Face Painting Halloween | Ideas | Designs

Halloween can be a lot of fun for both young children and adults. Having a few face painting Halloween ideas can make it even more enjoyable.

You may have had a great time painting pumpkins with your family or friends, and I bet you will enjoy face painting during Halloween as well. If you paint scary faces, you can give people a good scare when they see you.

What are some face painting Halloween ideas? Here are some popular ones:

Pumpkin – you can paint a pumpkin on both sides of your cheeks. The pumpkin should be a bright orange color. The nose, mouth, and eyes can be painted in black. The outline and ridges of pumpkin design should be light gray.

Or if you would like to, you can make your whole face look like a pumpkin. The base should be orange and for the cheekbones, you can apply a darker shade of orange. Make a triangle shape over your eyes and paint it black. For your lips and nose, paint it black as well.

Skull – the skull design should cover the entire face. The base should be white and after you've done the white, you can paint a bright red color for the lips. To make it more scary you can outline fangs on both sides of your mouth in light gray. The fill should be white and the tip painted in red so that it will look like blood. Use a smoky gray for the eye lids and exaggerate your eye brows with sweeping strokes of black.

Bat – make a bat design over your whole face. Just like the skull design, use white color as base. Above the nose and forehead, paint the face of the bat in black and light gray for the eyeballs. The body of the bat should be painted over your nose ending at the base of the nostrils. Use different shades of black for the body. The wings cover your eyes and your mid-cheek. You can paint some definition by using light gray on the wings. Over your lips, you could paint exaggerated curls upward to the corners. Use your imagination and you can create a realistic bat design.

These are just three ideas that you can try. There are places you can visit to get some great ideas for Halloween face painting. Visit the different sites and you can find many designs. With a picture to refer to, it will be a lot easier to paint because you already have a clear idea of what the design should like.

You can paint your own face if you like, but this will a bit more difficult. Why not get the whole family involved and paint each other's face? But before anything else, you have to buy face paints, paint brushes, and other painting materials that you will need.

Give an extra twist to the occasion by trying out some face painting Halloween ideas. Just remember to wash your paint off before going to bed to prevent any irritations. Have a great time celebrating Halloween with your family and friends.