Hello from Czech Republic in Europe

Welcome!

Welcome to the Forum!
I have used the Mehron metallic gold and metallic silver powders mixed into my regular gold and the silver to give it more "zing".
You can mix a little metallic powder into any color to make it metallic.
Happy Painting!

Thank you Lisa,
when comes my Mehron powder, I'll try it by your advice.

Currently I am sad and disappointed. After so many years of painting I decided to have a head for the training.
Some people say that it's a wasted investment. And I know that some colors are washed from the skin badly (red, green, some blue), so I was afraid of how the training will be washed out of the head.


And now I can not wash out the color! :-(
Fortunately, I only tried it in the neck and on back side.
And not on the face, but some can not wash or water separators or alcohol.
Does anyone have experience? What it can be removed?
I wrote to manufacturers and suppliers waiting for his advice and answer.
If it does not work, head back immediately.
I enclose photos of colors and extra testing after washing.
Left and right colors Snazaroo Eulenspiegel.
Worst hit green, blue and red (6 color of Eulenspiegel a 2 of Snazaroo).

Hi and Welcome!
I had this problem too, but after I sprayed the head with hairspray really well before painting, every time I use the head, it's coming off great.
Happy painting!

Hello l!zzie,
thanks for you advise.
I will try it this afternoon and I hope it will ok.
What brand of paint do you use?


I placed photo of bodypaintinf to the gallery.
Facepainting will be next

Also, Nail Polish Remover, or Acetone removes most stains from my practice head.
The practice head was designed to practice on... it is okay to get it stained, in my opinion. It means that I have been practicing!

As for training,
I took my first training class last year for the first time, and I have been face painting for over 14 years. I got a lot out of it. The best part was making new friends to jam with. You may not retain all the information right away. You may find yourself remembering a small tip or trick when you are in a tough spot (like running out of a Metallic Pink Color, run your sponge through gold, then your pink, to create your own metallic pink color. Thank you Lynn McKay for that tip).
I took a Wolfe Brothers' seminar in February, and I learned more from Nick Wolfe making an observation how I make my swirls. Nick Wolfe watched me make a swirl, told me what I was currently doing, and what to do to make my paint stroke better, in one simple sentence.

The other thing to do is Practice Practice Practice. For a while I challenged myself to do 100 tear drops a day. Then, two summers ago, I played "Brush Roulette" by blindly picking up any paintbrush and attempting to make a teardrop and a swirl with ANY brush. Some brushes suck.
I am learning so much from this Forum. I learn something new almost every day from these artists.

Happy Painting!

Sample of yesterday painting on myself :-D

welcome!

Yehaa, I know it is off topic... But Im so happy!

This is gift for my name-day :-D
Its skunk orphan, 8 weeks old.
Flash because he have something like "flash" on his head.

(We have 1 year old skunk girl from may 2011. Named Fuchsia.)

Seekorka !! LOVE Flash and Fuchsia !! I have always wanted a pet skunk ... they are soooo beautiful !! I have a wild one that spends the odd night curled up on my patio and he has never had his tail up yet. (lucky for me!)

Very good tiger face !! Keep pictures coming !

Hi IpokaueyeFlash still drinks milk from a bottle.

Fuchsia is a really big girl. Unfortunately, wild heat, hormonal problems... After castration was she aggressive and bites us. Much evil. Since we have a flash home, Fuchsia bit tame, and she was nicer. fewer bites. I hope it will be ok at all.

At else we have 2 adult sugargliders and their 2 babies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MufIStyuAZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qlffOwf-4g

And Microcebus murinus, in english it was Grey lemur mouse, one pair. (It was the same animal like Mort, frm Madagascar cartoon movie).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrj_68DPwKw

This is Fuchsia :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEhEtAoLbHU


And with my boy friend Lukas

Hi Seekorka,
I had a practice skin that got badly stained from face paint and I rubbed the staines off with vegetable oil. I had to rub quite hard.

Maybe if you use the vegetable oil to clean the practice head and then spray it with the hair spray.

So, I became convinced to stay only at painting on the people.
Not on the canvas. It's disproportionate, too much big eye, ugly nose :-D Not satisfied. But it was a nice change and relaxation.
And I painted it with Snazaroo :-D



Inspired by bodypainting competition - Championship of CZ.

That's beautifull!!! I actually love the eyes you made, I never get the eyes that pretty...

Thank you Tineke, its nice to read it

Actually, about the stains on the practice head, they may come out with the hairspray as well.
Rollerbal stains come off with hairspray from almost every surface, so worth a try...