Face Painting and Body Painting, there’s a difference
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 09:34:00 PM
I entered the New Zealand Body Art Awards! So of course, now I’m panicking. It’s what I do. Last weekend I was at a workshop on body painting by the lovely Yolanda from BodyFx. I got some very handy hints, and somehow became convinced that I can switch from painting small faces to painting entire grown up people! Ack!
I found some brilliant new products to play with. I decided against the glue on loose velvet tattoos (photo right, because it’s pretty) just because of the time involved in waiting for the glue to dry. For some reason I’m usually going flat tack when I’m working so I only want things that can go on immediately, no waiting. It’s a shame because I can see kids loving the soft fuzzy texture. If you can keep it dry, it lasts for several days too. Most people who touched the flower tattoo I did on myself thought it was neat, only one friend went “ewwww, you feel mouldy! Like old cheese” I figure there’s a girl needs to clean out her fridge more often. 
I ended up buying the DiamondFX palette BodyFx sells. It’s gorgeous. The gold, blue and green especially. Vibrant, metallic and iridescent. Beautiful colors. The red is more of a dark pink. It’s gonna be great for butterflies, flowers and princesses at parties. Unfortunately, it won’t work for my Body Art Awards idea. For that I need the proper Chinese bright red, which is a yellow base red, I think. Hmmmm… problems problems.