Face Painting: Beginner's Guide to Mixing Colours

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Movie Costumes for Children: Wizard Of Oz

The book 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz' was first published in 1900 and has been reprinted numerous times, often under the name The Wizard of OZ and has been turned into a well known film adaptation in 1939. It's a well  loved movie by everyone. Here are the costumes and their accessories/ face paint needed for the character of the movie: 

Dorothy Gale

Cowardly Lion

For a step to step instruction on the lion face paint, click here. 

Scarecrow

Click here for the scarecrow face painting guide.

Tin Man

For, Tin man face dab on metallic silver face paint and black face paint for creating eyebrows and lines.

Glinda the Good Witch of the North

The Wicked Witch of the West

For wicked witch face painting guide, click here.

Get all the face paint colours you need by clicking on the cart below:

For facts about the Wizard of Oz movie, click here.

Face Painting: Festival Guide

If you want to stand out in a crowd of festival goer, then why not try your hands on face painting. Here are 3 simple ideas you can play around with: 

Here is a short video from free people showcasing face and body paint ideas and tutorials:

Get your hands on palette so you can get creative and try out different styles: 

For more colours and paints, click on the cart: 

                                                             

Face Painting: Beginner's Guide to Brushes

Our second part in the series of beginner's guide to face painting looks at the 4 main brushes used.

Here is a quick video to show the basic strokes: 

You can get away with only using a round brush and sponge  for most of your face painting purposes but if you want to try your hands on different techniques, its good to know about the other 3. 

Pack of 3 Brushes, at funnfrolic.co.uk

As World Cup starting in a month time, get yourself some face painting kits and show your support by painting on the country's flag, the guides are available in the Snazaroo website. 

Face Painting: Beginner's Guide

At Fun 'N' Frolic, we stock a variety of face paints so we thought of making this beginner's guide to face painting. We are gonna start off with the basic tools and techniques to remember in this post.

Face Paint Kits 

As a beginner, its cheaper to get your hands on one of these face paint kits which have most of the colors in a palette so you can practice on any willing person and have fun practicing different looks.
Cost: £3 - £6  

Sponges: 

It's easier to apply the paint using a sponge. Cut it into wedges so that its easier to apply on the face. The sponge is useful for putting on the base color.                                                                                               Cost: 59 pence for pack of 2

Brushes: 

Brushes are used to draw the details such as whiskers, lines or as a border.   Cost: £3.79 for pack of 3 styles