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face_paint
📅 Updated:2017-12-02
🕒 Created:2017-12-02
🆔 ID:18455
Description
Face painting is when paint is applied to a character's face. This is commonly done at festivals, carnivals and other celebrations. However, it may have a more ritual intent.
Characters who commonly have facepaint are children (perhaps on Halloween or a carnival), tribal warriors preparing for battle, or fanciful decoration. It may also be part of a culture, such as a Japanese geisha's make up, or Native American war paint.
These may be hard to tell apart from facial tattoos, or natural markings.
Frequently seen styles of facepaint:
- Skull Face Paint - Wherein the face is painted to resemble a skull. Said face paint may also resemble a sugar skull and in that case, is connected to the Day of the Dead festival.
- Simply, often brightly colored lines and shapes intended for decoration
- Dark smudges intended to act as camouflage
- Horizontal stripes below the eyes that help reduce glare, often seen on characters playing sports.
- Mask-like shapes across the eyes
