paint your face (The Usborne Book of Face Painting - Caro Childs)

Member Name: barbie84

Product:	The Usborne Book of Face Painting - Caro Childs
Date:	02/07/09 (34 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: great fun

Disadvantages: messy

We brought this book for my children from a car boot sale of all places and only paid £1 for it so got a great bargain, although it was brought for the children they are not realy old enough to use it on there own so they pick the design they want and me or there dad trys to recreate it on there faces, sometimes easier said than done with a fidgiting child. For a chid to be able to recreate these designs alone i would recomend they be at least 10 years old as they are quite tricky for a younger child to do.

Our version of this book is a paper back book and has 32 pages in it, it was published in 2003 so should be widely available at a bargain second hand price like ours was.

There are full instructions in the book that i found very easy to folow but then i am not a child, these too would be apropriate for anyone of age 10 years or above. The instructions tell you how to achieve different looks by using different brush strokes or sponges.

There are details in the start telling you what type of face painting materials are good for achieving the different looks and how to use them, this bit would be great for anyone with a keen interest in doing this profesionally but i have to say it bored me a bit so would imagine it would a child,

There are lots of different designs in this book to choose from and we usually let the girls look through and pick a design they like, there is a lot of variety there are animal faces, clowns, faces with flowers and scary monster faces so this would be an ideal book for a boy or a girl to enjoy.

We have all had great fun from this book and it is great for the begginer to the world of face painting, It is an easy to use book with all the tips and info you need to recreate the pictures in there my only dislike with this is that the pages are paper not glossy and if they had been glossy they would have been easier to keep clean.

Summary: a great book for face painting