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