About
Hello — I’m Chiara Tucker
I’m a primary school teacher in Brighton & Hove, and at weekends I paint faces.
Face painting started, as these things do, with a birthday party and a cheap set of paints. Being very calm around small children turns out to be excellent training for holding a brush steady while a four-year-old wriggles and tells you about their dog.
The best part of the job is the mirror. There’s a moment when a child sees themselves as a tiger for the first time, and their whole face changes underneath the paint. That never gets old.
Nervous children get as long as they need, and nobody is ever painted who doesn’t want to be.
Where I go
Based in Brighton & Hove, and happy to travel up to an hour’s drive, across most of Sussex and the Surrey border. If you’re slightly beyond that, ask anyway — it depends on the day.