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Here are the competition winners: 

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

Erin Wainwright for her entry: Erin’s Face Painting Tips - SF Competition! Congratulations Erin …awesome work, keep it up, and we can’t wait to see more! You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week.

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

Nancy Gervais! Great commentary and thank you very much for continuing to participate! You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week!

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 October Competition and, of course, keep making comments right away!

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!

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

“Face Painting Experience” - SF Competition
Sent in by “Miss Sparkle” the Clown

A bad experience can be a learning experience. 

I am a clown and was hired to do a birthday party for a friend I work with for his 5 year old daughter and her friends.  The day before I had started putting together an extra face painting kit so that if I ever had a large party and needed someone to help me I would have a spare kit.  Each kit is in an identical brightly colored tub.  The only difference was that my kit had my paint set in it and the other kit had everything else but no paint kit.  Both tubs have a handle so I can easily carry them and they are lightweight and not too bulky.

Well the day of the party I loaded my car with everything I would need to do balloons, magic and facepainting, including my face painting kit (or so I thought). (more…)

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

“Face Painting Display Board Ideas” - SF Competition
Sent in by Kim Baker

Hi Philadelphia- I wanted to show my display boards.  I got the ideas from other face painters.  I used a black board 30″x40″ (76×102cm) that is about a 1/4″ thick.  My mother picked them up at Office Depot I think.  Then I laminated my pictures using Self- Adhesive Laminating Sheets (also bought there).  No laminator needed. 

Then I velcroed the backs of the pics and attached them to the board.  Since I am new at painting, I cannot always remember how I painted something.  This way, the child, takes the pic off and hands it to me so I can reference it.  When I am done I stick it back on. 

I have 3 of these boards- they each hold 25 4×6 pics.  Then I have a cheek art display.  I bought a piece of white poster board, I painted cheek art samples on this board and then I took it to a print shop to get laminated for about $5.

Other ideas……I LOVE DaVinci Soap to clean my brushes.  You wet the brush and stroke the bar of soap back and forth and the color keeps coming off.  It’s wonderful!  I also heard Ivory Soap works well but have not tried it- I am sure it is cheaper.  I just keep my soap in a plastic soap box.  Also, here are 2 recent pics I did.
 
Kim Baker
www.PartyFacePaint.com

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Thank you for sending this in Kim Baker, great to hear from you again! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of September 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 Tips” - SF Competition
Sent in by Erin Wainwright

My name is Erin, elementary teacher and face painter located in Montréal, Canada! Since I wrote on your Blog last, my small business has picked up and I am actually doing quite a lot of work! Since I started off quite small, with very little money, I’ve decided to divulge how I got my small enterprise up and running.

SAFETY FIRST!!!

I searched the net and learned as much as I could about safety. Being a teacher has taught me a lot about liability, and since children are most often who we paint, you can never be too careful.  

I spoke to my bank and found out that I could purchase public liability insurance through them. I did not start taking jobs until I knew I was fully insured.

I learned what paints were safe to use, and how to properly clean my brushes and sponges. I use a mild anti-bacterial soap on my tools; I make sure that everything is COMPLETELY DRY before putting it away for long periods of time. 

MARKETING!!!

Since I was starting off on my own, I did not actually have heaps of money to invest. I began researching free advertising sites that would allow me to post pictures and contact information for free. I found the following websites extremely helpful! craigslist.ca , kijiji.ca , mypartyplanner.com , eclassifieds4u.com , classifieds.ivarta.com , olx.ca , classifiedads.com , isell.com , buysellcommunity.com , canadianbusinessdirectory.ca , partypop.com , peoplefield.org , ifind.ca .

To figure what to charge my clients… (more…)

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

“Face Painting Asleep” - SF Competition
Sent in by Natalee Farrugia

Hi my name is Natalee, I am a mum with two young boys who has been face painting for about a year and a half now. I love your tips and look forward to all your blogs.

I would like to tell you a story about a beautiful little girl aprox 18 months of age who sat down to get her face painted. With each stroke of my brush her little head got heavier and heavier in my hand and before I went to dip my brush in to get some more colour, this gorgeous little girl was fast asleep in my hand.

I have had several comments on how nice it feels to have your face painted but this is a new technique mums could try at home to relax young kids…(my tips are good quality soft brushes and WARM water) and in winter I like to warm my paints up a little by soaking my paint pallet in really hot water before I begin.

I also LOVE using starblend white powder with a (wet) foundation brush for my tiger designs it looks fantastic (see pic attached)… I am loving every minute of face painting and am looking forward to learning more and more.

Natalee Farrugia
Fancy Faces
68 Ridgecrop Drive
CASTLE HILL NSW 2154
ph: 02 9634 8119
mob: 0414 505 982
www.LittleGrippers.com.au 

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Thank you for sending this in Natalee, thats a beautiful story, boy i can understand how easy it would be to fall asleep while being painted, its sooo relaxing! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of September 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!

Okay, this month was quite hard to pick between authors… so I added another prize just for this month! So, there are 2 authors I want to give a prize to, one will win $50 Gift Certificate from Silly Farm Supplies and one will win FacePaintingTips.com’s very own GOLD Cheek Art & Full Face Designs Guides Package! Here are the competition winners: 

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

Kim Baker for her entry: Face Painting Retreat! Congratulations Kim… great work and beautiful designs! Well Done. You will be receiving your gift certificate very soon.

