The one who wants more

In most parties that I do face painting at, I will usually find a little girl or little boy who wants more. More face painting. This usually starts like this, can I have something on this cheek, and something else on the other? When they request a third one, I remind then that there are more kids who want their face painted, so they need to wait and come back when I am done with the rest. And they usually do, like this girl who ended up with probably six different designs, three on the face, and two in each arm. I have heard that ink tattoos can be addictive, and I am of the opinion that on certain kids the same thing happens with face paint!

4 p.m.

4 p.m seems to be a very popular time for parties, and 4:30 p.m. the most requested time for my arrival to one. I got a last minute request for today, because their face painter cancelled on them. I usually shake my head when I hear this. It seems to me that this happens most often with casual face painters, they quote a low price because it is a hobby or past time to them, and as such, they usually not take their party commitments seriously. Thank God I have never had to cancel on a party, perhaps this was a different situation, they got sick or something, who knows. Anyway, I could not help them because I was already booked, however, I was able to help them find someone else and it all worked out! So my 4:30 p.m. party went well, I got to try the new paints and I love them! The only drawback, but it will be easy to be overcome, is that I can feel my face is painted. With Snazaroo, I forgot my face was painted, I would go to a store, wondered why people were staring, and eventually remembering when someone asked if I just came from a party. With these new paints, I am aware of my own face! yet I want to get more. By the way, I like going to parties that have good music, and this one did! It keeps it fun.

New face paints!

I was running low on glitter. As in, I probably only have enough for one more party. Glitter goes a long way, but I was surprised this one bottle had lasted me this long. I had bought some snazaroo glitter gels in the past too. Unfortunately I had trouble applying them on top of paint as it would make the paint run. Maybe I should have looked up the instructions, but they ended up not being used. Eventually the gel dried, so I thought even if I run out of my glitter at a party, I can use is what is left of the gel one as powder glitter. I had a hard time deciding which glitter to buy. I wanted a glitter similar to what I had and that I was running out of, fine glitter in iridescent color, that I could use on any color of face paint. I may have found it on mama clown glitter white fairy dust. I have a party on Saturday and will know for sure. It is finer and sheer than I am used to, so we will see. There is more than glitter on the package I got. I had a case of "I went to the store for this...and came back with all these". And it took me a week to decide what to get. Mainly because I wanted to buy new brands of paint to experiment with, and there are so many choices! so after reading, and researching and reading some more, I decided to go with Paradise for my metal paints, and with Diamond FX for my white and black line work. I cannot wait to try them!

Black flower

I am usually too busy at festivals to take pictures, but when this little girl wanted a black version of one of the flowers on my book, for cheek art, I had to stop and take a picture. The picture does not quite capture the effect the glitter had over a dark background, but believe me, it looked very cool