painted faces
Decorated with cosmetics
Painted faces are faces decorated with makeup, face paint, or cosmetics, often for performance, ritual, or disguise.
The phrase evokes clowns, actors, tribal warriors, or heavily made-up individuals.
It can carry a dismissive or critical tone when describing people whose makeup seems excessive or artificial: a row of painted faces staring back from the mirror.
- masksFace-covering disguises
- clownsComic performers in costume
- makeupProducts for beautifying faces
- stage makeupCosmetics for performers
- circusTraveling entertainment with performers
drama masks · circus performers · carnival · tribal · theatre · costume · disguise · performers · mimes · geisha · kabuki · body art · masquerade · cheekbones · greasepaint · jesters · camouflage · ritual
- Chinese OperaBeijing opera, folk opera, dan, silk robes, headdress
- operaopera, aria, arias, soprano, tenor
- Vietnamese artsfolk opera, court music, folk theater, ho, vi