Paint baby bump
The best tips and most beautiful ideas for colorful baby bumps
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Get inspired and find helpful tips and great inspiration here on how to paint a baby bump. With a little imagination, this make-up campaign will not only be a unique experience, but also a very special photo opportunity.
Are you pregnant and your tummy is growing and growing? Wonderful, then it becomes the perfect canvas to paint an artistic motif on. Belly painting is not only fun and strengthens the bond with your baby, but often also results in a beautiful photo motif and is therefore a special memory of your pregnancy.
When can you start painting the baby bump?
Of course, you can paint the baby bump during the whole pregnancy: After all, it is exciting to photograph the size of the belly bulge with a beautiful motif in the individual weeks of pregnancy. Really nice spherical and firm but the belly will from the 3rd trimester: From there the baby bump is particularly suitable for painting.
Paint the baby bump: which colors are suitable?
To paint the baby bump, you need suitable paints. Belly paints for pregnant women are commercially available. However, these special colors are generally not absolutely necessary. There are also suitable Water-based finger paints or children’s make-up. It is important that you Check skin compatibility and water solubility. After all, you don’t want to cause any skin irritation from the make-up action!
If you are using the make-up or finger paints for the first time, test it on an inconspicuous area on your arm. If there is no itching or redness within the next 24 hours, all is good and you can start your painting project on your baby bump. However, if a skin reaction occurs, you are reacting allergically on one of the ingredients. Of course you can also make the paints yourself from simple ingredients, then you know exactly what’s in them: Here we show you how you can make finger paints yourself.
Beautiful and funny motifs for the baby bump
There are no limits to the choice of motif for your baby bump – from funny to playful to filigree, you are spoiled for choice. The good thing: You can (have) paint your baby bump several times. For some it helps to have a template, others just start painting. Here we show you beautiful and funny motifs as inspiration for your baby bump.
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Sweet dreams little baby!
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You won’t be long and you’ll be there soon!
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Birth is getting closer with every passing minute…
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You can easily draw (or have) a simple clock if the smiling clock above is too complicated for you.
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The cute little ladybug is perfect as a motif for a baby bump.
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girl or boy? With an appropriate painting, this sweet little piece of information can be creatively shared with friends and family on your baby bump.
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Musical early education …
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The filigree motif on the baby bump amazes everyone!
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© Medea Billiana Weichbrodt
The last two motifs are from Medea Billiana Weichbrodt, which offers baby bump painting and baby bump plaster casts in the Friesland and Wilhelmshaven area. The artist has lovingly redesigned the belly of her pregnant wife again and again in the ongoing weeks of pregnancy. Her Tip on suitable stains: “At first I just used finger paints. The downside was that the colors didn’t come out nicely and they especially quickly cracked and formed waves when drying. Finger paints are therefore certainly a cheap alternative for simple use at home, which many with older siblings probably have at home anyway, but they’re not my favorite color for tummy painting. After that I used Oil theater make-up. This resulted in very nice colors and gradients. The disadvantage of these colors is that they blur heavily. If it’s just for pure relaxation and maybe to take a picture or two at home, I would go back to these colors over and over again as one of my favorite colors to paint with. And since you should remove them with cream, the baby bump is also creamed afterwards when you wipe off the colors. Otherwise I use that Eulenspiegel makeup. It is water soluble and dries quickly. The Eulenspiegel colors are beautifully intensive and skin-friendly. They are intended for children’s make-up and are therefore well tolerated by most sensitive skins. However, they must not be applied too thickly, otherwise they will form small cracks.”
Painting tips and tricks for the baby bump
- From a certain belly size it becomes difficult to paint yourself. Alternatively you can ask your partner or a friend, if they paint your baby bump – this will be a special moment for both of you. Of course you can too professional body painting or belly painting let do. You should paint yourself want, bet on simple motif, bring some patience and use a mirror.
- Wear old clothes and also protect the floor around you with a towel or newspaper in case something goes wrong. Although the colors are water-soluble and can therefore be washed out, stains can still occur under certain circumstances.
- lay light areas first with light color and paint dark areas and contours later on.
- A make-up sponge renders you faithful service when you Apply paint over a large area want.
- if you reveal your child’s name If you want, you can also paint on the stomach with the brush.
- Is something color gone wrongyou can quickly and easily with a Baby wipe react and touch up the spot on the painting.
Baby bump make-up removal
Water-soluble paint is easy to use Remove baby wipes or a damp washcloth. Then spread a good portion of cream on the stomach – and that’s it!
Paint baby bump with henna: you need to know that!
Filigree motifs can also be applied to the skin with henna colours. But please be careful here pay attention to the ingredients and where the henna color comes from. Hold preferably Consultation with your midwife. Only use henna dye from natural substances and preferably from ecologically controlled cultivation. Check the product description, color, working time and smell. It is best to choose a domestic branded product. Products from the Internet or (even despite the PPD ban in Europe) temporarily offered henna tattoos in Germany can contain the chemical ingredient para-phenylenediamine (PPD) and are dangerous. If this substance is listed or no ingredients are listed at all, you should not use the paint. The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment advises against henna tattoos in holiday destinations. Henna tattoos with henna color that contain phenylenediamine are often offered in holiday countries. The Federal institute for risk assessment wrote in a statement in 2007: “PPD is a known contact allergen that can trigger allergic reactions.” Apotheken-umschau.de summarizes on phenylenediamine in skin and hair dyes: “PPD or some reaction products of the substance have a strong allergenic and also genotoxic potential under certain conditions. The substances have a sensitizing effect, especially after prolonged skin contact and depending on which other components the henna hair dye contains. ” That means the substance in addition to a strong allergy-triggering risk, it may even change the genetic material. This can be such Extend allergy to other chemical substances with similar structure. PPD makes the henna dye look darker and even black henna is not pure henna! In Europe, PPD is banned as a skin dye.
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