Photo Feature by Idania Cardenas
Photo Feature by Idania Cárdenas
HAVANA TIMES – Body painting is a makeup technique applied to the skin of the body. It is also known as artistic makeup or body makeup. Primitive cultures used natural pigments (mud, plants, charcoal, animal blood, flowers) to cover their faces and bodies. These could be ritual or even magical paintings, serving as camouflage for hunting or to intimidate their rivals in wars. Or it was simply used as an adornment, to beautify. Body makeup reappeared in the second half of the 20th century. It is the art of using the skin of the body as a canvas, covering the nudity completely.
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