Best body paint according to redditors

My natual hair color is black, so I go to a professional who bleaches my hair to platinum blonde and then tones it to white. Then every morning I take a little bit of white Mehron makeup and cover up my roots. My beard grows very fast.
https://www.amazon.com/Mehron-Liquid-Makeup-WHITE-Face/dp/B01B3LYLCC/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1481928918&sr=8-1&keywords=white+hair+makeup

Me and my girlfriend did Rick and Unity for DragonCon last week. She used Paradise Makeup Light Blue - Amazon. The stuff spreads great. Just a little water and a makeup applicator is all we used. Barely used any of the makeup. Here are some pictures of us from the con At DragonCon Parade Close Up.

The green and yellow are from a UV face paint kit I found on Amazon, the teal is from the Wolfe FX Hydrocolors Essentials Palette. The liner was NYX Matte Black Liquid Liner. Lashes were Dodo D105 (these have huge lash bands lol, beware).

Because you ruled out the obvious solution:

1. Tell people you have a strange case of advanced vitiligo.
   
   
2. Accessorize with a jaunty tattoo. Like a dotted line with "cut here" written on it. Or tattoo your entire torso up to your neck so no one can tell.
   
   
3. Draw attention from the tanline using bright eye shadow.
   
   
4. Turtlenecks!
   
   
5. Slather yourself in body paint or mud.
   
   
6. Never, ever, let anyone see you naked.
   
   
7. Quit surfing.
   
   
8. Wear a Mexican wrestling mask in the water.
   
   
9. Coat your face in a thick layer of peanut butter. It's 100% UV effective!
   
   
10. Just accept it, ya boner.

From my understanding if the dress is made of high quality sequins and beads, they should not be cutting your arms since they won't have sharp edges. Cheap sequins are normally the perpetrators of this. I learned this trick from Reddit tho. You take adhesive that theatre people use to attach facial Morphers and hair, and paint it on the underside of your arms on the dress, right where your arms would rub. This keeps the sharp edges down to keep from cutting your arms.

I've used this before https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B018WJFBEU/ref=ya_aw_oh_bia_dp?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hey- real life vampire here. Here's my vampire makeup advice, modified for a beginner.

The main thing you wanna focus on here is red, white and black. Make your hair darker, your skin more pale (contour(define)) your cheekbones and put red under your eyes.

Before you start, gather these things:

1. Clown White
   
2. Liquid foundation of some kind (match for your skin or not, doesn't really matter)
   
3. Eyeshadow (with red and black and white) or oil face paints (same colors)
   
4. Possibly a brown/black eyeliner pencil for your eyebrows
   
5. An ashy contour colour (just a brown, greyish color)
   > 6. A contour brush. Some people will insist that you need more brushes but honestly you can probably get away with using your hands.
   
   Tutorial:
   
   
6. Put on some Joy Division. Mix together some of the clown white and foundation and apply it to make your face seem more pale. Try to make it even, and the consistency shouldn't be too thick. If it is, add more foundation. Also, put this over your lips so that they look super pale.
   
7. Put white eyeshadow on your eyelid. Then, take just a bit of black eyeshadow and try to blend them to make grey. The eyeshadow should get darker towards the outer corners.
   
8. Take some of the red eyeshadow (on the tip of your finger) and dab it on the lower lash line (not your waterline. don't try to stick your finger in your eye!!!). Smear that downwards so that it blends in with the foundation you have on. Try to make it look natural, like your eyes are really red. After all, you are a vampire.
   
9. Use the ashy contour colour and the contour brush to make your cheeks look gaunt. This will help you look more dead. Also, contour your temples. Blend it in to the white so that the lines aren't harsh (you don't need to use that much product, and start in the hairline and work out.)
   
10. If you don't have a widow's peak, make one with your eyeshadow and contour. Use the brush for this, and just try to be subtle with it, moving in a swooping heart shape out from the point in the centre. You might need to pack more product in at the hairline.
    
11. If your eyebrows need to be defined, define them. You can make them look more evil/intense by adding a dark line along the bottom and then angling in like this. You don't have to do this though, and you could even white out your eyebrows (not all vamps have them after all.)
    
12. If you want to, do lines of black eyeliner on your eyelids. You can smudge this if you want, and I suggest only doing the top so that on the bottom the main focus is the red.
    
    If you want any more help/explanations don't hesitate to ask, I could send you more pictures if you want. Here is a picture of drag queen Aquaria with a vampy look: she might be a bit too shiny for what we're going for here, but the eye makeup is a good example (and the expression.)
    
    
    

How safe is that to use on skin though? Try this if you don't want to risk a horrible rash, or permanent glowing nipples.

I've heard that sequin dresses like this can be scratchy under the arms, but another Wedditor recommended this product. You put some on your skin where the arm and sequins would meet and it provides an invisible barrier.

