face paint in hair?

just watched a youtube click where the lady used water activated face paints (is that different then our dxf, wolfe, snaz, and others?) and make colorful streaks in the hair--

does it work? anyone tried it?

It works. It's the same as DFX, TAG, etc. I've used it for whitening hair for old age makeup. Several others have mentioned it as well in other threads. You can also use hair chalk.

At SickKids Hospital..
I will paint some white and orange into a child's hair and add some Diamond F/X Pearl Black stripes over the other colors in the hair. I have sponged in some white, and added black polka dots in the hair for a Dalmatian. It washes out beautifully.
I have never used Wolfe Black in hair. If it stains the skin... it must stain the hair.

Happy painting!

Yes, I've painted hair often. Just not greens on blondes!!

I practiced on my youngest daughter, Holland when she was 2 years old. Holland had green and purple horizontal stripes in her hair for about a month. The yellow left a kind of yellow haze in her white blond hair.
I took those colors out of my kit. That was over 13 years ago.

Ooooh!
I can't WAIT to see what kind of a retirement home my children will pick for ME when I get old. I hope they don't remember the face painting experiments that I perpetrated upon them.

yup, i rainbow cake swipe kiddos.
It works great as hair spray!
especially those with wispy fly away hair and bangs.
plus it looks awesome!

I ask mom first of course.

Why have i never seen this before? I am exicted to do this--I have very blond kids and hair chalk really stained them, so I will see how face paints do?
Thanks all!

I used DFX neon rainbow for my son's hair on Crazy hair day at school.

Is that Havana Sunset, Suzy?

Suzy,
that looks awesome!!!
Could you please tell me which colors did you use for the cheetah face?

Yes, Havana for the hair and the cheetah is this ...http://www.facepaintforumshop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=505

Thanks!

Suzy, your link isn't working.

http://www.facepaintforumshop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=505

There we go

Love the hair streaks! I use green for my joker face and it really makes it pop. Question for those who use a split cake to create streaks: do you use a sponge or brush?

Wow! I can't wait to try this! I've been eyeballing the chalks but am not too crazy about having to use leave in conditioner under and hairspray over because I have long hair! I act in the Renaissance Festival and have been looking for alternatives to try and even if this isn't right for that, I have a mermaid concept I'm working on...

ParTIA wrote:Love the hair streaks! I use green for my joker face and it really makes it pop. Question for those who use a split cake to create streaks: do you use a sponge or brush?

Sponge.

[img]http://www.facepaintforum.com/[/img]i have used dfx neon rainbow in the hair...works really well i use a sponge

Awesome!!!

Thanks! I can't wait to try this!!

make sure your load alot in your sponge so you won't have to use the sponge on the paint again...I would use a new sponge each time you use your cake...you never know when applying things on the hair...and for your piece of mind and your clients...it looks more sanitary not to put the sponge back into the cake when painting on the hair..this is just my thinking..and prolly alot of other painters also...most of us use one sponge per kid when face painting...and we try to use enought paint to get the job done so we don't have to put the sponge back into the paint...just get a new sponge they are not that expensive...

And to think all this time i have tried to be more careful about Not getting paint on hair when painting a full face. LOL. So this gives me another item to add to my menu, thanks. Not to mention, that I have very light, white (silver ) hair ....wondering how blue wolfe will wear?

Any paint or powder that is water based, activated can go in the hair. However if hair is color treated light or dark you run a rick of staining or running their hair color. If hair is gray you run a rick of staining. And in some states you may not work on the hair. It varies state to state as what you can and can not do, this included coloring by paint, power, airbrush, color rub tints, feathers, tinsle.... One of my staff is a licensed stylist, in California touching the hair can be quite an issue.

Sweet Loretta-
Just wondering what makes California different, i live in cali and would love to be able to do this as an option. Thanks