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To all the face painters in the US/Canada, I wanted to let you know how you can increase your bookings as a face painter and childrens entertainer to make more money and to grow your business. I just received an email from Rick Buckholz from Gigmasters.com (one of the most popular online live entertainment booking services with over 200,000 users within the United States and Canada).

Rick told me that Gigmasters are currently having a sale on where you can save 50% off until Thursday 31st July 2008!

You can sign-up today and begin receiving leads in your area right away for as little as $29.50 for 3 months (less than $10 a month), after the 50% discount.  There are no hidden fees, and they don’t automatically recharge you after your membership expires either.

To Sign-Up, Click Here to Go to the Sign Up Page.

At the end of the registration process, on the billing information page, insert the coupon code: DEALS
to receive your 50% off savings.

It’s completely risk free. They offer a 30-day, 100% money back guarantee on all Memberships. You can contact them personally for a full refund, right away if you’re not satisfied or haven’t received any gigs within the first 30 days.

Remember the 50% coupon code is the word: DEALS 

I highly recommend you advertise your services on Gigmasters if you live in the US/Canada….first of all, you can’t go wrong because there’s a 100% money back guarantee but I doubt you’ll need to use it. From an internet marketing point of view I know that you will get exposed to a tonne of targeted traffic if you use their service, they’re all over the search engines which means people looking for face painting in your area are extremely likely to find Gigmasters.com and find your contact details so go ahead and sign up before Thursday 31st July 2008!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli 

Hey guys, I found this short video that has some great tips about keeping your face painting area clean. Parents don’t want their kids to be painted by a messy artist, they want to be sure that your face painting is clean and safe right?
Well then, Watch the video and apply the techniques!

(Video by Stacey Parzik)

Leave a comment to tell us what you think or to share some of your own cleaning tips

Have a great weekend! 

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Click here to learn face painting designs for a birthday party or festival!

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Face Painting Tips”
Sent in by Kari Ivey

I am Kari Ivey from Huntington Beach, California, USA.

*I recommend that you get a business license as many organizations like you to have this before you can be hired.

*I use Snazaroo paint cakes. I like the variety of colors although I find that some colors react to heat and change consistency such as pale green, and black. I pop them into the refrigerator and this helps to reset them.

*Glitter gels may smudge your design, so I find that using Snazaroo sparkle colors over the matte colors leaves a similar effect, as well as shimmer powders, or loose glitter.

*I find that the best place to practice is on my thigh! I find that painting on the arms and hands of small children is best because they like to see the design. When you paint their faces, they tend to “follow” your brush with their eyes and this results in a difficult job!!

*To preserve the shape of my brushes, I roll them in the paints as I load, rotating the brush between my thumb and forefinger.

*I present a photo album of my work, as well as my entire palette when I paint because it attract people to my table. “The Princess Glove” is an easy and popular piece that I do for girls (even women like it!). Questions?? please email me at kciechoski@socal.rr.com
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Thank you for sending this in Kari, those are some mighty fine face painting tips, and beautiful designs too! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of July when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here. 

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Click here for face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions?  

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“First Face Painting”
Sent in by Jan Volkmann

I’m hooked!  After downloading Philadelphia’s e-book and watching her tutorials, I knew I had to give this craft a try!  I was asked to do face painting at a Independance Day celebration July 13, and admitted needing some instruction.  I’ve painted on lots of surfaces, but never on faces! 

I ordered the Snazaroo cake paints and couldn’t wait to get started.  I found it’s one thing to paint on my own steady hand or a glass plate, and quite another to paint on a mobile 7-year-old.  But my granddaughter Hope allowed me to “practice” on her, and the attached photo shows the result of my first attempt.

Thanks to a great website and fantastic tutorials, with a little more practice I think I can do it! 

Jan Volkmann

Mosinee, WI

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Thank you for sending this in Jan, an amazing first attempt and beautiful designs! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of July when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here. 

