Blue Squid Face Painting Kit for Kids - 28 Color Face Paint Kit Palette with 160pc accessories Stencils, Water Activated Non Toxic Washable Professional Facepaint body set Halloween Party Makeup

I am really impressed with these face paints. I consider myself to be a moderately experienced professional face painter and I have used everything from waxy Halloween face painting kits to hobby store kits to professional palettes. I needed new paints for doing face painting at my daughter’s school fall festival, and after reading the reviews I decided to give these a try. The color saturation is very nice, they glide on easily, it’s easy to achieve desired consistency, and there is plenty of paint to do a lot of faces. If you were to do only single designs instead of half or full faces, you could easily paint more than 100 people. I did a super quick test on my arm to see coverage, how well it glides, dry time, and bleed point (how much water is too much before it starts feathering and bleeding colors - you can see on the right side of my ice cream cone that I had too much water for my black outline). It also feels great on the skin and moves and flexes well so as to not crack. It passed the “squish” test: squishing or stretching the skin to see if any cracks or smudges/distortions appear once the skin returns to normal. It also passed the “dry smudge” test: rubbing dry fingers over the finished dry painting to see if anything smudges or cracks. I did not have a chance yet to test how the paint reacts to sweating. Will update my review once I test that and have some results. I haven’t tested the hair chalk, but I did take a test drive of the glitter. Unfortunately, the large chunks didn’t stay in place well on their own, so I won’t use this glitter for my daughter’s school event. You would probably need some sort of clear primer/gel to make it stay. The inclusion of face and hair stick-on gems is a nice addition. Overall, I’m extremely happy and satisfied with the performance of the paint and value of this kit. I would definitely recommend it and purchase it again!

Love the color choices. Easily washes off if needed. Stencils were a little tricky but they work good enough. Great value for the price in my opinion.

I used this kit at a 1st grade school event with 20 kids and it was HUGE hit! I practiced the day before to get a feel of the best paint consistency and opted to utilize the stencils to save time and self-embarrassment for my pathetic freehand. Keep a small cup of water, a bottle of clean water, a mirror for the kids to see and plenty of baby wipes nearby before you begin. This kit will have more than enough paint for 40-50 designs. Thank goodness for the stencils - the kids were able to decide ahead of time what they wanted, the stencils were easy to apply and remove and the designs were fool proof! Most kids wanted the designs on their hands so they could see them and lined back up again to get 2nd and 3rd designs which barely put a dent in the paints and there was plenty to go around. The consistency of the paint is key - too much water and the color will bleed underneath the stencil. Start with a slightly damp brush (gently squeeze out the water with a paper towel) or spray the paint lightly with water and mix up the color with the brush to a slightly pasty consistency. If it gets too watery, dab the top of the paint with a baby wipe to pick up the excess water and mix with the brush again. Glitter is best applied using a damp finger (I used a baby wipe to dampen my forefinger) and lightly dab it on the skin around the design, rather than on top of the design to avoid smearing the paint. The design can easily be touched up or removed with a baby wipe. I highly recommend this kit for any event - make yourself look like the best cool parent in any class event to show off to all your kids friends. ;)

Well we just opened the Blue squid ultimate party pack face paints for kids today and are trying it out now! I got it for my 6yo as a birthday present and she says she loves it! She loves all the variety of paint colors, the 3 different sized paint brushes, the hair chalk sticks, gems, glitter and stencils too. I am not a facepainting artist by any means, but this sure is fun! Definitely easy to use and get creative with. My kid is the little artist and she is really having fun and enjoying the kit! The quality of everything seems very good and it is a great value price wise for the quality and variety of items included! It even comes with a face painting guide as a starting point with step by step pictures which is so helpful and the stencils are useful for those who don't want to paint freehand! The brushes paint on smoothly, the paint colors are vivid and bright, some of the lighter colors you may have to do more than one coat of paint. The gems stick well on the skin and stay in place. The facepaint dries relatively quickly (within a couple minutes), it doesn't smudge easily once dry, and majority of colors are pretty easy to wipe off with just water. Some colors do lightly stain your skin like the aqua blue, red and black! Might need to scrub off with facecloth, soap and water or maybe even makeup remover. So overall, really happy with this purchase, the variety of colors and items included in the kit, the good quality, the ease of use and cleanup.

