FLOWER POWER :FESTIVAL MAKE-UP

Hey guys! Festival fever is beginning to sweep the nation and I thought I would create a simple flower crown that can be painted on with some easy peasy products. While some people go in fancy dress (and some go barely clothed), festivals bring the excuse to be a complete wierdo and dress up. I love festivals! Its a time where exposed body limbs and face paint is totally acceptable for adults... not just 9 year old's at a school disco.

With that being said, make-up is a huge staple at festivals, so here is my flower crown I have created for a floral festival look! 

So what do you need to create the flower crown, and how easy is it to create the petals? 

First I have taken two colours of Snazaroo facepaint. I picked this face paint up for £3.99 at my local fancy dress shop. Snazaroo face paints have a really good colour pay off. My face paint didn't crack or flake all day at work so I would defiantly recommend these for general use or beginners. I then bought a pack of 12 paint brushes from W.H.Smiths for £5.99 which had a good range of sizes! Any paint brush will do if you have one on hand as long as the tip is not too pointed. 

So how do you create the petal technique? 

First wet the brush to activate the face paint-  

(Follow step by step image below)

1. Load the brush up with your first colour. 

2. Take your next chosen colour and start to only work the tip of the brush into colour 2 so that the tip of your brush has a new colour on.

3. Point the tip verticals at the skin. Keeping the tip in the same position without moving it, push down to the side. 

4. Put the tip back in the same place and continue moving the pushing direction around until you have created 5 petals. Remember not to move the tip of the brush from the original point of contact on the skin. 

The more pressure you add, the larger the petals. For smaller petals use less pressure when pushing down. 

To create this crown, I decided to do a white flower with a purple infused centre first, then over the top the reversed colours of a purple and white infused flower. To add definition, I then grabbed my MAC- Heroin and Nightingale  lip liners rrp: £12.50, adding deeper purple smaller flowers. After this I added dots of MAC- Amethyst purple glitter (pro product rrp £17.50) patted on top to give it a lil shimma shimma. 

Team with a soft blown out purple smoky eye and luminous cheek highlight: 

And there we have it guys! Its super fast and really simple using two colours. Next time I am going to create a more detailed crown using lots more colours !

What festivals are you going to this summer ? 

Samantha x