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Happy Halloween! The most fun, creative and spooky occasion of the year is finally here! Many of you will be out trick or treating no doubt, and some of you will be attending Halloween parties if not tonight than this weekend.

One of my favorite halloween make up ideas are painting Stitches! And we were recently asked how to paint stitches on the blog, so here’s how you do it!

Stitches work great on any part of the body - arms, legs, face, neck… where ever!

And its easier than you think, to make it look really cool!

Firstly, get a small thin brush and paint a red line with dots like in the picture.

Then use black face/body paint to paint a curved line between each pair of dots. (Makesure the lines are curved, to give it a more 3d effect.) Then paint a black line right next to the red line, overlapping a little.

The last thing you need to do get some white paint, and paint slightly over the black curved lines in the picture… and thats all there is to it!

Happy Halloween Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
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As I said in yesterdays post, I’d show you some more Halloween face painting photos from the Halloween party my children were at, so here they are and I hope you get some good ideas for your Halloween party celebrations!

 Left: My sister is turning my daughter into a toilet paper mummy! A fun halloween game and costume for the kiddies! (Please remember to recycle if you’re going to do this)

Right: My daughter asked me to paint a simple black mask around her eyes, I don’t know where she got the idea but I think its similar to the mask in “The Incredibles”. Although if you ask her she’ll tell you that she invented the design!

Above: My nieces, a fairy and a candy goth… whatever that means, gee its hard to keep up with the kids sometimes! I painted a simple black and red mask on her, took all of 2 minutes to do with only two colors - red and black and it looks smashing!

 My sister went all out with the Halloween decorations this year. Cheap party lights, fake cob webs and a few toy bats and spiders hanging about the ceiling, doesn’t it look great?! Would love to hear your feedback about this post.

We had such a good time this halloween, and it didn’t involve too much planning or big spending either. Making your own costumes and doing your own make up is so much fun for you and the kids, I hope you have a ball! 

Happy Halloween Face Painting,

Pauline Keogh Tivoli
Download more Halloween face painting photos with step by step instructions right here!

Here’s a couple halloween make up ideas that I came up with just this last weekend! My daughters, their cousins and friends had a fun halloween party, and I was busy face painting as usual.

The mask on the girl has a kind of a gothic feel to it (very popular with tweens and teens) and it uses the ‘tear drop technique’. To learn this technique watch this video:
How to Face Paint the Tear Drop Technique Video.

We also put some black feathers in her hair and she wore a pretty black dress with fish net stockings. Simple home made costumes are so much fun, and it lets you and your child be creative! 

The design on the boy is so quick and simple, two squiggly lines for a moustache and to curved lines for some menacing eyebrows is what he requested, and he loved it! Kids tend to pick easy designs, so always ask them what they want.

I’ll post some more halloween make up ideas, costume ideas and games tomorrow so stay tuned and tell me what you think about these designs, would love to hear your comments/feed back!

Happy Halloween Face Painting

Pauline Keogh Tivoli
Download our halloween make up ideas with step by step photos and instructions right here, right now!

P.s Only 2 days to go till Halloween, so get your paints out and get crackin’!

Besides costumes and face paint designs, there are other halloween make up supplies that you’ll need in the following week! I’ve had many an email enquiring about where to get such special effects make up items like gel blood, black tooth wax, and special effects wax and the good news is…. you can find it all in one place!:

Get Your Special Effects Make Up by Right Here From Party Domain! 

MAKEUP - GEL BLOOD (Dark)
Snazaroo Gel Blood Dark colour option 50ml 
£3.75

MAKEUP - BLACK TOOTH WAX
Black Tooth Wax - 12ml
£3.99

MAKEUP - SPECIAL (FX WAX)
Snazaroo Special FX wax - 75ml
£10.99

Happy Halloween Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
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www.FacePaintingTips.com/halloween

Today I’m going to share with you a face painting technique that I really like to use, it’s a technique that will allow you to quickly paint simple face paint designs like a flower or a butterfly with a beautiful two toned effect!

