Face Painting Waiver: Fill & Download for Free

Face paint is a category of cosmetic, it is a product intended for and specifically formulated to be used on human skin. Part of this criteria is that it must contain Cosmetic Grade Pigments and hypoallergenic ingredients. That being said, there are very inexpensive brands which are not harmful but which have low durability and may cause skin irritation.As already noted here, tempera and acrylic craft paints or even watercolor paints are not suitable for skin, they were not designed for this purpose. A search online easily finds photos of people with skin which has been irritated or even scarred by the use of such paints intended for crafts use.Many extremely inexpensive face paints are of rather poor quality. One of the less expensive face paints that is actually of usable quality is Palmer Face Paint. This is the same company that invented Paint-by-Number kits. A bit thick, it isn’t great but it is usable.If price is not an object, the professional theatrical makeup company Mehron Cosmetics also makes a liquid face paint, but mainly sells various other products used by professional makeup artists for stage and film. Their products are far superior to daily wear cosmetics or face paints, but are more expensive.Their liquid face paint is a low end product for them (you really have to search to find it on their site) but it is head and shoulders above most others in quality. Professional theatrical makeup manufacturer Ben Nye also sells excellent face paint in cake form. I prefer liquid face paints for hygienic reasons because you can portion out small amounts that are discarded immediately afterwards, preventing the paint that touches anyone’s face from coming in contact with another person‘s skin. The antibacterial compounds added to most face paints will not prevent transmission of a number of skin-borne maladies. I use sponges and pointed cotton swabs which are disposed of or brushes which are immediately disinfected between uses.Various excellent brands exist: Ruby Red, FAB, Graftobian, and Kryolan among them. Good brands include Diamond FX, Wolfe, even Snazaroo is decent.In any case, when I or my students do face painting we follow very strict hygienic procedures (stricter than those called for by the International Face Painters Association) and we still have customers sign waivers, because approximately one in 10,000 people will still react to face paint even though it is hypoallergenic.Over the years I’ve learned a lot about paints and adhesives when creating makeup special effects or costumes, and building theatrical props and custom magic tricks. We talk about all of these things over at Reality Check.

First thing you should do is “Homestead” your house; if your lawyer doesn’t recommend it at the closing then you should go to town hall and do it yourself. The Homestead laws prevent creditors from seizing your house for unpaid debts. It’s always a good idea to Homestead.Follow up on all those imperfections that the Home Inspector found and reported in his book. You paid 750 dollars (or whatever) for it so don’t ignore what he found. If he says the circuit box is overloaded, get it replaced. If he thinks the roof needs work, plan on getting it done. The job isn’t over because you own it now - it’s just begun.Meet The Neighbors - many people don’t do this. Make a big effort to go and meet the neighbors. You’re going to be stuck with them for a long, long time. You want to make friends and avoid troubles.Walk the property lines and make certain your stakes and corners are real and accurate. At some point it is worth paying an engineer to survey the plot and put in orange stakes so you know exactly what you own - and are paying taxes for. I’ve seen many people lose their property to neighbors who encroach for years and years. I had an aunt who lost a significant part of her property when a neighbor plowed a driveway on her land and she didn’t do anything for “n” years, after which the town said it was too late - she had “abandoned” it. Don’t do that.Hire cleaners and clean, clean, clean that house. Clean it up before you move in! It will be too difficult to clean while you’re moving in and impossible to clean afterwards, not to the standards you like.Same goes for plastering, painting, etc. If you can manage it, paint it before you move in. It’s a pain in the ass afterwards.Change those locks! Hide an emergency key somewhere. You WILL need it eventually.Have a tradesman you trust inspect your furnace, hot water tank and AC systems. You don’t want that furnace to crap out in the middle of your first winter, as mine did.If you’re on city sewerage, consider having the soil pipe reamed. It’s only 250 dollars; you don’t know if the old owners ever did it and it’s cheap 5-year insurance to get it done now so you know what you’re facing. If a sewer line is clogged or collapses, it’s hundreds or thousands of dollars to get it fixed as an emergency. I’ve been there. It’s worth getting that sewer line checked.If you have a brick chimney and your inspector suggested repointing or recapping, now is the time to get it down. The top bricks on chimneys fail and fall over over time, especially with oil heat which is corrosive to masonry. Keep on top of that.Get those gutters and downspouts cleared.Check your casement windows for rot and replace with modern, secure windows. It’s easy for a burglar to get into the house through