Face painting for parties and events — for kids and adults
Face painting for a birthday, kindergarten graduation or company family day: butterflies, tigers and superheroes on faces and arms, and glitter tattoos for older kids. Give the number of children and the party's length in an order — face painters will respond. Or compare designs in portfolios.
Face painters
How much face painting costs
What affects the price
Hours and number of guests
Face painting is usually charged by the hour, and a painter can only do so many faces in that time — so a large party may need two painters.
Complexity of the designs
A heart on the cheek or a butterfly on the arm takes a few minutes, while a tiger or superhero mask over the whole face takes much longer.
Glitter tattoos and glitter
Glitter tattoos, cosmetic glitter and rhinestones are often added as a separate service or offered at a glitter bar for older guests.
A party at home or a festival
At home the painter does a few of the birthday child's friends, while at a festival or a company family day they work through a line of guests for hours on end, sometimes with a partner.
Halloween and graduations
On Saturdays, before Halloween and in kindergarten graduation season, face painters are booked ahead and often charge more on those days.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a face painter for a party
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a face painter
- 1
Photos of work on children
Look for photos from real parties in the portfolio, not just studio shots: they show whether the lines are clean and whether there are designs your guests will love.
- 2
Paints made for skin
Ask what the painter uses: face painting is done with face and body paint, not acrylic craft paints, and with cosmetic glitter rather than craft glitter.
- 3
Hygiene between guests
Check whether the painter takes a clean sponge and fresh water for each child, and what they do if a child has a scratch or irritated skin.
- 4
Design catalog and pace
Ask for the catalog of designs the children will choose from, and how many faces the painter does in an hour — that tells you whether there will be time for everyone.
- 5
How it washes off
Face paint washes off with water, while a glitter tattoo lasts a few days. Ask the painter how to remove it all if your child has kindergarten or a photo shoot the next day.
What to put in the order
What the celebration is, the date, start time and how many hours you need the painter
How many children will want face painting, their ages and whether adults are painted too
Where the party is: an apartment, a cafe, a kindergarten or outdoors — and whether there will be a table, chairs and light for the painter
The party theme or the looks the children want: superheroes, princesses, animals
Whether you need glitter tattoos, glitter or rhinestones
Payment, and where the painter will work: in a separate area or together with an entertainer
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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