Comments on: How to Properly Apply Camouflage Face Paint http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/ Buy Face Paints for Face Painting Designs | Learn How to Face Paint With Our Face Painting Supplies Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:42:31 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hamish http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-18730 Hamish Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:32:02 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-18730 Every time i have applied cam-paint for or during a bush exercise we always run over the basics in our head: Night-dark Day-light. Simple. If you plan on having the same layer of paint on during the day and the night, use light green, dark green and brown, grey-blue can also be used but i wouldn't recommend it. It's only a matter of common sense. Every time i have applied cam-paint for or during a bush exercise we always run over the basics in our head: Night-dark Day-light. Simple. If you plan on having the same layer of paint on during the day and the night, use light green, dark green and brown, grey-blue can also be used but i wouldn’t recommend it. It’s only a matter of common sense.

]]> By: lego master http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-11670 lego master Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:37:01 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-11670 havent tried this yet but sounds great. thanks! havent tried this yet but sounds great. thanks!

]]> By: Daniel http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-5171 Daniel Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:22:11 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-5171 Good guide I tried it out for my soldier costume for the halloween party I'm going to, it looks good! Good guide I tried it out for my soldier costume for the halloween party I’m going to, it looks good!

]]> By: Philadelphia Tivoli http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-5109 Philadelphia Tivoli Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:17:04 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-5109 Thank Abby! Thank Abby!

]]> By: Abby McBride http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-5105 Abby McBride Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:06:49 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-5105 LOVE the guide hoping i can follow it in the morning as I paint my 9yo sons face (and turning my head when i spit in my hand...LOL) Suggestion... a couple of instructions pictures would be greatly helpful esp to this mom who according to my son "Has no clue what I'm doing" he already told me tonight "mom i sure hope you bought enough face paint for when you mess up" My son has been intrigued with the military service since about the age 3 by the age of 5 when it was time to begin school he asked if he could go to VMI or a military school (which i can not afford :( but anyways this boy is so knowledgeable in every facet of the army weapons vehicles and the wars .. he was very upset last year when the school didn't even comment or recognize D Day and he has been adamant that he is going to enlist to the army as soon as he is old enough.. He prefers the history and military channels over any cartoon channel any day of the week anyways so anything i can do to help him I am trying to learn. I'm trying to find materials and really good instructions on how to make a ghillie suit for him for Christmas .... but in the meantime he is borrowing his uncles for his character dressup tomorrow and for trick or treating this weekend. A lot more info then needed to be here i know but thank you for writing a detailed and comical set of instructions Abby in VA LOVE the guide hoping i can follow it in the morning as I paint my 9yo sons face (and turning my head when i spit in my hand…LOL)

Suggestion… a couple of instructions pictures would be greatly helpful esp to this mom who according to my son “Has no clue what I’m doing” he already told me tonight “mom i sure hope you bought enough face paint for when you mess up”

My son has been intrigued with the military service since about the age 3 by the age of 5 when it was time to begin school he asked if he could go to VMI or a military school (which i can not afford :( but anyways this boy is so knowledgeable in every facet of the army weapons vehicles and the wars .. he was very upset last year when the school didn’t even comment or recognize D Day and he has been adamant that he is going to enlist to the army as soon as he is old enough.. He prefers the history and military channels over any cartoon channel any day of the week

anyways so anything i can do to help him I am trying to learn. I’m trying to find materials and really good instructions on how to make a ghillie suit for him for Christmas …. but in the meantime he is borrowing his uncles for his character dressup tomorrow and for trick or treating this weekend.

A lot more info then needed to be here i know but thank you for writing a detailed and comical set of instructions

Abby in VA

]]> By: Nathan http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Nathan Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:52:13 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-237 Bobby, whoever instructed you to use black in a non-urban setting didn't know what they were talking about. Shadows are not black: they are darker shades of the original color (e.g. a green tree in a shadow is dark green, not black). Try it out sometime...put one of your buddies into full cammo and then send him into a forest with an M4. If he has proper camouflage, the first thing you will see is the black M4 every time. We've proved this over and over again to all the new guys in our unit. If you are going to use black paint, mix it with the green or brown to make darker shades. Also, if you just apply the make-up in the opposite pattern of nature (dark->light & light->dark), your mind still makes the association with a face (you still recognize a face in a negative of a photograph). Your mind still recognizes the pattern of the shape. The author of this article is correct: you need to break up the natural patterns and shapes of the face...follow the author's advice and you won't go wrong. Bobby, whoever instructed you to use black in a non-urban setting didn’t know what they were talking about. Shadows are not black: they are darker shades of the original color (e.g. a green tree in a shadow is dark green, not black). Try it out sometime…put one of your buddies into full cammo and then send him into a forest with an M4. If he has proper camouflage, the first thing you will see is the black M4 every time. We’ve proved this over and over again to all the new guys in our unit. If you are going to use black paint, mix it with the green or brown to make darker shades. Also, if you just apply the make-up in the opposite pattern of nature (dark->light & light->dark), your mind still makes the association with a face (you still recognize a face in a negative of a photograph). Your mind still recognizes the pattern of the shape. The author of this article is correct: you need to break up the natural patterns and shapes of the face…follow the author’s advice and you won’t go wrong.

]]> By: Bobby Petersen http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Bobby Petersen Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:34:03 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-236 Well there are a lot of valid tips here, but saying that black "does not natually occur in the wild" is wrong. There are shadows everywhere, even in broad daylight! In our infantry training at Ft. Benning, GA we were instructed to use black on the protruding areas of the face, such as the nose and brow areas. An area of the face that is recessed, like the eye sockets for example, would naturally tend to form shadows, so the theory is to reverse it. SO....Natually light area should go dark and naturally dark areas go light. This is how to make a face not look like a face. Well there are a lot of valid tips here, but saying that black “does not natually occur in the wild” is wrong. There are shadows everywhere, even in broad daylight! In our infantry training at Ft. Benning, GA we were instructed to use black on the protruding areas of the face, such as the nose and brow areas. An area of the face that is recessed, like the eye sockets for example, would naturally tend to form shadows, so the theory is to reverse it. SO….Natually light area should go dark and naturally dark areas go light. This is how to make a face not look like a face.

]]> By: Caroline Shepherd http://www.facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Caroline Shepherd Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:11:45 +0000 http://facepaintingtips.com/blog/2007/08/13/how-to-properly-apply-camouflage-face-paint/#comment-235 great blog Philidelphia, I am learning so much and as i have only been going a short while i am so grateful for any tips i can get. Business is going well and i have a few things booked into through to next year. Thanks Again Caroline Shepherd great blog Philidelphia, I am learning so much and as i have only been going a short while i am so grateful for any tips i can get. Business is going well and i have a few things booked into through to next year. Thanks Again Caroline Shepherd

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