Body Painting

Body Painting

With the World Body Painting Festival (and naturally the Body Painting Award) showing up on the 17th of July, it’s about time to get you all fired up in your body painting knowledge.

More about this celebration coming quickly, however initially a brief intro in the art of body painting.

Body painting is a type of body art, and has actually most likely been around because the start of civilization. In practically every tribalist culture, body painting was carried out throughout events or simply for the appeal of it. At that time they utilized clay and other natural pigments.
Body painting still endures in parts of the world, and particularly ‘Mehndi’, the type of body painting that utilizes henna dyes, is now preferred in the western world. The henna tattoo is semi-permanent.

Given that the 1960’s, body painting became a real art kind. There is the nonstop conversation about it’s social reputation due to the fact that body painting virtually constantly includes nudity.

No art without paint of course, and you’ll be delighted to understand that the paint is limited to standards: the body paint has to be non-allergenic and non-toxic. The paint quickly cleans of with water and soap.

When it comes to the henna dyes, which Mehndi utilizes, there’s a distinction in between the artificial black henna, and the natural brown henna. The natural henna color is entirely safe when body painting, however the artificial black henna color might trigger allergies. You need to have yourself spot checked prior to utilizing these at body painting.

This need to get you began, next time, more about the celebration!

Body painting is a type of body art, and has actually most likely been around given that the start of civilization. The natural henna color is totally safe when body painting, however the artificial black henna color might trigger allergic responses. You need to have yourself spot evaluated prior to utilizing these at body painting.