Halloween Makeup Fun

It is getting close - ok a month away but for us in the makeup industry it's close to Halloween. Time for fun.  We really love some simple, easy to use products. Like Kryolan Fresh Scratch. It makes great easy dried blood look, easy to use and easy to clean up. Use inside simple wax wounds like those made with Kryolan Special Plastic.

Brushes for Face Painting - Brush Care

So there are many brushes on the market here is what we love.

Loew Cornell and Mark Reid brushes are top favorites for curls swirls and basic face painting.
We love too Kryolan, Mehron and Paradise brushes for fine detail and flats - just great brushes.

Here are some brush care tips from Loew-Cornell

Use These Tips To Keep Your Brushes In Top-working Condition:

l When loading, using or cleaning, move hairs in their natural direction.

l Do not leave a brush soaking in liquid for extended periods,
especially resting on its bristles.

l Take care not to let paint work its way up into the ferrule. Paint is
hard to remove from this area. Accumulated paint will cause the
brush to swell, resulting in a loss of brush shape and spring.

l Never allow paint to dry in your brush.

l Keep the level of liquid in your water container below the ferrule/handle attachment. Excessive moisture can swell the wood, resulting in the paint coating cracking and peeling, and a loose ferrule.

® Brush Care © Copyright 2007 Loew-Cornell, Inc., 400 Sylvan Ave. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632  Read more at www.loewcornell.com

Extreme Makeup - Airbrushed Body Art

The Painted Navel aka Extreme Makeup FX is delighted to add our friend and talented artist Nick Herrera's signature line Nix by European Body Art (EBA) to our product line  Nix makeup is Endura, an alcohol-based airbrush makeup perfect for haunters, haunted attractions and Halloween lovers. The color line includes Zombie Gray, Dry Blood, Vein Blue, Death Burgundy, and Bone White - add to that EBA's Black and you have the perfect colors for FX gore, zombie, monster, and more makeup and body art.

You can find us at the West Coast Haunters Convention is Salem, Oregon - where Extreme Makeup FX will be showing and using NIX paints at our vendors booth and in the class Gross Gore: Makeup 101.

It's not too early to plan for Halloween!

NIX signature colors EBA Endura makeup

Face Painting Convention - Las Vegas

See The Painted Navel at the Face Painting and Body Art Convention in Las Vegas at Harrah's Feb 28 to March 3, 2011. We will have a vendor booth filled with products from Kryloan, Mehron, Showoffs Body Art, European Body Art and our own line Extreme Makeup FX.

Want to learn to face and body paint this is one of the premier conventions in the US. Don't miss it.

Temporary Tattoo Airbrush Stencils and Supplies

The Painted Navel is please to add the fine products from European Body Art to our store.  We can now offer our customers not only airbrush makeup for face and body painting with VIBE but temporary tattoos with ENDURA.  And with European Body Art a complete line of airbrush stencils for temporary tattoos and equipment is waiting for you at The Painted Navel.

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