• Brute Tights
  
• Brute Singlet
  
• Costume Black Boots - So, I swear to God, I have a pair of black patent leather boots from prowrestlingboots.com that cost around $200 that I said "I'll wear after those $50 costume boots bite the dust"; a year now and these cheap costume boots are still going strong - a couple of the guys I work with bought a pair and swear by them too for the price.
  
• Stock Kick-pads from elucha.com - They don't sell the design I have anymore, but it's a white skull with silver revolvers crossed underneath
  
• Silver star kneepad covers from elucha.com
  
• ASICS Kneepads
  
• Liquid latex body paint for face paint
  
  Pics with/without kickpads
  
  Hope it gives you some ideas.

Make your crew glow.

Thank you! And of course. We used Mehron Paradise Makeup in Storm Cloud for our bodies and then the black accents were done with the Mehron Basic a Color Pallete.

Mehron makes amazing water based body paint. Highly recommend! The trick is getting it on nice and thick so it doesn’t look streaky.

Find out if her cheeks have this in them!

Yup! Made the shirt. Bought a black turtleneck and yellow long sleeves. I layered the yellow on top of the black, then used chalk to draw cutting lines across the top. I recommend putting the shirts on to do that (especially with boobs), as it looks a little different laying flat vs on your body. I then took it off to cut out the top portion of the shirt. I can't sew, so I used a hot glue gun to glue it on. Then I layed the shirts flat and used chalk to draw the angled front/back and cut those out of the yellow shirt. I recommend putting the shirts on again before gluing the rest.

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For the communicator pin I found a template online and traced them onto foam. You can use spray paint to get the colors right. I used a metallic gold marker and metallic silver hair spray because I had them laying around. Glue the two pieces together, then glue onto the shirts.

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For the pips I just found these gold sticket things in the scrapbooking section at walmart and painted over two of them with the gold marker. The third I used a black sharpie to fill the center in black.

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I followed this guide almost exactly for the makeup. For the white, I used Mehron Clown White. The NYX Ultra Pearl Mania in "Yellow Gold" was not available so I subbed it in with NYX Pigments in GO H.A.M.

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The contacts I ordered through SpookyEyes.com and got "Avatar." Although, if in the US I recommend just seeing an eye doctor and getting contacts that actually fit your eyes as these were pretty uncomfortable.

Amazon.com

Seriously! Buy in bulk and save.

http://www.amazon.com/Lumistick-Glowstick-Bracelets-Colors-bracelets/dp/B000IZ4KEE/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1318305303&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Paint-Glow-Dark-6560/dp/B00448DX44/ref=sr_1_3?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1318305383&sr=1-3

And with Amazon Prime, you get free two day shipping!

I bought this last week, shipped fast, looks good in the bottle but I haven’t put any on yet. Happy roo :)

body paint

Thanks! Well I'm an aspiring special effects makeup artist so I have a ton of shit I can mess around with, but for this I just used this grease paint palette https://www.amazon.com/IMAGIC-Colors-Tattoo-Halloween-Painting/dp/B01NBRKKKO and used the brown color (thinning it out with alcohol so it's less opaque) to darken the shaft and balls, used the red color for the head (again thinning it with alcohol), and then used the red and light blue for the veins. Then I sealed everything with some mehron setting powder, and bam. More realistic dick. It's only been a couple of days but it's holding up well so far.

Thank you! I used a set of paints by ccbeauty professional body paint cost like $16 on Amazon came with 12 deep color pots you don't need much but the red is from a set of theirs.

Professional Face Body Paint Oil... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TZXCLBQ?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I used Mehron Paradise Makeup in the shades white and storm cloud.

Mermaid from Goblet of Fire

Wig: https://www.amazon.com/Mildiso-Short-Curly-Cosplay-Halloween/dp/B075CYW9R5/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=green+wig&qid=1572233941&sr=8-2

Yellow contacts: https://www.colouredcontacts.com/en/view-all/9996-yellow-cat-uv-i-glow-colored-contact-lenses-90-day.html

Fangs: https://www.mostlydead.com/collections/fangs-teeth/products/gaul-fx-fangs

Skin Color: https://www.amazon.com/Mehron-Makeup-Paradise-Paint-Light/dp/B008NCXO2I

Spear: https://www.amazon.com/Forum-Novelties-Roman-Costume-Accessory/dp/B00JMBESGA

Hands: https://www.amazon.com/Zagone-Studios-Webbed-Creature-Gloves/dp/B00DKW2TUO/ref=pd_sbs_193_t_0/137-0643215-6627816?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00DKW2TUO&pd_rd_r=c33d7ed8-784a-4c0c-8a68-ece342f756cd&pd_rd_w=xekAw&pd_rd_wg=Yk9o5&pf_rd_p=5cfcfe89-300f-47d2-b1ad-a4e27203a02a&pf_rd_r=NN2MH3XG13K7AXQVYAW5&refRID=NN2MH3XG13K7AXQVYAW5

