Caro
Many years ago on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, there was a Halloween event on at the local pub.
There were not a lot of shops around in the village of Kyleakin and all the backpackers at the local hostel were trying to come up with creative ways to construct a Halloween costume. I still remember the 2 guys that made garbage bag batman costumes…genius!
At the general store, over the bridge at Kyle of Lochalsh, there sat a small set of Grimas face paints. I purchased them thinking I could paint myself up for the evening and was quite happy with my little find.
I painted myself and walked out to the communal kitchen/dining room. There were gasps of excitement and wonderment. Mostly due to the fact they were surprised I was even able to find something that could be used to create a Halloween look. Without a word of a lie an instant line formed and everyone wanted to be painted.
I think I painted about twelve other backpackers, before I stood up and said. “Ya know what, paint yourselves, I’m off to the pub!”
On the way there I found myself smiling from ear to ear, thinking…
“my goodness that was fun. How cool would that be to do for a job”.
Fast forward 2 years later, 2007, and being a new Mum, I found myself taking face painting up as a hobby. Painting my kids and their friends and then going to friends houses and painting at birthdays and then I found myself at events and to be perfectly honest, it just naturally progressed until I realised, hang on a minute, I’m working every weekend face painting, time to make it a business.
I started out with a long time friend, Julie, and we painted many faces together. Before she moved on with other work and it then became Caro’s Face and Body Painting.
I regularly team up with two other businesses on the Coast, Mandi from Henna Gipsy and Julie from Magical Faces and Magical Balloons. Together we do events and delight in making children happy.
However, even with working with these two ladies, there was still a need and demand. So I thought it was time to change things up and bring some amazing artists on board. Take them under my wing and support them in this fabulous fun filled industry.
I also work with the amazing Creature Tales Team, face painting on board the Spirit of Tasmania on their day sailings. I have been doing this fun and rewarding job on the Spirit for 12 years and I love it immensely.
I’ve been painting in total for 18 years and over the years I have added more activities. Such as glitter tattoos, balloon twisting and soon to be added, airbrush tattoos.
I love what I do and creating fun moments for children at parties and events is really a dream come true. I love their use of imagination when transforming in to their painted personalities, and nothing beats the mirror moment.
Always love to create rainbows and sparkles where ever I go 🙂