Smooth white greasepaint over your entire face and any areas of visible skin. Use a fine latex makeup sponge to get even coverage and include ears, the top lip, throat and the back of the neck.
Use cotton buds to clean away excess white makeup from around the eyes, the tip of the nose and around the bottom lip. Be careful not to disturb the rest of the base. Greasepaint stays pliable until set with powder.
Draw on your clown features using brushes with red and black greasepaint. Paint on an exaggerated bottom lip, red nose tip and your preferred style of dramatic black eyeliner.
Draw a black outline around your painted features, such as your nose and lips.
Set your makeup with loose powder, applied with a powder puff. Translucent powder fixes the greasepaint, but does not dull colors.
Smooth professional wax or soap over eyebrows to fix them flat against the skin. Seal wax with fixative.
Apply white greasepaint over entire skin in the same way as for a neat whiteface makeup, making sure to also fully cover the eyebrows.
Clean away white from the areas you want to enhance, for example lips and eyes.
Paint on dramatic features including red lips and exaggerated eyebrows. Sculpt cheeks with pale pink greasepaint rouge if desired.
Set makeup with translucent powder.
Finish your grotesque or comedy makeup with a false clown nose, dramatic false eyelashes or even glitter.
Use a brush to outline an enlarged eye and lip shape with white greasepaint, then fill this in.
Apply flesh-colored greasepaint to the remaining visible skin.
Outline the white lip and eye shapes with black, using a fine brush to get a neat line and exaggerated character in your preferred design. Also apply black around the eyes as liner.
Paint the actual lips red or black and add a false clown nose.