Face paint or mask??

This spring is going to be my first time to turkey hunt and i was wondering if face paint or a mask if better...any suggestions?

When I started hunting I used "burnt cork" for archery deer and turkey.  Then I got some military camo sticks (hard as a rock).  The camo pastes were water based and difficult to wash of after they dried.  I tried some of the hard dried out mil stuff with hand cream, easy to wipe off, but it ran down your face when you sweat.

The camo creams are much better now.  And with some 'handi-wipes' they come of easy.  I laugh at the number of times in the early 1960s that I'd stop at a restaurant and eat a steak dinner with a green face.  Archery was not well known then, and people in the restaurant just thought I had a disease.

For the last 15 years I use only head nets for deer and turkey.  I have three: treebark, brown camo and green advantage camo.  I often carry two so my head blends with the background color.  They are easy on and off.  And they help keep the bugs off me.

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I too use a face mask more often than paint but both will work fine.

I suppose it was the Army's fault that I no longer like to use face paint very often.  To be effective that stuff has to be EVERYWHERE on you - eyelids, lips, ears, back of the neck.  It works wonders but it is messy and you have to touch it up.  Baby oil seemed to help pull it off better than anything else I've tried.

If you go with a face mask I recommend one which has a single wire eye frame.  Those double eye holes hardly ever match up and the full cover mesh messes with my eyes and eyelashes too much to be comfortable.  When the gnats are out, the ones that cover your ears are nice.

Good luck!