Kid's Night on Broadway

Friday morning on Talk of Alabama I will join Cecelia Pearson of Alabama Baby and Child Magazine as she promotes Kid's Night on Broadway for March 11, 2009.

Starshine Faces will help make the Kid's Night on Broadway even more fun and colorful with fabulous face painting! Join us to get painted and enjoy Kid's Night on Broadway!

KIDS NIGHT ON BROADWAY!

Broadway Across America- Birmingham presents Kids Night on Broadway March 11, 2009. With activities starting at 6:30 pm in the BJCC Concert Hall lobby Broadway Across America is offering with paid admission the opportunity to experience the show up-close and personal. Kids 4 years old to 17 years old will have the opportunity to meet members of the cast of CIRQUE DREAMS JUNGLE FANTASY and learn and participate in various skills, try on costumes, experience tricks, participate in activities and try some of the fun acrobatic antics of which Cirque Dreams is world renowned.

This hands-on and educational encounter with the artists is accompanied with a special ticket offer-Buy one adult ticket and receive a child’s ticket free. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com, charge by phone at 800.982.2787 or at the box office. Use the password KIDS.

For more information you can also go to this link: CLICK HERE

Face art design painted by Starshine Faces Artist: Shanda Phillips

A Night in Oz

We were transported to the Wonderful Land of Oz thanks to the Junior Board of Birmingham Children's Theater. The fundraiser event included fun crafts and foods for the children and adults as well as characters from the Wizard of Oz mingling and interacting with the children and parents.

There were so many children in costumes ranging from Dorothy and her friends to a Batman I saw roaming around. We were busy all night and you can check out some of the photos on www.myspace.com/starshinefaces or by linking here.

Photos of library shows

Summer dates are filling up fast, so if you are still deciding, give us a call and see what we can do for you. 800-504-5977.

Last year we did some shows at the Vestavia Hills extended day program and this is what they had to say:

"Starshine Faces was spectacular! This young woman told the most fantastic stories and painted the children’s faces to tell the story. EVERYONE was mesmerized by her story and every child wanted to be next. The children, however, were willing to patiently wait their turn. (Even the adults were tempted to have their faces painted.)" from: http://www.vestavia.k12.al.us/docs/communitynewssept_oct08.pdf

Remember, we can do storytelling shows all year, not just summer time!!

Here is a link to some photos from last year's Catch the Reading Bug.

http://tinyurl.com/bqxhue

DON'T WAIT!! Library Shows Booking Now!

It is that time again. Time to start working on schedules for the Summer Library Program and summer storytelling sessions. The theme for our storytelling shows this year is Get Creative! Wow, does that fit our storytelling style or what?

We include children's stories from your local library as well as fun fairy and folk tales from around the world. The audience watches as the stories come alive on the faces of our volunteers. This year CRAZY HAIR is an addition to some of our stories!

If you have teenage or adult programs, ask us about our All About Henna presentations. We explain what Henna is and what it is not (henna is never black), give some cultural information about henna or mhendi and then offer a henna designs for the participants to choose from.

Do you have some adults who want to get creative at your library? What about our Face Painting classes? We offer presentation or hands-on programs that teach basic designs along with safety i!nformation for those interested in face and body art.

Spark some imaginations, and add some color and fun to your library or school programs this spring and summer with a storyteller from Starshine Faces!!

Catch the Reading Bug Program - The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

ONE DAY LEFT FOR FANTASY FALLS!

Fantasy Falls has been good this year. There were more attractions including the Star Lab shows, some previews of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow play that will be at Wallace Hall of Gadsden State Community College and a tall dragon that would walk around and growl.

There is one day left - Halloween night. We will have one painter out there that night so get there early if you don't want to wait in line. The event starts at 5:00 and lasts until 9:00 at Noccolula Falls in Gadsden, AL. There is an admission fee and the facepainting is $3.00 cheek art, $5 half faces, and $10 full faces. You can get your hair colored with color hairspray for $2.00.

