This is an entry sent in for our monthly
Silly Farm Supplies Competition!
“Les Visages” By Lisa Sandiford
Philadelphia,
I am soooo grateful for all your advice, videos and newsletters. You are such a generous person when comes to your knowledge and expertise. My experience with facepainting is not as vast as yours but i certainly feel like it will soon be.
Facepainting is something i really enjoy doing. The best part is the big reveal! I always like to tell story of my first time. The school my husband teaches at were doing their first school bazaar to raise funds for updates and projects in and around the school.
They wanted some ideas for different stalls to grab the children’s interest and so i volunteered to face paint since my first love was drawing and painting. so they agreed to purchase the paints and I would transfer my skills off paper onto the children’s faces. so i went online and printed out some ideas for girls like butterflies, birds, flowers and for boys, well at the time Spiderman 1 had just come out in cinemas across the country so i decided to use pics of spiderman and batman designs.
On the said day which was a saturday i was soooo excited to paint the little girls faces especially, pretty butterflies and flowers and birds…. i also bought some lipstick and glitter to add to what paints i was provided with…but imagine my surprise when not only the boys were raving for Spiderman but the girls as well!!!….lol….all in all the day was great fun. I had a serious back pain that night but there was a smile on my face when i remembered looking out in the school courtyard to see a wide array of male and female spidermen and women…..kids too sweet!
In my country we’re not privy to stores carrying a vast array of facepainting supplies so i make do with what i can get my hands on and i even substitute. I found some paint crayons which work really well despite the fact that the colours are limited and not very bright. i also use eyeshadows and bodypaints and lots of glitter. Although the bodypaints offer lots of colours, they are very runny and dry with a stiff pulling feeling on the skin. I would like the opportunity to use some of those magnificent products that i see you using, they really pop and finish so nicely. i know my future clients will really enjoy it and it may even land me some more gigs!…. thanks again Philadelphia
Lisa @ Les Visages
Trinidad
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Thank you for sending this in Lisa! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of October when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm Supplies Competition. Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!
Happy Face Painting,
Philadelphia Tivoli
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