an old casement window. If they are rotten, it’s much easier. And usually they are low and hidden so no one sees him doing his dirty work.Know exactly where the furnace cut-off switch is.Know where the furnace filter is and change it right away. If you have water filtration do the same thing. Then you know what you’re getting and that it works.Know exactly where the main water cut-off is - and any other valves that cut off water. I guarantee that sooner or later you will need to cut off the water in an emergency and that is no time to be hunting for the right valve. Not many homeowners realize that the weakest link in your house is the hoses that go to your washing machine. If they are rubber, they WILL fail eventually. If they fail when you’re on vacation - congratulations - you will have a new indoor pool in your basement when you get home. If you move in your old appliances in your new home, replace those hoses. Replace them with braided metal hoses. When you go on vaca, turn off the water to the washer.If your new house has a sump pump, for god’s sake replace it at once. If you don’t want to replace it because a new Goulds costs 250 bucks then at a minimum hand-test the trigger to make sure it fires. There are few things more discouraging than depending on a sump pump that fails when it is needed most. And DO NOT skimp and buy the 69 dollar Home Depot special. Buy the quality model. You do not know heartbreak until you go down in your basement after a big storm and find all your precious photo albums floating around and the carpet and furnace ruined.Check the connecting pipes between the valves and faucets in the kitchen an bathrooms and see if the nuts are plastic or metal. If the nuts are plastic replace them with pipes with metal nuts. The plastic degrades over time and results in a leak. I have had happen twice. I even go as far as using braded steel pipes if available.Know exactly how to pull the main electrical breaker. If someone is being shocked or there is an electrical fire that doesn’t trip a fuse, you cannot stop this event without killing the electricityGas company doesn’t often let you turn off the gas - but you can if there is an emergency. Find the gas meter and know where the valve lug is located. It may require a pipe wrench. If you have gas appliances, know where the cut-offs are.If your house was built before 1974 then you have lead paint, almost guaranteed. You had to sign a lead paint waiver at closing. If you have small children then it is absolutely critical you deal with the lead paint. Children are drawn to eat lead paint because it tastes like sugar. You cannot cover it with paint; you have to encapsulate or remove it and encapsulation is sometimes forbidden by law. Removing lead paint is an expensive and intensive effort. The same goes for asbestos. Asbestos is found in outside shingles, floor tiles and pipe insulation and removing it is expensive; screwing with it yourself is dangerous. You have to look to your inspection report for their determination and recommendation. I have steam pipe insulation on one of my apartment buildings; as long as it’s not disturbed, it’s okay. Once it’s disturbed it requires an expensive remediation process.This will most certainly come out in the inspection report but one thing you absolutely should check is the age and condition of your oil tank if you have oil heat. If just five gallons - even fewer sometimes - spill from the tank, it requires hazmat remediation at enormous expense. Tanks are not that expensive and should be modern with modern piping to the furnace. If your tank has oil stains on the bottom, it could be ready to fail and when they fail it is a disaster; the smell of the oil alone will drive you from the house, even in small amounts. Check that tank!Make sure your smoke detectors are in place and work. If not there, put in a combo, CO/Smoke detector hot wired in the basement near the furnace.This is something to consider too. If you have a stone or cement unfinished basement then before you move in buy a 15 dollar insect sprayer and fill is 1/4 with bleach and the rest with water and spray the basement thoroughly. Make sure all windows are open, all doors and work backwards towards a door. It’s best if you have a respirator. Bleaching the basement will kill or reduce incipient mold build up and you want to do this before you move in because the strong smell of bleach will drive you from the house. After a day it will be gone and your basement will smell clean, not like bleach.Please remember that if you do get a contractor to do a job you never, ever, ever pay him the full amount until the job is completely done. Many contractors will ask for a sizable deposit to start the job. That’s usually ok as long as it does not exceed half the estimate. Then when the job is “nearly done” they will want the remainder of the money. IF YOU PAY THEM, THEY WILL DISAPPEAR. If you want, give them half the remaining money and tell them you will pay the last on completion. It doesn’t matter how much you like or trust the contractor - once you pay him, he will disappear, never to be seen again.There is no end of stuff you can and should do - almost all of it requires money. All of it requires effort. But you sleep better at night knowing that something is done because you did it than depending on people who were moving out and knew they were moving out for awhile to do the maintenance before they left.

