet thought of face painting designs for kids, presenting to you a mixture of scary, nice and easy face painting ideas for beginners.

Face Painting Ideas for Kids

There is a plethora of face painting designs for kids and you can be as creative as you want here. What is given in the following text is just an assortment of ideas for face painting based on yin and yang.

Face Painting Ideas for Girls
Face Painting Idea #1 - Butterfly: Using pink or red or the shades closer to that on a sponge, apply it in a sweeping motion around the eyes for the wings. That is more than half the job done. The rest is just filling up the design of the wings and painting a dot on the forehead, between the eyebrows and three dots on the bridge of the nose below the main dot. There you are, this is the easiest of the face painting designs for girls, be it Halloween or otherwise.

Face Painting Idea #2 - Scarecrow: The little angels would love this! This would start with an orangish-yellow base. Have a design like cross and knots on the cheeks and forehead with a curve on the top end using black and white paint. Extend the eyes with black paint and create an impression of a sewn mouth by painting black crosses divided by the lips. Even though this is a scarecrow, it is not one of those scary face painting designs! Read more on face painting stencils for kids.

Face Painting Idea # 3 - Pumpkin: Pumpkin is by far the easiest face painting ideas for beginners! For this, paint a bright orange pumpkin on each cheek. Paint the eyes, nose and mouth with black on the pumpkin. To add an extra touch, do the border of the pumpkin with gray. Congratulations! You are just done with one of the perfect Halloween face painting ideas! Now, you are all set for the Halloween! Read more on ideas for painting pumpkin faces.

Face Painting Idea # 4 - Stars: You need not be too hassled for this nor do you need elaborate face painting kits. At the most you would need 4 colors to paint stars of different colors. I guess I do not need to tell you how to paint stars! See? Wasn't this one of the easy face painting ideas for beginners?

Face Painting Idea #5 - Green Faced Witch: For this not so scary green faced witch, you have to start off with a green base. Have gruesome black lines on chin, cheek, coupled with white and dark green lines above eyebrows. Paint the eyebrows and lips black and rim the eyes with black lines for a witch-like effect. This is certainly one of the quick and no hassle face painting ideas for beginners. Read more on ideas for face painting.

Face Painting Ideas for Boys
Face Painting Idea #1 - Skeleton: Boys, be it young or old, always love gory, scary and horrifying things! Therefore, this is especially dedicated to boys, for Halloween. Skull or the skeleton is one of the most common face painting patterns for Halloween. For more on skeleton face painting and other scary face painting designs, check out scary face painting designs.

Face Painting Idea #2 - Vampire: Okay! This cannot get any more scary. So after skeleton we have the Vampire, again, exclusively for the boys! But do not worry, this is not a tough ask. Beginners can do it. Paint the face white as the base. Paint the lips bright red (Yes just like Edward Cullen in Twilight!) and have fangs coming out of the corners of the lower lip. The outline for the fangs should be gray, the filling color white and tip red for denoting blood. This is the basic, if you want, you can always improvise. This is one of the coolest Halloween face painting ideas! Read more on face painting makeup.

Face Painting Idea #3 - Clown: This another popular face painting ideas for beginners with minimum face painting supplies. Extend the mouth with red paint first and give a white and black outline. Have black-rimmed white dimples at the ends. Then enlarge the eyes using white, green and black (outline). You are done! For more such simple face painting ideas check out simple face painting designs.

Face Painting Idea #4 - Pirate: There could nothing as simple as this! Just blacken one eye, have a medium thick mustache. May be you can have a tiny skull symbol on the cheek on the sides or on the chin. Apart from this, you can embellish the pirate's face with anything you want to!

Face Painting Idea #5 - Superhero: Here comes the ultimate of all face painting designs. This is done in jiffy and is almost as easy as the previous design. Apply a green paint around the eyes, as in a mask with a black outline. Enhance the eyebrows with a pad applicator. That is it! No face painting stencils needed here! Check out face painting for kids for more on such face painting designs.

All these face painting designs were not an uphill task, were they? Ideally, they should not because these were face painting ideas for beginners! In case you are keen on elaborate and very intricate Halloween face painting ideas, you always have professional face painting people. They would give a proper step by step face painting demonstration to you.

This does not stop here, there are many more easy face painting ideas for beginners, but I guess, I will wrap for now lest Halloween is over! Have a real scary time this Halloween and give others also the jeepers creepers! Happy Halloween!

By Medha Godbole
Published: 10/30/2009
 
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