Thank you to my wonderful models from Georgia in the photo above. They were painted last year as well and they made sure they got in line early so they wouldn't have to wait this year. They just made their school basketball team and were so excited to have their numbers painted on their basketball faces. Congratulations girls and thank you for the photo!!

New Packages!!

We have added some new birthday party packages and festival packages. Call us for current pricing on the following choices:

CURLY SWIRLY LET'S BE GIRLY: This is the ultimate party for your little princess. Full face designs include fairies and princess designs as well as fun swirl and curl masks. We add crazy hair or glamourous hair styles including glitter spray or colored hair spray and your fun is topped off by a glitter body art design in your choice of colors. These designs can last 3 or more days with care. Finally, a take home gift for each girl includes two glitter art stencils, two cosmetic glitter colors, body adhesive, glitter spoon, and full instructions. This party is priced per person with a 5 girl minimum.

TIRE TRACKS AND MICA TATS: The ultimate party for the guys in your life. We have fun full face designs for guys ranging from super heros, to tire tracks and flames. Add to that some fun hair colors and styles like mohawks and spikes. The fun continues with a mica or glitter body art design in the color of their choice. Finally, a take home gift for each child includes two body art stencils, one cosmetic glitter color and one black mica color, body adhesive, glitter spoon, and full instructions. This party is priced per person with a 5 person minimum.

CHEEK ART: We have added a cheek art option for by the hour events. This is a less expensive option to our full and half face designs and is great for school events and events where free face painting is offered. Designs are limited to small sizes for the cheek and include our fast designs for super busy events. All designs include glitter if chosen.

GET YOUR GAMEFACE ON!!

It is gettting to be that time again...football season!!

Starshine Faces is willing and able to make your spectacular tailgate season much more colorful and fun with fabulous face paint designs. Wear your school colors or become your school mascot and cheer your team on to victory. We have packages for painting at your family and friend tailgate socials and we also have corporate and school packages for those larger homecoming festivities. Tell us about your event and we can put a package together for you!!

Dates in the fall are going fast and so call today to get your contract to reserve your date.

Kristin

Springfest

Thank you so much to Kell Realty of Springville for hiring us to be a part of Springfest in Springville, Alabama. As usual with free events the line was extremely long, but we painted a record amount of people in the time we had available. I wasn't able to get some photos because of the frantic pace, but we had a lot of fun and there were some colorful designs all over the event.

If you have never been to Springfest, try to make it out next year, but don't forget your chairs and blankets and expect a huge crowd. The music is great and the fireworks are awesome. If you have blinky lights to keep track of your kids in the dark I suggest bringing those. One of the local churches handed out glow necklaces that evening and the kids loved them.

We hope to be back next year.

Kristin

The Art of Henna

We did our Henna lecture last night for the North Shelby Library's Teen event. Everyone seemed to be very interested in the information about Henna and how it has been and is used and how it actually works. I spent a good bit of time educating them about Black Henna and how it is different from pure Henna. You can find a lot of information at www.thehennapage.com and look under the heading Black Henna. Once the educational part was finished I put a small henna design on each of the girls and decorated the last one with some gold glitter gel as well. Once I get the photos uploaded from the camera, I will post them here and also on the www.starshinefaces.com website.

If you are interested in having a Henna party or adding it to your fall festival line-up. Give me a call at 877-504-5977!!

July events

We will be at the Porsche 250 this weekend on Saturday (20th) and Sunday (21st) in the Children's Activities areas. We will be painting race inspired designs and we look forward to seeing you there!! This will be the first time for us at this event and we are looking forward to a great time and lots of fun and excitement.

Tomorrow is our last library show for the season and we are at the library in Montevallo, AL. The library shows have been tons of fun and we have had a great response to our storytelling and facepainting. We are getting ready for next year's theme of Be Creative at your Local Library, so get ready for some craziness next year. Remember we have holiday themes as well for Halloween and Christmas.

Hopefully this fall will be as busy as last year with public events as well as private ones. Thank you so much for your support of Starshine Faces.