Prefer step-by-step images with detailed explanations to help you have success with new designs? Shawna Fae breaks down every step of this adorable Panda design in the blog post tutorial.
Tropical Bird Face & Body Art + Henna
Tropical Bird Face & Body Art + Henna is based in East Central London, England, and provides wedding-entertainment and beauty in one. Artist and owner Caroline Young is a Henna artist and body art specialist who delights in bringing her talents to special occasions. Whether you want a Henna-themed hen party or children’s face-painting for your reception, she will strive to bring some creative spark to your day.
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Tropical Bird Face & Body Art + Henna is a wedding-beauty company with a difference. Caroline’s unique services are designed to elevate the ambiance of your pre-wedding parties and reception. Caroline and her team of artists also offer mehndi body art for cultural weddings. If you are planning a festival-style wedding, their face-painting services such as UV makeup, glitter, sparkly embellishments would be the ideal accompaniment. They use professional, hypoallergenic face paints including Grimas, Cameleon, Tag, DFX, and Superstar. They use natural henna powder and high-quality essential oils. Tropical Bird Face & Body Art + Henna covers weddings and private events throughout the UK and look forward to collaborating with you.
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Tropical bird face painting designs
Few things are as loved by children as their own family pet. They are excited to talk about their furry family members, and often request pet face paint! The most popular of these pets by far are cats and dogs. You’ll find a wide selection of each in our gallery, including many breeds and creative interpretations! So whether you need a Rainbow Poodle, a Caticorn, or a reliable OTJ cat and dog face paint for beginners to get you started, you’ll find it here.
Cat Face Paint Ideas
Cats and kitty face paint designs are an incredibly popular option for both girls and boys. It’s good to start off with an excellent basic full face cat that you can paint in 3-5 minutes and then build off of it with special extras. Girly hair bows, hearts, flowers, and swirls are all great ways to add girly elements to your cat. Little fangs are a great add on for boys or girls! You’ll want a cat for every occasion and speed, so find a few of different sizes that suit your style.
These next designs all end at the nose and totally avoid the mouth area making them perfect for events where kids are eating and drinking and would be smudging the mouth area quickly anyway.
There will always be clients (especially teens!) that are interested in something smaller and not a full face. Here are a few ideas for cat face paint designs that aren’t full face.
Bonus: Caticorn / Uni-kitty Face Paint Ideas
There’s a growing number of kids who know about the magical mashup of cats and unicorns referred to as caticorns, unikitties and even kittycorns. But if they don’t know about it yet, imagine how much they’ll adore you for introducing this incredibly cute creature to them. So whether you have the demand or you create it, you’re going to love having this popular option on your menu!
Dog Face Paint Ideas (puppy, pug, Dalmatian, bulldog, husky, poodle)
Dogs and puppy face paint designs are a great way to add some furry fun to your next event. If you saw the dog face paint designs in our Ultimate Face Painting Ideas Guide, and you’re ready to dive deeper this is it! These designs include more breed specific traits that can help you add detail and variety to your dog face paint offerings.
From pugs to Dalmatians, huskies to bulldogs, there are plenty of designs to choose from for both boys and girls.
You can always shake things up with other placements as well. Here’s four different placement variations for dogs.
Last but not least, leveling up your dog face paint doesn’t mean it needs to be totally realistic. Kids will love the fun of rainbow and colorful puppy face paint designs.
Popular Wild Animal Face Paint Ideas
You’ll find all sorts of popular, fun, and fierce animals in this face paint inspiration category. While there are hundreds of wild animal varieties in the world, we are focusing on the ones that are most popular for face painters. We’ve even included one or two animals that are only in fantasy but are essential for face painters. See if you can spot them! 😉
Fox face paint
Fox face paint is one of the most popular face paint requests right now for good reason! Foxes have very flattering feline features (even if they are in the dog family) that look beautiful in mask designs. They can also be playful and are very cute to paint with their bodies and big fluffy tails.
Boys and girls both love foxes, and you’ll love how easy it is to glam up with some bling, flowers, painted eyelashes, or eyeliner.
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Wolf face paint
Wolf face paint can be fierce and even scary, which is part of why it’s a favorite choice for teenage boy face paint. But you’ll find there are plenty of girls and young boys who are also drawn to this option. And once you’ve painted a dog and cat, you’re close to having a basic wolf down. The angry eyebrows and sharp teeth are going to be the key to mastering your wolf design.
When you have the time to go above and beyond, like a small birthday party or with a private client for Halloween makeup, a good realistic wolf face paint will stop everyone in their tracks.
As always, don’t be afraid to shake things up. A full face is never the only option for your animal face paint. They may be easier for a lot of artists, but if you don’t try out other options, you may never discover your style! I hope these very original wolf face paint designs inspire you to try something new.
Panda face paint
Panda face paint is a great place to start with your bear face paint offerings. Not only is it more popular with kids than a brown or polar bear, it also has more pattern details that add variation and fun to the design.
