Applying Your Face Paint Camouflage

It’s not enough that you have all the colors of a camouflage face paint set. It is equally important to know the surroundings where you plan to operate. Study the vegetation and the terrain of your enviroment. This will give you a clue as to the face paint colors that you will need. Aside from the face painting, you also need to don appropriate camouflage clothing for your enviroment. Your camouflage face paint will be of no use if your camouflage attire does not complement your makeup.

Applying Your Face Paint Camouflage

Here’s how you properly apply camouflage paint:

1. Before making actual patterns, apply a thick foundation on your face. Acting like a primer, this foundation will help hold the paint on for a longer period of time. Also, this is a good solution for instances when you accidentally brush your camouflage off your face.

2.Remove the shine in your face. Thin out some brown color in your palm and apply a nice even layer of it all over your face and neck. Make sure not to leave the nape and ears unpainted. Don’t forget to rum some on the beginning of your hairline, your eyebrows, and your eyelids. This should eliminate your face’s natural shine.

3. Lose the shape of your face by concealing the most distinguishable features of your face—your mouth, nose, and eyes. With a few browns and various shades of greens, draw diagonal lines down the eyes and nose and vertical or horizontal lines down the mouth. This should make your face appear broken up.

4. Make your face appear 2-dimensional. This is achieved by painting the indentions in your face like your temples, eyes, and the sides of your face with a lighter shade of green while painting protrusions in your face like your nose, forehead, and your chin with a darker shade such as brown or black.

5. Knowing the foliage in the environment, add similar strokes to your face paint. If there are tall grasses and trees, add vertical shadings of brown or black to your face. Make sure that your face paint patterns matches that of the terrain you’re in. Apply small thin stripes of your face paint instead of large bold ones. A series of blobs will also make the same effect.

Proper application of camouflage to effectively conceal yourself and blend you in with the game’s natural environments will considerably increase your chances of being succesful.

Mods move this to the Principles of Camouflage thread if you feel it should go there.

And agg, if you get enough time, you mind putting up your Beret member special? Or whatever you called that face paint pattern you were telling me about the other night?

The "Beret Member Special"

This is a pattern used by the Aggressors that is easy to apply swiftly and extremely easy to maintain and reapply over and over again. It really helps to break up your face, and while it may not look really cool it still is extremely effective. Heres how it to do it:

Take black face paint, and begin on your nose. Completely cover your nose in black, this will be the base of the rest of your black pattern. From the nose, go in lines outwards across your cheek bones. Make sure the lines are thick and cover your entire cheek bones and then some. Next go back to the nose and make a line in black down your lip and to your chin, sort of like an extended Hitler mustache. Then, go back to the nose and make a "V" going up over your brow, covering up your eye brows. Then, fill the rest in with green. After thise, go back and paint your ears black, and your throat green. After this, everything else should be alternating lines of black and green, including the back of your head. I'll post a picture of what it should look like this weekend.

And while your facepaint should match your camo that you are wearing it won't compromise your entire camouflage if it doesn't. If you'll notice on some of my team pics James has a very BDU friendly facepaint pattern with his multicams, we simply didn't have enough time to darken the green, but it worked fine with the pattern. As long as the colors dont deviate to far from the shading in the clothes you should be fine.

If you guys keep posting these, I'll have to make a directory.
Keep it up! Pinned.

Here is what I affectionatly call the BeretMember Special. It is a camouflage pattern we use for our faces in Aggressors, its very effective and its been tested time and time again. Its extremely easy to remember and even easier to apply, if you need a quick paintjob that gets the job done this is it.

Step 1: Have a Face



Step 2: Apply Black in the following areas:



Step 3: Fill in with Green




Step 4: Get all of the blank spots and add in Brown to the black



Step 5: Back of the head



Step 6: Complete

Step one is my personal favorite haha

Anyone that wants to see what not to do, take a look at my facebook. lol

One of the things that you'll notice on the "beret member special" is that it counteracts all of the shadows on the human face in order to sort of break up the outline of the face. All of the most prominent area of the face (nose, cheekbones, chin, eyebrows) are painted in black. All of the less-prominent areas are painted in the lighter green. This makes the more prominent areas fade and look like shadows while the less-prominent areas "pop" and stand out more against the rest of the face. The result is that your face, well, no longer looks like a face from the distance.

i took those pictures!!
paul and i do everything imaginable when we hang out haha
when paul and i get bored it = awesome guns and fun road trips to newnan...

yes cody, step 1 is my favorite as well

and you are very correct josh