[SML] Really cheap makeup

[Joe D]

I came across a resouce with some makeup recipes. it includes recipes for face-painting and clown makeup.  I have not tried any of them, and suspect they are more suitable for fantasy and animal makeup. 

Another source suggested using liquid shoe polish.  The local $1 store liquid white shoe polish was useless for either makeup or shoe polish since there was so little pigment. But, there was also some white window paint, which is more or less the same sort of stuff.  It was MUCH better, and worked quite well.  But, it washed out too easily, so that I suspect that a sweating actor would tend to have it running down their face.  They may potentially get it in their eyes. So, I think that alone would discount it from actually being used for makeup.  The ingredients are totally unknown, and given the Chinese tendency to ship products with lead in them, I cannot recommend its actual use for makeup.

-Joe