Helpful Articles on Face Painting

Dangers of Cheap Face Paint

“Dangers of Cheap Face Paint” By Erika Cataldi Last year, I started a business where I provide children’s birthday parties and special events with cartoon mascot characters.  Having little artistic ability, but a great idea of adding face painting as an option, I began studying the art of face painting. I went to a local [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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Face Painting Designs Inspirations with Pauline: 002 – Apron to Face Painting Design

Hi everyone, here’s my next post. Thanks to all the comments. It’s always nice to hear your thoughts. If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see turned into a design, please leave a comment…I’m up for any challenge. Looking around my house, I came across an old apron that was probably my [...]

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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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A Trick to Keeping Your Water & Brushes Clean When You Face Paint

Now this will save you some time and hassle! When you’re facepainting, every little tip and trick you know can help enormously. So, here’s one about keeping your brushes and water clean, to save you from wasting time, having to change the water every 10 minutes. And, I can’t take credit for this one. This is a tip from [...]

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Stop Facepainting… Until You Read This!

Did you know that you can’t just face paint anybody? That there are some people you have to avoid when facepainting? If you didn’t, I’m so glad you’re reading this article. This could save you a lot of stress, time and money later on down the track. So, why can’t you, you ask? Because of [...]

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Should I Buy Professional Face Paint or Cheap Face Paint?

One question a lot of beginners ask is “Is it worth spending more money to buy professional face paint? And this is a totally valid question because professional face paint can end up costing a fair bit depending on how many paints you want. You might want to get a palette of cheap face paints in [...]

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5 Tips to Make You a Faster Face Painter!

Not as fast as you’d like to be with your face painting? I totally understand and it’s only normal to want to become faster at face painting so you can paint the most amount of faces possible with the time you have allocated. You want to make as many kids as possible happy and let’s [...]

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What Kind of Paints Should I Use for Face Painting?

(Okay, for all of you who have already subscribed to our free lessons or bought our face painting guide, you’ll already know this – but this is for the complete newbies, so don’t worry…I’ll have more advanced info up here soon ) Using the right face paints is crucial to face painting. And choosing the [...]

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