Your Business Name?

Just wondering how you came up with it and how you make sure you are the only one.

I went it about it a bit backwards. I was looking around Vista Prints at the pre-designed logos and saw one I liked. It looked like swirls and curls and thought "There are a lot of swirlys and curls in face painting." Viola. I used the logo until I got my car decal done and the designer came up with something wonderful. As to protecting it. Who knows. I got my dot com at least.

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I have not got my own business name yet
so far I have been running anything I need to do with just my name.
kind of have a logo tho, may have to change if I get a face paint business name.

Well... coming up with my name was easy!

I never even considered coming up with a "name" for the business.

Well, my business name isn't "official" yet. As in, I haven't advertized or printed it anywhere yet. But I've decided to call it KittyKat's Face Painting, because cats are one of my most favorite things in the whole world, my name is Kathryn and my husband always calls me Katty. It just seems to fit me. Hopefully I won't have to change it if I discover someone else already uses it, lol

My husband came up with my business name... Fun Faces. I liked it and we ran with it. I registered it in Florida, but I didn't see a way to do it in Georgia. When I looked into doing it... it was rather expensive, so I think I'll put that off for a while.

Mmmm....I like kitty kats and it implies 'good stuff'. So I just thought it sounded good.

When you apply for a business license, they do a check to make sure no one else has that particular 'dba'. So you are ok for your locality. If you wanted to be sure nationwide...I think you need a lawyer to do a search and register your name.

My biz name is "Debi's Doodles"

I used it a long time ago when I drew greeting cards and when I started face painting and airbrush tattoos I figured it was still fitting so I use it.

My business name is Always A Party because life is always a party!!!!

Vis A Vis which means face to face as that was already taken still need a logo though. Will probably go with the obvious! lol!

Brush and Beret

When I started painting I always wore a beret - (covered up bad hair days and kept me warm at fall festivals) Then the kids would always ask me "are you a real artist?" So as a francophile - I decided my gig was to 'masquerade as a 'costumed' artist -- striped shirt, red scarf and beret. So the name came naturally, I chose Brush & Beret as two symbols of my business - and it is easy to remember when I tell folks it sounds like "Russian Ballet."

I Search Engined the name in several formats and came up with no other duplicates and purchased the dotcom name too.

The kids are atracted by my french easel on which I mounted an unbreakable 16"' x 20" mirror on the canvas. This gives the kids someplace to look at themselves after they are done and have had the 'Voila' in the handheld mirror.
So that's my business name and Gig!

The word Hennawi is a 14th century Moorish Spain tax classification for a person who sifts henna. My business started out as Hennawi House Henna but as I added other types of body art it was changed to it's current name. It has slowly evolved into a house of various body arts.

I came up with Face Painting Express, because my motto is "we bring the fun to you". Plus it just sounded good. There are several websites where you can do your own business name search without having to hire a Lawyer, and yes when you register with your city/state they will do a search too. You can also trademark your name/logo, but that costs alot of money.

My family was dumfounded when I decided to do this, as a frustated comeback after too many teases and to this question.... "And what exactly are you going to be doing?" I blurted out, color whims! all kinds of painted FUN for everyone! that's what i'll be doing! lol who knew!

I'm with Shannon on this one. I just use my name. I did however add the word studio so I can use it for all of the artsy things that I do:
The Jessica Hicklin Studio.

Jessica I love your web site. I also do Face and body art work and photography.