Helen Elvins - The Lorax Film Premier using Superstar Face Paint

So when a team of painters get together to go on a job - what do we take?  the usual table and chairs, a nice black table cloth and of course the superstar paint range......

The first UK premier to be held outside of London was last Sunday at Cineworld in Birmingham.  They closed the roads, had Danny De Vito flying in to walk up an 80m orange carpet, and the film .... THE LORAX 

What a gift for facepainters this will be, so after a few weeks of preparation and designing new face designs specially for the film premier day, off we went.  Of course, this is me, so it wasnt just the table and chairs and paint that went with me but the following really made a difference..... 1 photographer....2 excited girls and their dad, pretty pastel coloured newly printed tops for the painters, a couple of fabulous balloon modellers, none slip pastel coloured mats for the paints to sit on, flowered t-towells for us and clothes to put over the childrens laps in case of spillages, little pastel pots and a big flowered bowl in the centre of the table for us all to take our sponges from.  Two mobile tray kits and small selection of Superstar paints for outside painting, along the orange carpet.   Various pots of glitter, brushes and a light up display board with the Lorax faces stuck on, water carrier. 

We arrived at the Cinema in good time, set up our inside painting area and shared out the paints, what a choice, the pictures went down a storm and almost immediately we had a queue of people all wanting to be painted.  The painters, Sandra Crofts, Alice Elvins, Jen Roberts and myself - painted solidly for 4 hours mixing and mingling with footballers wives, wags, stars of TV, including (and I know you'll excuse a little name dropping here...) Susan Collins (the bill), Daniella Lloyd and her gorgeous boy Archie, Emile Heskey, the USA Olympic team, Foxy & Juliano from Free Radio, to name a few and of course Danny De Vito - who was keen to have his photograph taken with one of our customers, were all among our stream of happy customers.  

The faces all beautifully executed using Superstar paints, all intense colours and entirely suited to this beautiful and thought provoking film.  A must for kids of all ages, and which will be a very popular theme for parties and events, so in order to help those of you who'd like to get in on the Lorax action, I've created a step by step walk through booklet suitable for new and experienced painters, to look at as a preview to what would be suitable faces to do.  Even if you haven't seen the film, these designs will enable you to do some beautiful faces with detail and the colours to match.  

Hope you enjoy looking at some of the pictures - for more in the book -which will be available this week, either on download, or printable PDF go to http://www.facesunlimited.co.uk/ or e mail helenelvins@yahoo.co.uk   thanks Superstar & The Face painting Shop - the paints are fabulous  - absolutely cant wait until the next one !