I had 2 events yesterday and had to go from one to the next. I took a change of shirts, because I knew it'd be pretty risky to assume I could stay free of face paint. It was so hot too.
The first one was outside and my black was gooping up and getting all over my hand. I was pretty careful, but still ended up with a few tiny spots on my shirt, but mostly tiny white smudges on my pants. The children in one family kept taking my mirror, so I decided when the last boy took it, that'd I'd put it out of sight as soon as he set it down. He ended up holding it FOREVER. I'd painted him as Ironman and he kept gazing and gazing at himself.
After that I headed to my next event. Stopped for a quick lunch and changed my shirt and I was good to go.
It was a McDonalds. When I first arrived, they had face painting already setup. It was an employee using Palmers. It wasn't pretty! At first I was wondering if they were set up to help me out with the face painting. It ended up being that they thought the caricature artist was coming, so they were going to do the face painting.
I had a good time at this one and kept steady busy. Some teenage boys got in my line and one boy kept saying things like, "I'm getting the heart puppy. " He even warned one boy that if he didn't let him take his turn, then he wouldn't get the heart puppy. The boy wouldn't give up his turn, so then the boy switched to saying he was getting the heart rainbow. Guess what he actually ended up with after all this talk of girly designs throughout his wait in my line? The Joker.
Anyone else with strategies for getting to your next event fresh and clean?
