I mentioned before, sometimes I like to see the video of a real face painter in action as seen by the parents over a professional doing a face painting demo in their own home. Here are two videos from parents taken at Universal Studios…
Boy becomes Frankenstein at Universal Studios
Boy becomes Dog
I really like dragons. I make them all the time with balloons, but haven’t gotten too many requests for dragons when face painting. Here are some inspiration videos that are worth watching.
I have been using the rainbow cakes for butterflies for a while, but that is about the only split or rainbow cake that I have used. After seeing these two videos, I think I need to try out the TAG paints and their one stroke designs.
The first is a great dragon face on a young boy. It starts with a base coat of orange and yellow and then adds in the dragon split cake.
This shows three butterflies. Each begins with a base coat over the eyes and then one of the split cakes for the edge of the butterfly wings.
The Pirates League at Walt Disney World gives a great presentation on transforming a young boy into a pirate.
Here are two YouTube videos that show girls having their faces painted like butterflies.
The Internet is a great resource for finding inspiration for face painting designs. There are a lot of face painters who post images and videos of their work, but there are even more parents who post pictures of their kids after getting their faces painted at parties, festivals, or while on vacation. If part of a blog, you can find valuable insight from the parents about the experience.
When looking on YouTube, I like to find the vacation photos instead of the tuitorials by face painters. Again, these are real people and not the kids of a face painter who has had their face painted hundreds of times.
Here is a video of a young boy getting his face painted like a tiger at the Animal Kingdom.