I thought this was a funny twist from a non-face painter’s point of view:

Rainbow Cake

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The pay-as-you-go plan was turning out to be too expensive for us so we signed up for an honest to goodness smartphone.

Now I can check email when I’m upstairs!  (Don’t act like that isn’t a big deal – because it is.  I promise you.)

We need some chair chatter so we don’t look like absorbed artists (double unintentional alliteration).

Here are 9 Conversation Starters for when you don’t really know what to talk about:

1. “Sooooo… what’s it like in high school?” (to a 6 year old)
2. “Hi!  What’s your name?”   ” …George.“  “Oh, George?  Hey!  That was my name when I was a little boy too!”  (Female painter)
3. “Do you have any brothers or sisters at home?  Are they older or younger?”  (If Older)  “Do they still smell funny?”  (If Younger)  “Do you still have to babysit?”  (If middle kid)  “Awesome!  Do you like being in the middle?”
4.  “Do you have any pets at home?  Do you take good care of them?”  What color etc…
5. (while painting a tiger) “You know, my tiger at home goes ‘ROOOAR!’   What does your tiger say?”
6. “Who is your favorite princess?”
7. “Are you married yet??  Is he your husband??”  (point to daddy)
8.  “Do you have a girlfriend yet?”  “No!!!! “  “Oh.. so you’re married already???  Boy, you look a little young.”
9.  (while painting a puppy) “My puppy at home says “mooooo”.  Does your puppy say that?”

And to that end, I dislike blog posts w/o pictures so here is a recent one:

Do you have a special funny phrase you whip out when you are face painting?  Let me know in the comments :)

All that running and throwing and running and swinging… after the first inning, I am done!  I’m spent.  My legs just give up on me.

My problem?  Oh… I forgot to warm up.

Hey, Michelle, this is a Face Painting Blog… get back on topic!

Ok, ok – I just needed a little sympathy for my aching torso/limbs/entire body.

Getting back to Face Painting, this is an important lesson to remember.  The birthday kid/CEO’s kid/ VIP’s kid is almost always first in my chair.  And I used to get so nervous… where was my warm up face?!

So now I keep some of my almost empty pots of black and white and a rainbow cake aside from my kit and I paint my face right before I head out for gigs.  A few swirls and curls and my warm up is done!

Oh, but in case I’m feeling a little shakey, I paint a few extra spiders, webs, wiggly cracks and squiggles on my legs too.  Good thing I always wear long pants…

I would, and have, put all of these elements together in designs.  I just like thinking about them as individual lovely things as well.

The end.

Art.  Without Any Messy

Long Term Commitments.

and we will ignore your words.

three lines work better.