I always wanted to be a part of this amazing event, but with it being in Austria, never knew how I would get there.

Luckily they branched off and created NABPC and came to Vegas! I only found out about the competition a few weeks ago and unfortunately had to sign up as an airbrush artist as all the sponge/brush slots were full. I do airbrush, but not to the extent of a full body with no hand details allowed. I'm a very hands on artist, and have only been airbrush a few years. These talented airbrush artist have been doing it 10+ years, compared to me. So with a few short weeks, no ideas as to what to do and rules and regulations, I was extremely nervous.

Four days before the event I scratched my original idea and came up with a new one which I had only 2 days to complete. I went in with very little info and immediately realized how little I was prepared once I saw all my competitors. People like Alex Hansen, Nick Herrerah, Mark Reid, the Wolfe brothers! Ahhhhh!!!! These are some huge body paint idols for me!

None the less, I made it through the event, with the help of my amazing model encouraging me the whole time. Next was the judging, then the stage presentation. Wait, judging and stage presentation??? Why didn't I think about any of that? Like I said, not prepared at all.

Everyone was super helpful, and kind and sweet to me the entire day. I believe they all sensed I was the newbie here.

After that long stressful day on little sleep and no food, I made it to the finals! It was the best day of my life and the craziest, but I would never change a thing! Next year I go to OWN, prepared to the fullest!!! Here is a little video I made of the day:

We decided to keep it simply with the design and go for a more viewer friendly approach. Cupid it was! But a sexy, manly cupid, with muscles and flesh and shiny gold! Sounds delicious huh? Check him out!

We met so many amazing vendors and so many beautiful people and look forward to all our weddings and photoshoots we booked with them all! If you mention you saw us we will hold up to our discount, but you gotta know what it was we offered at the show ;)

Meow, was what we were doing all day on this shoot. A Private solicitation that turned into a pretty wet kitty.

Katie, our model, was down for anything. So as I have been having a fascination with neck collars lately, I decided this would be perfect for one!

I hand painted the stripes and stenciled on a Hello Kitty drawing I sketched up. Filled it in with Silver metal pigment and alcohol to give it that extreme shine. Added finishing touches with contours and wha-la!

The milk shots where probably my favorite to do as the model HATES milk! So it was so funny to watch her faces after every shot as she pulled the jug away from her mouth. The pouring of the milk was hilarious too! There is pink milk splatter all over our photographer Talia's walls.

I also to mention, made the glittery cat ears from scratch. I hope this inspires you to be a bad kitty, and rock a sick costume for halloween! Can't wait!!!

So what have we been up to? Well we just finished our first convention, granted it was a bridal convention, we still made amazing contacts and shocked a lot of people. I don't think any booth before has done body painting, so when our model walked out shirtless and dropped his drawers down to his briefs, people just stopped and stared. It took a little to warm all the ladies up to the idea of what we were demonstrating, but the attraction and buzz that was spreading like wild fire was priceless. 

In the craziness and confusion of setting up the booth, we forgot our camera, and instead were only able to capture a few images on our phone, check out some of the pictures:

So please, for the sake of your few remaining brain cells and dignity, get a real life, and a real job and piss of wanker!!! There, I'm done.