Pictures from the weekend

Last weekend was fun filled with a store launch and several private parties to attend.

This was a really fun Spider Girl adaptation for a little girl who wanted a little something around the eyes but nothing too girlie!! A great challenge - well met by Sharon.

Still no news about the final voting for the Summer Free for All, but Sharon, Nina and Helen have been working hard to create new and exciting designs for Face and Body Painting for the UK Face & Body Painting Convention Postal Competitions. The theme is Americana - which has proven to be an interesting challenge for our creativity!!

We've been doing quite a bit of Body Painting work recently and tomorrow Helen will be Body Painting for a promotional photo shoot on behalf of Cancer Research UK - for the launch of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Photo's will be coming soon...

Helen
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FINALISTS!!!!

The Finalists for the Snazaroo Summer Free for All Face & Body Art design competition have been announced! (http://www.snazaroo.us/08/8sumfinal.htm)

Out of 250 entries, Sharon and Helen from the Cats Whiskers team have had three of their images selected to go forward for the finals!!

Here are the entries that have made it through to the final 25.

The first is Sharon's corset design modeled by Rowena and the two pregnant tummies are by Helen and modeled by Len from the Cats Whiskers team and by Becky from Blueskies Photography.

Fingers crossed for the final round of voting! :)

As well as having some of our work selected for the Finalists page, we were awarded some Honourable Mentions (or runners up awards!) on the main competition pages. Here are the designs that won Sharon an Honourable Mention:

These were Helen's Honourable Mentions:

So, out of the nine entries that Sharon submitted she received four awards and out of the six that Helen entered she received four awards! A great result for the Cats Whiskers team - and the final voting is yet to come!!

Helen
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Freshers arrival at UWE

For the past two weekends, we've enjoyed the company of the Angels at St Matts and Glenside campuses at UWE.

On 20th & 21st we were part of the welcoming celebrations as new students arrived, registered and found their way around campus. Here are some of the designs!










Then last weekend we rejoined them all and painted masks for their Freshers Masquerade Ball.


Great fun!

Helen
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SW FACE Jam Day with Henna!

Last Saturday was the regional get together for the Face Painting Association, FACE (http://www.facepaint.co.uk/). Annie Freeman from Annies Funny Faces in Plymouth is the South West rep and she organised a great day with over twenty face painters from the region coming along to meet up, take advantage of the retailers of paint & related products and generally play with paint!! There was also a fantastic goodie bag with face paint and glitter samples amongst a range of other bits and pieces!

I took some Henna down to play and demonstrate with and here are a few of the designs!

It was lovely to meet up with old friends and meet some of the other face painters that work around the region. A good day was enjoyed by all!

It's the UK Face and Body Art Convention (http://www.facepaintingconvention.co.uk/convention/index.php) in Telford in a month (17th - 19th October), so quite a few of us will meet up again there! I'll be teaching at the Convention again this year covering a range of aspects of face painting - from sponge work & brush work to speed and efficiency through to the sparkling party princess!! It's always a great place to go and learn so I'm already looking forward to it!

Helen

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Cabot Circus - Opening Day!!

After months of traffic chaos and watching the development rise from the ground at the bottom of the M32, Cabot Circus was opened today!

Cats Whiskers were there working alongside the staff of Fat Face which is based in the Quakers Friars area of the new development. A member of the team will also be there on Saturday providing Fat Face tattoos for all the customers!





So come along and check it out. The architecture alone is amazing - and then there's the shopping!!

Helen
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Bath Rugby Kit shoot

Sharon has been indulging her body painting passion with another photo shoot!

On this shoot the brief was to paint the Bath Rugby players kit.

Here's one of the resulting photos. Yum!

Helen

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Back to School

It's that time of year again where routine is restored and the children resume their studies at school.

A group of entertainers, including myself, also went 'Back to School'. Well, actually we went to QJam! This is an event held in Bristol annually where Qualatex - the balloon manufacturers - host training sessions for Balloon Modellers. We had a great day and much learning and laughter was shared by all.

Here's a picture for Mel - Ozzy in action. ;o)

My daughter loved the new 'Hobby Horse' style Unicorn balloon that I'd learnt!

Best wishes
Helen

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