/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

-Cake, Liquid, or Cream? Well, it depends. If you're used to painting with liquid, then liquid it is though be warned that it is easier to leave streaks. I would use liquids for detailed face painting, like designs and tattoos. For mass coverage, cake is the better deal since you can 'build' color more easily and be more conservative with your application, though you can easily make designs with a brush (think water colors). Cream just doesn't hold a lot of advantages compared to the last two and thus are a bit rarer and usually in pencil/stick form. Grease paint is mostly for very thick, heavy coverage.

-How much should I get? Depends on your application. In my experience, you get the stronger color with liquid because it's more concentrated but it's a dick trying to get it on even coats unless you're practised so it's more wasteful. Plus it dries out. If you're going for something more lighter, go with cake since you can cover more area and you can reuse it like a dry water color palette. If you're only going to cover face, neck, and hands, an 18ml cake or a 1oz liquid is plenty. Your entire body? That's gonna have to figure in how big and tall you are. SillyFarm usually have descriptions of how much coverage each product can offer, from 100+ faces to 1-10 half bodies.