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How to face paint a witch for Halloween: step-by-step guide

Follow our simple photo and video guides to create a wicked green witch's face for your child

Published: October 25, 2024 at 2:03 PM

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Add a wicked finishing touch to your child's Halloween costume with our easy step-by-step witch face painting guide. You can either watch our how-to video (above) or follow our photo steps (below).

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Huge (black pointy) hat tip to ace facepainter Ruth Crowley from our Top Testers Club: you can see her turning her daughter Annabel's face all witchy in our video and photo guides.

How to face-paint a witch, step by step

What you'll need

4 of the best face paints for children

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Step 1

Child with their face painted green

Use a damp sponge to apply a layer of green paint all over your child's face as a base.

Step 2

Child with their face painted green with purple eyes and lips

With the brush, paint blue or purple over the entire eyelid and eyebrow finishing in a point at the outside temple. Apply the same colour in a line under the eye, sweeping to a point at the top of the cheekbone. Paint the lips in the same shade, going beyond the natural shape of the mouth on the upper lip to exaggerate the 'cupid's bow'.

Step 3

Child with their face painted green with purple eyes and lips with black eyelashes

Clean your brush and then, using the black paint, create thick, bushy eyebrows by painting a thick line along the upper edge of the colour around the eyes and then adding 3 or 4 upward strokes. Add black lines at the outside corner of the eyes, too.

Step 4

Child with their face painted as a witch

Add some witchy embellishments to the cheeks and chin. We've added a moon, a star, a beauty spot and a cat.

And then you're done!

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Pics and video: Ruth Crowley. Video edit: Emily Longman Wall

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Emily Longman WallDigital Content Producer

Emily is the Digital Content Producer at MadeForMums, where she writes, edits and produces editorial and video content across the brand. She independently curates the weekly editorial newsletter, leads product review commissioning and oversees the brand's awards programmes, working with parent testers and experts to bring trusted recommendations to families. She specialises in car seats and pushchairs and has yet to meet a buggy she couldn't fold! With a First Class Honours degree in History, she loves getting stuck into research and making complex information accessible to parents.

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