Sure thing! Well, I'll need to wait until I've got a job before paying out for the dark face paint (along with a bit of white and black, methinks), but I'll show you once I've upgraded the look!

I recommended highlighting your eyes because I believe them to be the first part of your face most people look at Anyways, I hope I helped. Make sure to tell me how it worked out!

I'm keeping to a sycamore/maple leaf shape. I'm trying to avoid highlighting my eyes because I wear dark eyeliner in 'real life'. Although, on second thoughts that doesn't necessarily mean I'll be easy to identify because of having eye-specific makeup in both real life and on the channel. I'll look into improving the makeup around the eyes, in that case.

Thanks!

I think that it all depends whether you'd like to have your whole face painted, or only the part that you've painted for the video.
Imo you should highlight your eyes.
Darker green paint will definitely do the trick, but try to blend the colours more smoothly

Not a proper cosplay, no. I'd love to, but I'm still working up the courage to even ask someone to go with them.

On that note, can I ask for your help with something? I run a YouTube channel and I'm about to take a hiatus so I can do a huge overhaul of everything. One thing I want to improve is my face paint. I wear face paint so that I'm hard to identify in real life (in real life I wear my hair differently, and in my videos I wear dark contact lenses too). But I think my face paint could look better than it does.

Here's me in a video: https://youtu.be/8QBKa3or5ZI What would you do to improve that? I'm thinking of getting darker green paint to go on the top of the 'leaf' mask shape but I wonder if that will make the mask not defined enough. That said, I'm not convinced the brown markings look quite right. Any ideas?

Exactly! Have you ever done something like that?

Aye, I do! So kind of make up-based cosplay, it sounds like?

Btw. glitter is so cool. I mean, adding glitter and/or some stuff like artificial gems can liven it all up. ^^ Although I believe it doesn't work well with everything (I can't really imagine a glittery Chinese dragon on one's face, haha)
Another thing that I like to do is a, how to call it - character make-up or something? I just pick a character from a book/film/fandom/whatever and do make-up that I feel has some connection to the character or shows their traits. For example: to depict, let's say, Harry Potter I'd use dark 'mysterious' colours with red & yellow accents for Gryffindor. And add some small references to HP around. I'm not great at explaining but I hope you get the general idea!

I haven't got any real tattoos, but I found a Chinese dragon face paint tutorial online that I tried the other day. My colours weren't dark enough to give it proper definition, though. Just for the moment all I've got is the Snazaroo body paints, one pot of Barry M glitter and normal makeup, ie., eye pencils.

The Day of the Dead makeup sounds amazing - I've seen some pictures of that. It looks tricky to do. Mad props to you for being able to do that!

I'm between jobs at the moment so need an income before I buy any more paints, but I've already decided that when I do get a job, I'm going to reward myself with some more colours.

I'm sure leopard print would turn out fantastic!
I use a few kinds of substances: body paints, body crayons and casual make-up kits. I also like writing some quotes and making detailed graphics using normal pens and colourful marker pens, however I don't do it too often as it may irritate the skin.
What I enjoy the most is making a stylized make-up, for example the one done in Mexico for the Day of the Dead (it's my favourite one to do ^^). I tend to use body crayons besides the usual kits for make up for that.
If you had a slightly wider choice of colours, just as you said, you'd be able to mix them to get new ones. It's so fun (at least for me!)
So do you do 'tattoos'? What substances do you actually use - are they body paints or something different?