Fesspenter and I will be painting at the Georgetown Soccer Club for Opening day today!

It is my first busy PPF event and I'm nervous, but Fessy has been very helpful along the way lol. I keep asking her if she has this, if she has that, who's float do we use, who's board do we use... I have been a total basket case to her haha!

But the day is here, and I will finally get to work along side Lisa …

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This is the premise of "Tag You're It:" The person before you on the list sends you a PM telling you what they want you to paint...and you have two days to come up with it and post it.

******************We doing “A-B-C TEAM TAG.” *******************
RULES:
~ When you are done your painting, tag the next person ON YOUR TEAM
~IF you want to play, just add your name to the bottom (you don't have …

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Just playing around tonight creating some new cheek art....which is your favorite wuppie monster?










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I am getting ready to work on the next series of workshops for CAFABA. What i would like to know is where do people want workshops? Yes i know Toronto and Montreal are givens! I think it would be nice to have some in other places , like the Prairies and down east, like New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. HOWEVER I need to make sure we would have the numbers to actually make it worth while !I …

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If anyone is lurking out there today.
I have 2 body paintings to do tomorrow and i'm having a helluva time trying to find under garments for the girls to wear that will actually take paint.
Everything we've tried so far just sucks the paint right up leaving it.. well blah
Is there a best color of fabric, best kind, mix of fabrics..
We're going with bra's and booty shorts so there is a lot of …

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So I got the TAG 6 color metallic palette the other day, just tested it, not so happy with the results =( Does any company make a super vibrant, opaque, metallic paint? I see pictures online where the makeup looks like shiny chrome or something, what in the world are they using? Do I need to mix my metallics into regular colors so it has a base?



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It's been a full week now - I think I'm recovered enough to share, LOL.

I was painting a for a 2-hour birthday party at a circus school. We were all in the trapeze tent. When I had about 45 minutes left, I felt a sudden tightness in my chest, narrowing of vision, extreme breathlessness and dizzy. I painted till the end of the gig and then asked the staff if I could stay seated till the children …

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Went out on a job this weekend... about 20 kids.... mostly girls.... Weather was somewhat humid but not bad...

It seemed that several children devloped rashes within a day after being facepainted.
All girls. Mom suspects the pink might be the problem..... I am approaching this with a more open mind, to see if there might be any other causes.

This kit is used weekly.... cleaned …

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Am I the only one who gets the nightmare birthday parties from h-e-doublehockeysticks?! It was a gorgeous day here today and my party was on "the hill"... in Syracuse that translates to the Syracuse University area, which is elevated above the rest of the city.

Nightmare #1 - It was SU graduation today. I was held up incredibly long in traffic just trying to get to the park... luckily, so …

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