Summer in England means a lot to kids. The two-month break allows schoolchildren to go on a holiday outside England and come back to school with tons of stories to tell. While I was there, my niece spent hers playing with her baby sister at the lawn. Disneyland Paris was quite an expensive trip. Anyway, that girl has already toured the world since birth.
While moms kept themselves busy with chores, birthday parties and recipe books, sale and mall events were big at the towncentres. On this particular site at Edenwalk, weekends were filled with fun activities for children – from storytelling to face painting.
This was where I actually got the idea. My cousin somehow encouraged it. She bought me a set of color palettes to bring home to Manila.
I was able to squeeze in some time to be at Ryu’s birthday party in McDonalds SM Taytay more than a week ago. Ryu is Andrei’s son, and Andrei is my brother’s friend. The boy has just turned three.
During the party, I did face painting for kids and tried my glitter tattoo on adults. There were a dozen kids, including babies, who came in. It was fun, they loved their cheek arts and the adults their glitter tattoos.
Some mothers asked for my number. Come to think of it, this is a good source of extra income that could afford one to buy clothes, shoes, grocery supplies, a baby bedding or send kids to school. I mean that’s what most parents tell me when they admire the only visible talent I’ve got. One parent I met abroad told his husband to study the craft. Face painting is a lucrative business abroad at $3 to $5 per head. But here in Manila, I don’t charge that much.
Last Monday, I was invited by someone I met in a birthday party to assist a group of college students from the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) in their costume make-up for their stage play “Cats”. It was a tough job to do full face painting on about 20 persons but somehow, with the help of a college friend, we made it. This was the first time I did something like this. It turned out pretty well though for a neophyte make-up artist.
If you are thinking of having something like this in the future, drop a line at the comment box below.
