Helpful Articles on Face Painting

My Face Painting Set Up

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My Own Experience When I started face painting several years ago I used a card table and two chairs. My kit consisted of two Snazaroo 6-8 color paint palettes and 4 brushes. Over the years I have grown as well as my supplies and I believe that I have come up  with a set up [...]

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Promoting your Face Painting Business

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Happy New Year Painting Friends, So you’re ready to take your face painting passion (obsession) to a new level and are ready to let the world know about your business. Here are some promotion ideas. Business Cards: you will need some business cards with your details, online companies like Vistaprint offer great rates and options [...]

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Tips & Tricks For Painting On Dark Skin

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Hi everyone, my name is Tamara, and I am a new blog writer for Face Painting Tips! Today I’d like to talk about painting on darker skin tones. Being a person of color (mixed with Irish/Puerto Rican and Black) I have come across some challenges about what colors work best for clients with darker skin [...]

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How to Paint Metallic Live Statues

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I’ve had many requests about how to paint gold/silver metallic ‘live’ statues so I decided to write a blog post about it! This is quite simple to do and it looks amazing! We hand pick all the supplies that we sell and the best products to work with to achieve this shiny metallic look is [...]

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Face Painting Glamorous Masks

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Hello Face Painting friends. I had a lovely job a few weeks ago where I painted a family for a Masquerade Party. I had around 10 minutes per design including talking to them about what they were wearing so my design would complement thier clothes, so these were fairly fast designs…Please note that the family [...]

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Face Painting For Charity

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Hello Face Painting Friends, Often I am asked to paint for fundraising events and/or volunteer for a good cause. I find this to be an interesting dilemma and thought I would post my thoughts on this topic, and I look forward to hearing your ideas and thoughts too, as I know many of you have [...]

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Face Painting Kits for Beginners

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Choosing your first face painting kit can be hard.  And I’ve received lots of emails asking what I recommend so I decided to publish this post revealing exactly which products are most important and popular for beginners! Face Paints/Palettes – Which Colors? At the VERY least you need Black, White, Red, Blue and Yellow because [...]

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Face Painting for Fund Raising

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Lot’s of people think they can face paint and imagine it would be a fun way of raising cash for their local school, church or scout group.  However it isn’t really as easy as that and here are ten hints and tips that I hope will set you on the road to success. 1.      If [...]

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Milana’s Face Painting Tips: Using Quality Paints

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I have been very fortunate over the past 12 months, to have met and worked alongside some of Australia’s best and most creative face and body artists. I believe in asking lots of questions! What paints do you use? Brushes? Glitter? Sponges? Equally as crucial, I always ask “WHY” – are they so important, the [...]

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Face Painting Vintage Skin

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Hi again…..I am going to expand on a topic that Philadelphia has addressed in asking me for helpful tips for painting “vintage skin”. My sweet Mother lives with me and is an ever-present canvas when I need her to be.  I often will work out designs using her face or sometimes even her back if [...]

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Painting Pregnant Bellies

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One of my favourite canvasses to paint on is a lovely round belly of an expectant mother. Often the little one inside let’s you know they are there with a few wiggles and kicks! its really beautiful. Whether you have ten minutes or an hour to spend here are a few tips to help you and [...]

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Milana Tornatore’s Face Painting Tips

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Hi everyone! Please allow me to introduce myself… I am Milana Tornatore, founder of The Face Painting Company in Australia. www.thefacepaintingcompany.com Some of you may also know me as Purplena – Resident Fairy: Dreamworld. (Australia’s No.1 Theme Park) What a pleasure to be sending in my first article to FacePaintingTips.com. Thanks Philadelphia! Quickly – A [...]

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Seating your Model for Face Painting

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Today I am going to talk about how I seat my model for Face Painting. I notice that all of the painters I work with do this a bit differently, so I look forward to your comments about what works for you. I generally like to stand while I paint, while it can be a [...]

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Managing Your Line at Face Painting Events

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Hello Face Painting Friends, This month I would like to talk about my experiences with managing lines while Face Painting. Most of the events I paint at I am paid to paint the children  for free, so I often end up with a huge line! Sometimes it works out perfectly and my line ends at [...]

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Promote Your Face Painting Business & Save!

My friend Rick from Gigmasters (online booking service for face painters and other entertainment) just let me know about a 30% OFF SALE they’re having for face painters so I had to let you know about it too! If you’re looking for more gigs, I’d highly recommend them! Membership Special! Hello,This is Rick Buckholz contacting [...]

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Introducing Monthly Posts By Ambah O’Brien – Australian Face & Body Painter

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Hello face painting friends, I was most excited when Philadelphia invited me to be a regular contributer here. I will be posting monthly chit chat about my life & experiences as a Face & Body Painter. I am more adept with a paintbrush than a keyboard so please bear with me as I warm up [...]

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Would You Like to Be Nice or Spooky?

Earlier this year at FABAIC in Orlando I had the pleasure of meeting one of my favorite artists Christopher Agostino. Also met up with him again at a face painting jam when I was in New York in June. I’m a big fan of his work and when I found this video he made on [...]

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Do What You Love!

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“Do What You Love & You’ll Never Work a Day In Your Life“ By Marion Mitchell Hi Philadelphia, I just wanted to share my recent experience with facepainting. About a year ago, I started facepainting my daughter, after she had a last minute freak out over having her face painted at a local event. You [...]

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Les Visages

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“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 [...]

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Second Job Face Painting

“Second Job Face Painting” By Sheila Aldrich About two years ago my mother and I were asked to volenteer our time face painting for a Chilren’s Miracle Network fundraiser in our community, which is a very small community.  We were asked because the both of us have some artistic ability and we are alway willing [...]

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Charity Work

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“Charity Work” By Nikki Karn Many of us have causes and charities that are dear to our hearts for various reasons. It can be difficult to choose where to give your time (and supplies) when there is an endless list of worthy organizations. So what is a charitable, but gotta pay the bills, face painter [...]

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Ivonne’s Face Painting

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This is an entry sent in for our monthly Competition! “Ivonne’s Face Painting” By Ivonne Hello, I am Ivonne, I would like to thank you for all your help sending me techniques and advise to become a face painter. I started just four months ago and everything you said is completed right. I try to [...]

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Sport Fans Face Painting

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“Sport Fans Face Painting!” By Jese Hi Philadelphia, I am glad you are back to the Blog… I was looking for ideas on Full Face Painting for Sport Fans… I looked at your videos for inspiration and LOVED the helmet and the 1/2 and 1/2 game face you did on your sister… So I wanted [...]

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Fairy Garden Tea Party

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This is an entry sent in for our monthly Competition! “Fairy Garden Tea Party!” Tracy Mangan My son and my daughter always shared their birthday parties every year since they are both born in August. This year my daughter, Autumn, wanted her own girly party, so we decided to have a Fairy Garden Tea party. [...]

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Face Painting Over 300 Kids In Under 4 Hours!

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By Mollie Stofan aka “Mollie the Painter” Hi everyone! I recently got a call to do a school festival a few weeks ago, to paint about 300+ kids! I just about fell out of my chair when I heard how many. I have never painted that many people at one time! But I never back [...]

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