What's your choice in paints?

[Markie]

Good choice, get away from acrylics. Heather at Silly Farm (I have no affiliation so this is just a customer recommendation) can totally hook you up - Silly Farm Supplies Inc. - face and body paints and face and body painting . I use mostly Snazaroo with Kryolan UV and Mehron Detailz, but I think they're all good products. I'm definitely wanting to try Starblend and Paradise (both by Mehron). I've heard a lot of bad things about Wolfe staining, but it's white also is supposed to have amazing coverage, something others don't.

Acrylics are bad and hard to use and itch the skin and many have allergies. Just stop now

P.S. I checked out your website. You have some facts wrong on your sound page. Normal conversational levels are around 70dB, not 60. 3dB is double or half the pressure, not 10. 10 is actually an almost 10 fold increase in pressure! Concert levels are usually PEAKING around 110 where the audience is (not counting right in front of the stage). It's stage and mosh pit levels that hit 120 and those are peaks, not sustained levels so the damage in a minute isn't true (that figure is for sustained 120dB - like a loud machine). Still, you'll get way more than a minute of exposure to those peaks during the concert

Just thought you might like to know some cool facts The 3dB doubling makes it way worse than the 10 you put on your site. 3 won't SOUND twice as loud because the human ear doesn't have a linear response curve, but 3dB IS twice as loud!

I work with a sound engineer who has an electrical engineering background and was a system designer for QSC audio, a major sound system manufacturer, so I trust what I've learned from him Hopefully it'll help you out

[Saxlampouxlas]

You are right about the db.An increase of 3 dbs means that doubles the physical quantity.I am an undergraduate student in Electrical engineering and I know it.

Let's get to the point:

I use these Mehron's grease paints ( cream make up palette ) for my clown face.----->Clown Make-Up 5 Colour Set Lowest price Free Shipping I am also looking for pencils ( or other stuff ) to make the outlines.

What do you think of them?Can they cause allergic reactions or other health problems?I think that this is one of the most used palettes in clowning.

Thanks.

[Fitzwilly]

KG, you are asking about clown makeup (grease-paint) and not the water based face painting paints that the rest of this thread is concerned with. Your paints were designed exactly for what you are using them for, so you don't have anything to be concerned about (unless you decide to eat them.)

[Markie]

Yup, like Fitzwilly said, this thread is about water-based makeup that we use on kids' faces for face painting. Few clowns use it for their own makeup (right now, I do but I'm just a very amateur playing with clowning at church and want to be able to wash my makeup off quick). Primarily because without a barrier spray it doesn't last that well, and with a barrier spray it's just as hard to wash off as grease makeup

[Fitzwilly]

Markie, you may be new to the makeup wearing end of clowning but it sounds like you have been painting and entertaining for quite awhile. Please post some of the pics you have done, I'd like the inspiration (if you don't mind.)

[Saxlampouxlas]

Guys, my partner uses Kryolan's water - based colors only, cause it is very easy to apply them with a brush.Grease paints are much more difficult to be applied but cover better the face.

Anyway,I had the impression that all well known face painting brands are ok for the kids' face.We have been using Kryolan's water based colors for over 4 years and never had a complain for allergic reactions or anything else.

Some months ago a lady in a party asked me if the colors I used were hypoallergic and completely safe for kids colors.Then to prove her that they are ok for children I ate a little bit of white!!!


But it seems that nothing happened to me...



eg:Maybe this is helpful : Face Painting Techniques

[Markie]

I don't take pictures of the kids Fitzwilly, I just do stuff at church. If you go to youtube.com/markuhde you can find my latest video for my kids church class and I have my face painted at the beginning (Kryolan UV-DG pink and orange and Snaz black and white). It's blacklight which is hard to video tho...

I'll post some more piccies as I take them. I just bought a mini digital cam yesterday so I might take more snaps around church and stuff where I'm not having to drag my SLR around!

Kleanthis, the only concern is going to be some of the special effects colors, like Kryolan and Wolfe's UV-DG aren't actually cosmetic approved. Regardless, their manufacturers assert their safety.

So when I get some more snaps I'll post them Fitzwilly, prolly to my new website at comicexpressions.com - that's the website I haven't yet built for my entertainment stuff Right now it's nothing but bookmark the link and check back in a couple weeks