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Top 10 Most Popular Requested Face Painting Designs
When first starting out on your face painting journey, you may feel a little like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. With such a high standard of face painting nowadays, it's understandable to feel overwhelmed and not sure where to begin! That's why we've come up with this blog of the Top 10 Most Popular Requested Face Painting Designs that we personally get asked for.
Start by learning how to do these staple designs well, and you will find your other designs begin to take shape, too!
If you're a seasoned painter, and have other popular requests you think deserve a mention, please leave us a comment below to let us know!
Butterfly Face Paint
Butterflies – beautiful as they are, often tend to be a beginner face painters nemesis! Learning to paint a butterfly well, is a huge learning curve that will actually help you with all sorts of other designs. You will be practising your placement, blending, and line-work all while face painting a butterfly.
Top tips for face painting a butterfly: Make the top wings larger than the bottom wings. For the most flattering shape, the bottom wing should never go below the nose.
All line work should be headed toward the same focal point.
Spiderman Face Paint
Good old Spidey! Trust me, you will need this one on your list of designs! Yes, you will get asked for other Superheroes and yes, it is worth taking the time to learn all kinds of different designs, but Spidey is a good 'fallback' to keep tucked away just in case! Everyone knows who he is, and most kids will be placated by this face paint design if their requested superhero isn't available.
Top tips for Spiderman Face Paint: for a red spiderman, you NEED Global Red in your life. The coverage is amazing and it doesn't stain at all. For quick application, use a flat brush rather than sponging! Keep your design simple both for quickness, and neatness.
I stick with 3 main tear drops for the forehead and connect with thinner 'u' shaped lines. Round out the eye outline for a tidy look. This little lady wanted to be spider-girl in pink, with pink chunky glitter to match! Feel free to get creative and ask your clients what colour spidey they'd like to be!
Puppy Face Paint
There are so many different ways to paint a puppy, so you need to decide what design you feel most comfortable with. I tend to stick with a floppy eared puppy with it's tongue lolling out. It always gets a smile!
Puppy Face Paint Top Tips: Use a rake brush for extra fluffiness! Remember that a dogs muzzle looks different to a cats, and it's nose is rounder.
Tigers
I absolutely love painting tigers! I paint them in every colour imaginable and they always go down well at parties!
Top tips for Tiger Face Paint – the muzzle is just like painting a cats! Practice your Thin-to-Thick-to-Thin Lines for amazing Tiger stripes. Don't forget the fangs and glitter lips right at the end of painting this one!
Ninja Turtle
Another superhero that I often get requested to paint is the Ninja Turtle. I let my clients choose any colour mask they'd like and whilst most do stick with the 4 traditional colours, occasionally I get an unusual colour request that turns out amazing!
Top Tips for Ninja Turtle Face Paint: get a Tap stencil to add on scales to your ninja turtle. It makes such a difference! Remember when using stencils to make sure your sponge is on the drier side – test it on your hand first!
Unicorn Face Paint
I honestly can't remember the last time I went to a party and didn't get asked to paint a unicorn! I tend to add flowers or butterfly style wings to enhance the unicorn design and it remains one of my most popular requests ever!
Top tips for painting unicorns: check out our Youtube channel for an easy step-by-step method of painting a unicorn head! Once you have that down, you can embellish your designs however you'd like!
Pirate Skull Face Paint
Popular with slightly older boys in particular, the pirate skull is a good way to use your one strokes for a fast full face paint design!
Top tips for pirate skull face paint: Wiggle your brush as you paint the bandana, for a more organic fabric texture. Use simple lines as teeth marks to save time at busy events!
Flowers
Super quick, yet effective double dip flowers are a hit with people of all ages! These are perfect for getting through a long queue. Add some glitter and off you go!
Top tips for painting double dip flowers: Use our small flower brush or flora brush for gorgeous petals! After loading your main colour, gently wipe just the tip of your brush onto a cloth or kitchen roll, before dipping into your second colour. This will give you more vibrance!
Rainbow Face Paint
Another line-buster I always get asked for at least 1 rainbow at every event! It's also a good way to jazz up existing designs such as butterflies!
Top tip for painting Rainbows – try out some different rainbow one strokes to find out which one you like best. We like Global Funstrokes in Ibiza, New York and Leanne's Rainbow. Keep practising at getting your consistency right with trial and error on your own arm.
Kitten Face Paint
Cats can be a bit tedious to paint, unless, you throw some rainbow colours into the mix! Not many kids will say no to a rainbow kitten!
Top tips for kitten face paint: paint the muzzle area first! The muzzle area will define how far down the cats cheeks will go. Picture where you are going to put the ears and adapt your design to fit the shape and size of each face. Girls will go wild for glitter lips on this one!
We hope you find this guide helpful when it comes to deciding which designs to include in your face painting inventory! As usual, we'd love to see your versions so feel free to tag us in your pics!
Rachel x
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We know how important good quality brushes are to a face painter, makeup artist and body painter, so in light of that we have created three new brush cases for them to live in.
