Painting A Face In Photoshop

Get the Look

Erik Rank

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Get the Look

You've got the dazzling disguises ready. Now it's time to put on the finishing touch—literally. Just a little bit of facepaint goes a long way to capture your child's personality as well as enhance the costume you've created. You'll be amazed at how frighteningly simple it is to turn your little angel into a scary mummy or an adorable garden fairy. All it takes is patience and a dab of imagination! Once you've found your desired look, click here for additional facepainting tips and tricks.

Bride of Frankenstein

Erik Rank

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Bride of Frankenstein

A white base forms the background of this "blushing" bride. Dark purple hollows painted around her eyes accentuate that feature, while curvy black eyebrows and purple cheekbone definitions make Frankenstein's better half look fierce. Kewpie doll red li

Spooky Ghoul

Erik Rank

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Spooky Ghoul

For this terrifying effect, start with a dusty green base, then draw broad lines on top of the face exaggerating the eyes and eyebrows. From there, add heavy highlights: spooky shadows around the nose, on cheekbones and above the eyes, and put crease l

Mad Scientist

Erik Rank

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Mad Scientist

A ghostly white face matches the lab coat on this young chemist. Blended gray shadows above and below the eyes and dark lines coming down the nose contribute to her zany appearance. Add a mouth in stitches, an orange fright wig and large goofy glasses,

Spider

Aimee Herring

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Spider

Spiderman was never this cool! Give your child a complete cherry-red face, extending the makeup out over the ears. Instead of a complicated web design, draw a few black spiders on the cheeks. Add a few web strands in black; highlight them in white eyel

Mummy

Erik Rank

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Mummy

Powder on a white background for this little mummy's face and add some grayish smudges to give off a ghoulish pallor. Put patches of yellow around the eyes, nose and cheeks. Then draw the outlines of bandages, filling them in with alternating swatches

Swamp Girl

Aimee Herring

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Swamp Girl

Continue the flow of the costume colors right onto the face in blocks. Apply a light pink powder base, then blend in accents of darker turquoise, jade green and eggplant purple eyeshadow. Make decorative petals with a lipliner brush and purple lipstick

Spider & Web

Erik Rank

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Spider & Web

To create the cutest spider in town, start with a pale pink foundation all over the face, with periwinkle blue cheekbone accents. Outline the eyes with hot pink and color in the lips with metallic black lipstick. Draw web patchworks on both cheeks and

Bat Boy

Aimee Herring

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Bat Boy

The makeup for this superhero couldn't be simpler. With blue eyeliner pencil to match the costume's blue plaid pajamas, outline a bat shape with large outstretched wings. On the nose, draw the bat's body and head. Fill in with green powder eyeshadow to

Garden Fairy

Aimee Herring

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Garden Fairy

Sponge light blue and lavender eyeshadow onto forehead; add tiny lavender flowers with green centers and white edges. On the sides of the face, apply light red blush and create green eyeliner vines to echo the costume's garden theme. Use blue-green sha