Simona Strete-Rad

Simona Strete-Rad is a face painter and a sneaker artist, but she prefers to say, “I’m an artist” because faces and shoes are not all that she’s painting. She is 28 and based in Romania. As her career goes, she has painted whatever she has gotten her hands on since 2012. She has a degree in Illustration and Animation, and she has been a professional face painter for 7 years now. She is a self-taught face painter, and her favorite subjects to teach are unicorns, colors, and how to customize designs. Even though she loves teaching and using rainbow colors, she’s obsessed with beige, dusty pink, and other neutral tones in her daily life.

• Creative Director and Lead Face Painting Instructor at International Face Painting School since 2023
• Co-founder of The Face Painting Camp Romania, 2022, 2023 and 2024
• Instructor at FAMI Germany 2024
• Invited to teach at FABAIC in 2022 but wasn’t able to attend due to visa problems
• Participation in the face painting category at the online World Body Painting Festival in 2020
• 500+ days in the Inspiration to Paint challenge
• Organized and taught her first Unicorns Workshop in 2019
• Participation in the face painting category at the World Body Painting Festival in 2019
• Participation as an assistant in a body painting category at the World Body Painting Festival in 2018