With prestigious clients such as The Prime Minister and none other than Her Majesty the Queen, here at Balloon Fairies we work to the highest standards.
Do we just turn up, get on with it and go home?
Not quite, we really care that your event is a success so we work with you every step of the way.
We have collated a selection of case studies so you can get an idea of our attention to detail and knowledge that can only be gained from years of experience in the events industry.
(Also because we are very proud of our portfolio and want to show off!!!)
Balloon Fairies at Downing Street and The House of Commons!
When Twinkle was invited in December 2005 to Downing Street's Christmas party in aid of "Shine Charity" she was there with bells on
Being one of few face painters who paint in character with stunning costumes, the Arabian theme was no problem and she arrived in style much to the children's delight as a face painting Arabian Princess!
Her performance was such a success that she has been invited back every year since. This is a huge honour - not many fairies can claim to have met Tony Blair when he was in power, the current Prime Minister Gordon Brown, appeared in national newspapers and on Sky TV with Chancellor Darling!
Dec 2006: "Polly The Pirate DJ!" is invited by MP Keith Vaz to compere the House of Commons Staff Christmas Party.
Dec 2007: "DJ Glitterbelle" rocked Downing Street and The House of Commons with her funky disco and dance workshop. Guests included stars of X Factor, Scooby Doo and the party was featured on Sky News! Balloon Fairies also provided a team of wonderful face painters and their dear friend Wizard Stone-ring wowed the guests with his amazing magic show.
Dec 2008: "DJ Glitterbelle" co hosts another party for MP Keith Vaz with special guest appearances from Dora The Explorer, The Little Princess and contestants from X Factor.
Twinkle appears on GMTV with Cheggers!
Very early in the morning on Christmas Eve 2008 a car arrives at Twinkle's castle to whisk her and the Cheeky Elf away to the GMTV studio in London how exciting!
They appeared in 5 comedy sketches exchanging witty banter with Keith Chegwin and they gave away £50,000 to a very lucky GMTV viewer - Merry Christmas!
England's Official Face Painters at Wembley Stadium
Bibi Freeman is an award winning face and body artist whom Balloon Fairies hold in very high regard so when she asked us to be part of "England's Official Face Painters" at Wembley we jumped at it! A team of 50 artists painted the football supporters with their chosen team's flag before the matches, great atmosphere, great fun - you could hardly call it work and they got to meet Jamie Theakston which made them very happy!
SFX make up artist
The diversity of the enquiries received at Balloon Fairies HQ is pretty vast - we never know where or with whom we'll be working with next!
One of the most unusual requests (so far!) came from Nick Bishop a forensic photographer for The Metropolitan Police. Nick booked one of our make up artists to perform Special FX make up on a dummy - simulating a bullet wound and casualty make up.
This project was prompted by Home Secretary Jackie Stewart's visit to a London mortuary, it was the first time that cameras had ever been allowed to film inside and a real corpse could not be shown on TV for legal reasons.
Our casualty simulated dummy was featured in numerous news reports including London Tonight with Ronke Phillips.
Channel 5 News - "Has the Bubble finally burst on property?"
Another bizarre request came from Channel 5 News. They featured a HUGE bubble floating up into the sky and then popping to create a visual for a report "has the bubble finally burst on property?". The bubble in question was created by a Balloon Fairies Bubble artist who had a fun afternoon creating various gigantic bubbles which the crew then filmed and was later shown on Channel 5 News.
Children's Party at The Palace - Her Majesty's 80th Birthday celebration
Objective: Facepaint 3000 guests in 2 hours at THE party of the century and provide theatrical fantasy make up for thirty Fairy Performers.
This was certainly the biggest party we'd been invited to and our biggest challenge to paint 3000 kids in just 2 hours but WE DID IT!!!
Balloon Fairies in collaboration with our dear friend Lynn at Face-FX created the master plan for the all important day in question, Sunday 25th June 2006. We knew that the artists would want to showcase their face-art masterpieces at Buckingham Palace but because of the volume of kids we would have to work super fast, our priority was to paint the optimum amount of our excited little guests. So stencils were the answer, quick, effective and it allowed all 30 artists to produce exactly the same design over and over again - in this case bespoke stencils custom made of the crown - the logo for the event.
As if that wasn't enough to think about, prior to the start of the party it was our pleasure to provide theatrical make up for the Fairy Performers doing what we do best - beautiful Face Painting.
ING Direct Summer Events
After providing a quality and reliable service to ING Direct over the past few years we were delighted to be involved in their busy schedule of events throughout the summer of 2006. This involved providing teams of Face Painters and Balloon Artists at the most beautiful gardens in the UK for The Royal Horticultural Society, Swanage Regatta and the famous Hampton Court Flower Show. These were all busy venues so it was vital that we did a lot of planning prior to the events, with a system in place for the queues, professional air inflators to speed up the inflation of the balloons along with making sure the balloon artists were recognised as part of ING Direct. Costumes were designed and all balloon sculptures complemented ING's corporate colours. We had so many compliments about the stunning Face Painting - every day kids were coming back again and again. At one point we had two teams simultaneously at RHS Wisley, Surrey and RHS Harlow Carr, N.Yorks for two weeks every day for six hours, all of our artists involved were as enthusiastic and fabulous as they were on day one when others could have easily snapped under the pressure! It's imperative at events of this scale for all involved to be prepared, professional, experienced and to work as a team. We believe that's what makes Balloon Fairies so very special.
The Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire
The Balloon Fairies created a complete fun packed four day program of activities and entertainment for the children residing at this luxury venue over the festive period 2006. 'The Elf Workshop' kept kids of all ages amused for the duration giving the parents a bit of free time to enjoy all the facilities although they seemed to want to join in the fun at The Circus Workshop and the Mini Disco! The Cheeky Elves even provided mix and mingle entertainment for their excited guests during Christmas dinner. On Boxing Day to conclude a successful stay at The Grove each of their little friends were awarded with their well earned Elf School Certificate to much whooping and cheering.
It was then time to share a farewell magic handshake and the Elves went merrily on their way...
Peter Jones Sloane Square London
School Holiday Entertainment
Twinkle and Sparkle the original Balloon Fairies have been providing Balloon modelling and fun at Peter Jones or as they fondly refer "PJ's" for 5 years.
With themed costumes for each season whether it's Easter, Halloween or Christmas they always come dressed accordingly and are particularly a breath of fresh air during the stressful end of summer holidays "back to school" promotion, entertaining the children whilst they wait to be fitted for their school shoes and uniforms. The Balloon Fairies have built up a great rapport with the young customers who now come in store especially to visit them in the school holidays.
Team Building Exercise
After a heavy day of training the department managers of Peter Jones were thrilled to accept our team building challenge with hilarious results - a Balloon Modelling Workshop and then to perform their designs against the clock in front of fellow colleagues!
It was a great success, really brought everybody out of their shells, and surprisingly displayed people's personalities in a fun-filled environment with a much needed break from the facts and figures of their training programme.
The Royal Albert Hall
"Help! I need 2x Belly dancers for tomorrow at the Royal Albert Hall for a Swedish pop concert"...............
No request is too bizarre for Balloon Fairies Entertainment - although the dancers couldn't understand a word the band were singing they happily shimmied to a crowd of thousands at a moments notice!!