: colorful makeup for drawing pictures on children's faces
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Drums, whistles, trumpets, singing, dancing and face paint were the hallmarks of a World Cup game.—Juliana Kim, NPR, 9 May 2026 Became waiflike, wearing sickness like face paint.—Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026 More recently, Indigenous peoples such as the Chumash and the Yokuts used asphalt to make face paint, game pieces, glue, and waterproofing caulk for boats and baskets.—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 Somewhere in that glorious chaos, a 17-second clip of a kid in zombie face paint became permanently lodged in your brain.—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for face paint