Best brand for painting in EXTREME heat?

I am in Las Vegas. Yesterday it was 100+ degrees in the afternoon and it's only going to get hotter. End of June, July and most of August we are looking at 105-110+. The lovely shark I painted on a boy at my son's school literally melted down his face after ran around outside for 5 mins. I wanted to cry. I called him back in to take his picture and he walked in looking like an acid burned Smurf. Most of what I have in my kit is Paradise with a couple of arty cakes and some Wolfe. The white and black Wolfe that I did the line work in seemed fine but the glycerin based Paradise was just a mess. I am leary of using all Wolfe or DFX because I keep reading that blending with them is really difficult. So is there something else I could be doing to the glycerin based paint or do I just need to suck it up and learn to blend with wax based paint?? Thank you in advance!

You need Starblends and/or other powders for your main color bases. Metina sells them in the face paint forum shop. Type Starblends in the search bar and you'll find lots of info about them. Ben Nye has Lumiere powders which are shimmery, beautiful and vibrant.

Mousears mom, what part of Vegas are you in?

Do the starblends smear or rub off easily, Miss Ronnie?

Starblends are a pressed powder that applies dry. They don't sweat, smear or rub off like water based face paints. The paints you use on top may still run in extreme hot and humid weather, but the starblends will not.

Starblends are the way to go! I do know that the linework still will melt in 100 degree weather. Of course, the one time I did it, it was on a fireman for the 4th of July and he was sweating like crazy! LOL

Just painted last weekend in hot, humidity. Starblend Spidey still looked decent after a couple of hours despite the fact that he was the youngest of the bunch. Even the linework held up pretty well. The non-Starblend work was runny and/or smeared pretty quickly.

The thing with Starblends is you have think outside the normal face painting box.
It would do you well to practice trying to do as many designs that you can, substituting them for regular paint. The same with Ben Nye Lumieres or other powders. We are so quick to naturally gravitate to the paint... but if you practice working with these products you will find that you can do so much with them.

So true Miss Ronnie. Today, it was about 85F and I was in direct sun with my paints. I had 4 brands in my kit. Tag, Paradise, Wolfe & Snazaroo and the ONLY one that went squishy on me was the Snazaroo. The others stayed perfect to work with.

Yeah, they're perfect to work with in the heat.... they just don't hold up well to kids running and playing and all that. The kids end up looking like an ice cream melted down their face. and their shirt is filthy.

You've all convince me. I took my gift card i got for christmas and headed to the local costume shop and picked up 3 starblends. Tried them out as soon as I got home but it is something different isn't it? lol I'm going to try to get my hands on something like the smoothie blenders to see if that helps because boy howdy they were transparent lol guess it's an excuse to practice (like i really need an excuse:) )

won't the smoothies get wet if a kid has a sweaty face? what do you do?

Good question, Astrid. And the answer is yes. I posted in another thread yesterday that I carry a separate container of wipes that are made just for the face and I gently wipe sweat, tears, food, whatever off their face and then allow it to air dry. Also, it should be noted that hair "grease" can run down from the hair onto the face and it needs to be removed before attempting to use a smoothie or any other tool to apply the Starblends. Even though I call them baby wipes, they are not baby wipes, they are facial wipes and I buy them in a canister at WalMart... I also buy regular baby wipes for my own hands.

I have napkins for sweat and baby wipes for messy faces

thank you Miss Ronnie

cottonkandy-What kind of napkins?