Facepaint UK Blog

It’s all over! We are waiting for images to filter in from the seriously hung over painters, check back soon to see what went on over the Bank Holiday weekend.

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Here are some photos to whet your appetite, these girls are so glam! And 13 year old Junior King Vernon (the only boy that day) has been painted by Bibi since he was a nipper, and is still willing to sit for glitter.Bibi did some...

Have you ever wondered - am I too slow? This article may answer your question, and at least give you tips on how to get faster. After a hectic summer it might be time for a little reflection and to take stock of your speed.

And no, Bibi's not resorted to drugs - yet!

Here we are at the end of another very busy summer, filled with jobs of all kinds from the fab to the frustrating, the sublime...

We often talk about how important colour theory is when face painting, but despite nodding wisely I wonder how many of us really understand how to use it effectively. When teaching a typical girly face paint, Bibi and I often advise that students put a cool blue or turquoise on the eyelids, and warm pinks or oranges on the cheeks. All fairly obvious even to little girls, but our face painting students are colour rebels by definition, and...

The results are coming in for the Maskerade Festival in Holland on 20th May. Our nicest student at Freiburg won 3rd place, here are the fantastic pictures!

Congratulations to Michi - here is her website

And here is the Maskerade website for when they publish all the results

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, WHERE DOES TIME FLY TO?

YES, THE NIGHTS ARE LONGER, THE DAYS ARE COLDER AND SANTA'S LITTLE HELPERS ARE BEAVERING AWAY (well, we hope to be). WE ARE SHARING SOME IDEAS WITH YOU AGAIN THIS YEAR, BUT DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT LAST YEAR'S PAGE IN THE ARCHIVE.

Many of these come from the great painters that attended our Christmas Party last year, it all happened so fast that we're not...

Reference Library

We have shelves and disks groaning with accumulated ideas for facepainting and product information. When you're groaning with frustration, let us know - a groan shared is a groan halved and the shelf gets a break too! Even if we don't know the best product to use, we will be fascinated to find out!

Please email your request for an image and we will send a jpeg image to your email address with notes if...

Reference Library

We have shelves and disks groaning with accumulated ideas for facepainting and product information. When you're groaning with frustration, let us know - a groan shared is a groan halved and the shelf gets a break too! Even if we don't know the best product to use, we will be fascinated to find out!

Please email your request for an image and we will send a jpeg image to your email address with notes if...

Wow, you loved this competition!

Thank you so much to all the facepainters that sent in their fab tigers. It just goes to show where a bit of visual inspiration can take you. The following pictures are all our favourites for all sorts of reasons - but we had to choose, and hard though that is, there was one which stood out. We are having several winners who will all be receiving a Facepaint-UK prize, but the Cat that...

This is the basic Tiger that we teach at The London School of Face Painting. It is not just a beginners Tiger, we all need to be able to do a very fast tiger for busy queues as well as the beautiful designs that facepainters sent in for the competition. Even the most simple face paint will look good if the paint is applied well.

First step is to sponge orange around the outside of the face...

He's arrived! And being asked for already. They didn't give a thought for us poor facepainters when they dreamed this one up, but hopefully we've cracked it for you. Bibi was inundated with requests for him at a party last weekend, and took a couple of useful pictures, so we're publishing her first go at this challenge with some advice on what products to use.

You need to make a decision about which way round you're going to do...

SPRING FEATURE and COMPETITION: REAL TIGERS!

We all paint them all the time, but how often do we look at the real thing? Looking at these just might set you off in a new direction and banish those winter blues. Send us your photos if you get inspired by these beautiful beasts and we will add them to our tiger page!

Getting Inside the Wolfe Brothers

This is one of the most interesting conversations you can have, especially if you are a Gemini like me. The Wolfe Brothers are almost identical twins who rocked our little world when Creative Facepainting was released into our sleepy hollow (we all thought we were so clever) and we haven't looked back. Of course we were all very clever, it's just that we hadn't looked over to that side of the pond that divides...

PEACE STEP BY STEP

This was the face that won 'Best Design', 'Best Technical Ability' and 'Facepainter of the Year' at the Face Conference in Scotland in January! As the artist was Facepaint UK's very own Bibi Freeman, we are able to bring you a Step by Step breakdown of exactly how it was done. Over to you Bibi....

Thank you, thank you. I would also like to thank my friends, my family, everyone that's ever been nice...

Friday morning dawned clear and calm rather like a very naughty child trying to look innocent after wrecking the best room. Devastating storms had whipped most of the UK the day before and so it was with some trepidation that we set off from South London to North Queensferry in Scotland. Nervously we listened to radio reports of Planes delayed and Motorways closed and of course Train services disrupted (a bad case of PMT), yet the journey, a mere...

Unfortunately the answer is "Yes!" but try to look on it as another step in your successful career.

If you have been earning money as a face painter you must fill in a tax return. This does not necessarily mean you will have to pay tax yet as of course you will have your personal allowance and maybe some professional expenses that can be set against your earnings, however it is no use just assuming you are earning less...

There was an impressive roster of lecturers this year (us included of course) and I'm sure everyone was looking forward to picking up some special secrets from the amazing Lynne Jamieson, the wizard from Oz!

This is Lynne Jamieson's class 'The Shadow of a Bat' and this was the sort of thing that came out of it! It's a game of spot the bat!

Jinny was almost unrecognisable in her natural dark hair colour, and impressed...

Reference LibraryWe have shelves and disks groaning with accumulated ideas for facepainting and product information. When you're groaning with frustration, let us know - a groan shared is a groan halved and the shelf gets a break too! Even if we don't know the best product to use, we will be fascinated to find out!

Please email your request for an image and we will send a jpeg image to your email address with notes if necessary for you...

Linzi Foxcroft took The UK Face and Body Convention by storm at Telford this year. She not only won the prestigious award of "World Wide Face Painter of the Year" in the experienced class, but she was also chosen by facepaint-uk.com's undercover agents, as the painter who had painted the best make up for the fancy dress Gala Dinner.

The theme was Comics and Super Heroes and everyone had made a fabulous effort with their costumes but we...

Following the Halloween Monster class at the London School of Face Painting Kat Sinclair decided to take her horrible new skills out and about. She lives to tell the tale...just!

Saturday 28th October - just another shopping day for thousands of Londoners and tourists in Oxford Street. But behind the scenes the zombies are preparing to give the capital a right old scare!

I found out about this great bunch of people when I was trawling the internet...

This article is from November 2006. Not all facepainting is for kids and parties or even body painting for commercial promotions, there is a whole world out there of extreme make up that you may know nothing about. Facepaint-uk in the shape of Caro has boldly gone where not many women have gone before - And tracked down Neil Hughes - LRP make-up expert.

Neil's work is an exploration of identity and displacement; he mainly works producing characters...