Face Painting Ideas for All Adult/Blacklight Face Painting?

I'm pretty new to face painting and I've just gotten the hang of doing kid's birthday parties, but today I got a call for a woman's birthday party at a bar/lounge. She says she wants it done with the uv reactive paint which I don't have on hand so she offered to buy it. I'm a bit worried because this is a bit out of my realm. Most of the images I've seen look too complicated for an event such as this. Anyone have any adult-friendly designs that'll look great under the blacklight and possible to do in under 6 minutes?

I do the same tigers, butterflies, masks, etc. Remember, black makes great dividing lines in your design. I have dfx uv paints & they make great bases, but not good linework.
The white, yellow, orange, green, & pink look great under black light. Purple & blue are very lacking(these colors have been discontinued & are not true UV anymore).
Other's might have more info(I've only played w/ blacklight & never done a gig).

I'm actually going to be doing UV painting at a friend's stag and doe laser tag party in a couple of weeks. Tigers, skulls, flames, fancy eye designs, eye balls, birds... you won't have many asking for cartoon characters, but most of your usual stuff will be fine. I have a Kryolan UV palette and while the colours look kind of translucent under normal lighting, they show up well under black lights.

my advice is to have a hand held black light close by while painting... It really helps to see how things are going especially with the white which is impossible to see without a black light. You don't have any neon colored DFX paint?

I don't use DFX (I'm allergic to it) but you may have been talking to the original poster about that one. I didn't check it, anyone know if snaz white glows at all under black lights? There's no white in the kryolan UV palette... but I can do it without the white glowing, no big deal.

Snaz white does NOT react under black light. I might be doing a UV sugar skull party, and played around a while ago - I'll likely end up using Snaz white as a base, then DFX UV white on top so you can see it with and without black lights.

I just did this to see what colors look like what under black light. The blue isn't even noticeable(it's all along the outer edge), but the yellow, orange & pink glow nicely. I don't have any green, purple or white, so I couldn't test it.

The purple and red are Kryolan; all the rest are DFX. Excuse the glow from the TV

WOW!!! I love them!!! I wish I can get gigs using uv paints they look awesome! Thanks for sharing...

Oh wow, those look awesome. I'm thinking swirly eyes, tiger masks, hearts, shooting stars, butterflies, dragons, tribal...hm that's all I got. And nope, no neon dfx...all I have are the "essentials." I'm excited, I shall post pics. Hopefully all goes well...

Ooh thanks perry noia, i bet flames would look amazing under black light.

Kristal that looks great..... I have all the colors with the exception of white, but I don't have a black light. I may just have to invest in one know. Anyone with anyideas on which handheld one would be best??

When I paint the staff at the club I work at I do use UV colours (Wolfe and Fardel mostly). The designs are almost all freeform/abstract stuff... swirls from the eyes, down the necks into the cleavage, down the waist onto the legs... The girls all want to accentuate the "positive" IYKWIM, wink wink, nudge nudge...

we bought a black light bulb from the dollar store and put it into a desk lamp LOL

I don't mind using the UV yellow over my regular white for "white" parts of a tiger or something... no big deal for one event for now. I'd have to find an alternative to DFX/Wolfe UV white if I were going to do more than just this one time.

I tried to buy a black light bulb at the dollar store - they said they only had them around Halloween, and last year someone bought all 2 dozen of them as soon as they were on the floor.

Ended going to Spencer's at the mall, and picked up an 18" (?) black light tube for $20, and it's pretty awesome! I doodled on my arm before going, and played with the ones on display. They had the bulbs, but it sounded like they weren't very good. The one I have isn't actually handheld; it's meant to be a wall mount, but I'll use it as I see fit!

The white is pretty cool - I love that it's invisible/barely visible in regular light, haha. It stuck around for a while after washing, but hey, it's invisible!

Well, that DFX blue showed up great on Krystal... don't know why they discontinued it. I have it in my DFX Euro neon cake though. Good to know that the purple and red from Kryolan look nice!

Just so ya'll know, party city has hand held battery powered black lights for about $10, and Walmart has the big plug in bars for about $12. I would recommend looking into them before spending a lot more at Spencers.

So just did the event. First of all she decided to try to order the paints last minute (the day before) and big surprise, wasn't going to happen. So she went to party city and bought these cheap blacklight crayons/glow in the dark face gel, none of which worked. So I ended up painting boobs and thighs and chests. I went to get the money around the main "lounge" and it turns out it was some kind of strip club...very interesting...I'm dissapointed. Oh well, guess I need to buy some uv-reactive paint of my own and send out postcards to local clubs...

Sorry it didn't turn out

Sorry it didn't turn out

Sorry it didn't turn out well. I think sending out some post cards with pictures like what Kristal did would probably get some attention. Good luck!!

Thanks, no more strip clubs for me. The people were kind of scary. No one tipped other than a woman who wanted a man's .... with glitter painted on her thigh, it came out pretty realistic and funny. lol...

Wow... sorry about the crappy experience, but I'm totally inspired to try this stuff out! (not the strip club, the paint!) I think I'll get that Krylon pallet the next time I place an order to play with it... I think it would be a fun thing to offer (to the right people of course!)

I'm really looking forward to painting at this stag and doe.... apparently, when my husband mentioned it to the manager he was booking the party with, he thought it was a really cool idea. .... I HAVE emailed this place before to offer my services as an add on to their parties and never got a response, but maybe the wrong person opened the email that day. Seeing it in person might convince someone there.

I'm doing that one for free as it is a friend and it is my gift to them (my husband is best man and planning the event). Apparently my hair colour is black light reactive, so I'm planning to paint myself as a pink tiger for the event with my glowing pink hair... I'm hoping it will be a cool effect.

Perry would love to see a pic of you 'glowin'