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shadesofmauve) wrote2012-06-06 09:44 pm
shadesofmauve) wrote2012-06-06 09:44 pm
Eyeshadow and Facepaint
I bought eyeshadow yesterday!
AND I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
*checks to see if anyone who knows her in meat-space has fainted yet*
See, in April I bought a bunch of little pots of snazaroo face paint for carrying around at festivals and painting friends, family, and random strangers. Snaz is very, very easy to clean off, extra-specially non-toxic, and comparatively cheap -- all good qualities when painting strangers for free. Unfortunately the packaging and the little pallets in their kits suck -- so I bought a 2$ crayola water-color box, gave the watercolors to E's god-daughter, and stuck the paint pots in the box with double-stick tape.
I've now used it at both ArtsWalk and Folklife (and made Instant Friends with multiple small children by doing so). Turns out the double-stick tape doesn't hold its stick, and the discs of paint come loose and rattle around. Also the kit would be nicer smaller. The watercolor box isn't huge, but given the frequently crowded conditions and the amount of stuff I sometimes carry smaller = better.
The cheap eye-shadow compact has eight colors in a box roughly half the size of the crayola one, and the compartments are molded in, so rather than tape the plastic face-paint pots in I can scoop out face-paint and reform it in the eyeshadow divots (after removing eyeshadow, obv). I can even put two colors in one divot if I want, giving me an up to 16 color pallet in a box that's less than 5 by 5.
I am psyched!
I'm not sure what I'll do with the eyeshadow. Possibly frighten my housemate. It has a little "how to" key on the back so I suppose I could actually try to use it. That'd be odd.
AND I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
*checks to see if anyone who knows her in meat-space has fainted yet*
See, in April I bought a bunch of little pots of snazaroo face paint for carrying around at festivals and painting friends, family, and random strangers. Snaz is very, very easy to clean off, extra-specially non-toxic, and comparatively cheap -- all good qualities when painting strangers for free. Unfortunately the packaging and the little pallets in their kits suck -- so I bought a 2$ crayola water-color box, gave the watercolors to E's god-daughter, and stuck the paint pots in the box with double-stick tape.
I've now used it at both ArtsWalk and Folklife (and made Instant Friends with multiple small children by doing so). Turns out the double-stick tape doesn't hold its stick, and the discs of paint come loose and rattle around. Also the kit would be nicer smaller. The watercolor box isn't huge, but given the frequently crowded conditions and the amount of stuff I sometimes carry smaller = better.
The cheap eye-shadow compact has eight colors in a box roughly half the size of the crayola one, and the compartments are molded in, so rather than tape the plastic face-paint pots in I can scoop out face-paint and reform it in the eyeshadow divots (after removing eyeshadow, obv). I can even put two colors in one divot if I want, giving me an up to 16 color pallet in a box that's less than 5 by 5.
I am psyched!
I'm not sure what I'll do with the eyeshadow. Possibly frighten my housemate. It has a little "how to" key on the back so I suppose I could actually try to use it. That'd be odd.