There was also the problem that using white as a base would look really wierd on dark skin, as it would be greyish unless pancaked on very thick (and on really black skin, it would still look grey). But I wasn't really aiming at white at all - I just wanted to give the child's natural skin colour an unearthly ethereal look. So I realised the way to do this was use gold on dark skin. Plain white could still be used on fair skin, but a pearlescent white or silver would be best.
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Good excuse to add a couple more face paints to my collection!
Indeed - hope we get to do lots of fairies with different skin tones, at the carnival so we can try them out!
I got the gold for the carnival last year, and tried it as accents on a black girl (just my old fairy design without the white) - it really looked good.
I got a different brand for the silver, not Snazaroo - it's a whiter silver. The make was Grimas, the colour was called Pearl Silver or something like that, and they had it in the art store. I tried it on my own face, and it seemed a good colour.
Btw, there is some silver in one of the the church facepaint palettes.
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