| At my daughter's first birthday party, I was fortunate | | | | Where can you put your new talent of face painting to |
| enough to have a cousin who is an artist and she | | | | work? Your child's next birthday party, the next |
| whipped out her face painting kit and paint the older | | | | fundraiser at your child's school, fairs, Fourth of July, |
| kid's faces and whole upper torsos. My nephews | | | | parades, festivals, or you can start your own business. |
| were completely done as the Hulk and Aquaman, the | | | | Practice your simple face painting designs, and you are |
| girls had their faces painted up as princesses and small | | | | ready for your first party. Start out with your child's |
| cute butterflies and balloons. | | | | birthday, kids love their faces painted and will be |
| Kids love face painting, they are fascinated by seeing | | | | uncaring if it's not perfect. Use thin first layer, wait until it |
| others get their faces painted and wait in anticipation | | | | is fully dry before beginning final designs. Hint: to pop |
| to see their face design. My daughter's fifth birthday is | | | | the designs outline your design with a thin line of black |
| approaching and I was desperately, wanting a crash | | | | around the face designs. |
| course on how to do it myself, so that I wouldn't have | | | | Starting a face painting design business begins with |
| to hire a face painting artist to do my party. | | | | volunteering your services at charity events, your |
| The key is to start with easy face painting designs. | | | | child's birthday parties, and very shortly, it will morph |
| The face designs should easy enough to be able to | | | | into a steady business with a line of kids waiting their |
| use small sponges cut into circles, triangles, rectangles, | | | | turn to get their faces painted. |
| diamonds, dab them into the face paint and place it on | | | | Face painting at charity events allows you to work on |
| the skin, leaving a base design that you can build upon | | | | your face painting designs and develop your painting |
| or finish off with a little highlight, lowlight, or shading. Use | | | | speed. Once your speed increases, begin by setting up |
| a different sponge for each color; you will need multiple | | | | a small canopy on the Fourth of July or Good Friday |
| sponges in the same designs for each of the colors | | | | at the fair and paint away. The best way to advertise |
| you are using. | | | | your new face painting design business is word of |
| A great time to practice face painting designs is at | | | | mouth. Build your face painting design portfolio with |
| Halloween. On a night of horrors, the little odd wavering | | | | testimonials and photos of face designs of which you |
| of a line will be hidden in the dark of trick or treat. If | | | | are especially proud. |
| you are unsure of your ability practice on your own | | | | When you are ready to graduate from charity events |
| hand, close your hand into a fist and paint the top of it. | | | | to paid business, you now need to research your area |
| Halloween is the most popular time of the year for | | | | and find out, how much are face painters paid? Is a |
| face painting. The face painting design include, | | | | face painting design booth less money per face then |
| vampires, ghouls, witches, and ghosts. | | | | private parties? Do not price yourself out of the |
| Face painting ideas should be simple, fun, and | | | | market and remember it just might help to have lower |
| something you have practiced. The more you practice | | | | prices to bring in clientele. Have your business cards |
| the faster you become and the more faces you can | | | | ready to give out to anyone who asks if you do |
| paint. | | | | private parties. Business cards can be made at home |
| Face painting design supplies should consist of good | | | | with the help of Avery products. |
| paintbrushes. Good paintbrushes will have the bristles | | | | Another avenue for face painting is at restaurants, as |
| securely fastened into the brush end, otherwise, the | | | | they might have a kid's eat free night and have special |
| bristles will fall out and become part of the face | | | | entertainment throughout the meal. Children's museums |
| painting design. You will spend several minutes pulling | | | | and creative art facilities or a community center will be |
| bristles out of the design. Good brushes cost between | | | | a great place to begin looking for business. Another |
| $3-10, and they will last you a long time. Invest in | | | | avenue for marketing could be at your significant |
| sponges and cut them into different designs like circles, | | | | other's corporate picnic or event. |
| stars, triangles, rectangles, ovals, and any other shape | | | | If your community offers summer camps, where kids |
| you can imagine. Remember to disinfect all items | | | | are, face painting will be a hit! Your child's school, |
| between faces to keep things sanitary. All face paints | | | | fundraising events, and carnivals are great sources of |
| should state on the labels that they are face paints | | | | income. Craft Shows are great place to have a booth. |
| and they are okay to use on the skin, start out with | | | | Bookstores sometimes want to launch a child's book |
| two or three paint brushes, and a small range of | | | | and a great way to draw children to children's books is |
| colors, the basic palettes have white, black, green, red, | | | | to hire a face painter. Theme parks and cruises ships |
| yellow, purple, and orange. Other fun items to use with | | | | are also great places to look for new business and the |
| the face paints are glitter, stick on gems, stencils, and | | | | latter will give you a free exotic vacation too! |
| face painting stamps. | | | | My cousin, who brought out her face painting kit on my |
| Great items for amateur face painters are stencils and | | | | daughter's first birthday, is a real artist and she is sells |
| face painting stamps. The face painting stamps are | | | | her paintings at our local galleries, however, she uses |
| made of rubber and you place in on your face painting | | | | her artistic talents to make money through face |
| paint pad and you have an outline of the design, then | | | | painting. Or perhaps you are a stay at home Mom |
| you fill in the stamp design with color. | | | | who wants to make money and be available to her |
| Stencils are outlines of shapes; they are picture version | | | | kids after school is out, face painting could be for you. |
| of the ABC's your child might use to learn to hold their | | | | Whether you are looking to learn face painting design |
| pencils in nursery school. You mix and match the | | | | for your child's next birthday or as a new, fun way to |
| designs and use a base color and dab the small areas | | | | have some pocket money, remember, face painting is |
| of the stencil or the entire stencil. Next, you put on the | | | | fun and you can make wonderful memory's for your |
| highlights and final touches. Hint, girls love glitter and | | | | own child and someone else's too. |
| body gems after all they are princesses! | | | | |