Painted Personalities Blog

I’ll be out in Crestline Saturday morning at the Norma Livingston Ovarian Cancer Foundation Motherwalk 2008 painting. I’ll be there from 8:00 AM until the race is done. I’ll be painting faces and painting glitter tattoos for cash. In addition to the face painting and glitter tattoos, I’ll have Mike out with the airbrush painting airbrush tattoos too! Part of what we make will go directly to the foundation to help fund research on ovarian cancer.
The color for ovarian cancer awareness is teal. I have teal paint, teal glitter, and teal airbrush tattoo ink!

One of my grandmothers passed away from ovarian cancer in 1999. I have anecdotal stories that other aunts and great aunts may have also died from this. Unfortunately information about their passing away is over 40 years old, and people didn’t talk about that kind of cancer. So I know that due to family, I may be at risk for ovarian cancer. Please come out, see us, participate, and help raise some money for ovarian cancer research!

Painted Personalities will be at the Cajun Steamer on Mardi Gras 2008 for the Parade and Party! Cajun Steamer is in the Patton Creek Shopping Center at 180 Main Street. The parade will be at 6:00 through the streets and around the shopping center. We’ll be there painting faces and offering masks that won’t get lost!  Come out and see us there  On Tuesday February 5th.

I’ll be painting faces at the Rocky Horror Masquerade at the Alabama Theater on October 26, 2007. If you need to become a Transylvanian, or just want something cool for the costume contest, let me know and I’ll make you up for it!

I just got this confirmed.  I’ll be out tomorrow at the !Bravo! Birmingham Arts Festival in Caldwell Park on Highland Avenue. The festival runs from 11:00 AM until 5:00 PM.  There’s going to be lots of things there to do, so be sure to come on out and have a great time!

Come out and see us at Dog Daze in Trussville, on August 4th. I’ll be painting faces, and doing temporary tattoos for the attendees at the Church of the Holy Cross booth. I’ll be there from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM painting. It’ll be hot, but that doesn’t matter, I’ll still be there. I’ve got some new designs to play with and the day will be lots of fun.

I’ll be painting at the Grand Opening of Whole Foods Market in Mountain Brook this Sunday, March 11th from 2:00-4:00PM. I’ll be set up to paint there. Roger Day is going to be performing there at the store, too. Come out and see us there on Sunday!

This past weekend was much better! I had 2 appointments for 3 people set up ahead of time at Costume Creations on Saturday. One man was going to a Hollywood themed party and the host wanted him to be Howard Stern for it. That was the first time I had tried to make someone up as a celebrity. It worked out pretty well.

The second appointment was to make a couple look like they were freshly risen from the grave. They were hosting a party Saturday night and had added dirt to the yard to make it appear that they had dug up out of the ground. I can make folks look like zombies! I made them look dead, then I added the latex effects to get the crumbly rotting effect. Its so effective to get that icky look. They looked good!
Unfortunately I don’t have pictures of the makeup jobs I did. It looks like I am going to be working with Costume Creations for future Halloweens. I can’t wait!