Easy Costumes With Face Paint

Use glittery face paint in fun designs for a fairy costume.

If you are on a budget or are unable to sew, using face paint is an easy way to create a quick and simple costume. Start with a few basic items from your closet or raid the local thrift store for something inexpensive and add face paint to act as the main focus that displays the overall theme of the costume.

Animal Costumes

An animal costume can be created with face paint using a few matching clothing items and a pair of costume animal ears. Draw a pink nose and black whiskers on your face for a simple cat or bunny costume. Create a tiger look by using alternating black and orange makeup with white around the eyes and mouth. For a dog's face like a beagle or a terrier, use white around your mouth and the bridge of your nose, make the tip of your nose black with black whiskers and put dark brown around your eyes.

Scary Costumes

Face paint is often the basis of any good horror costume. Draw in a simple trickle of blood down the mouth for an instant vampire costume. Wear a black hood and paint a white skull on your face to be death. Ask a friend to help paint monstrous eyes over your eyelids so that you look creepy and sinister when you close your eyes. Give your face a pale, sickly tint and add gruesome features like flesh wounds for an easy zombie costume.

Fantasy Costumes

Face paint can be used to portray the creatures that inhabit fantasy worlds. Wear a shiny dress and use glitter around your eyes and cheeks and draw curlicues, butterflies and other whimsical designs for a fairy costume. Wear golden or silvery makeup to add a heavenly glow to a simple angel costume. Even famous fantasy characters can be created easily with makeup. Draw a lightning shaped scar on your forehead and a pair of glasses around your eyes for a quick Harry Potter costume.

People and Professions Costumes

With a few appropriate clothing items and props you can use face paint to look like a number of different people and professions. Use a makeup pencil to add wrinkles to your face to dress as an older version of yourself or draw on zits and wear big glasses to be a nerd. Wear colorful makeup in a fun, exaggerated design for a clown costume or paint your face black and white to be a mime. Draw on a big curly mustache for an easy chef costume or simulate a dirty face to be a hobo.

References

• Bella Sugar: 5 Awesome Last-Minute Halloween Face Paint Ideas
• Kids Party Paradise: Thirty Quick and Easy Kids Costumes