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face painting

This morning, instead of having to work (yay!) I got to do some face painting at a breakfast with Santa at the Subaru plant in Lafayette. I came to dread a child asking for Rudolph, but got pretty good at snowmen and Santa. The last kid I had - a 10 or so year old boy - had a special request...

Kid: Do I have to chose from the Christmas ones or can you do something else.

Me (becoming a little nervous): Well...it depends. I have to be able to draw it (because I'm so good at Rudolph and poinsettias, right).

Kid: I want a big star over my eye, like KISS.

Me (slightly startled, mostly by the fact that this kid even knows who KISS is): Um...sure. (Are you sure you don't want a nice Christmas tree?) Now, what exactly does it look like (I know who KISS is, but when he said star over my eye, all I could picture was Lady Gaga).

Kid: You know, just a big white star and then outline it in black (Which I guess isn't technically right, it's an all black star, but close enough).

Me: Okay. (I started painting) How do you know who KISS is anyway?

Kid: I saw them on TV. (The Dr. Pepper commercials?) And I heard one of their songs and I love it! It's my favorite song!

Me: Cool. Here's the mirror, what do you think? (Now I didn't paint completely over his entire upper and lower eye, I was a little worried the paint would irritate it or his mom would kill me).

Kid: It looks great!

And then he turns around to show his mom, who at first is very surprised to find I've covered half of her son's face with paint and then utters...

Mom: Oh, it's KISS! Cool.

Wow. Thank goodness I didn't have too many special requests like that.

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Anonymous said…
I always think of Ke$ha as the one with the weird eye designs, but I guess Lady Gaga does it too.

It sounds like a fun "work" day. Did you bring home a Subaru?

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December 11, 2010 at 5:52 PM
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