Popular Mechanics: How Militaries Around the World Camouflage Soldiers' Faces
America, South Korea and England all have different styles of face painting.
Face=painting is usually pretty low stakes, but the militaries of the world approach it as an important challenge. How best to make a face look like anything but? As Dr. Christopher Larsen of the One Shepherd Leadership Institute demonstrates, thousands of years of evolution has trained humanity to recognize the structure of our faces, so the best bet is to try to exaggerate those features to the point where they're no longer recognizable.
This video shows three different styles of hiding the human face with paint: American, British, and South Korean.
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WNU Editor: Camouflage paint is also saving soldier's lives .... How Camouflage Make-Up Is Saving Soldiers Lives (August 24, 2012).
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