Adventures of a Face Painter: facepainternj

Sunday, September 21, 2014

3rd Birthday

For better or for worse, I couldn't stay at the town fair until the very end yesterday, as I had to get to a birthday party in Waldwick as well. The birthday girl was VERY wary of face painting and tattoos, but after seeing several of her family members and friends get painted, finally agreed to a pink heart on her cheek.

I can work with that. Unfortunately, when it came to her tattoo (she picked a T-Rex stencil), removing the top sticky layer felt too much like a band-aid, so I couldn't actually finish it. I felt terrible.

I was consoled a bit by her older cousin who let me play with a couple different styles of custom tattoos, one on each arm.

And the rest of her guests were very happy with their face painting and tattoos!

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Brown & Caldwell, Take Two

If you've been following along, you know that last summer, I face painted at a corporate picnic for Brown & Caldwell. Well, I was glad to get a call again this summer, especially since they moved the picnic from June to August and I was starting to think they didn't want me. Happily, I was wrong.

This time around, the weather was much better, not too hot and with some cloud cover, so I got to play and have some fun.

You know I love creative kids, so when my first two requests were for a dragon, which is always fun for me, and a neon pink zebra with purple stripes, I knew it was going to be a good party.

I did, of course, have the requisite Spideys and butterflies.

And you know I love my zombies!

But the young man attached to this arm had never allowed anyone to paint him before (I got to be first!) and wanted a tattoo like dads, a race car with a lightning bolt. Even as I was painting it, the little guy kept exclaiming, "I love it! I love it!" Best customer ever!