The park was 25 minutes away from home, so this delayed my start time by 30 minutes. I offered an additional 30 minutes for free or a discount equivalent to that, to the final price. She took the latter, since most kids have had a face painting done by then, and I still had 15 more minutes to go. Some of her guests arrived later, so she seemed happy with my service despite all. And even gave me a tip.
What was curious about this party, was that it made me realize the power of subconscious influence that my own Face Painting design has, I will explain: three little girls wanted a rainbow. I may have a picture of a rainbow face painting in my book, but is not A popular design. One of the little girls had been adamant with her mother about wanting a spider Face Painting. Her mom pleaded and tried to suggest a different design, but the little girl insisted she wanted a spider. The mom then turned to me and asked me if I could do a cute spider, to which I replied “I can make a pink spider”.
We put the little girl on the chair, she says right away: “I want a rainbow!” When I got home and I was telling my husband about this, I realized it must be because my face was painted with a rainbow and an emoji. If the party had had any older children older than nine or 10, then they would’ve gone for the emoji.
I also experienced something I had not encountered before. A girl who seemed a bit older than the rest, probably 11 or 12, asked me to paint a mermaid on one of her arms. As I was trying to paint the mermaid’s face, I realized I could not do it, she was moving her arm too much. Very light but sudden movements. I made a comment about it and she apologized, which led me to believe that it was not voluntary movements. I ended up painting mostly the hair of the mermaid, and only a portion of the face, as if it was a picture taken from behind. This is what I told her when she asked me: “what about her face?” Maybe I should’ve offered doing the stamp design of Ariel, but I did not know she was going to have those movements.
Here is the video of the facepainting design of an emoji and a rainbow.