Facepaint Blog

How to do Sugar Skull Makeup With Face and Body Paints

Posted by Amy Liza Williams on Oct 30, 2014

Tags: Adult, April Carvelli, Designs, Halloween, Holidays & Seasons, Sugar Skull

Dia das los Murtos is almost here! Some of the funnest and most creative make up out there.

How to Face Paint a Sugar Skull on a Cheek

Posted by Amy Liza Williams on Oct 22, 2014

Tags: Adult, April Carvelli, Cheek, Designs, Halloween, Holidays & Seasons, Sugar Skull

Sugar skull designs are always fun to paint on a cheek or an arm for someone who doesn’t want a full dia de los Murtos mask.

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Hell Boy Makeup by Christopher English

Posted by April Carvelli on Sep 16, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, Characters, Cosplay, Designs

Earlier we had done a brief interview with Chris English and now Chris gives us a fantastic tutorial on his transformation into Hellboy look.

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Cosplay Makeup: The Ultimate Hellboy

Posted by April Carvelli on Sep 15, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, Characters, Cosplay, Designs

When I started returning to the Con scene a few years ago, I started seeing Christopher English’s Hellboy everywhere.

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Chicago Wizard World 2014

Posted by April Carvelli on Sep 05, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, News

As expected there were several variants of Guardians of the Galaxy. Here are just a few of the outstanding makeups from Wizard World 2014

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Meet a Chicagoland Area Face Painter

Posted by April Carvelli on Jul 21, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, News, Shelley Wapniak, Tales From The Trade

Wina Shelley of Party Picassos Face and Body Painting started into face painting almost by accident. She was an art student at the American Academy of Art when [..]

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The Many Faces of Dachi

Posted by April Carvelli on Jun 23, 2014

Tags: Adult, April Carvelli, Characters, Cosplay, halloween, Vampire

Cosplaying is the adult version of dress-up. Only instead of donning our mothers cast downs and traipsing around in heeled shoes a million times too big for us [..]

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Interview with a Paintopia Professional Face Painting Winner

Posted by April Carvelli on Jun 04, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, Designs, Kids, News, Other, Space

It’s nice to occasionally hear from those out in real world who do the face and body painting for a living. In this case I spoke with Clare, [..]

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Last Minute Cosplay Makeup Ideas

Posted by April Carvelli on May 31, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, Cosplay, Designs

Looking for some quick and easy facepaint ideas, maybe you have a costume party to go to, or it’s your first adventure into Cosplaying? As long as you have the colors you can’t really can’t get more simple makeup than some these.

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How to do Simple Mouse Makeup

Posted by April Carvelli on May 16, 2014

Tags: Animals, April Carvelli, Easy Designs, Girl design, Kids, Minnie Mouse, Mouse

There are certain characters that are iconic and need no introduction. Check out this Minnie Mouse face paint tutorial that's perfect for little girls!

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C2E2 Offers a Wide Variety of FacePaint Examples

Posted by April Carvelli on May 07, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, Tales From The Trade

Fan conventions are some of the best places to see facepainting that has been done by both professionals and amateurs. They are where people meet up to share and show off their passion.

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Frankensteins Monster Face Paint Design

Posted by April Carvelli on Apr 21, 2014

Tags: April Carvelli, Characters, Designs, Frankenstein, Half Face, Halloween, Holidays & Seasons, Kids, Monster

Doing a full face paint mask on any child can take a while, this idea by Cosmic Face Paint is a great solution for the child with limited patience. A half face mask.

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