Brand new paint brand by Tulip revealed at CHA!

Hello from sunny California and the CHA show! I just spent some time at the Tulip booth and they have come out with their own line of face paints, glitter tattoo products and even more exciting, an aerosol body paint spray. They said it's just like airbrush body paint and I am pretty excited.

The products will hit Michaels by the end of April, and after that Joanns and AC Moore. They are definitely marketing them to the average craft buyer (good/bad thing??). I tried the paint a little, and it seems a little weak, but without properly playing it's hard to tell. The glitter tattoos seem to be a good quality, and they will be selling them in kits of 25 stencils. Thy also have "party pack" kits for both taqqhe paint and the glitter tats. The spray tattoo product comes with 1 1.8oz spray bottle and 4 re-usable stencils. The stencils are basicly a glitter tat stencil with an extra clear piece of plastic all around it to help shield you from overspray. They say it will last up to 7 days, so I'll let you know how mine holds up. I think it only comes in black and blue. Ill post pics when I get home or have Internet access. (I'm on my phone). I just wanted to share the news!

Oh no....that is not good. When companies mass produce supplies like this and sell them in "box" stores at cheap prices. The average customer does not care about quality. They care about instead of hiring someone to do glitter tattoos for their child's party for $75 and hour. They can buy a kit form $25 and have leftovers.
Not good!!

That is my opinion too, Glitterfly. We spend alot on our supplies to get top quality products for our customer's safety and satisfaction. These kind of products can really undercut our businesses.

I was thinking the same thing with the paints, but Snaz is sol in craft stores too, so it's not much different than that. The glitter Tats aren't as accessible to people now, so that should be interesting. But at the same time, the spray paint is pretty cool and a totally new product for us, so I give them credit for bein innovative.

The fact that Snaz is now sold in full sized single pots in craft stores is exactly why I removed it from my working kit. The last thing I need is for a parent to recognize my paints and decide to start up their own business. I suppose it's the nature of the beast that companies would want to get a piece of the face/body painting pie. They did it with scrapbooking (and over saturated the market...and a lot of companies lost money when scrapbookers stopped playing their silly games) and now it's face painting. I've been toying with the idea of just painting for the pure joy of it anyway...

Hey LJ... If you decide to go all recluse on us, would you mind sending your custers my way? I'm still in it for the money. . (and because I love it, obviously)

Amanda wrote:Hey LJ... If you decide to go all recluse on us, would you mind sending your custers my way? I'm still in it for the money. . (and because I love it, obviously)

LMBO!

Awe! That just stinks! Well, I don't feel so intimidated by the face paints as it still takes loads of talent to do what we do, but the glitter tattoos are a nice mark-up for my business & gives my daughters most their spending money. Now, if every tween has a glitter tattoo kit, why would a parent want to pay for us to do it. Grrr...

Totally not so thrilled about it!!

Dear dear dear me.....
Here's hoping the regular mum client is too lazy to go looking for the do it yourself cheapy.
These companies must know they are attempting to put people out of business and don't care. I can only imagine where we'll be in ten years, between stores stocking paints, stencils and gilttr tats, and youtube videos......!

Also I used to work for JoAnn fabric for about three years so I am well versed in their crafts Anyhow I can tell you now the aerosol body painting spray is probably going to be a fail. They tried to market an aerosol fabric paint spray and it was atrocious. I tried it several times with several different variations and it always came out in a clumped messy mess. I never recommended it when people asked about it.

Just because your given a wrench, doesn't mean you can fix a car

They may have the tools, but they don't have the professional touch

criss I hope your right

I'm soooo not worried. There are already products on the market, at local craft stores, that offer the exact same thing, glitter tat kits. people don't even understand what they are? This will have a similar effect, that having another "painter" in the area may have. Two to three years from now, when glitter tats are more popular and understood, it could become an issue, but not yet.

well everyone can bake a cake and there's still plenty of bakeries