One of the major downsides of panda face paint is all that black around the eyes can be hard to wash off, especially on little kids. Here are some ideas for panda face paint that don’t involve painting black around the eyes, which will make a lot of parents eternally grateful to you.
Prefer step-by-step images with detailed explanations to help you have success with new designs? Shawna Fae breaks down every step of this adorable Panda design in the blog post tutorial.
Bear face paint (teddy bear face paint)
You can easily adjust the colors of panda designs to be any other bear as well because the face shape doesn’t need to change. While working hard is inevitable as a professional face painter, we’re all for the shortcuts that help us work smart as well.
If you want to make your bears more cute and cuddly, adding some patches and stitching down the nose can turn a bear into a teddy bear. And if you need a cute and easy face paint, this one-stroke bear by Katie’s Painted Faces is a perfect fast design.
Koala face paint
Koala face paint can look a lot like bear face paint. To paint a recognizable koala face paint design, be sure to make the nose larger than bear noses and in a rounded triangular or oval shape.
Leaves are a great way to fill out a smaller design and make it more complete because eucalyptus leaves are a koalas favorite food!
Monkey and Gorilla face paint
Face painters approach monkey and gorilla face paint in such a huge variety of styles. We’ve brought these ideas together for you so you can see what feels right to you. There’s some whimsical and fun ideas and some highly realistic designs. Consider your audience and time and find inspiration below!
If you’re struggling with making a full face monkey work for you, this tutorial by Shawna Del Real teaches a cute monkey mask that works for boys and girls!
Elephant face paint
Elephant face paint ideas are so unique because the trunk inspires incredible creativity! A simple elephant design for kids on the job is perfect. The addition of mehndi style linework adds the sophistication and grace to make elephant face paint a beautiful option for adult face paint as well.
Elephant face paint is also a wonderful menu option for carnival themed party face paint whether you go full face or opt for something smaller like these artists have.
Zebra face paint
Remember what I said about working smarter and not harder? Zebra is a great face paint menu offering because it’s a combination of painting thin to thick lines like tiger stripes and painting unicorn head and body shapes. You’re more than halfway to fabulous zebra face paint already!
There are some tricks to getting zebra stripe placement right. You can learn all the secrets to spectacular Zebra face paint in this helpful tutorial by Simona Rad.
Giraffe face paint
Who knew giraffe face paint could be so totally adorable? Well, once you try these designs out and add giraffe face paint to your menu, all your clients will! Eye catching and fun, giraffe face paint is a must (especially if you are a Zoo face painter!).
Frog face paint
Boys and girls will both go for a fun frog face paint! It’s fun to dress up the design with flowers, greenery, or water to paint something sure to delight whoever may be in your chair. And don’t limit yourself to green. In real life, frogs come in all sorts of fun, bright colors.
Unicorn face paint (less popular: pegasus / alicorn)
While unicorn may not be the most popular animal you can see at your local zoo, it is the most popular animal face paint at fairs, festivals, and birthday parties with little girls. Our animal guide would be missing an important piece if we left out this magical and majestic creature.
Unicorn “crown” face paint is a very popular and cute way to turn little girls into Unicorns! This could easily be the most popular way to face paint a unicorn, but it’s definitely not the only way. These other designs are just as lovable and beautiful. Be sure to have a variety of options up your sleeve for this incredibly popular face paint request.
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Specializing in professional adult face painting, body art and glitter makeup, we glitz our way around a range of events from birthday parties and festivals to weddings and office parties and corporate events.
Industry leaders, our artists also work their magic in the film and entertainment world. Imagining, designing and bringing to life looks for performers and models within immersive theatre and fashion realms, combining elements of makeup, adornments and overall styling design to create inventive, cutting edge and expertly delivered looks.
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Our Story
Poppy & Perle was founded in 2016 by professional UK face and body artists, Naomi and Philly. Combining collective decades of experience in the industry and a strong belief in the transformative and playful elements face and body art can bring, we are committed to a bespoke approach to each and every booking or individual we are painting, bringing warmth, energy and enthusiasm to every job. From our beginnings in festival fields, as one of the first to bring glitter and adult eye designs to the masses, we now bring the same creative and fresh approach to every face we paint at corporate events, weddings, private parties, product launches and film and productions. We have been lucky enough to collect some incredible artist friends throughout our journey, all of whom are equally as talented, engaging and experienced. We are proud to be able to build teams of any size to suit your event or project.
I have been face painting since the age of 15, having been born into a face painting family, learning the ropes from my award winning face painting mother. Moving to London for my undergraduate degree, I continued to develop my body artistry skills at parties, private members clubs and club nights before meeting Naomi at the World Body Painting Championships in Austria in 2010, where we both competed. I have been lucky enough to work on some other incredible projects over the years, from painting a supermodel in Rankin’s photography studio to decorating party revellers in the Sahara desert. Alongside face and body art, I also paint personalised products and accessories for brands including Dolce & Gabbana and Montblanc.
