I will usually try anything that my family needs or wants. A recent example, was a request by my Granddaughter to do face painting at her birthday party. I've painted other things in the past, flower pots, wood signs, fabric....how hard could it be. Right? I researched differant paints and differant designs on the Internet and ordered what I needed. I used Wolfe and FX paints which seemed to have the best ratings and results overall. A great site that I found for face painting tips and designs, was
Lisa Joy Young....... She does beautiful work and has very detailed videos that I found invaluable.
Work was really busy the week before the party, so I did not have time to do ANY practicing. I had no idea how this was going to work. Since the theme of the party was Monster High, I figured if worse came to worse, I could just make a mess and call it a Monster. Kids are great, they see Piccaso in a Monster mess. I set up a table and put all my supplies out in easy reach, along with baby wipes for cleanup of the snafus that I knew were inevitable. I also had my laptop so that I could have a reference picture of the design I was painting. Connor was my first victim, brave boy, and he decided on a green snake...relief and joy, that seemed pretty easy.
The first time I placed my brush on his little head, I thought 'Ok, this is not going to be too bad'. And then, the paint started dripping along the brush stroke. Whoops. I had the paint too wet. Out came the baby wipes....I love baby wipes, they are like duct tape for women. I cleaned him up and started again, after first testing the consistency on my hand. Joy to the World, he sat very still and the snake turned out not half bad. I found that painting was not hard, but getting good outlines on a face is really, really difficult. It won't win any awards, but to those kids it was amazing. Snakes were very popular that day.
I started to gather an audience. Everyone wanted to be next. Rein it in kids, this takes a while. Inexperience in action here.
I already knew that glitter makes everything better. That includes face painting.
I don't know how many faces I actually painted that day, but I got everyone done within the scope of the party time and still got to see Lexi open presents.
I even had a couple adults get in on the fun.
It was a really fun thing to do. I didn't poke anyone's eye out and I didn't have a dissatisfied customer. What has your family asked you to do for entertainment sake, that you have not tried before?
Have A Good One,
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