Face Paint a Rainbow
Add a burst of colour to brighten the day with these simple but creative rainbow face paint guides!
Pick A Guide
With 4 different rainbow face paint ideas to choose from, simply click on an image below to view the easy-to-follow instructions and start a colourful playtime transformation!
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RAINBOW TIGER
Dance and roar to the beat of the jungle drums. This super-easy Rainbow Tiger three step tutorial will create a king of the jungle at any party.
What you will need
3 STEP GUIDE
1
Sponge sky blue around the edge of face. Add grass green inside the blue and bright yellow inside the green. Paint bright red down the nose and finish with white above the top lip.
2
Add black tiger stripes, twirling a round brush will help this technique.
3
Finally, add ‘leopard’ spot shapes to the sides of the face. Paint in the muzzle, spots and the black nose. Finish with white blobs to the centre of the large black spots.
RAINBOW
There’s a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow! Whatever the weather, brighten up the house with this magical three step tutorial!
What you will need
3 STEP GUIDE
1
With a Multipurpose Brush, create the rainbow by painting individual lines curving from the forehead to the cheek bone. Start at the bottom with Classic Bright Red, working up with Bright Pink, Bright Yellow, Sky Blue, Grass Green and finally Purple.
2
Using Classic White, paint a cloud at the base of the rainbow. Begin with an outline and then fill the cloud. Apply more paint to the centre to create a translucent effect.
3
Get the design sparkling with simple Classic White stars across the forehead and below the cloud. Now that’s a rainbow!
RAINBOW BUTTERFLY
Get colourful with this super cute Rainbow Butterfly 3-step guide.
What you will need
3 STEP GUIDE
1
Using purple and a flat brush, paint a line around the eye and across the forehead. Use this line as a guide to add blue, green, and yellow lines on top.
2
Add a line in red paint to finish the rainbow.
3
With your butterfly stencil and sponge, dab pink and white to create the butterflies. Finally, add the butterfly's detail using a brush and black paint. You may want to add some details to the butterfly and rainbow by adding some sparkles and dots with white paint.
Colourful Rainbow Pumpkin
Carve out a new Halloween classic with this colourful rainbow pumpkin. It’s so fresh it’s just been picked from the patch!
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
VIDEO GUIDE
3 STEP GUIDE
1
Start your spooky look by drawing a pumpkin shape with a black brush pen, complete with a curved outline, triangle eyes, a triangle nose and zigzag mouth.
2
Next, fill in the outline with an orange brush pen. Once this is done you can add some black curved lines on the forehead and cheeks to give the pumpkin its classic 3D shape.
3
Start by taking the green brush pen and drawing a pumpkin stalk, outline using the black brush pen. Finally, it’s time to make a rainbow on the chin, as if it’s pouring out of the mouth. To do this take an array of different coloured brush pens and paint vertical stripes. Finally, complete the look by adding little white dots in clusters of three across the surface of the pumpkin. Super spooky!
Rainbow Unicorn
Transform into the most magical and wonderous creature of them all - a rainbow unicorn!
What you will need
3 STEP GUIDE
1
With the brush paint a white unicorn shaped head on the cheek and fill in.
2
Create the rainbow swirls by painting on the silver, sparkle lilac, sparkle blue, pale green and pale yellow. Also paint a flowing mane on the unicorn in fuschia pink. Lastly add a sparkle blue eye.
3
With black, outline the unicorn, paint around the eye adding eyelashes, and add some black swirls to your rainbow. Lastly with white add some dots and star bursts and a small dot in the eye.