*The Special August “GOLD Cheek Art & Full Face Designs Guides Package”* for the Best Author goes to:

Harmony Roth Shabtai for her entry “My Fun in Austria”! I loved this entry, you have some AMAZING designs, your tips for going to workshops were great, thanks for sharing what the wolfe bros. workshop was like and I’d love to see more entries like this one, well done!!!  

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

Red Herring! Congratulations, thank you for leaving such a thought provoking comment about face painting and child psychology. 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 September Competition and ofcourse keep making comments right away!

**IMPORTANT**…For September, 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!

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

“My Fun in Austria” - SF Competition
Sent in by Harmony Roth Shabtai

Face painting is always on my mind, so this year when I went to compete in Austria, I took 2 face painting workshops, and they were very nice.

 It seems that the most important colors are black (for shading) and white (for highlight)- that’s what can make or brake your design.

At the Wolfe brothers workshop- which was amazing- I learned much more about monster faces, and how it’s important to consider the morphology of the face when doing face painting. I also got the great tip of keeping butterflies small- that way you get the same result of a happy child but it takes less time, and Nick also painted my face as the Troll princess for the party that took place that night.

Then, at the fantasy workshop for advanced face painters, I learned of new ways to do blending and some more monster designs.

My Tips for Workshop are These:
-always bring a paper and a pen and write anything new- so you can look at it later.
-try to bring a camera to take pictures.
-experience and be braver- the workshop is a good place to practice any new technique. Try new color combinations and new products so you can decide what’s right for you.
-look at the process rather than the result. Try to look at blending and line technique, and fish for parts of the design you like. You can merge teardrops from 1 design, color combinations from another one, and details from a third design to come up with a new design of your own.
-look at the workshop as a place that can boost your creativity, and look at the techniques of the other participants as well, if you can. You can always learn from anyone, so keep your eyes open.
-If you have something you’d like to learn- ask the teacher and don’t be shy.
Learning by the web is nice, but when you see it in reality, it boosts confidence and creativity, at least for me.
Of course the festival was such an amazing experience, and I was happy to go to the finals of brush and sponge. As last year the face painting competition was great and the bodypainting competition includes facepainting as well, so there were a lot of interesting creations.

Happy painting.

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Thank you for sending this in Harmony, great to hear from you again! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of August 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!

“Erin’s Face Painting”
Sent in by Erin E. Wainwright

Hi Philadelphia! 

I’m an elementary teacher who has been face painting for around 10 years now. I had always done it as a volunteer in daycares, campgrounds and schools, but this year I decided to try it out as a business.

 I can’t begin to explain how much I’m enjoying myself! I’ve always loved transforming little faces into bunnies, monsters and butterflies, but now that I’m face painting more regularly, I’m learning so much! I am taking online workshops, watching videos and learning many new techniques!

 I have to say that your website as well as Sillyfarm’s has been inspirational for me, I feel as though I’ve finally found my passion and I am eternally grateful to people such as yourself for all the help you offer online!

 Sincerely,

 Erin E. Wainwright

Maquillage Faceforward Facepainting
Montreal, Québec Canada
514-603-0692
erin@erinwainwright.ca
www.erinwainwright.ca

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Thank you for sending this in Erin, great to hear from you! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of August 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 Retreat”
Sent in by Kim Baker

I just took a face painting class taught by Jodi Carr in Virginia 2 weekends ago and had the most incredible time!  Myself and 6 other women absorbed everything Jodi had to say and demonstrate for 2 full days. 

What heaven to have 2 days straight of nothing but face painting!  We stayed overnight at Carol Turman’s house who hosted the class and jammed that night.  I plan to make it a yearly retreat, if not more!  Here are a few pics of what I painted today on my kids based on what Jodi demo’d.  I have a bunch more to try this week- if I can get my kids to sit still  long enough! 

The biggest trick I learned, yet soooooo simple is how to make a perfect teardrop: really load the brush (I had not been taking several swipes), twirl as you load to make a fine tip, start with the tip every so lightly touching down and then add pressure directly down- it makes a great shaped tear drop.  I had been dragging my brush along into the tear drop shape, when all it really needed was a press downwards (brush is perpendicular to skin).
 
I started face painting for fun last November, starting with Philadelphia’s great ebook.  I have done a handful of bday parties and am getting ready to dive in a bit more.  I work part-time from home and have 2 small kids, so finding the time to paint is the trick!  It is my new great love.

Kim Baker
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Thank you for sending this in Kim, beautiful designs and some great tips! I’ll be posting the rest of the entries until the end of August 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!

Here are the competition winners: 

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

Kari Ivey for her entry: Face Painting Tips - SF Competition! Congratulations Kari …great work, keep it up, can’t wait to see more! I really loved all the great face painting tips and info that you shared with everybody. Well Done. You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week.

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

Mrs. Bunny, The Clown! Congratulations, I couldn’t give this to anybody else, you’ve left so many informative comments and helped people who have been asking questions on the blog so thank you very much for continuing to participate! You will be receiving your gift certificate within the next week!

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 August Competition and ofcourse keep making comments right away!

**IMPORTANT**…For August , 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!