Mission Statement

The Mission Statement of This Blog

This blog is a record of my experiences starting my own new life as a face painter, tips and tricks that I have found along the way and any information that I can give to help you start your face painting journey.

Finding Your Calling

There is no formula to help you find your calling. Some people are born into the right circumstances and fall straight into their dream job whilst others stumble across it. I myself was training to be a primary school teacher and, to support myself whilst I was at Uni, got a part-time job in a huge indoor soft-play area. Every now and again one of the supervisors would get out an old and stained Snazaroo face painting box with a few brushes that looked like they should frankly have been put out of their misery years ago. Despite the uncleaned paints and the sad, wrecked brushes I was completely in love. Within 3 months of joining the company I had bought my own beginners Snazaroo kit, painstakingly handmade my very first rainbow cakes, and handed my notice in declaring that I was going to go and be a face painter. I left my teaching course, and have never looked back.

Acting on Your New-Found Passion

The hardest part about finding my passion for face painting was explaining it to other people. Neither my friends, my family or my university tutors could understand why I would want to leave a teaching course (highly regarded degree, nice regular paycheck, good pension etc.) to do my "painting hobby". No-one would believe that this was going to be my job, not just a hobby. In fact, I spent so long trying to convince people to no avail that I finally ignored them all and did it anyway. I have now found a whole world of fascinating people who really get me, and quickly earned the respect of my family as they finally see what face painting means to me.

Therefore my challenge to you is to look at your life, and to identify what is holding you back. Opinions of others? The worry of failure? The feeling that you shouldn't change your life because you have always invested too much time in it? Hopefully this blog will help you take your new passion one step at a time, and help you overcome any boundaries you have identified.

This is the very first face painting item that I ever bought, just 6 weeks before leaving my job