On Saturday afternoon, I made my second annual appearance at the Glen Rock Newcomer's Association's kickoff party. I was there for two hours, flying like the wind, but man, did I have fun. I worked from a limited list of my fastest faces to keep things moving quickly and was assigned a couple of teens as line managers who did a phenomenal job making sure the kiddos had their choices made before hitting my chair.
I obviously didn't have time for photos, but did ask one of the girls to take two photos of faces I especially liked. This was a slightly different take on my typical dragon and I thought it was cute.
Even more fun was my new "Zombie bite" face, inspired by Pashur, a master body artist out of Las Vegas. It may just be my new favorite face.
How creepy is she?! Those eyes! Gotta say, I wouldn't want to meet up with that face in the middle of the forest. Or city, for that matter.
That face was such a hit on Saturday, that I brought it out again on Sunday, when I painted for the very first time for the Heat & Sole Walk to benefit heart failure and transplant patients. What an amazing group!
The funniest thing to me, and I regret not getting a photo of him, was an older boy who saw my zombie bite and just had to have one. While I was painting him, he told me, "You painted my sister at a party at Bounce U a few weeks ago!" and showed me a photo on his phone of a pink kitty that was easily recognizable as one of mine. Turns out this young man was at that birthday party, which was for a five-year-old girl and her friends, and was too old for face painting.... until he saw the cooler options he had this time around! Ha! I call that vindication, my friends.
This face also inspired an adult woman to have me "do something creepy" on her arm, and was happy with what I came up with.
To be honest, so was I. Fun, right? In case you can't tell, Halloween is my favorite holiday.
I had a lot of my regular fare too, including one boy who was really excited when I told him, in listing several options and ideas, "When I say I can do a bear, I mean panda, polar, or brown bear," and exclaimed happily, "Brown bear!" So a brown bear he was.
Now I just hope they have me back next year!
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