If your Halloween costume requires facepainting, Jessie Snyder says don’t wait for the big night to brush up on your design.<\/p>\n
Snyder, a Juneau face painter who owns and operates Sunny Days Body Art, said practice makes perfect, especially for folks who might not paint faces regularly.<\/p>\n
“Don’t make your dress rehearsal your final performance,” Snyder said. “The biggest thing is to practice beforehand.”<\/p>\n
For the past several years, Snyder has helped put the finishing touches to Halloween costumes by painting faces in a flurry of activity she calls a painting-palooza.<\/p>\n
She shared some wisdom she’s accumulated along the way with the Capital City Weekly, while applying cat makeup to her face and drawing feathers to complete a white swan costume for her 10-year-old daughter, Claire.<\/p>\n
Know what you want<\/strong><\/p>\n “When someone asks me to do a Halloween paint, I ask them to send me a reference photo ,” Snyder said.<\/p>\n She said having a specific design in mind helps make achieving the desired end result easier.<\/p>\n Without seeing what someone said, Snyder said it’s difficult to guess what they’re picturing.<\/p>\n Don’t go cheap <\/strong><\/p>\n “You don’t want to get the cheap packs of Halloween makeup,” Snyder said.<\/p>\n She said the bundles of green, red and white paint and sponges that show up in stores this time of year don’t allow for subtle looks or much control.<\/p>\n “If you’re going for a gory zombie, it’s OK,” Snyder said.<\/p>\n She recommend using some sort of brush as an applicator instead of sponges, too. <\/p>\n The internet is your friend<\/strong><\/p>\n Snyder said Pinterest and similar websites are great place to go for inspiration, and YouTube is a great resource for tutorials.<\/p>\n “I’ve spent years watching YouTube videos,” Snyder said.<\/p>\n Plus, Snyder said she orders most of her quality paints and equipment online<\/p>\n Snyder also provided two-step instructions for a simple black cat costume almost any copy cat can follow.<\/p>\n “Any woman can do a basic cat face,” Snyder said, before grabbing black eyeliner and showing the process.<\/p>\n She said the simple look can be done with a bare face or after being fully madeup.<\/p>\n Step one: Draw a nose.<\/strong><\/p>\n “You just draw a triangle on your nose, and then you fill it in,” Snyder said.<\/p>\n Step two: Draw whiskers on your cheeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n “Ta-da, you’re a cat,” Snyder said.<\/p>\n But she did provide some advice for drawing whiskers.<\/p>\n “I always do sets of three or five or seven,” Snyder said. “Always do odd.”<\/p>\n Optional steps: Add emphasis to whiskers, add whisker spots and draw a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n Those who want a slightly more complex cat face can faintly underline their whiskers using white eyeliner, Snyder said.<\/p>\n Additionally, they can add whisker spots in odd-number clusters to their cheeks and may decide to draw a line from the base of their nose to the top of their cupid’s bow.<\/p>\n \u2022 Contact arts and culture reporter Ben Hohenstatt at 523-2243 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n If your Halloween costume requires facepainting, Jessie Snyder says don’t wait for the big night to brush up on your design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":37316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[73,385,465],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-37315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ccw","tag-capital-city-weekly-features","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37315"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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