How to Make a Wizard Face
Wizard faces in the forms of masks, face paint and other decorations, can complete the look of a magic show or theme party, or put the finishing touch on a wizard Halloween costume. More traditional wizard faces can be wrinkled and white, or you can create a younger wizard face by simply adding color and decorative features such as stars and magic wands.
Things You'll Need
- Face paint
- Makeup sponges and brushes
- Long, straight, gray wig
- Fake, gray eyebrows, mustache and beard
- Cardboard
- Paint
- Pencil
- Glue
- Scissors
- Blank wall
- Overhead projector, blank transparency and dry erase markers
- Fog machine
Instructions
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Wizard Face Paint
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Sponge wide yellow and blue streaks of face paint on your face, covering your chin up to your forehead. Leave a small section around your eyes. Allow the base paint to dry.
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Paint delicate stars, magician's wands or other magic symbols with a brush on your cheeks and forehead over the base paint.
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Complete the look with a white wig, eyebrows, mustache and beard, or add round eyeglasses for a look similar to Harry Potter's.
Wizard Mask
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Cut an oval mask out of cardboard. Paint the mask a pale white and add wrinkles around the eyes and mouth with a pencil to mimic crow's feet. Draw lines that run horizontally across the forehead. Start with fewer wrinkle lines and add more as necessary to create an old, weathered look.
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Press the oval against your face once the paint dries and feel for the outline of your nose, mouth and eyes. Ask an assistant to gently trace these outlines onto the cardboard.
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Cut out holes for your eyes, nose and mouth. Paste the eyebrows, mustache and beard to the oval mask. Add any other decorative features, including painted stars or magician's wands, to the mask with paint.
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Hold the mask to your face with your hands or cut a hole in each side of the mask and thread a string through one hole. Tie the string in a knot around the outer edge of the hole, and then run it around the back of your head while the mask is on your face. Tie the loose end to the other hole to secure the mask to your head.
Wizard Face Holograph
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Draw an abstract wizard face on a piece of transparent, plastic paper with dry erase markers. Draw dark eyes, a rough sketch of a nose and mouth, and a lot of hair, including bushy eyebrows, mustache and beard.
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Place the drawing on an overhead projector and display the wizard's face on a dark wall.
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Use strobe lights or other lighting to create the illusion of movement, and further disguise the wizard face with steam using a fog machine. Place the fog machine near the display wall, and start the machine on the lowest setting and increase as necessary to create a layer of fog in front of the wizard face.
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