Green Fairy

I have been looking at doing a poisin ivy/fairy makeup. I'm considering it for the free day in costume and makeup, so having bought the materials I decided to practice on my niece. Here is the inspiration shot, and the after.

Unfortunately the green didn't photograph too well, and also you can't see the green on the side of her face. I think the eyes and the sparkly dots turned out the best. Anyway what I did was I put foundation on her, then I used green eyeshadow on her forehead, cheeks, and jawbone. Then I put the two colors on her eyes using eyeshadow and water. I put on the eyeliner and put gold eyeshadow on the nose. Lasting using children's red, blue, and green glitter glue I made the dots. Then the mascara and lipstick.
I think what I learned was that for the overall green on the skin I should have used water as well, like I did with the eyes. Also next time the very last thing I will do is the dots, cause putting on the mascara I messed up the dots above her right eyebrow. Lastly I would add more contouring. Looking back at the picture I see a lot more was used than just the green on the forehead, cheeks, and jawbone, and the gold on the nose.
I really think it helps to practice putting makeup on my nieces, because it is so completely different from putting it on myself, and it's quite a challenge to position my hand so that I don't mess up parts of makeup on the rest of the face. Though I wish I'd had more time because I was planning on fixing her hair and using colored hairspray in it.