How to face paint a vampire for Halloween: step by step guide
Follow our simple photo and video guides to create a spooky vampire face for your child
Does your child fancy swishing a cape and baring fangs as a mini vampire this Halloween? Then why not top off the look with a face-paint vampire face? (If you haven't got your child's vampire costume already, we've some great suggestions in our Best Halloween costumes for babies, toddlers and children).
We've created an easy-to-follow step by step guides to show you how to paint the look: you can either watch our how-to video (above) or follow our photo steps (below).
We have to give a huge hat tip to ace facepainter Lu Lucy from our Top Testers Club: you can see her turning her son Edward's face all Dracula-esque in our video guide – and it's Edward who's our model (complete with spooky shadow!) for the photo step-by-step guide, too.
- Planning a different Halloween look for your child? We've also got step-by-step face-painting guides for a witch, a ghost, a scary pirate and – of course – a pumpkin.
Here's how to face-paint a vampire, step by step
What you'll need
- Face paints in the following colours: white, red, black
- Face-paint brush or make-up brush
Step 1
Using white face paint on the brush, draw a fang on each side of the bottom lip. Clean your brush, and then with red face paint, add some drips of blood from each fang. Carefully paint the lips red and add a red line from the outer corner of each eye.
Step 2
With the black face paint, draw exaggerated eyebrows on top of your child's eyebrows, and an upturned triangle at the hairline. Then carefully outline each fang with a black line.
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4 of the best face paints for children
- Snazaroo Ultimate Party Pack Face Paint Kit, £14.95: Contains 12 2ml colour pots, 2 glitter gels, 4 sponges, 2 brushes and a face-painting guide. Age 3+
- Djeco Face Paint Set, £8: Contains 6 x 2ml face paints, a sponge and a brush. Age 3+
- BioKidd Natural Face Body Paint Wash, £26.90: Contains 10 x 10ml pots of paints, made with beeswax/clay/mineral-based ingredients and ready to use without wash. No brush supplied. Age 3+
- Galt Face Painting Set, £13: Contains 12 face paint discs, 2 brushes, 4 sponges, adhesive stencils and a guide. Age 5+
Step 3
Staying with black face paint, draw the outline of a bat on the forehead and each cheek, and fill the outline in.
And then you're done!
Pics and video: Lu Lucy. Video edit: Emily Longman Wall
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Emily is the Digital Content Producer at MadeForMums, working across the brand on everything from pushchairs and car seats to baby names and the latest product launches. She researches topics thoroughly to make sure our content is accurate and helpful for parents and loves bringing the details about latest parenting products and innovations to our audience.
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