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Art Of War For Face Painters: False Expectations
Problem: Each year you offer to face paint gratis at the fundraiser for your daughter’s school, but you’ve found the event increasingly stressful.
Art Of War For Face Painters: Retainer Required?
Problem: Having begun the process of booking a date and time for a new client, you realize she hasn’t sent you the $50 retainer you requested for her event.
Holly Fairy Mask Tutorial for Face Painting
Whether you have snowy cold or sunny warmth for the winter months, I hope the children you face paint, will enjoy this Christmas design.
Wait For It…Aliens Tutorial!
This alien face paint design is a great idea for both boys and girls and can be done quite quickly!
Steampunk Personalized Arm Design
oday’s design is an easy steampunk personalized name design. Follow along with Beth MacKinney to recreate this design!
Simple Calligraphy For Arm Designs
If you try this at a private party for children, you may end up with more moms in your line than kids.
Face Painting Personal Trainer: Making The Most of a Convention
Going to a face and body art convention is a little like going grocery shopping. You get a carload of groceries which can be a bit overwhelming to unload and find places for once you get home to your kitchen.
Tutorial: Happy Irishman & His Pot Of Gold
This Irishman is fairly pleased with himself as he guards his ample pot of gold, and I hope you enjoy painting him this year for St. Patrick’s day.
Face Painting Personal Trainer: Making Your Business Grow
I have to admit that, in general, I have a very relaxed attitude toward business. This last year, I set a goal of increasing my gross income by 50%!
Art Of War For Face Painters: Keeping Your Commitments
You hate to lose a longer job with an established client in favor of a less lucrative one, and you’re tempted to cancel on the other client. What should you do?
The Art of War for Face Painters: Sharing the Chair
Professional face painter Beth MacKinney takes us through the very frustrating situation of what do to when a face painter sits in your chair.
Personalized Angel Graffiti Arm Design
I used the name Angel for my design, since I have a friend by that name, but you could replace it with the customer’s name to personalize it for her.
New Products At FacePaint.com
It’s difficult to judge from a photo on a website as to whether or not you’ll like a color or brand of face paint you haven’t tried.
The Art of War for Face Painters: The Day of the Doctor and Sustainability
Your reputation is your business and your business is your reputation. Develop good relationships and treat others honestly.
The Art of War for Face Painters: When Checks go Bad
Professional face painter Beth MacKinney gives us some tips and tricks on how to deal with bad checks!
Art Of War For Face Painters: When The Client Wants To Under-Book You
Problem: A client who booked you a few weeks ago gives you a call with a party update.
Adding Value to a Simple Princess Design
Today we’re going to begin with a commonly used princess design and transform it by using extra details, stencils, glitter, liquid bling, and gems.
Video: High Speed Strategies for Face Painting
It's important to have the tools available which will allow you to produce the highest amount of designs possible while maintaining your quality. Large split cakes, small split cakes (one-strokes / arty-cakes), stencils, and a severely limited menu will be some of the most important weapons your arsenal which allow you to do your best under high pressure.
Superhero Mask Tutorial for Tesser
I love to face paint superheroes, which is a good thing, because superhero face painting designs are almost always in high de
Video: Face Paint Equipment for the Halloween Mom
The Halloween mom generally wants to create some fun, simple designs for her children to complement their costume. Below is a list of basic supplies you'll need to do some basic face painting, depending on the designs you choose for your children.
Video: How To Set Up For A Face Painting Event
If you're new to face painting, it's important to think through your set up before you get to an event. This video will help you set up for a face painting event, consider what equipment you'll need, as well as how you should position yourself to keep children from accidentally getting into your equipment.
Super Tip For Easy Freehand Glitter Tattoos
The advantage of glitter tattoos is that they are waterproof, and once applied, can last several days if they are taken care of.
Wolfe Face Paints - Red 030
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Pro Review Usage Tips Ingredients & Safety Returns Wolfe Red face paint, from the Wolfe Essentials line, is without a doubt one of the best face paints on the market. Wolfe face paints are densely pigmented making it easy to achieve...
Art Of War For Face Painters: Confidently Handling Hagglers
Problem: It’s the quieter season for face painting, just after the holidays, and while your schedule is beginning to fill up, you still have some open slots over the next few few weekends.
