How To Do Face Painting: The Butterfly

♪ goofy piano music ♪

Hi, my name is Karina. I have been

a face painter for quite a while

and enjoy working with the human canvas

and today we're going to

create a wonderful butterfly on Madison.

For your basic supplies, you will need

small, medium, and large brushes,

a high-density foam makeup sponge,

a basin to rinse your brushes with water,

and a towel, and of course, an FDA-approved

cosmetic-grade face paint, and glitter.

Our first step will be to apply the

outline of the wings. Start at the bridge

of the nose and, depending on the shape of

the face, the shape of the, uh, upper wing

will be around the eye, and the lower wing

will be shaped around the cheekbone.

I'm picking colors today that match

her outfit, which is always nice to do.

And today we'll add a little bit of a

swallow-like tail on the wing.

Uh, so we have out outline,

our Step #2 will be to fill in the colors.

I'm actually going finishing taking

the outline and drag that color inward.

Uh, it's always nice to have colors that

contrast and compliment. There aren't

really any colors that don't work together

but not all colors blend together, so it's

good to let the areas dry unless you're

absolutely blending. So, on the bottom

wing, I do want to add a second color

which I do want to blend, so I need to do

that as the first application of color is

wet. The outline is already a little bit

dry, so I'll dip my brush back into the

water. And just keep going over and over

it as you pull the colors into each other.

Step 3 will be to add the black outline

to the wings, the head, the body, and

the antenna. Do that with a #4 brush and

black paint. So we've completely outlined

the wings and we'll move on to the head

which we'll put in between the wings.

Many different ways to do the head and

the body. The body that I generally like

to make is a bit of a diamond.

We can stop at this basic butterfly;

we have a beautiful example.

Uh, if you choose to do more options,

we will continue and do some more.

So we're gonna add the eyelashes

to the little lady

and then we're going to put

more details on the wings themselves.

Pull the edges inwards, we're gonna take

the separation that we created and

round off the edges.

So we're gonna add

a little bit of color. She's got a

little bit of green in her outfit.

A teardrop-shape here.

Its nice to apply dry glitter to wet paint

so that it actually stays on better.

A little more detail, we can add

some more dots.

With the butterfly, you can also add lips,

every girl likes their lips made up.

So we will add some lipstick. Pull down

the lip slightly and just do "tap tap."

Additional accents would be the highlights

with the white.

As you can see, it just really

punches it out nicely.

We've completed our lovely butterfly.

Are you ready to fly away?

Yes.

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I love it!

(Karina laughs)

(sparkle sound)

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