Falling Glitter

[Str8eeth]

I just spent 3 days painting faces for Halloween School Parties, Neighborhood parties, Work parties and Halloween night itself.  I havent' been doing this long enough to know HOW TO MAKE THE GLITTER STICK?  We went to DisneyLand a few years ago (before I had even thought about face painting) and the little girls got their faces painted and the glitter was still on that night after being in the park ALL DAY!  I didn't pay attention to what they used or how they did ANYTHING.....can someone PLEASE educate me on how to make glitter stay on the paint?  Thanks...........

[mrsito]

glitter gel maybe?  i've seen videos from michigan face painters and curlie's face art and they apply the glitter shortly after they put on whatever color paint so that the paint was still not completely dry...so if you want your butterfly to have glitter along the pink shade, you would do the pink, then glitter, then the other color, then glitter and so on...it frustrated me too during my first attempts to put glitter on the faces i've painted, but i think it was because by the time i was done with the line work and the highlights, majority of the paint on the design was already dry and the glitter couldn't stick to the dry skin as well as i wanted it too...

[MandiIlene]

I mostly use the Liquid Bling glitter gel now, but I have in the past used a dry glitter in a poof type application, but you have to add it when the paint is still wet, or the other method is the stick in the pot of glitter method and alot of people do that too, dipping the end of a brush into a glitter pot then kinda rolling it over the design, but I still think it would work better if some of it was wet.

glitter video?

~*~Mandi~*~

[Rtistik]

I dip my finger in the pot and rub it on the skin once the paint is dry, I have also used the brush to dab it on.