Even though I grew up in the fine art world, I was never much of an artist. I was usually the figure model or he face in the painting or the sculpture. There was even a painting of me at age fifteen or so that hung in a big modern art museum in the San Francisco Bay Area. I think that it may even be a part of their permeant collection. I did this for years and still do from time to time. It's a lot of fun. But it helps if you can stay still for a long time if the artist is doing a live drawing or painting.

So art was very much a part of my life since I was very very little. My folks always tried to get me to paint or work in different media so that I would blossom in artistic ways. And like most little kids, I was given more than my share of finger paints. I remember painting all over the table with them and when my folks weren't looking I would paint on the refrigerator and the walls. Yes, I did get in trouble for it, but it didn't really stop me.

When I was a teen, I would still try to find those old finger paints and I would paint on myself to add to costumes that I was working on. The old stuff that I would use would stain my skin so I stopped doing that.

I have since tried to find something that I could use to make tribal looking war paint but nothing would stay on or not stain my skin badly. So that brings me to trying out Body Fingerpaints- Body Paint.

Body Fingerpaints- Body Paint comes in a pack of four colors and flavors. They come in pink (strawberry), green (apple), red (cherry), and blue (blueberry). When I first opened up the little half an ounce jars, they smelled like the old finger paints that I had as a kid. But after a few seconds they started to smell like what they should smell. They tasted a bit sweet for what they are, but it wasn't horrid.

Body Fingerpaints- Body Paint has a creamier feel than the old finger paints. They wash right off with a lick or with a wipe. It also doesn't stain the skin at all. There is no color left once it's licked off.

The only real problem with Body Fingerpaints- Body Paint is that it doesn't ever really dry on the skin. I know that it really isn't supposed to dry or have the time to dry, but I was hoping that I could use it in costuming. Well, I can't. Not to say that I am not having some fun with it.

The Body Fingerpaints really didn't last very long. I went though them very very fast. After one night of taking them to the club, they where gone.