How to Face Paint at Your Kids Birthday Parties

Don’t want to spend $150 per hour to hire a face painter for your kids birthday parties? I don’t blame you. Not when you can learn how to face paint yourself and have fun while doing it! Here are some important tips that you must read before face painting at your kids birthday parties.

Make sure you only buy/use face paint that’s specially made for the face and body (and FDA approved). Water based face paint is the most popular and easiest to wash off – It’s used by people just starting to learn how to face paint and by professional face painters.

Get a small palette with 5 to 8 colors. The most important colors are black, white and the primary colors – red, blue and yellow. With these colors you can mix what ever color you need and this will you give you great practice if you have just started learning how to face paint.

When I learnt how to face paint I used a thin brush for detail, a couple medium sized brushes and a large brush for larger areas. This combination of brushes worked really well for me and I recommend it to you.

Hygiene is extremely important in face painting and something you must be aware of when learning how to face paint. Never paint someone who has: any open cuts or sores on their face, a cold sore or conjunctivitis or any other known infectious skin condition, a food allergy or allergic reactions to soaps, skin creams, etc without a prior skin test.

Don’t do it all by yourself! Get a friend to help you paint, it will take half the time, and give you more time to enjoy the party and take care of everything else that needs to be taken care of. Also if you’re just learning how to face paint, it’s much more fun to do it with a friend.

Allocate an area just for face painting and if it’s a big party, give kids tickets with a number and call out the number when it’s their turn. This will ensure that no one pushes in line, everybody will get their turn and the kids don’t have to worry about remembering when it’s their turn, they can enjoy the rest of the party in between.

To make it easier, if you don’t know many designs yet, just have 2 set designs and make the kids chose between them. To make them slightly different, paint the same designs with different colors and give the kids a choice of which color they want.

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