Getting Started in Face Painting

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Okay, so you're convinced, you want to tryout face painting. Where do you start, what do you need? Well the first thing you want to do of course is get your paints. It's pretty overwhelming; there are probably two hundred colors available in various different brands. You've experimented with different brands and you find out that you like the cake formula or the liquid formula. All you really need is some basic colors to get started. A pallet like this with black, white, red, yellow, green and blue is actually plenty to get you started. Remember in grade school when you learned to mix colors red and yellow make orange, blue and red make purple? Well you can mix them right on your hand or right on the side of the pallet if you need additional colors. This will actually take you a long way. Then as you get deeper into it you can add all sorts of other colors. Primary color, or neon colors, metallic colors, pastel colors you'll be all set. You're going to pick out your brushes, two or three to get started really is all you need and you've got your sponges for your full faces. Now who are you going to paint? You can start on your arm, you can start on your leg your upper thigh is a great place to practice, but you really want to find some children to practice on. There?s nothing like practicing on a real live wiggling child. Contact your local girl scouts, your church, your elementary schools, preschools. Volunteer your time in the beginning. Find some charities that are having some event. Call them up, their events are always on the weekends and professional face painters that's when our paid jobs are unfortunately we have to say no to a lot of them. That's a really, really good place to get some experience. Go on line! A lot of the face painting websites have great face painting forums where you can learn a lot from people who are very, very willing to share their knowledge and information. Then you're ready to start. Pick a name for your business, maybe put a small ad in a local parenting magazine and you're ready to go.

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