What is your weirdest request?

I thought it would be fun to hear what the weirdest request everyone has had from the kids they paint. What was your weirdest?

Mine was a peeled banana. Wish i had gotten a pic.

Carey Emory

mating dragons, dont think that wasnt a challenge to paint it, and yet make it look like they were just playing in mid flight so i didnt get tossed in jail

a(full face) rainbow globe, a dragon frying a chicken, a toilet, a dirtbike helmet(full face,) a (full face) praying mantis....

I get a lot of weird requests because I don't carry around a choices sheet. I just let the kids tell me what they want and I do it... so yea. sometimes they think of really weird things!

Dragon frying a chicken, wow.
I had a thirteen year old boy ask for a half tiger/half butterfly face. It turned out cool, but as soon as his dad saw it he made him wash it off.

My strangest so far was a rainbow villain. I do wish I had taken a picture. I was stressing about it but it turned out great.
Ashley, yours are great! I would love to see what you came up with!

Bingo Dauber

A corn bread, Mc Donalds sign with seagulls, Spawn... :p

The other weekend, I had my first real penis request from a teenager who was trying to act cool in front of his friends. :p Of course, I didn't do it as this was a family event, duh.

The word 'Bakugan' across a boys forehead. He had to spell it for me as I'd never heard of it...(he told me 'you've probably never heard of it)...I was worried it was something weird so I had to confirm with someone else it wasn't a swear word in another language or something. Since then I found out it is kinda like 'transformers', just a kids game/toy thing. I have girls!

Also had a boy ask for what I call 'Barbie eyes' which I changed to 'Ken eyes' and just didn't do the 'eye makeup' and lashes portion to make them more manly. Turned out pretty funny actually. If he hadn't asked I never would of thought of making them 'guy friendly'.
Barbie eyes:

Ken eyes:

Too funny! I don't have any yet, but the best was silver brass knuckles, with a huge emerald where the ring finger would go. It's the logo of the Circle City Socialites, a roller derby team, and I painted it on a derby girl. She was awesome.
But it's a shame my photog didn't get a good pic of the work! I was super proud of it!

I love the dragon frying chicken! Maybe for the next weekly challenge, we should pick something from this list!

hahah I had the same question for the other forum...lol

mine would have to be a flying helicopter-pig-cow.
it had a helicopter body - cow spots and utters, a pig face and little pig tail.

Wow, that's some crazy stuff. The kids I paint better pick off the board, lol!!

Mine was a "Dead snake, in a pool of blood". This wouldn't be half strange coming from a boy, but this request was from a 9 year old little girl.

Today I had 4 hamster requests, saber-tooth tiger and a little girl who sobbed when I told her I couldn't do a real henna design because I only brought paint with me. Good day

I've had a hamster request a time or two - I don't consider it wierd.

melisadill wrote:Wow, that's some crazy stuff. The kids I paint better pick off the board, lol!!

hahahahaha I'm with ya on that one!!!

if you have a board, you have the option of telling them, "I haven't learned that one yet, could you pick from one of these?"

I have sample pictures and I still get some odd requests. I make the decision on the spot as to whether or not I'm willing to try something or not.

I'd say the weirder ones for me are when they ask if I can paint them like a character or actor that's just a person with no real distinguishing characteristics... like, no I can't make you look like another person. And at my last big event there were two kids that both wanted the Lebanese Flag on their face... I said, I don't know what it looks like and doesn't their dad have it as the wallpaper on his cell phone?

Going off menu is my favorite! Or, it is when I'm not super busy and can work out something on the fly. Keeps those creative juices flowing... You don't know you can't do an elephant until you've tried.

If im asked to do something that i don't know, I usually ask them to provide a photo of it, the down side of that is when they whip out a cell phone with the image they want done and I still can't do it. For example a photo of their boy friend, all taken in half light with blury moncrome colors.

I think the weirdest was a little boy, maybe 4 yr old, wanted a door on his arm.

I know this is an old thread but I just had to answer this.

I did a community 'fun day' in a local council estate and there were alot of travellers there (Irish gypsies)... the weirdest when the little girls started to ask for crosses and tombstones with the names of dead relatives

Usually uncles who'd died in feuds and car accidents and some of them had lists of four and five relatives!! And when one asked for it they all started.

creepy! My weirdest would have to be a dragon eating pudding out of a 50 gal. oil drum.... it was interesting...




Sorry the pic quality suckjs, but at least I got a pic, right?

It wasn't from a child, but a young adult (maybe a bit older than myself), and it was at a grown up festival. A girl came up and requested a willy on her face. I said yea, no bother, but was curious as to why, turns out she was bet 50 quid by "the lads" that she would't be brave enough! Turned out pretty funny!

Another time, my cousins little boy wanted to be half dog- half horse! He didn't sit still for more than a split second, so it didn't really look like either!

Someone asked me to paint a cigarrette hanging out of their mouth (an adult event, thank god)

This weekend I had someone ask if I could do a wiener dog...I said no one had ever asked, and I could add it to my To Paint list...she also seemed mildly offended that the nail artist she had do a sample on her nail, couldn't do a wiener dog. Really? A wiener dog on her nail?

Also had a girl who wanted lots of little skulls, a keyhole, key, and a line running from her chin up to the bottom of her nose for no apparent reason. Her mom and I got her to agree on one skull, keyhole, key, swirls, and lipstick with sparkles, haha.

Kids come up with the oddest requests like the one who just moved to Virgina and was homesick. He wanted Carolina Pine trees across his face! "No problem!" I said, as I love a challenge!
Little did anyone know that I am a Certified Bob Ross Instructor and created the trees with a fan brush over a sunset base with two little "m" birds in the traditional wet-on-wet technique that also works great with face paint. Wish I had time to get a photo during that gig!