Body PaintNo. 7663 · The 2026 edition
Halloween Makeup Tutorial: Butterfly
Transform into a dazzling butterfly with this step-by-step makeup tutorial featuring vibrant wings and sparkly accents.
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Create a stunning butterfly look using face paints and glitter. Start by painting colorful wings over the eyes and forehead, then outline and highlight with liners and gel glitter. Finish with a butterfly body and antennae, plus sparkly pink lips.
Directions
- Take a wide brush and sweep face paint across the eyelid and up onto the forehead with broad strokes.
- Then, using the same technique, paint wing strokes under the eye, starting at the inner corner and moving outward and downward.
- Now, dip a small craft brush into orange paint and add highlights to the design.
- Do the same again but with gold face paint to give each wing more definition.
- Outline the entire makeup edge with black liquid eyeliner.
- For extra highlights, load a small makeup brush with white face paint and randomly dot white onto each wing tip, directly over the black lines.
- Add a white dot on the inner corner of the eye as well.
- With your fingers, gently pat kid-friendly gel glitter inside the black outlines on the wings.
- To form the butterfly's body, begin by drawing a black oval above the nose using an eyeliner pencil.
- Starting from the bottom of that oval, draw a long narrow teardrop shape all the way down to the nose tip.
- Above the oval, sketch two lines on the forehead that curl at the ends to mimic antennae.
- Complete the makeup with sparkly pink lips: apply pink lipstick, then place a dot of glitter in the center of the lips for shine.
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