Learn How to Face Paint With Lightening Speed!
By Philadelphia Tivoli

No child, or adult wants to wait for hours as you paint their face, no matter how good the designs is. So, if you're learning how to face paint, you'll definitely need to learn how to face paint fast!

You want to become faster at facepainting so you can paint the most amount of faces possible with the time you have. You want to see as many kids smiles as possible, and let’s not forget if you’re charging per face, you’ll make allot more money if you’re quicker!

Well, here are 5 great tips to help you learn how to face paint with lightening speed:

1. Keep it Simple!
Choose easy face painting designs that only use 5 colors or less, or designs that only have 5 steps/layers or less.

If the designs you have learned how to face paint are complicated, then simplify their look. You may find that they even look better once simplified! Just paint the most important parts, and don’t get carried away with details. Trust me, sometimes…less is more! Remember that children are usually just happy enough to get their faces painted, they don’t care so much that you didn’t go into extreme intricate detail.

2. Focus on 10 Designs and Practice, Practice, Practice!
Especially if you've only begun to learn how to face paint, focus on 10 designs, maybe 5 that girls will definitely like then 5 for the boys. And then….practice, practice, and more practice! Along the way, you’ll find your own time saving techniques that work for you personally and develop some serious skills!

If you’re finding it hard to get hold of models to paint on (your family and friends have become sick of being painted) then why don’t you buy a plastic manikin to practice on? They’re easy to clean and they don’t fidget or complain either!

You’ll get tonnes of practice out of them and become a speedy face painter in no time!

3. Color Preparation
Once you’ve picked a set of 10 designs to focus on, make note of which colors each design uses. Then make sure to have all those colors ready before you start facepainting. This might mean, you’ll have to premix colors. This kind of preparation saves a lot of time, so you can learn how to face paint faster!

4. Stock Up on Brushes
Discover how to face paint faster and stock up on brushes. Try to have one brush for each color. Could you imagine if you only used one brush and you were washing it every two seconds between different colors? It would take you forever! The more brushes you have the quicker you’ll be.

5. Don’t be a Perfectionist!
Now, sometimes I’m guilty of being a perfectionist not just in facepainting but in everyday life. And the thing about being a perfectionist is you can pretty much never succeed (because nobody’s perfect) and even if you do, you’ll take forever trying!

As a face painter, especially in the beginning when you're learning how to face paint, you really can’t afford to be a perfectionist.

A child doesn't want to sit there for hours upon hours while you perfect every last detail of the design. And anyway, what you think is not perfect, or not the best you can do doesn’t matter because of one simple reason. It doesn’t matter to the child! Remember that you’re your own harshest critic. What you think is ‘not up to scratch’ will probably still put a smile on a kids face anyway.

So don’t your waste time, (and the child's and parents time) by perfecting things that they won’t even notice or care about.

This is not to say you should get lazy and sloppy now! Do your best, but don’t get carried away with the little things that only the eye of a critical face painter can see.

So, apply what you've read and learn how to face paint with lightening speed!

About the Author:
Philadelphia Tivoli is the Founder of FacePaintingTips.com and has taught hundreds of people how to face paint with her ebook "The Comprehensive Guide to Face Painting" which has 50 face painting designs with step-by-step photos, instructions and all the tips, techniques and tricks used by professional face painters. Grab your copy today and/or check out her free face painting lessons! Click here to learn how to face paint