This is a MUST tool for use with DISGUISE STIX Face Painting Make-Up. With the sponge, you can coat large areas, do stenciling, do stamping, achieve feathering effects by wiping, the list is bounded only by your desire to play. Here's the trick: WET STICK / DRY SPONGE!! That's the way to get concentrated coloring onto your sponge. If you dip the sponge in water first, you get soap suds - not desired.