Nancys Tattoos & Body Art

Recently, I was somewhere and there was a woman doing things similar to temporary tattoos. What she did is she stuck a sticker with the outline onto you, painted over it with glue, waited a few minutes, removed the outline sticker, and blew glitter onto the glue parts with little bottles. If you know, what is that called, and where might I be able to find materials for it?
Anyway, I face paint about 5 times a year as a volunteer. My face painting skills are crap, I am a reasonably good artist though. I figured if I could somehow do what she did with ordinary face paint instead of glue and glitter, it would be easier for me to make face paining and body art look good, because I can pre make the line art and then just color it in.
I have sticker paper, I could make the sticker things with that, I can't afford to buy special stuff.
Do you think it would work? Should I try?