07/05/2026
Event Organisers 🥳Are you planning a big event this year?🥳
With the event and festival season now upon us, organisers have a clear choice in how they include face painting at their events.
There’s a huge difference between hiring a professional event face painter, and inviting a face painter as a vendor to trade at your event.
They are not the same thing. There are just different risks and different benefits.
If you want someone to set up a stall, handle cash all day, sell hair braids, glitter, toys, accessories etc and work on a “hope enough people turn up” basis, then you are looking for a vendor face painter.
And that’s absolutely fine. But please also consider waiving the pitch fee for vendor face painters, as unlike many other vendors, they are very time-constrained by how many customers they can physically serve in an hour.
A vendor stall purely selling handmade crafts or products can continue making sales almost indefinitely, whereas face painting is a hands-on service with a fixed capacity, usually around 12–15 faces per hour (at a professional standard) hence why many have to add small pocket money priced items and hair accessories to their stall to try and make it more financially viable.
But please understand that this is a completely different model to hired professional event face painting.
A hired professional event face painter is there as entertainment. We are there to create a high-quality experience for your guests, keep queues moving efficiently, produce fast but impressive designs, work to professional hygiene standards, and contribute to the overall success and atmosphere of your event.
That level of high quality service only works properly when the artist can focus purely on the face painting itself.
Not on handling money between every child.
Not on running a retail stall.
Not on painting as fast as possible to make enough money.
Not on trying to upsell braids and extras to make the day financially viable.
Professional face painting hygiene matters.
Touching cash, coins, phones and payment devices while simultaneously touching children’s faces, brushes, sponges and paints simply is not good hygiene practice. Cross-contamination risks are real,
especially at busy public events.
That’s why many face painters choose not to handle money while painting.
Because the focus is on:
• clean working practices
• one sponge per child
• brush hygiene
• speed and efficiency
• quality designs
• queue management
• guest experience
• professionalism
When you hire a professional event face painter on an hourly basis, you are hiring a skilled entertainer and artist to enhance your event. In many cases, event organisers can even recoup the hire fee through increased attendance, ticket sales, sponsorship, food sales or small activity charges elsewhere.
You are paying for:
• experience
• speed
• hygiene standards
• professionalism
• insurance
• premium products
• reliability
• crowd engagement
• visual impact
• calm queue management
• and an entertainment service that adds value to your event
In both instances a face painter doesn’t just “paint faces” whether they are painting as a vendor or as hired face painting entertainment.
We attract families.
We create atmosphere.
We keep children engaged.
We generate photos, excitement and social media visibility.
We become part of the entertainment offering of the event itself.
So there’s no judgement here at all.
Vendor model = vendor service
Paid model = professional entertainment
They are simply two very different things.
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