FX makeup trial by fire

Posted by Vulnadia on Oct 03, 2008 at 10:54 PM Husband & I had a promo Thursday night for our haunted attraction. It was the first time in the history of our theater doing this haunt, for us to get invited to the press promotion that the fair has every year. This meant that, as the icon characters for our haunt, we would need to BOTH get into makeup and costume AT HOME during the late afternoon IN FRONT OF THE BABIES for the very first time. I had NO idea how they would handle this, and even less of an idea how we would manage to fend off three 2 yr olds while we applied makeup to ourselves at our dining room table. It was interesting, to say the least. Kaiden immediately wanted brushes. He loves makeup brushes and finds them great fun to play with! They are even better when he is able to sneak a tiny bit into the makeup itself and color on himself! This peaked Vivie's interest, and she had to have brushes, too. Then of course Kian had to have his share as well. Pretty soon, we were fighting for brushes for us to use to get ready in time for the promo! I don't know if it was because they got to watch us put everything on and saw the entire transition, or if they just really aren't bothered by much at this age, but none of my little people seemed to be bothered by seeing Mum & Daddy in full makeup. We got really lucky, this time! Hopefully, they won't develope a fear of it by next year! Vivienne even gasped and squealed once she saw me with my vines woven into my hair and my dark ages dress and jewelry on! Now if we can just keep Kai out of the black makeup we will be in business! (He still has a little bit of it in his hairline!)