How to Paint Your Face like Violent J

Violent J is one member of the duo known as Insane Clown Posse. Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope both paint their faces like clowns. Violent J's design is a some what happy looking clown. It is "custom" to paint your face when going to an Insane Clown Posse concert, but many people do not know how to correctly paint their face like Violent J. It is a very simple and very short process.

First, you will need several materials. A set of small paint brushes is essential. They need to have soft bristles and at least one of them needs to have a flat, course tip. Face paint is also needed. Violent J usually wears black and white paint. The most expensive paint is not always the best. You can buy a small tube of black and a small tube of white for about two dollars each, and they will work just fine. Lastly, you need 1-tips and either a sink or a cup of water. If you need your face paint to last for several hours, or through a faygo shower, you may want to have a can of hair spray too.

Using your middle three fingers, cover your face in a thin layer of white face paint. Don't use enough to make the color completely opaque, just enough to give your face a dusty white appearance. Then, wet a q-tip with water and begin to outline your design.

Violent J has generally thin "eyebrows." Starting about one inch below your hair line and right above the middle of your eyebrow, wipe off a small mark of white paint to set where the peak of your eyebrow will be. Then, using a curved motion, wipe off a curved line towards your nose, and stop when the line is equal with the inside of your real eyebrow. Do the same going towards the outside of your face, but stop the line about a quarter of an inch above where you stopped on the other side. Now, you should have the top curve of your eyebrow finished. Starting at the end of your line that is closest to your nose, connect the two ends under your real eyebrow. Make the thickness of your eyebrow about one inch. You can now use another q-tip of a wet tissue or cloth to wash off all the white paint that remains inside your design. Do the same thing on the other side with a clean q-tip and you have finished painting on Violent J's eyebrows.

The pattern for his nose is extremely easy. Using another wet q-tip just clear off a circle on the tip of your nose. Make the circle just big enough so that the bottom curve reached your nostrils. Again, use a wet q-tip, tissue, or cloth to wipe off the paint inside the circle.

Violent J has a simple smile painted on his face. Wet a new q-tip and wash off a diagonal line, starting about one and a half inches below your eyebrow and go down towards your eye about one inch. Make the same diagonal line on the other side of your face. Make a line down your cheek to right above the corner of your mouth. Right before you reach your mouth make that line curve to go across your top lip. Now connect it with the diagonal line you made on the other side of your face. Under your bottom lip, make a curved line, only under the corners of your lips, almost to the bottom of your chin. At the two corners of the line at your chin, bring the lines up to meet the diagonals you made on your cheeks, going along the same curve. Make sure that the lines for your smile are about the same size as the ones for your eyebrows. Use a wet q-tip, tissue, or cloth to wipe off the extra paint inside your design.

Take one of the soft paint brushes and dip it in your white face paint. Trace along the outside of your designs and then use your middle finger to apply more white paint. Make sure your face is completely white this time. If you have thick or dark eyebrows of your own, you can use the flat, course tipped brush to fill in your eyebrows. Leave your lips their natural color.

If you need this face paint to last for a long period of time, lightly spray hair spray over your face. Make sure to keep your eyes closed so you don't blind yourself. Now you are ready to go! This paint would make Violent J himself proud.