The Art of War For Face Painters: What Should You Charge?
You may prefer an hourly rate or a per child rate for events, but either way, you’ll have to take a number of factors into consideration before you come to a final amount.
Becoming a Successful Bling Cluster Designer - Part 1
There have been many great ideas which make face painting either easier to do or more visually effective, but one of the hottest new innovations embraced by the world of [..]
Art of War For Face Painters: Business Transforming Math
An interesting conversation came up on one of the face painting Facebook groups this last week. It began, "How do I decide what to charge for face painting?" This is one of the most asked questions for not only new face painters, but also face painters who have been painting for awhile.
How to Face Paint: Creating Your First Face Paint Design
If you're new to face painting this article on how to face paint is for you! Learn how to create your very first face painting design with this easy to follow tutorial.
Mehron Skin Prep Pro (4oz)
$11.95
Product Info Pro Review Usage Tips Ingredients & Safety Returns Mehron Skin Prep Pro is a clear, fragrant-free formula for all skin types specifically designed to prep skin prior to makeup application. Skin Prep Pro is made using a proprietary blend that significantly increases the...
Video Tutorial: Graffiti Bling Mask
Many girls love glam, and this mask has the glitter and the bling as well as the graffiti textures which will make it a definitely eye-catcher at your events [..]
Art Of War For Face Painters: When You Can’t Do Just One More
Many face painters run one-artist businesses, which means that they have a vested interest in making their business successful. To make your business stand out, service should be [..]
Video Tutorial: Floral Graffiti Leg Design
Thanks to warm summer weather, face painters have opportunities not just to paint faces, but also arms and legs. Be prepared by having graffiti word or name options ready for your [..]
Tutorial: Superhero Mask
Materials • Metallic purple face paint • Metallic blue face paint • Metallic silver face paint • Metallic black face paint • Diamond FX white • Diamond FX [..]
Video Tutorial: Cartoon Piggy
Cartoon farm animals are a great addition to your summer board, especially if you have any farm-themed events coming up. If you haven’t tried any cartooning in the [..]
Video Tutorial: Heart Butterfly
Butterflies are one of the most requested designs for face painters. This pretty pink butterfly with a simple heart for the butterfly body can be particularly popular with girls, especially [..]
Tutorial: Cartoon Scratching Kitty
This design, based on Margi Kanter’s nose art, has the added fun of becoming animated when the model moves his or her face. If you haven’t experimented with nose cartoons [..]
Tutorial: Pop Art Dinosaur
One of my favorite things to do is to combine themes which otherwise seem unrelated, like dinosaurs and pop art. The bright pop art colors and graffiti stencils [..]
Tutorial: Flamingo Sunset Mask
As summer approaches it’s peak for sunshine and heat, beach-themed parties become more commonly requested. Be ready for the girls who love pink with this easy pink flamingo sunset mask, which [..]
Tutorial: Persian Princess Face Design
There is no end to the variety of princess designs you can create for parties. A nice quality of this design is that you can determine how much time it [..]
Tutorial: Arm Mandala
Once summer hits, you’ll receive more requests for arm designs because clients are wearing short sleeves in the warm weather. This gorgeous mandala design is easy to do, but is [..]
Spidey-Inspired Bubblehead Tutorial
No superhero series would be complete without Spiderman, so this time I decided to give him a try with a Spidey-inspired bubblehead design.
Tutorial: Nightmare Before Christmas-Inspired Mask
While some face painters have loads of boy options on their boards, some find boy designs difficult to come up with. This design can be altered to lean toward [..]
Blacklight UV/Neon Ninja Design
As an example of how to convert a design, I used this standard ninja mask design, which is popular with the children I have face painted.
Tutorial: Gorgeous Masquerade Mask
Masquerade masks are in style any time of year, and the level of bling on this one gives it particularly high value in the eyes of clients. I hope [..]
Face Painting Personal Trainer: The Power Of Failure
I recently read a comment by a new face painter which expressed her discontent at copying other artists’ designs and not being able to come up with new face painting art on her [..]
Tutorial: Civil War-Inspired Superhero
Our family loves super hero movies. We wait for them to come out, and when they do, we go and cheer for the good guys. So when the newest [..]