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24th February 2007

How to be a Super-Mum. Face-painting!

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How many times have you had a face painting kit either given to you. The kids love the idea and expect it to be as perfect as the professional painters at the shopping centers.

We have had face paint kits from all manner of different retail outlets. Full kits, crayons, grease paint style ones. All of them make it very heavy going. It is basicly impossible to get the even coverage that looks so easy to achieve in the instruction book. I watch and try to learn from the professional painters but to no avail. Mine still look like a smudge. I don’t want to be a professional - just passable!

I would give anything to be shown how to do one or two faces! Pirate for him, butterfly for her. I don’t want to be a face painter but to be able to splash a few faces around to keep the kids quiet for an hour or two would be a god send. Face paints that actually come off as well would be nice :) and by coming off i mean the face and the sheets.

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Why can’t you book a Tupperware style party to show you a couple of basic faces. I would gladly pay for a demonstration and a small kit that would fulfill the basic requirement. I think a few friends, a glass of wine and some nibbles would be just the ticket. We don’t even need the kids I guess.. We can practice on each other. As it happens I’ve met a face-painting trainer recently. I’ll be glad to report back!

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  1. 1 On March 2nd, 2007, andrea said:

    If you want to throw a face painting party try calling up one of the local clowns. They often do kids parties and may be willing to give you a deal if they don’t have to perfrom and are just there to instruct.

  2. 2 On March 3rd, 2007, Lucy said:

    Hi Andrea,
    I will look into that actually. I have met a face painter recently who does parties and cakes etc. I will see if we can get something moving on this.
    I might even test it out on my local PTA and see if they would like to test this idea.

    Thanks for taking time to comment.

    Lucy

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