Multi Purpose Products - By Kate Brown

My blog this time is about how we can make the most of the amazing products that are available to us now.  Years ago, face painters had to paint colours onto sponges to get that rainbow cake effect that we have now, or individually paint the different colours of the rainbow.  We are so lucky that the quality of the paints now are amazing  and we have so much choice too! 

Following on this train of thought I thought I would take one of the beautiful new rainbow cakes that I was lucky enough to be sent by The Face Painting Shop, and show how versatile it can be.  It’s from the new Fusion line, which I have to say I am finding a delight.  The paints are lovely and creamy, they take very little water to activate (which is a godsend now the weather is warm) and the colours are unreal.   I’ve used this beautiful Fusion Unicorn Sparks rainbow cake to create four completely different designs, using both sponges and brushes, and just a black and white.

The Product

So this is the gorgeous product that I used for all of my designs.  It’s a gorgeous blend of the rainbow colours with a hit of neon yellow, orange and pink to make it pop.  The blue on the end is a softer pearl blue which makes it a lovely colour to sit over the eyes.  The neons in this paint were as easily activated as the rest of the colours making it really user-friendly and it had an even wear – down.

 I have painted all my designs on the new Sally Ann Lynch Tried and Tested Daisy Lady Face Board which I may just say is absolutely MARVELLOUS to paint on – the paint just glides on, like silk.  And it’s so lovely to have the skin colour, and the eyes and cheek colour all on there – love, love it!!

Tropical Sunset

I first used Unicorn Sparks with a half circle sponge, picking up all 6 of the colours to make a gorgeous sunset effect.  I also used the pink and the purple from the cake for the double dip flowers, and then a black and white to add the palm trees, moon and highlights.

Monster

To create this monstrous design I used a ¾ inch flat brush and picked up the green and blue from the end of the rainbow cake, creating the shape of the design, and the contours I wanted over the face.  I then dragged the green through with a dry sponge.  I used the purple colour to give me the scales (and BAM stencil 9010) and then added the horns and the details with the black and white.  The lipstick was again the purple from the rainbow cake.  How gorgeous is that purple!?

One Stroke Butterfly

I totally could’ve used a sponge and painted a butterfly that way – BUT as I’m demonstrating the versatility of this product I decided to go for a one stroke.  I sponged on a teeny bit of the yellow on the middle and then used the outer colours to do different colour top and bottom wings.  I then added the outlining in black and white.  I used a #pinktips ¾ inch angled short for this design

Zebra Eye Design

Last, but not least is a simple animal print eye design, to get the full range of colours in their intended order.  This design would take me 2 minutes on the job and never fails to impress.  I used a #pinktips rounded flora number 4 for my zebra stripes and then a liner brush to add the white.

So there you have it.  All on-the-job designs, all under five minutes, and all from one gorgeous splitcake and just a white and black.  And really the possibilities are endless – what else could I have done with those colours – I was going to do a parrot design, or some tropical flowers, maybe a unicorn (but I’m REALLY fed up of those), any kind of wild animal, or you could stencil it on as a background for something a bit more grown up.  I could go on and on!   Try and make your products stretch a bit more for you this week and see what else you could do with them – I’d love to hear your results!

All the Love

Kate B

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