The Thing Body Paint
by MsMaoMaoz in Craft > Costumes & Cosplay
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The Thing Body Paint
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my co worker asked me to paint The Thing from Fantastic 4, so I did! I think it turned out ok. Haha. Halloween is coming! have any ideas? just let me know! YouTube.com/msmaomaoz
Outline and Base
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I used my white eyeliner pencil to outline where the mouth with be and then took a yellow body paint (mehron) and filled in my face.
Details and Brow Bone
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I used a black eyeshadow (blackout from urban decay) and lightly outlined where the nose, eyebrow bone, and wrinkles will be going.
I then took a brown body paint (mehron) and went over the same lines and also started the rock shapes on my brow bone.
I then took a brown body paint (mehron) and went over the same lines and also started the rock shapes on my brow bone.
Brow Bone
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I then took orange body paint (mehron) and placed it on random spots for the rocks.
I grabbed different shades of brown eye shadow (bh cosmetics) and went around each rock shape.
I grabbed different shades of brown eye shadow (bh cosmetics) and went around each rock shape.
Shadows
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keeping the same few shades of brown eye shadow I shadowed around the brow and also created some angry expressions.
Same Steps
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for the rocks on the forehead I repeated the same steps, I just made the rocks bigger.
Random Details
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I used more brown body paint to make wrinkles coming off the eyes.
Nose
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I used that same brown body paint to outline the nose, I then grabbed more brown eye shadow to shadow around the nose and make it look bigger.
Face Rocks
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the rocks on the face I did the same way as the forehead.
Black
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I took some black eyeshadow to deepen up some spots on my face
Nose
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I made more rocks the same way on my nose and under it, I just made then smaller.
Mouth
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starting off the mouth I painted it white, then I used black body paint to add the teeth lines.
More Lines
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while I had the black body paint out I outlined some more lines I felt got a little lost. (nose, eyebrows, ect) then I outlined the mouth.
Shadowing
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I took black eyeshadow and shadowed around the teeth.
No Ears
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I took black body paint I covered my ears
Body
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I used that same yellow to cover my body.
Cracks
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I made three cracks with that same brown body paint
Details
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I then used some orange body paint for color, and brown eyeshadow to shadow.