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I'm from Flanders, Belgium. I'm 50 and I paint for nearly 5 years now. I have started out by doing my boss a favour: they needed someone to entertain kids during the open days at the school where I teach French. This was such a positive experience, I decided to continue in my free moments. Teaching French is still my full time job, but face painting (and body painting too nowadays) is becoming more and more important in my life. I enjoy it very much and love to be creative in it. It also is a great boost of positive energy in my life, all these happy kids getting in my chair when I have a job!
But being a perfectionist , I am very happy to participate in your classes, because it's really going very deep into subjects that are usually overlooked, and that's what I wanted. I also wanted someone to push me further and willing to critiscise me where needed ! Ususaly people just say"ooh , how nice" , when I myself think it's all wrong.You dare to speak up when there are mistakes. Now I know why it's wrong and how to make it right ! Which doesn't mean I'm flawless now, but at least I know I can handle things ! That's about it I guess... plans for the future, I don't have: I like seeing where all of this will bring me, it's an adventure in itself :)

Painting 2 years prior to taking the course and professionally painting 18 months.
Face painting is my second job, it's how we paid for our wedding.

I've been painting for almost 1 year before I started the course (since May 2016).
Face painting is my second job.
My main plan is to become a professional face painting artist. Do lots and lots of painting jobs and also teaching my own classes.

I must say that I have learn far more on this course than I've ever done on any course before ☺ For me face painting is my contribution to make children happy. It's so important for me to see that the children really love the work I do, and how much happiness a little bit of glitter can make :)) I work as a laboratory engineer so I don't get to be very creative there :D In the future I want to use my knowledge to educate others and help them to choose safe face paint for the children.

I have started out by doing my boss a favour: they needed someone to entertain kids during the open days at the school where I teach French. This was such a positive experience, I decided to continue in my free moments. Teaching French is still my full time job, but face painting (and body painting too nowadays) is becoming more and more important in my life. I enjoy it very much and love to be creative in it. It also is a great boost of positive energy in my life, all these happy kids getting in my chair when I have a job!

I have been face painting for 2 1/2 years. This is only a part-time job for me and I love all these gigs and birthday parties. I have a dream of becoming an instructor and I had my first course already. I feel very ready for it after all the knowledge in this course and face painting have never been more fun than now.

I have also lived in Oxford for 14 years, Cardiff for 2 years and I spent 3 years living near Mönchengladbach in Germany.
I lost my beautiful mum to cancer in September 2013, 6 months later I was still really struggling with the everyday and was without purpose, I needed to get away; I booked a 3 day course in London to learn the basics of face painting for fun. I had never done anything creative before so I was surprised by how much enjoyment I got from it, I wanted to do better so I practised these skills. On my first gig I remember my legs and hands didn’t stop shaking but I loved every moment of it. Seeing those smiles made me feel so good and I knew this is what I wanted to do so I left my admin job and have been growing my businesses ever since with the support of my husband, Mark and my son, Liam.
Face painting has been a great healer for me, from a very dark time in my life a new passion was unleashed which I am very grateful for.
I face paint part time and I am looking for ways to expand my business, who knows where that might lead!! I want to perfect my skills to take my art to the next level so I stand out from the crowd and inspire others; Olga’s course is helping me achieve this goal.

I must say that I have learn far more on this course than I've ever done on any course before ☺ For me face painting is my contribution to make children happy. It's so important for me to see that the children really love the work I do, and how much happiness a little bit of glitter can make :)) I work as a laboratory engineer so I don't get to be very creative there :D In the future I want to use my knowledge to educate others and help them to choose safe face paint for the children.

There is no ambition in opening a shop or doing face painting full time. But i would love to change the view of my customers to my work. It drives me nuts that many of them do not see the quality I offer (in comparison to all other facepainters around in Kiel, who are mostly students without really being educated in facepainting. They do not even use one strokes and paint like it was done 20 years ago - but they are very cheap.) I don't want all the jobs. But I experienced though I am not expensive, others get a job by being only a little cheaper but are MUCH worse. I want to become a "NAME" so that the people know that I paint differently by booking me. They should know what they get and that I am worth what I charge. And then I will increase the prices.. LOL So - my plans are to become famous in Kiel as a face painter.

I got into face painting because I wanted a fun activity to do with my children in my spare time. I have a background from art and design, so painting was not a new thing for me. Painting on skin, however, was something completely different and I absolutely fell in love with it straight away. What I really like about Olga´s classes is the always friendly but extremely detailed and thorough feedback I get. She is really pushing me as an artist. Face painting is my second job at the moment, but I am hoping to expand and paint a lot more in years to come. Being invited to have classes or workshops somewhere in the future would be a dream come true.