If you love to create things for people to wear or you enjoy doing makeup for fun, you may be able to turn this love into something more than just a hobby. Whether you want to do kids makeup for Halloween, start face painting or doing henna, or you want to create homemade makeup for people that want natural ingredients, you can do that.
All you need is a plan, some prototypes and the internet, and you are well on the way to turning your love of arts and crafts into a business. You’ll also want some supplies and/or ingredients on hand as well.
Creating Fun Accessories
Hair accessories sell like hotcakes. People love to decorate their hair and especially their children’s hair. If you have a crafty bone in your body and you like selling online and at craft shows, you could make some money creating floral barrettes, headbands with cat ears, and more.
You can create nearly anything you want if you believe people will want to wear it. Take photos of friends wearing them to use on your Etsy account, if you sell online.
Homemade Makeup
If you want to make homemade makeup to sell you’ll need to make sure that you are aware of all of the ingredients that you are putting into your stuff. You’ll need to share these with the people that buy your products. They want proof that your makeup is all natural.
You could simply make your own makeup to use at home, and save some money, and the health of your skin. There are tons of articles and recipes online.
Airbrushing And Halloween Makeup
If you have a knack for art and you like makeup, you may want to get into doing face painting at children’s parties or maybe get into theatrical makeup for movies. Both can utilize theater makeup and airbrushing. You can take classes in theatrical makeup and learn everything there is to know about horror makeup and more.
Classes in theatrical makeup can help you get into TV and movie makeup as well. Who knows, you may end up creating the zombies for the next season of The Walking Dead.
How To Henna
Henna is a dye made from the leaves of a shrub and is used to dye hair, as well as the skin, Many people decorate their hands, arms, feet, and legs with henna. It is even used ins ome wedding rituals now.
Learning to make your own henna and do the henna art on people can be a great way to work with people and be artistic.
Why not turn your creativity into something that makes you some money, and lets you do what you love for a living.
Thank you to Roisin Byrne for contributing this article, you can catch Roisin on Twitter or Facebook here.
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