Face Painting and Balloon Twisting Blog

Boy has his face painted like a tiger. Looks like a vacation at one of the Disney locations.

Trish Daniels from Fake-A-Face Face Painting does her thing with a young man who squirms and smashes his eyes shut.

Video preview of the Illusion Magazine Summer 2014. Order today at www.illusionmagazine.co.uk

This fabulous new issue is packed full of amazing artists including Stéphanie Bernard, Erin Skeen, Shawna Del Real and Dawn Anderson. With step-by-step designs, product reviews, technical pages and much more!

Another tutorial on the new channel by Giggle Loopsy. This time it is a simple kitty cat for girls.

Giggle Loopsy has a new channel on YouTube and this is one of her first videos. Hopefully, she will continue to make more.

If you are a balloon twister and spend time on facebook, you probably saw the balloon twister community panic after T Myers Magic magic announced they were closing. Well, it has been a few weeks, and now they announced they will reopen on Monday, May 19th, 2014.

I think that I only ordered from T Myers twice. Most of my balloons come from another dealer, but I do visit the T Myers website on the regular basis, just to see if anything is new. I also found they had a better selection of DVDs which was the main reason I had placed two orders with them. It will be interesting to see how they do with the comeback.

School Jokes: School is almost out, but there is always time for a few jokes about school.

Q: Why was the math book sad?
A: It had too many problems.

Q: What is a farmer’s favorite math tool?
A: A COWculator!

Q: What is the only class you can plant a flower in?
A: Kindergarden!

Q: What’s a pencil’s favorite place?
A: Pencilvania!

Q: What do you call a cylinder after it graduates from school?
A: A graduated cylinder.

Q: Why did the boy eat his homework?
A: Beacuse his teacher told him it was a piece of cake!

A different take on the skull design by Jacana Face Paint

Looks like I haven’t posted new jokes for a while… These are NOT my jokes, they are jokes I collected from the Internet and other sources over the years. It is fun to have a few jokes to tell related to the designs the kids request, current weather, upcoming holidays, or the back to school season. The following jokes are all about animals.

Collection of Balloons

Q: What do you get from a pampered cow?
A: Spoiled milk!

Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A: A dinoSNORE.

Q: Why did the spider go on the internet?
A: To make a Webpage.

Q: What is a balloon snake’s favourite subject?
A: Hissss-tory!

Q: What happened when two frogs went after the same fly?
A: They became tongue-tied!

Q: What did the frog do when his car broke down?
A: He got toad.

Dog Face Painting

Being on Facebook and surfing the Internet for inspiration, I see a lot of face painting pictures. Overall, I think it is the smile that sells the pictures more than the artwork. Kids who look happy and like they are enjoying things make the best pictures. I find it unfortunate that many kids don’t know how to smile. Honestly, I don’t know what the parents are doing, but they aren’t teaching their kids how to smile. Smiling isn’t about seeing all of your teeth. With acting, they say that a smile is in the eyes. Often, as face painters, we are rushed to move on to the next child, but when we do stop to take pictures, it is helpful if we can take good looking pictures of the kids with their face painted.

YouTube has a few videos that might help…

How to Smile Naturally for Photos

Tamron How-To Child Photography: Candid & Posed Natural Light Moments with Your Children