Shirt (in case it doesn't load right, the lime version): https://www.hanes.com/shop/hanes/hanes-beefy-t-long-sleeve-t-shirt-6319?categoryId=21088

Tail: https://www.amazon.com/FEESHOW-Mermaid-Halloween-Costumes-Sequins/dp/B073VHW34P

Shoes (because they're necessary, not because they'll show -- deep forest color): https://www.dillards.com/p/ecco-womens-soft-low-cut-zip-bootie-sneakers/507687741

I used Mehron Clear Liquid Latex after doing some research on cosplay forums to see what they tended to use with chalk paint. I only used it to make the grey chalk paint more flexible so that it wouldn’t crack or flake when moving the cloth around a lot. I just mixed a small amount in with the paint—it was a bit of trial and error on some test fabrics before I hit the right consistency.

For the bat emblem, the gloves and the boots I used black heatshrink tubing and was shocked at how useful it was. For the gloves and boots I cut it to the desired shape, slid it over the appendages and then hit it with a hairdryer until it was nice and snug. For the emblem I took the widest bit of heatshrink tubing I had, split it down one side so that it was one flat sheet and then shrank it as much as it would go with the hairdryer. Then I stencilled the bat symbol onto it and cut it out. Heatshrink comes in tons of colours so I have a feeling it’ll be finding its way into future projects in some interesting applications :D

Sorry that’s probably not much help with your project, but hopefully that info is useful to someone. If you plan to paint the patterns onto the costume while it’s on the figure I’d suspect fabric paint or acrylic (with some added latex or “textile medium” to make it more flexible) would be a good bet, using masking tape to mask off the areas you don’t want affected. I would definitely recommend looking into how cosplayers add patterns to fabric; there might be something there that you can adapt for your uses. Please let me know if you pick up any good tips!

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Thanks! we were thinking of doing the outline but since we couldn't find her brushes this was easier to do at the moment.

Also we used Mehron Brand makeup

The White

The Black

And a setting powder that keeps the paint from smearing and coming off

They cost about 10 dollars each but are super dense, one container will last a long time

Thanks!

I got my bruise wheel and two of the fake blood types from Amazon. I'm still waiting on molding wax to show up. It'll give the gashes more depth, instead of them just being blood.

Edited to add that there are links in there to the things I bought. You can't really tell in the Halloween subreddit style.

Never used it, but I had a friend shopping around for Andorian makeup.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VIWVRG/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DNLK9FO/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008NCXNSI/

Try seeing what you of think of these?

I just used this over Halloween. I loved how easy it was to apply, how long lasting it was and it never cracked or flaked for the 5+ hours I was wearing it.

UV Glow Blacklight Face and Body Paint 0.34oz - Set of 6 Tubes - Neon Fluorescent https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BUPN6UA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_O4HoybKJJ8S2P

Here ya go. There's tons of different kinds, just google 'uv fluorescent paint'.

Depending on you not having a latex allergy. Use some body paint to paint on a bicycle shorts and jersey outfit. Then go biking :)

Halloween is Organised


Where's my $10,000?

Thank you!

My brows are pretty full and i think fairly long. It's a problem. I've tried the glue method before, but it doesn't work very well. (It flakes and looks so weird when it dries). For this i actually used some silicone modeling compound (typically used for SFX makeup) to partially cover the brow.

It's my first time using it and it wasn't amazing (you can still really tell there's something funky going on there), but i thought the results were better than glue. And it was a bit more controllable, letting me keep part of my brow exposed. I think with more practice, I can get a smoother, more natural-looking result. :)

Not an expert or anything, but I think that you would want to go for body-paint, not some kind of make-up. I think that something like this would probably work well, in terms of the color you're going for.

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wait, that's just regular paint. don't use that. something like it though.

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maybe this? and I imagine you'll want to apply it via some sort of template, rather than by hand.

So much fun! Impressed with the vibrant quality as well. We used a lot and probably could get another 1 or 2 uses for each of us.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BUPN6UA?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

Cheaper than lube!

"amazon fluorescent body paint" as a google search comes up with a few good hits. That should get you started!

These are the ones I have had: http://www.amazon.com/UV-Glow-Blacklight-Paint-0-34oz/dp/B00BUPN6UA

I'm going as Dr Bunsen from the Muppets, and so far I have Mehron Paradise Light green for my overall face color and a green swim cap to pretend I'm bald. I haven't decided if I should glue down my eyebrows, and I don't have any powder to put over them either. Painting my lips seems yucky, so I was going to do a lipstick, but can't decide on lighter pinks or darker fall colors.

I bought the body paint and hair from here for EDC next weekend.

Got this one as well.

I'll find out which one is better next weekend.

> oh sure, that explains the actual blood and the actual injuries in some of the follow-up videos i've seen.


Case closed then huh?