Christmas is yet another good occasion to prove to others how skilled you are at face painting. However, Christmas face painting designs tend to become a cliché, as most of the face painters choose designs such as:

• Santa Claus
• Reindeers
• Angels

If you really want to impress the others, you have to come up with some innovative designs. A few good ideas include:

• Bells
• Christmas present
• Christmas tree
• Gingerbread man
• Elf
• Snowflake
• Star

There may be a slight chance that the dark side of the things attracts you more. If you want to scare people a little bit, you can turn into the Grinch.

This Christmas face painting design is incredibly effective and also very simple, since it makes use of a single predominant color.
You may know a few face painting techniques, but creating the fur effect for the Grinch or the reindeers is always a challenge. This requires certain brushes and additional techniques which are not usually mastered by the beginners.

Even though you may come with several original ideas by choosing one of the aforementioned characters, as a face painting artists you can push the limits even more. Try to paint a Christmas scene on the faces of your models and you will certainly amaze people.

Regardless of the Christmas face painting design that you will choose, by sticking jewels or by applying powder to the face painting, you will create an additional dimension. The texture and the depth of your masterpieces can be easily altered by combining face painting with conventional makeup.

Highly-pigmented water-based makeup is believed to provide the most realistic effects. Applying this is easy both with a brush and a sponge, and removing it does not require anything more than soap and water.