(Thanks to a lady named Jan who left a comment on our blog with this idea, we appreciate all the comments, they inspire us to put up more posts!)  

*First, load your brush with the color that you want the core of the flower to be, we used yellow in the photo. (But you can use whatever color you want.)

*Then dip just the tip of the brush in a darker color, we used red. About 1/4 of the brush.

*Then all you have to do is press the brush (tip facing out) 5 or 6 times to make petals.

This will give you beautiful multi-tone petals!

You can also use this technique on other face paint designs like the butterfly, and if you want you can outline the design in black with a small thin brush:

So, what do you think? Leave your comments here. 

Happy Face Painting

Pauline Keogh Tivoli
Get more face paint designs right here with step-by-step photos and instructions!

Here’s a quick face painting tip for children this Halloween…

Try not to paint the area around their mouths, alter the design if needed, that way when they get into mess eating their halloween treats, they won’t end up eating paint and messing up your beautiful face paint design!

And if you don’t have any face paint designs ready for Halloween, then don’t worry because…

It won’t take you long to to learn with our Halloween face paint designs, step by step photos and instructions!

Click on this link to get our Halloween face paint designs:
http://www.facepaintingtips.com/halloween

Happy Halloween Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
Face Painting Tips

Here are some fun halloween make up ideas for you and your kids that you can combine with your face painting! 

Wrinkles and Bumps

To create an unusual skin texture or wrinkles, use white school glue. Find a white glue that is safe for use on the skin, is completely non-toxic and easy to remove.

For wrinkles, apply a thin layer of glue to the skin stretched out by your fingers. Dry the glue quickly with a hair dryer on low, or let air dry. Once the paste is completely dry, release the skin for instant wrinkles. To create this effect all over, work in small patches at a time.

For bumps and other skin distortions, apply other materials to your skin with white glue. A great example is to use dampened cereal flakes with white glue for a monster-like skin texture.

Moles and Warts
Utilize white glue again for moles or warts – great for witches or celebrity costumes. Glue puffed wheat cereal on to the skin, once dry, color black or brown with makeup or face paint.

Got any gross halloween make up ideas? Share them with us here by leaving a comment.

Happy Halloween Face Painting :-) 

Philadelphia Tivoli
Get more Halloween Make Up Ideas with the step-by-step photos and instructions found in “The Halloween Make Up Guide”!

I thought I’d share one of my favorite face paint designs with you -a small butterfly that you can do in under 1 minute! You can change the colors if you wish, and maybe combine it with more face painting around the eyes, its up to you! 

Step 1:
Use pink paint and a small brush to paint
4 petal shapes (the wings).

Step 2:
Outline the wings with black paint.

Step 3:
Use black paint to paint in the antennas.

So did you like it? Tell us what you think by clicking here. 

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Want to learn more cheek art? Click here for more cheek art!

Here are a couple of my favorite halloween make up ideas that you can easily use with our face paint designs this Halloween.

Scars
To create the look of scars on your skin, you can use gelatin for a simple but realistic look. Combine the gelatin with hot water and stir. Let it cool to a comfortable temperature to place on your skin – room temperature, but still gooey. Mold this mixture onto skin in the shape of a scar or other gross effect. Once its dry, you can add face paint or foundation to create a skin tone look, or red food coloring for a more bloody texture look. Halloween make up ideas like this work great with a zombie face paint design!

Teeth
Buy a black tooth cap at a costume shop or Halloween store. Halloween make up ideas like this also work great with zombie face paint designs, monster and witch!

Stay tuned for more halloween make up ideas :-) 

Philadelphia Tivoli
Get our Halloween Make Up Ideas including zombie, monster and witch with step-by-step photos and instructions now!

If you missed the World Body Painting Festival check out this video, it includes snippets of what happened on the Saturday of the festival. Hopefully this amazing body painting is sure to give you some face painting inspiration! 

 Happy Face Painting :-) 

Philadelphia Tivoli
www.FacePaintingTips.com