Tips for safer (face) painting this Halloween... and beyond

Tips for safer (face) painting this Halloween... and beyond
http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/10/tips-for-safer-face-painting-this-halloween-and-beyond.html

"It's the Thursday before Halloween and my kids haven't quite decided what to be. Top runners at this point (it changes daily) are pretty standard: witch and princess.  And no, I'm not sewing their costumes from scratch (far from it, actually: I'm midnight emailing friends whose kids have cool costumes to borrow).  So when I read this week's report about lead in face paints, I was (for once!) glad to be behind. Now I can praise the beauty of plain faces under pointy hats and crowns BEFORE promising to paint them."