Instructions for Tinkerbell Face Painting

Wear a green dress with your Tinkerbell face painting design.

Tinkerbell, the fairy character in Walt Disney's "Peter Pan," can be face painted in a representational way. Painting Tinkerbell realistically would only consist of painting a subject's lips a dark pink and encouraging her to wear a blond wig with a high pony tail. Use Tinkerbell's classic colors of green and gold and a little sparkle in order to create a Tinkerbell-type fairy effect. Once you have learned basic fairy face painting, you can adjust the colors to represent other fairy characters.

Things You'll Need

• Green, white, yellow and pink water-based face paint
• Face-painting sponge
• Face-painting stipple sponge
• Soft-bristled small round detail brush
• Soft-bristled medium round brush
• Loose gold face-painting sparkles

Instructions

1. Load a face-painting sponge with green face paint by dipping the edge of the sponge in water then rotating it in paint. Press the sponge on the inner corner of the eye and drag it diagonally upward above the eye brow onto the forehead on each side of your face. Start in the same place and drag another stroke just below the first stoke on both sides. Continue dragging strokes until the eye and just below the eye are covered with green face paint. It should look like a fan coming outward from the inner corner of each eye. Do not get paint on the bridge of the nose.

2. Load a stipple sponge with white paint. Load the same way you load a regular sponge. Lightly dab white over the green paint.

3. Load a small round detail brush with white paint by dipping the brush in water and then rubbing it in paint. Paint around the edge of the fan shape you created.

4. Paint yellow dots and swirls in the fan shapes around the eyes with a small round detail brush. You can make the swirls and dots symetrical on both sides or random.

5. Use the small round brush to triple load your brush with white and green. Triple load your brush by filling the entire brush in green, then rotate only the top half in white paint and then just rotate the tip in yellow paint. Press the tip of the paint on the bridge of the nose between the eyes. Slide the brush straight upwards, pressing as you slide. End the upside down teardrop stroke by pressing fully on the brush. Paint the same stroke starting at the same point, but sliding diagonally upward to the right and the left of the first straight stroke.

6. Paint the lips pink with a medium round brush. Sprinkle loose gold face-painting sprinkles over the the painted areas.

References

• Leslie Wandell; Professional Face Painter and Owner/Operator of Face It Transformation; Kingston, Ontario
• Carrie Whalen; Professional Face Painter and Owner/Operator of Young Artists of Kingston; Kingston, Ontario

Resources

• Snazaroo; The World's Favourite Face and Body Paint