Archive for April, 2010

A is for Alice on Anzac Day

Posted on Apr 25, 2010 07:59:19 PM

I thought I’d do an “A” based facepaint. Potentially with a view to doing the rest of the letters of the alphabet too. Now, it’s Anzac Day today, so it occurred to me that I should probably do an Anzac Day facepaint, maybe with poppies or soldiers or some such thing.
Unfortunately, that only occurred to me this morning,so I’m going to be an unpatriotic wench and do Alice in Wonderland instead.  It took me a while but I finally came up with a design I liked  which is definitely “Alice in Wonderland” and also fits reasonably well on a face.

I took photos from different angles and it actually scared me a bit because the smile follows you…

Happy Anzac Day everyone.

Mehndi, facepaint style

Posted on Apr 20, 2010 01:42:00 PM

I love learning new skills, so I was pretty excited when I got an email from a lovely lady organising a Bollywood party for her daughter. She wanted temporary Mehndi designs for the young guests.

I have seen mehndi before and been fascinated by the intricacy of the designs, but I never thought to try it in paint.  It turns out that it takes quite a while to produce those whole hands / arms /feet that they do for brides.  However, we came up with a few simplified ideas that we could apply to the party guests in the standard five minutes.  It was a hit!  I think I may add “Pretendi Mehndi” to my repetoire!