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Click here for face painting designs  with step-by-step with photos and instructions?  

The following is an entry sent in for our monthly Silly Farm Supplies Competition!

“Face Painting in South Africa”
Sent in by Sarah

Hi! My name is Sarah, I work as a missionary in South Africa. I got in to face painting a few years ago. We started out doing face painting for underprivileged children and now we use it a lot as a fund raiser for our work.

Recently I felt that I needed to upgrade my face painting so therefor I started to search the web for idea’s.  I’m so happy I did as I found this very inspiring Blog  with so many tips  etc. and I can see a big improvement in my face painting. I would like to thank everyone involved in giving tips and especially the video tutorials.

Thanks again!

Keep up the good work it’s a big help for many, I’m sure!

Bye!
Sarah 

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Thank you for sending this in Sarah, great designs! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of July when I announce the winner. To find out more and enter the face painting Silly Farm contest click here. 

Please leave a comment if you want to ask questions, or just want to offer encouragement!

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.S Learn how to face paint, with our step-by-step face painting designs  photos and instructions now! 

Here’s another 4th July Video tutorial for the Americans watching my blog, Heather from SillyFarm.com also made this video - it’ll show you how to paint an arm design…Enjoy

Please leave comments to tell me what you think!
(Leaving comments gets you into the draw for a $10 Gift Certificate from SillyFarm Supplies)

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Click here for more simple face painting designs with video tutorials!

I’m from Australia, but I know that there are alot of Americans watching my blog, so I thought I’d post this video that Heather from SillyFarm.com did recently for the 4th of July Celebrations in the USA…Enjoy

Please leave comments to share what you thought about the video!
(Leaving comments gets you into the draw for a $10 Gift Certificate from SillyFarm Supplies)

Happy Face Painting,

Philadelphia Tivoli
P.s Want more simple face painting designs with video tutorials? Click here Now.

Here are the details for face painting courses, classes and events that are happening around the world in July 2008. If you’re holding face painting courses and classes yourself or you know of face painting courses/classes that are coming up (that aren’t listed here), then email me and I’ll have them posted asap:
i n f o (at) f a c e p a i n t i n g t i p s (dot) c o m

And if you want to learn face painting from home,
then download one of our face painting courses at
www.FacePaintingTips.com today!  

Saturday, July 5 2008 - Sunday, July 6 2008
Festival of Colors
Freiburg Germany

This festival offers an opportunity to show the public that painting faces means more than cheek designs, yeah, it can be art. So we started this competition in 2006 with a mixture of pro-contests and school-contests. We decided to support teenagers and had them compete in their own contests in order to raise a new generation of facepainters that has a new and “innocent” approach. Additional Details can be found at Event Website: www.festivalderfarben.de/english/eindex.html
eMail festival@schminktopf.de

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Here are the competition winners:

The $50 Gift Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies
for the Best Author goes to:

Marilyn for her entry: Face Painting Designs Practice Photos - SF Competition! Congratulations Marilyn…great work, keep it up, can’t wait to see more! You will be receiving your gift certificate very soon!

The $10 Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies
for the Best Commenter goes to:

Debbie aka Daisy. Congratulations Debbie, thank you for leaving helpful and informative comments on the blog. You will be receiving your gift certificate very soon!

Thank you all again for participating, your stories have been helpful to more people than you think! You can start sending in your entries for the July Competition and ofcourse keep making comments right away!

**IMPORTANT**…For July, I’d like to see some different kinds of entries than before. I want more entries with:  

* Helpful tips and face painting techniques, 
* Your opinions on different face paints, brushes, powders, glitter, like product reviews etc
* Helpful info for the business side of face painting.
* Face Painting photos and stories…

And I want you to send in more photos, or even video if you can, that would be awesome!

To get all the info on the competition click on this link: Silly Farm Competition.

Happy Face Painting

Philadelphia Tivoli
Learn face painting designs by clicking here with step by step photos and instructions!