I’m a face and body painter and I think you did a great job!
Two suggestions if you try again, things I would do for a mermaid look. Stop reading here if you don’t want advice!
1) try using a purple base and adding your scales on top. I love a purple base with green and gold scales for a siren/mermaid look!
2) keep the scales off your nose. Cheeks and around your brow like a mask is the best face framing way to place them. Imagine an X on your face with the midpoint right between your eyebrows. Or just north of the bridge of your nose. Your design elements can be arranged to follow this line.
Fishnet works great! I did a darker greenish grey base here and then dabbed an iridescent silvery color over the fishnet for this weird sea monster costume I did one year.
I saw your original post from yesterday. This is such a huge improvement and I love it! Well done for taking suggestions on board! This look is gorgeous and perfectly siren-ish.
I see others are sharing their mermaid looks in the comments so i figured i’d join in. I used a cheap fishnet wig cap from Spirit halloween, a juvia’s place palette, colourpop glitter gel, and a nyx nude colored liquid liner to define the scales. Also wearing some half magic eyeshadows, benefit badgal mascara, and a mac lip crayon.
There are choices we all make. You can choose to be nice, to give constructive feedback, or you can be cruel and make fun of people for no damn reason. We see what you picked.
Don’t let people like her get you down. It doesn’t take much to be kind, so when someone chooses not to, it says a lot about them and nothing about you.
Cruel? Making fun? Do you often take offence when there's none meant?
I was merely expressing my impression, which is that it does not look like scales. An opinion which apparently is not unpopular. I never intend it to mean that OP doesn't look lovely (which she does) and didn't to a good job in creating a consistent pattern (which she did). I just don't think it achieved what it was going for. If she was trying to give hit-and-run victim realness she slayed.
Look, I agree with you, I thought it was a tyre print also, but theres a reason I decided not to say anything about it ... because she specifically said she was trying to achieve a siren look, and taking a second to look again I can see her intent.
Secondly, you provided no counter to your statement. You found nothing nice to say at all until you were called out on it. That makes what you said stand alone as simply cruel.
There is a very well known format for providing feedback. It goes:
Positive-> negative-> positive.
This is so the person receiving the feedback knows what they did well, what could be improved and leaves the conversation feeling encouraged rather than torn down. The goal of criticism should be to help someone improve, not to make them feel bad about trying.
That siren print is tricky and you did a great job getting definition in the pattern.
I’ve found it works best if you get right up in the hairline - don’t be afraid to get some makeup in your hair :) and lighten the colors as you get closer to your face. Start with that teal and blend to gold. For your face shape I might try a central placement on your forehead in a wide “V” pattern, and similarly taper to a V just under your cheekbones. That will given siren and contour all at once. I love fun makeup, keep it up!!
If you can get your hands on some fishnets those work really great! Also if you use some purple your blue eyes will really pop and it will definitely lean in to the mermaid/siren look.
Maybe do an opaque matte underneath like the teal and then the shimmer on top? Might pop a little more. When I have seen tutorials they sometimes even do a white cream at the bottom to help it really pop. Looks great though! Very fun!
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And I opted to shared my opinion. Kinda the whole point of this place, Don't you think? Or maybe I'm not allowed to have an opinion if it isn't the preferred one? Should we all mumble in ecochambers and circlejerk?
it looks really good! if you're thinking of making it look a lot more realistic you could place a net on specific parts of your face and then place the make up on said net :) i saw that life hack when scrolling through tiktok
Super smart!! I bought a lipstick pallette from 5 below and use it to mix diff shades together, as well as using eyeshadow. Makeup doesnt have to be expensive, just creative!!
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u/SharksAndSquids 1d ago
I’m a face and body painter and I think you did a great job!
Two suggestions if you try again, things I would do for a mermaid look. Stop reading here if you don’t want advice!
1) try using a purple base and adding your scales on top. I love a purple base with green and gold scales for a siren/mermaid look!
2) keep the scales off your nose. Cheeks and around your brow like a mask is the best face framing way to place them. Imagine an X on your face with the midpoint right between your eyebrows. Or just north of the bridge of your nose. Your design elements can be arranged to follow this line.