Here is a few Mime Makeup Ideas to help you with your makeup & style.
Mime Makeup Ideas for Halloween
Looking into the option of dressing up as a mime for Halloween? here are a few ideas and inspirations.
Here is the basic mime custom for Halloween. You can notice the central motif is the white face paint. Mime artists traditionally use a shade called “Clown White”, a heavily pigmented form of theatrical grease paint that is powdered to cause it to set. For more information, you can see our post on mime face paint. You can add a teardrop and red lip paint, traditionally used to emphasize the artist’s facial expressions and help engage the audience.
Here, basic black paint was used to draw the eyebrows and small triangles below the eyes. The concept here is similar – try to use makeup in order to help you emphasize any type of facial expression. After all, a mime is a performance artist!
Another idea is to mimic the style of one of the greatest mime artists of them all: Charlie Chaplin. The English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry’s most important figures.
And what about your clothes? Even though mimes do wear other colors besides just black and white to portray their character more easily, usually the most common colors mimes wear are indeed those classic black and white. This is done to give the mime artist a neutral effect as well as make it easier to see his/her facial expressions. To learn more, read our post on dressing like a mime.
There is a large debate regarding the concept of miming in church, but “church-styled” clothes and garments are available and can be used as an inspiration for your costume! A mime-nun combination has become quite popular in recent years, with the black-and-white style shared by both.
You can always combine the mime-typed style with more colorful clown-like clothes and makeup. We also like clowns here!