Face Painting Techniques

Heart Designs Video for Valentines Day

Here’s a video to show you how to ’jazz up’ your heart designs for Valentines day! (Heather) Happy Face Painting Philadelphia Tivoli Face Painting Tips “Helping You Paint with Your Favorite Face Paints!” Buy Face Paints Right Here! P.S. There’ll be another Valentines Day Design video on the blog tomorrow, so stay tuned! P.P.S. If there are [...]

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Standing or Sitting While Face Painting?

Some face painters stand while they paint, and others prefer to be seated. Either way you need to make sure that you are comfortable, thats the main thing. It is very easy to do long-term damage to your back by holding an uncomfortable position for hours, and face painting is an activity that can easily cause [...]

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Body Glitter Tattoos: How to Apply!

Hi there! My good friend Kim Baker  just recently made this very helpful video that will show you exactly how to apply body glitter tattoos! It’s a very exciting technique and art that you can add very easily to your list of services as a face painter – And best of all, its quick and very easy to do…Click on play to watch it [...]

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The Trick to Face Painting Faster this Christmas!

Can you believe Christmas is less than 1 week away?! Now, I’m sure that you want to paint tonnes of cheery faces this Christmas, whether it be for fun winter and holiday festivals or for your kids, friends and family at home. And I know that you’re busy, you probably have a gazillion things to do [...]

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How to Make Your Paintings Look 3D!

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Want to make your face painting designs look more 3D? They’ll instantly look more professional! Here’s the trick… it’s all about shadow and light. Practice with something simple, like say a red circle. Paint a red circle then think about where you want the light to be shining from, and where on the circle its shining. [...]

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Save Time on Face Painting by Using a Spray Bottle!

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Looking for more ways to save time when you’re face painting? Well, why wouldn’t you…after all, the more time you save, the quicker you become, and then you’ll be able to paint more faces right? So here’s my quick tip for today… If you’re using cake paints that need water to apply, use a spray bottle to [...]

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How to Use Sponges for Face Painting Without the Streaks

Sponges are an amazing tool… when used correctly that is! Sponges are great for applying base coats with speed, but alot of face painters have the problem of not being able to apply the face paint without creating streaks. If you don’t want streaks, just follow these simple instructions: * First things first, you’ll get getter [...]

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How to Paint Stitches for Halloween Designs

Happy Halloween! The most fun, creative and spooky occasion of the year is finally here! Many of you will be out trick or treating no doubt, and some of you will be attending Halloween parties if not tonight than this weekend. One of my favorite halloween make up ideas are painting Stitches! And we were recently asked how to paint [...]

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Halloween Make Up Ideas

Here’s a couple halloween make up ideas that I came up with just this last weekend! My daughters, their cousins and friends had a fun halloween party, and I was busy face painting as usual. The mask on the girl has a kind of a gothic feel to it (very popular with tweens and teens) and it uses the ‘tear [...]

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Face Paint Designs Steps: Multi-Tone Flower

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Today I’m going to share with you a face painting technique that I really like to use, it’s a technique that will allow you to quickly paint simple face paint designs like a flower or a butterfly with a beautiful two toned effect! (Thanks to a lady named Jan who left a comment on our blog [...]

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Halloween Face Painting Tips

Here’s a quick face painting tip for children this Halloween… Try not to paint the area around their mouths, alter the design if needed, that way when they get into mess eating their halloween treats, they won’t end up eating paint and messing up your beautiful face paint design! And if you don’t have any [...]

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Halloween: How to Create a Fake Wound Video

Here’s one of my favorite halloween make up ideas: creating fake wounds or burns. This video will show you step-by-step how to create a big wound/burn using purple, red and black face paints, toilet paper, liquid latex, sponges, brushes, styling hair gel and blood gel.  Boys love these halloween make up ideas and you can use them with a zombie [...]

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Halloween Make Up Tips – Homemade

Here are a few homemade halloween make up tips that you can use along with your halloween face painting designs! * Create blisters on your face, by applying Vaseline with white tissues scattered on it. * Use dark blue eye shadow and apply it with a messy manner to give yourself a scary look and look slightly bruised. * [...]