The HOA is sending me mail saying that I need to repaint the entire outside of my house, but financially I can't because I am a single mother supporting two kids in college. If I don't paint the house, they are saying that I will be fined $100 initially and $25 everyday afterwards.Instead of bashing HOAs in general, I’m going to go out on a limb and tell you exactly what you should do.I’m assuming that you didn’t paint the house in the first place. If you painted the house without HOA approval, you’re screwed. Just stop reading here. If you didn’t follow the HOA’s rules regarding paint colors when you painted the house, the HOA can fine you, put a lien on your house if you don’t pay, and then foreclose on your lien. If this is the case, you’ll want to find out what is cheaper: either paying for the repaint, or paying for the fines. Do whichever is cheaper.If you actually bought the house with that color on it, the HOA has a really tough hill to climb to try to make you pay for it. You signed your covenants with the house at that color, so the HOA (by allowing the house to be sold with that color on it) tacitly approved the color. They can’t now come back and blame you for the color and force you to pay for it or face fines.They can either:pay for the repainting themselves (since it was their oversight that caused the house to be sold with the wrong color on it), orgive you an unlimited waiver until such time as you can get the money to pay to paint the house yourself.I don’t know the laws in your area, nor do I know the agreements laid out in your covenants. If you painted your house yourself, in violation of your covenants, I’d talk to a lawyer, and start looking at how to pay for it, since you could conceivably lose your house. If you didn’t paint the house, I’d start by talking to the HOA Board. They are homeowners in your neighborhood too, so talking to them about this issue should help. Advise them that they allowed the house to be sold with the wrong color on it, so maybe they will work out a compromise on paying for the repaint, or letting it go until you can afford it.(EDIT) I learned that, as usual, this varies by state. Here in Florida, the buyer is expected to inspect the home for HOA compliance before it is purchased, find any items not in compliance, and negotiate with the seller to repair those items, or the liability transfers to the new owner.I personally don’t find that to be reasonable. In most cases, the HOA doesn’t even know when a violation exists. It would be an incredible burden for a prospective home buyer to learn all of the HOA rules in a prospective community and inspect a home against those rules. I’m not even sure that home inspectors (which you hire before you buy a house) would be able to find items on the exterior of the home which are not in compliance with HOA rules. Nevertheless, that is the law in Florida.So there are certain situations in which you may become liable for a bad paint color which was not corrected prior to the previous homeowner selling the home. Again, personally I find this highly unreasonable, but I guess that’s just me.(EDIT 2) Some people seem to be intimating that by “color” the OP is actually living in a house with faded paint. With modern paints, this is usually unlikely, but if that’s the case, this is a maintenance issue. The homeowner is required to keep up the exterior look of the house.If the homeowner has a financial hardship, she should contact the HOA and work something out. Perhaps the HOA can assist with soliciting donations to a GoFundMe so she can paint her house, and neighbors can contribute.