How to Apply Mime Makeup to Cheeks

Video Transcript

"I'm Mark Wenzel and we're teaching you how to be a mime. Once you put the white makeup on, as you see, it's a mask. It kind of goes around. You can see the other parts of the face. Now, what we do is we amplify what's called the speaking parts of the face. We basically start with the eyes. A lot of it is a circle that will go around the eyes. You want to line it underneath and above. Be careful because you're got a sharp stick and you're poking it in your eye. You can use basically anything. I just use hold eyebrow pencils. A lot of people at Halloween will be able to do mime makeup with just about anything that you've got floating around the house. The white makeup is the hardest to find. All the rest of it is really done with standard eyebrow pencil. Once you have the circles around both eyes, now you want to amplify it a little bit with just one from the bottom and one to the side. If you just do the one to the side, you're going to look like an Egyptian princess. We don't want that. We want the one to the bottom too. A lot of people will do a whole star on their eyes. I don't find that as necessary, but it does making the speaking parts bigger. I kind of make the lines just a little bit in."