Face Painting and Balloon Twisting Blog

Lisa Joy Young offers tips, tricks, and techniques for painting children under 3 years old. Last three minutes includes tips for removing the paint from the kids faces.

Peter getting his face painted like a pirate at Disney

This is a good looking pirate design. I like the skull and cross bone design on the bandana.

ChiTwist Chicago Balloon Twisting shows how to make Mr. Peabody balloon animal.

Illusion Magazine Issue 25 – Spring 2014 Video Preview

Illusion Magazine issue 25 – Spring 2014 with the fabulous new cover by Jody Rife
Sophia Leadill Taylor has written a brilliant guide for you about using stencils and how they have revolutionised the way that we paint, while Tal Peleg will blow you away with her eye designs.

We’re also seeing lots more cartoon-style designs emerging and our regular columnist Margi Kanter probably has a lot to do with that. And one-stroke is still gaining popularity so we’ve included lots of new products for you on the review page.

Take cover artist Jody Rife, who’s the Queen of the Quirgles, who paints the quirkiest creatures you’ll ever meet and the most unique face painting concept. Read about her new book, Quirgles the must-have book of the year.

We have 3 fabulous artists, Arjhay, Katja Kyd and Belinda Wurmitzer who have created fun designs especially to inspire the working face painter.

Of course there are also your regular favourites too including product reviews, galleries and an incredible 18 step-by-steps for you to try.

JestPaint shares their review of the new line of Ruby Red Face Paints. These are being marketed by Gary Cole, formerly the main distributor of Snazaroo face paints in the US.

This is our first review of Ruby Red Face Paints. In general we like the paint, as far as the rubbing off issue goes the manufacturer has suggested a few tricks to make the paint more resistant to touch (leaving the containers open for a day before using it, applying a thinner layer, sponging vs brushing for wide areas), and has said that they will be working on doing some changes to the formula to further improve it. This would be a product that we would use since not all colors are easy to smear, and the opacity and boldness of most colors are great.