IGE Entertainment
- New York City, NY
- Balloon Twister
- 46 Verified Bookings
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Color, glitter and smiles at Marina's Fun Faces!
Marina's Fun Faces offer excellent, beautiful and detail rich Facepainting, glitter tattoos, plus other fun party activities such as Hula Keiki (kids hula) parties, and arts & crafts related to your hula party, in and around the New York City area. Marina has worked as a facepainter for 10 years, bringing joy to little ones and grown ups alike.
As a performer on the New York theatre scene Marina is very used to entertaining folks, and as a Teaching Artist in the New York city schools, she has infinite experience and patience in working with groups of children. Hiring Marina's Fun Faces will give your event a fun flair and joy!
Marina was the ultimate professional - had great energy and engaged with the kids and her designs were beautiful! We had her do face painting at a Fall Equinox event for our residents - and she really added a great vibe to the event!
Response from Marina's Fun Faces:
Thank you so much! I was so glad to be included in your event festivities, Rachael! It was a great event.
We booked Marina for our 4 year olds unicorns party and she was fantastic. She arrived early to set up and was able to create beautiful designs for about 10 kids in an hour. Would definitely work with her again
Response from Marina's Fun Faces:
Thank you, Dina for including me in the festivities. I had great fun making Unicorns, mermi-corns, cat-mermaids, and other creatures! You guys were great!
Marina was a hit at our sons 3rd bday party. Very talented, very nice variety of designs. She also had good communication prior to the event.
Response from Marina's Fun Faces:
Thank you so much! You couldn't have been more kind and gracious hosts for this birthday event!
I asked Mariana to do face paintings for my daughter's 3rd birthday party. I had never used Gig Salad before, so Marina graciously had a chat with me prior to booking. She was very cool and I liked her right away over the phone. She answered my questions and told me how she worked. She followed up a couple of days prior to the event and arrived early wearing a very adorable and festive outfit. Her artwork was amazing and the kids all looked so magical with their face paintings. Thank you Marina for making our event so special.
Response from Marina's Fun Faces:
Thank you so much Alison, for having me at your daughter's birthday party. It was a magical, beautiful and fun event, and I am so thankful that I was invited to be part of it.
We hired Marina for my daughter's 5th birthday and highly recommend her for any face painting needs. She was very professional and the kids loved the face painting she did (unicorns, mermaids, stars...she did it all!). We had 15+ kids and she got through everyone with so much calm and grace. Communication prior to the event was great and all the kids left the party so happy with their face painting. Thanks again, Marina!
Response from Marina's Fun Faces:
It was my sincere pleasure to facepaint the birthday child and all her friends. What a sweet and lovely group of kids! I am so glad to hear all the kiddos were left happy and content - that makes ME happy! :)
Thank you for letting me facepaint at your party.
Marina was great and a wonderful addition to our party. She was communicative, prompt, and professional, and made it easy to coordinate meeting up. She was very understanding about us being late with the chair and table—she was flexible to move to a blanket and kept the glitter tattoo process moving for the kids! She was warm and fun with the kids and all together a special addition to our 4 year old’s party!
Marina was amazing. She checked in with me ahead of the party to see if there were any themes and worked with me to optimize the time that she would be there. She showed up ahead of schedule to set up and was very professional. Marina was sweet with the kids and so many of them felt comfortable getting their faces painted. She also worked with some shy kids to get their arms painted (if they didn’t want their faces done) She did an amazing job and all of the parents were very complimentary and impressed.
Response from Marina's Fun Faces:
Thank you for having me at your party. It was my absolute pleasure to facepaint the kiddos, and you were wonderful!
She was great. Her face paints were detailed.
Response from Marina's Fun Faces:
It was my absolute pleasure to facepaint at your event. Those kids' smiles were priceless!
Price Range: $150/hour - negotiable, depending on your budget
Gig Length: 60 - 240 minutes
Languages: English
I will show up 15-30 minutes early to set up my facepainting station with my paint gear. All I need prepared before I arrive typically is a table and two chairs: one for me and one for my little facepainting client.
An important thing to know about facepainting - and this will help you find the best facepainters around - is that a good facepainter can do 6-10 intricate and detailed face designs in one hour. If you want quantity over quality a good facepainter would be able to accommodate and do about 20 faces in that same houe, but the designs are smaller and simpler. We call that cheek art.
If you have an event with for example 50 people expected, and you only need entertainment for 1 hour, you probably need more than one facepainter.
But that's no problem! I have some great facepainter friends! :)
A little bit about me
I reeeeeally enjoy facepainting, and when I mix and match color with glitter and smiles, we have us a great party!! If you want will add glitter tattoos for a fun time and extra pazzazz!
As a Teaching Artist in the New York city schools in creative dance, hula dance, mixed media arts and crafts, and puppetry, I have experience and patience in working with children of all ages across many different disciplines. My facepainting sessions draw from my years of working with groups of children. As a New York theatre and movement artist I have decades of experience in entertaining children and adults alike.
Hiring Marina's Fun Faces will guarantee a fun time and many smiles (and lots of ocean safe glitter of course)!
As a faceapinter I travel with all my color and glitter. All I need is a smiling face, a table and chairs to sit on for me and the paintee!
As a hula dancer for a kids' party, the easiest to start the music is with an iPhone hook up. But playing the music is something we can discuss beforehand. Strength of speakers depend on if we're outside or inside etc.
November 02, 2024 • 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
October 26, 2024 • 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
September 17, 2024 • 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Cocktail Party |
September 07, 2024 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
May 11, 2024 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
July 30, 2023 • 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
April 22, 2023 • 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
October 31, 2022 • 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
October 08, 2022 • 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
September 10, 2022 • 11:30am - 12:30pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
July 30, 2022 • 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
July 23, 2022 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
July 27, 2019 • 12:00pm - 2:00pm | Nonprofit Event |
Caressa L. said “We hired a mime for a rather kooky event. We had no idea what to expect. David walked in completely in character and never broke it for the 3 hours he…”
Rene M. said “It was a pleasure working with Gerry! Her portraits are beautiful and she delivers them quickly. I am looking forward to our next event! Gerry also provided…”
Andria R. said “We had a great experience with Laura. She was very professional, showed up early and set up quickly. The event ran smoothly, and everyone was very happy…”
Keisha H. said “I was very happy with her services. The children enjoyed all of the creative balloon characters made, and the creativity she provided.”