I am not a professional, or even a very good artist, but I have elementary school kids and professional face painters are expensive, so when the class party needed volunteers, I watched a few youtube tutorials and ordered this set. I really like how this set is the dry, powdery cakes like watercolor paints, versus the oil-based ones that - while there is no guesswork to "making" the paint - seems to smear a lot easier. The colors are lovely, it even give you one of the rainbow cakes to use even though those are pretty expensive to buy individually so you can get some experience with those... One of the videos I watched showed that you dip your bush in water and swirl it around in the cake to create a liquidy paint (just like watercolors), but then you gently touch your brush to a paper towel to let it suck all of the water off of your brush so you are left with just the paint. I tried this and it worked PERFECTLY with these, leaving vibrant color, but not enough liquid to make it drip, or take too long to dry. I just made sure to carry half a roll of paper towels I brought from my house, along with two bottles of water (one for clean water to make the paint, one for rinsing the brush... the party was outside though and I like to be overly prepared) and everyone thought I had actually done this before and not just watched a tutorial.

When I received the product, I really liked how it looked. Each of the colors is true to how it looks when applied to my skin. There is no smell associated with the colors (like in other face paints that smell BAD). These face paints are WONDERFUL because I am allergic to every other face paint, but the creators of BlueSquid kept nasty stuff out of their facepaint. THANK YOU!! I LOVE being able to participate with my friends so that we can ALL paint our faces now. I was unexpected by how many stickers/ stencils were included in our kit. The colors are easy to apply. I was surprised by the glitter included in the kit. Nothing itched. Nothing felt heavy or globbed. We could still smile and make faces once our faces were painted. You need to add more ideas for how to paint your face or maybe more tutorials of how to create faces? Like a ghost or a tortoise or tattoos.. THANK YOU for creating a really colorful, easy-to-use product that doesn’t boil my skin or make me itchy!!

It was a gift but hear it was a big hit at my 9 year old nephew’s party!

I love Blue Squid face paint. I’m a professional makeup artist and do kids’ parties. In the past, I’ve bought the crayons and they’re great. I had my eye on this kit for a while. The paints are fantastic: highly pigmented, safe for skin, easy to use. However the rhinestones would not go on very well and kept coming off. Also, the stencils included were disappointing because they’re stickers so they can only be used once. I’d definitely recommend the face paint and the crayons but not the extras that came in this kit.

Ich bin von diesem Kinderschminkset wirklich begeistert. Es bietet eine große Auswahl an Farben und Zubehör, sodass der Fantasie kaum Grenzen gesetzt sind. Die Farben sind kräftig, lassen sich gut auftragen und decken bereits mit einer dünnen Schicht sehr schön. Mit etwas Wasser lassen sie sich leicht anmischen und gleichmäßig verteilen. Besonders positiv finde ich, dass sich die Schminke nach dem Gebrauch problemlos wieder mit Wasser und etwas Seife entfernen lässt. Das Set eignet sich perfekt für Kindergeburtstage, Karneval, Halloween oder einfach zum kreativen Spielen zu Hause. Durch die vielen Farben und Möglichkeiten kann man unzählige Motive schminken – von Schmetterlingen über Tiger bis hin zu Superhelden. Auch das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis stimmt aus meiner Sicht. Man bekommt ein umfangreiches Set, das einen hochwertigen Eindruck macht und lange Freude bereitet. Ich würde es jederzeit wieder kaufen und kann es uneingeschränkt weiterempfehlen.

Me ha encantado el producto y el libro con los pasos para realizar maquillajes está genial.Facil de usar y muy completo.

My daughter loves this kit. Face paint works really well, stays on for a long time and washes off easy.

Buona qualità, un po' difficili da togliere e se usati su pelle sudata tendono a sciogliersi un po'. Per il prezzo pagato vanno più che bene, non adatti a mio parere ad un uso professionale

Les couleurs sont très faciles à appliquer, bien couvrantes, bien lumineuses. Les fards sont de très bonne qualité et faciles à démaquiller à l'eau. Les pinceaux fournis font l'affaire. Le petit livret inclus donne des idées.