Introducing The Ultimate Pro Brush Roll, The Zipper Pro Brush Roll, The Lux Brush Roll, all are made from Super soft and supple imitation Leather making cleaning super easy, they all feature extra pockets and compartments for those little extras.
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Face Painting Business Resources – Financial Spreadsheets
Last week's Time Sheet resource live event proved to be very popular! We discussed the importance of getting your 'business' head on, and how time sheets can help you to get organised. We packed so much into around 50 minutes, it really is worth checking out the Live video on our group so you can join in with the discussion! If you didn't get the first resource you can find it here>>> https://www.thefacepaintingshop.com/face%20paint%20supplys/resource_business_series
This weeks resource is the super important financial spreadsheet! I have created a very simple, easy to use spreadsheet that will allow you to track your income and expenditure. It will also work out your net profit so you have that figure handy when self assessment time rolls around!
In the next live video, I will be going through this sheet with you, and giving you some useful advice on keeping your accounts up to date. We will discuss what counts as business expenses, why you should opt into National Insurance contributions, how to pay yourself a wage and why charting your net profit over time is important to your business' future!
There will be no need to get stressed out when tax return time comes around every year as you will have everything set out in an easy to follow format! All of the hard work has been done for you, all you have to do is download the spreadsheet, show up to the live events on our Facebook Group (https://goo.gl/C2gZaS) and ask questions if you are unsure about anything. The rest is a matter of filling in the blank spaces as you go along! Simple!
As the series continues, we hope we can help you to take your business to the next level! We want you to know your worth, and help you to help us in raising the bar across the whole industry!
You can open the documents provided with Open Office (free software that you can download!), Microsoft Excel or even via Google Drive!
Download the latest resource spreadsheet here:
In Open Office Format: https://goo.gl/0c4LEu
In Microsfot Excel Format: https://goo.gl/Q4eUbN
Join me TONIGHT at 8pm GMT exclusively in this group for the first of the live vids/presentations in our business series! Even if you aren't planning on using the first of these sheets, I would love to get to know you from the outset, as I'm sure there is something in this series for everyone. (Get the first sheet here>> http://eepurl.com/cHpHED
You can joing our Facebook Group here > https://www.facebook.com/groups/927565127253696/
In this first video I will be giving an intro and info on future resources as well as guiding you through the spreadsheet we have already released. Have a click through your resource sheets before the event, and jot down any questions you have ready to be answered tonight.
If you have face painting friends who you think would benefit from this series - invite them along and we'll get them added to the group!
SEE YOU THEN! 
Business Resources for Face Painters Introduction – the blog you've all been waiting for!
You have spent a small fortune on the best quality products. You have spent countless hours improving your skills, getting your name out there, and painting on the job. You keep your kit clean, turn up on time and maintain high levels of good customer service. For all intents and purposes you are a truly professional face painter. Here comes the but...
How much time do you spend keeping your paperwork in order?
You are not 'just' a face painter (so please, never listen to anyone who says that to you, including other painters!) You are a business owner. You are self employed with all that that implies: particularly the ball and chain of filing your self assessments.
What if there was a way to simplify it all? To make you accountable for all of the extra 'unseen' time you put in to your business and help you adjust your pricing to fairly reflect this?
Well, you are in luck! I have created a series of resources specifically catered for face painters that will help you to get your business organised and well prepared for any audits, tax filing, personal reviews and future projections. They will be released one at a time through this new series of business blogs here on The Face Painting Shop website!
What are the benefits of good record keeping?
I'll leave it there as I'm sure you get the picture and are keen to crack on with the first face painters resource document!
What software do I need to use this document?
Spreadsheets will be provided in Open Office Calc format and Microsoft Excel. Open Office is FREE software that anybody can download onto their computers. It is easy to use and my preferred software for this type of work. There is also no reason why you shouldn't be able to open these files in google docs.
What resources will be provided in the series?
The main spreadsheets that will save your life are as follows:
The business blog series will likely be on going and organic based on responses.
Please give us feedback on this series!
If this is something you find useful, or there are things you don't understand, please let us know! I am more than happy to do some Live Q&A sessions in our Facebook group to walk you through each of the resources and answer any questions you may have, but I need to know if this is something you want, first!
It have taken me a very long time to manually enter every single bit of info and formulas into these sheets so you don't have to. Although I don't feel like I should have to say it: please respect this further by crediting the work if you pass it on, and not circulating it yourself for a profit. Copyright belongs to Rachel (Geordie Face Painter), and has been shared for the benefit of the face and body painting industry .
Without further ado, your first Face Painter Resource is now available!
The first spreadsheet is the all important Time Sheet! Get into the habit of entering any hours relating to the running of your business. You will find a lot of useful information to help you get started with organising your business setup and records!
Download Time Sheet in Open Office Format: https://goo.gl/JN86s1
Download Time Sheet in Microsoft Excel Format: https://goo.gl/mfEk5r
Download Open Office: https://goo.gl/DlMD81
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Rachel's website: www.geordiefacepainter.com