My opinion about Tulip facepaint...grrrr!

Well, I had a 40% off coupon for Micheal's so I thought I would give the Tulip paint kits a try just out of curiosity. The colors are very nice, BUT...after repeated washing up to and including soap and water, then palmolive dish soap and water, and followed by a baby wipe the darker purple and the blue is still quite visible on my arm. When dd gets home from school I will ask her to get a picture and see how it comes out so I can post it. I would not feel comfortable using these paints on anyone but myself unless it was the teeniest of details and with full knowledge that these colors will not come off easily. What a waste of a 40% off coupon IMHO.

Good to know, thanks for being the [now colourful] guinea pig!

Fortunately I did it on my arm. My schoolbus kids would have given me a pretty hard time if this was on my face. ROFL I was trying to figure out how to do a rose (did not do well at all!) and then I thought I should maybe try those paints to check coverage, ease of use, washability etc. I am not amused considering how expensive they are. $29.99 for 8 teeny little pots in a kit plus tax here in SK.

Thought I would put in my 2cents. I posted this on the thread about them. I had pretty much the same experience but here it it:
I went to Michaels and tried it. I tried both a glitter tattoo kit and now 2 paint colors. I normally use pretty much all DFX and love it. I sometimes come home and fall asleep with my paint on and never have any staining ( excluding the back of my calf and only the black stains after i sleep with it) I tried the tulip red first and actually really liked the consistency and the coverage. I wiped it off after only a minuet and already had a bad stain. A few days later I tried the Blue and same thing. I like the coverage but if it stained me and my un-stainable skin I know it would be bad on some kids.

Glitter tattoos. The stencils are nice. They dont rip as easily as other I have seen and can be reused about 3 times before there adhesive started to wear. The first one I did with the basic kit and glitter and it actually lasted, on me as well as my daughter , for about 4 day. Still looked good and complete at that point. It started to wear at the 5th shower and didnt look "bad" till day 7. The next tat I did with the neon giltter and it seems to be more grainy that glitter. it only lasted 2 days looking good ( 1 shower) and by day 4 looked like a big mess. The neon glitter just seemed weird. Other wise I actually like the tattoos.

I liked the glitter tat kits too. I didn't get neon and both mine and my daughter's stayed nice for about 4 days. We are both alllergic to some adhesives (Elastoplast being a big one) so I was a bit worried about reactions but both of us did fine and we are on our second tats now. We love them. I also added MicaBella Cosmetic Glitter because I adore that product line and the glitter is amazing wet or dry.

I spoke with the Micheals staff and they experienced the same non-removal issues with the paints. They reported it lasting 3 days, staining and just not coming off. Micheal is not a makeup store - it's a craft supply store!

Yes, they (Micheal's) are a craft and hobby supply store but they happen to carry Snazaroo and Tulip Face paints. I liked the colors offered by Tulip but don't care for the product. It was worth a try IMHO.

Thank you for this thread. I was shopping at Micheal's for brushes and saw the huge display of face paints and giltter stencils. I was really really tempted but wondered what my fpf friends would say about the product. I am so glad I did not buy the paints!
I did buy some stencils and wondered how many uses I could get out of them. If I only get 3 then it does not seem a good item for a festival when you are super busy and have to have something you can count on. I just tried the stencils with face paint (snaz and rainbow cake by sillyfarm) and they worked pretty good. Yes, some sticky left but seems a shame to only get so few uses out of them...cant really offer it as a design for sale if it only does so few...
But I liked that I experimented with it as a stencil and not a glitter tatoo. I appreciate the expertize of face paint forum members!!!

Hi Aussiemarie. Michelle had posted another thread on this topic first which got me thinking about it. I posted mine after hers but I am glad it was helpful and hope you found hers too. I am learning so much and will be a better artist/entertainer because of the gracious encouragment and expertise found here @ FPF.

I actually got tempted and bought a 13$ set of "Festival" themed paints, which had the metallic/pearl White, pink, rose, blue, and dark fusia , dark blue, metallic green and something else (lavender I think).

The metallics (other than bright blue) Are pretty useless on my light skin. I don't know if they will be any good on dark skin, but on me - they were almost invisible. I did like the way pearl white shines though.


The fusia does stain (still on my arm, a bunch of washes later), but I found it to be nice and bright to go on top of other colors for accents. Oh, it also had a bronze metallic - not bad actually. I was able to paint it on quite nicely.

So, to try this out, I kind of enjoyed it. But definitely not something to stick with, it just does not seem to do the work well.

I know we have some haters, but I broke out my silver, white and black tulip today, and it works great. The silver sponged awesome and did great for line work. I will be snagging more coupons and buying a few. At 3.50 I am perfectly happy. If I find my camera cord, I will post a pic, unfortunely I forgot to put my memory card back in my camera today...boooo

Are you sponging the flat paints (matte) or the metallic ones? The metallic for me don't seem to show at all, well just barely, when I sponge.

Actually I am not sure, it was the silver in the large pot, not kit. I am assuming it must be metallic. I used a white snaz sponge, and just a car wash sponge, and it worked well with both. I posted a sample before in the http://www.facepaintforum.com/t4609p90-this-vs-that-comparing-brands-side-by-side-picture-heavy
I don't think the picture does justice to how pretty and non transparent it is.

i have the tulip silver too its beautiful...great coverage

I'm glad you posted that about the silver Eva. I remember your earlier comparison and could use some more silver for the market so I was thinking about your post just yesterday. Since Canada Post is striking right now my only choice is to try the Tulip siver or not have any.

Based on your opinion/assessment I am going to give the silver a chance. I loved the coverage and consistency of the other colors but the darker ones (from the kit) stain pretty bad so I won't use those on anyone but myself.