How can you keep your kids busy during the vacations with a make-up workshop?

Yippee, the vacations are here... And here comes the headache all over again for their parents or grandparents. How do you keep your children occupied during the vacations? What activities should they take part in? It's not easy, you might think, to find the right idea to keep them from getting bored or spending all their time on screens... To help you meet this challenge head on, Namaki suggests keeping them busy with a make-up workshop. How does it work? Just follow these three simple steps!

Step 1: Preparing a make-up workshop

Create your own model for inspiration

The make-up workshop is above all a creative and artistic activity. So, before painting their faces, first suggest that children create their future make-up on a sheet of paper: paint, felt pens, crayons and even collage, why not. Of course, you can also find drawings to color on the Internet. At Namaki, we prefer to let children's imaginations run wild... True to life or more abstractThey always have a make-up idea.

Prepare make-up products and accessories

Long-lasting products for dozens of realizations

Le produit incontournable pour cet atelier est le kit de maquillage quatre couleurs. Avec ses quatre fards à l’eau, il vous permet de réaliser jusqu’à cinquante maquillages différents. Ajoutez-lui quelques pencils for lining, drawing or filling. Depending on their age and the details to be reproduced on the skin, make-up artists can choose between a fine or jumbo lead. If your workshop has a theme, you can also purchase one of our Namaki Box which all come with a basic palette of three eyeshadows, two pencils and an ephemeral tattoo board. Added to this is a hair mascara and / or a more specific product (nail polish or glitter powder, for example). For lighter make-up, you can also explore the make-up range with softer, less festive colors than the Disguise range.

Accessories for proper use and storage

Chaque kit de fards contient un mini pinceau. Pour réaliser les maquillages et remplir plus facilement des surfaces plus importantes, vous pouvez utiliser le kit trois pinceaux. Vous aurez évidemment besoin d’un récipient d’eau pour mouiller le pinceau avant de prélever le fard. Veillez également à bien dissoudre dans l’eau le surplus d’une couleur avant de passer à une autre. Prévoyez aussi un chiffon doux pour essuyer le pinceau. Les taille-crayons Namaki simples ou doubles permettent d’entretenir vos deux tailles de crayons. Enfin, vous pouvez fournir quelques miroirs.

Step 2: Inside the make-up workshop

From leaf to skin

Now that every child has imagined his or her make-up, it's time to change the medium. And even become the medium! When we think of make-up, we inevitably think of the face. But why limit ourselves to the face? Arms and legs offer additional surfaces. So why not overflow onto that sheet of paper that doesn't fit into a drawing box?

Playing with make-up

Armed with a mirror, make-up apprentices can reproduce what they've imagined on paper. Depending on age and desire, we offer several variations:

• have your make-up done by an adult or someone taller than you; 
• make-up yourself ;
• make each other up

Step 3: After the make-up workshop

All that's left is to admire the result! It's so satisfying to see what you can create. To immortalize the moment, take a photo of each participant with his or her original design and compare. It can also be fun to organize an election for the most beautiful make-up, the one that most closely resembles the original design... And above all, always in a good mood, without making fun of those who may have been less successful. In the end, this make-up workshop was a discovery for everyone. So everyone achieved something, and can be proud of themselves.

Here's a creative and entertaining workshop that could keep the kids busy for an hour or two. If the workshop is to be followed by a swim, it's best to remove the make-up beforehand. Namaki products remove easily with soap and water. Shall we do it again after a snack?