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How to face paint a pirate: step-by-step guide

Follow our simple picture and video guides to make your child's face look like a swashbuckling pirate

Published: October 28, 2024 at 8:45 AM

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Maybe your child wants the Captain Jack Sparrow look for Halloween or maybe they just want to look all swashbuckley for a pirate party or dress-up day? Whatever the pirate-y situation, we've got a brilliantly easy way to top off that buccaneering costume – with a face-paint pirate face. Follow our how-to video (above) or jump to see our step-by-step photo guides below.

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Looking for more inspiration? Discover our How to face paint a witch for Halloween: step-by-step guide.

Huge thanks to face-painter Shazeen Hussain from our Top Testers Club: you can see her transform her son's Saad's face into a swashbuckling pirate in our video and photo guides.

Here's how to face-paint a pirate, step by step

What you'll need

4 of the best face paints for children

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Step 1

A child with their face painted with bushy eyebrows, moustache and beard

Using the dark brown paint, create super-bushy eyebrows, a moustache and small beard (along the jawline and up to the ears).

Step 2

A child with their face painted with dark bushy eyebrows, moustache and beard

Clean your brush and then use the black paint to add another layer to the features you've already painted, adding definition and filling in any gaps.

Step 3

Child with their face painted as a pirate with bushy eyebrows, moustache and beard and eyepatch

Ask your child to close their eyes and then draw an eyepatch over one eye. Then draw a line from the top of the ear (on the eyepatch side) to the eyepatch, and then diagonally across the face, going over the nose and ending level with the middle of the ear on the other side. This creates the eyepatch string.

Step 4

Child with their face painted as a pirate with bushy eyebrows, moustache and beard, eye patch and scar

Clean your brush and then, with the red paint, draw a scar on one cheek. You can add stitch lines across it with one of the darker colours, if you like.

Child with their face painted a pirate and wearing a pirate hat

And then you're done!

Pics and video: Shazeen Hussain. 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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