very tribal, I like her painting job! I've always LOVED face painting and started early with it for Halloween as well. In my family we always - even at aged 5 - made our own costumes and although they weren't sophisticated, they gave us a great creative outlet and I got really into it every year. The last real costume I put a lot of time into was in the late 1990s and I was a bird with these giant gold wings. I cut out and layered each gold foil feather, painted my face, and wore clothes that worked with it. Somewhere I have a photo, and if I find it I'll share it. Another of my favs from long ago my boyfriend at the time was the North wind and I was the South wind. No one knew what we were unless we told them but we have the greatest time making our costumes. Anyway, thanks for this post and giving me the chance to remember this much loved activity from earlier years! Who knows, maybe I'll do it again soon.