/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I'm wondering about how to go about getting a certain skintone. Something grayish, but not full on gray, just skin tinted gray. Thinking about doing Ghirahim from Legend of Zelda for reference.

Bodypaint would probably not be worth it, especially when I want to tint my skin more than paint it, but how would a sheer bodysuit in the right tint look? Would it be too obvious it's mesh in person, or does it give the illusion of skin without close inspection? Would I be able to use makeup on my face and still make the neckline seamless, or would lighting and other things alter the look of the mesh against the makeup? I'm pretty new to cosplay but I've been interested in learning.

So, new to makeup here, I'm curious about how to go about doing Ghirahim's skintone in a future cosplay. I've tried using some Ben Nye body paint before when I was younger for a different Halloween outfit, and needless to say I was terrible at it since I had no prior experience to using it.

Anyway, it's not completely gray, it's more just like a pale, gray-yellowish complexion. Is there a way to tint my entire body that color, in a way that still shows the contours and muscle definition of my body? I'm wary about using body paints, especially if I'm going to be wearing all white, but a morphsuit doesn't seem like it'd do a proper job and I'd still have to worry about the face makeup.

I'd also have to figure out how to properly make diamonds in a white morphsuit for the outfit without it stretching out of shape, but I'll cross that road when I come to it.