How to Apply Clown Makeup
Clown makeup is one of the most common costume makeup used. If you’re doing this at home, you can use of simple materials like white powder, lipstick, eyeliner, eye shadow, and the clown’s nose. For professional clown makeup, face paint is always the advisable one to use.
The Preparation
- Make sure that you wash your face well and take away all the oil. This is to make sure that your clown makeup will stay on longer.
- Before you begin applying anything, make sure you have all that you need. You don’t want to have to get up and out of your room to go looking for some brush or your clown nose.
- Decide the clown face design you want to make. By deciding, you will avoid having to make many erasures and redos later to get what you want. You can even make a drawing of your clown face and stick to that unless you come up with another brilliant idea that will not require too much erasures and redos later.
- Do not be afraid to get those colors on our face. Some people are sometimes overwhelmed with the task at hand and end up messing the whole thing up. Be confident that what you’re doing is something fun and that you have a design ready that you can follow.
The Process
- Before doing the eyes, lips, and nose, and other designs you want to paint on, apply the white layer on your entire face. Try to do it as evenly as possible and then wait for some time before working on the other parts of your clown face. This is to make sure that the white paint has dried up and to avoid having it come off every time you apply another color on top of it. Remember, a nicely dried white layer is a good base for the rest of the colors and will help them stay on longer too.
- The nose. You can use red face paint and first work out a light outline of a red circle around your nose. Make sure your entire nose (except the bridge of course) is inside the circle, otherwise it will end up looking like a cat’s nose. After you’ve worked on the circle and have decided it’s the right size, fill it in with the right amount of red. You actually don’t have to use red all the time but a typical clown usually uses red. Instead of painting, you can also use the foam version of the clown’s nose. You can easily get this at costume shops.
- Work on the lips. Using red or other color paint, you can work a smile or a frown around your lips. Start with the outline and once you have decided you have the perfect shape, you and start filling in. Avoid outlining just one side and filling it in before doing the other side. Sometimes, this will make the lips look crooked and you might have to make erasures again.
- Emphasize the eyebrow. Since you painted white over your original eyebrows, you have the freedom to draw whatever shape you like to make your clown face look happy, sad, or silly.
- Choose another color, not red again, if you used that for the nose and lips. Use this to paint your eyelids. You can also do a star around your eyes instead of just coloring the eyelids.
- You can add some designs like stars, dots, or freckles on the cheeks. After that, you can don your wig and clown costume and voila! You’re a clown.
