construction:materials:body_paint

Body Paints

Kryolan has Aquacolors, Ben Nye has Magicolors, both of which are excellent quality. Not all costume shops have these. You can use Kryolan's color wheels, which are good. Mehron also has large tubes, looking like lipstick tubes, meant to be directly applied or with other applicators.

From Nightsky Bluewyrm, after a comment about the water based makeup they used at AC3;

For what it's worth, Tilde~, Hazmat, and I put on our Ben Nye Magicolor makeup around 3-5 pm, and wore it all through the day and night, dancing at the Masq, dancing in that little alcove, and shaking our collective booty at the Purple Nurple til 3:30 or whenever, and the three of us kept looking at each other, saying, “I'm sweating like crazy… how's my makeup? It must be sliding off…” Yet the answer every time was “No.” I had pawed my face a bit, so I had a tiny orange streak on my cheek, and I'd even daubed some of the sweat off gently with a kleenex from time to time… but the makeup held and did not run.

We applied it, powdered it with the Translucent Ben Nye Powder, put the black lines on, powdered it again, and then I used a damp washcloth laid on my face for a minute, to set it. Or I could have spritzed water on my face if I'd had a spritzer.

Bottom line: that's serious stuff!

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