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Flower Face Painting Designs Video

If you liked the video we posted here titled: How to Face Paint the Tear Drop Technique Video then you’ll love this face painting design because it uses the tear drop technique to create a beautiful flower face painting design! Enjoy! Click Here to Buy Face Paints! (Heather B.) Click Here to Buy Face Paints! [...]

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How to Face Paint the Tear Drop Technique Video

Learn how to face paint the tear drop technique just by watching this video (Heather Banks)! You can use this face painting technique to add detail to flowers, butterflies, princess designs, tear drops on a mime face and so much more! With this awesome technique under your belt, your face painting designs will start looking professional in no [...]

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Blending Paint Colors – Help!

First rule for all face painters that are starting out and are slighty frustrated with their results in terms of blending paint colors, PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT. Truely this is the only way, you must experiment with your choice of face paints. Learn their limitations, explore the paints variations of color and texture. Try different ways [...]

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How to Face Paint Curls and Swirls Video

Here’s another great video with some easy instructions on how to face paint a very popular face painting technique. It’ll show you how to face paint curls and swirls. This is a face painting technique that you can use in princess, fairy, even gothic face painting designs! Enjoy! (Youtube User: sillyheatherb) Click Here to Buy Face Paints! Tell me what [...]

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Face Painting Ideas Using Make Up

Here’s one of my favorite face painting ideas – combining face paint and ‘everyday’ make up/cosmetics. If done right it can look amazing and it can save you time because you don’t have to wait for it to dry like you would with face paints. So if you’re looking for something new to add to your face painting, or [...]

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Tribal Face Painting Designs Techniques Video

Ever wondered how to paint those amazing looking tribal face painting designs you’ve seen around? They can look complicated, but it’s really quite easy once you’ve watched this video She explains the face painting techniques behind creating tribal face painting designs. It’s all about using small brush strokes, curls and lines to build a design stroke [...]

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Taking Care of Your Facepainting Brushes

Facepainting brushes cost a bit of money, and with facepainting you’ll want to have quite a few brushes. So you need to look after them, to makesure they last long! Here’s a tip  about taking care of your facepainting brushes that was sent into FacePaintingTips.com by one of our subscribers - Lita. Thanks for the tip Lita Here’s what [...]

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Face Painting Animals Mask Video

Face painting animals designs are really popular, and this facepainting video will show you how to face paint a fun face painting animal mask with ease. So to learn one of the most popular animal face painting designs, step-by-step… just press play. Watch it and tell us what you think by leaving a comment. (Heather Banks) And if [...]

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How to Properly Apply Camouflage Face Paint

Do you want to know the secrets and techniques for applying camoflage face paint? Read this article I found…it was written for adults who want to apply camo face paint but can you can adapt it for kids. It covers some pretty advanced techniques, so if you really want to further your face painting you should be experimenting with this! [...]

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Animal Face Painting Techniques Video

Here’s a video that shows you a few different face painting techniques that you can use to make your animal face painting designs look amazing. Learn how to create a fur like effect, paint realistic looking cheetah spots and tiger stripes! Heather Banks Click Here to Buy Face Paints! I think these techniques are absolutely awesome, they’re [...]

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Face Painting Designs Inspirations with Pauline: 001 – Screen Print to Face Painting Design

Hi guys, my name is Pauline – Philadelphia’s sister in law and co author of the Comprehensive Guide to Face Painting and I’ll be making guest posts on the blog every now and then….depending on whether or not you like my posts ofcourse hehe…so leave a comment to show Philadelphia that you like me too! [...]

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How Do You Deal with Fidgety Children While You’re Facepainting? – Open Mic

We all have tricks up our sleeves for various things in the facepainting business and today I wanted to address the topic of how to keep children still, while facepainting. It’s one thing to be a painter, but painting on a ‘moving canvas’ is definately another, wouldn’t you agree? First of all the most important [...]

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