Body-painting

Body-painting (also body painting and bodypainting) is when special colors are applied to a human's skin. The colors used are temporary. Depending on the material used, paintings last between a few hours and a few weeks.

Red ochre, a very ancient type of body paint.

Reproduction of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night as body painting by Danny Setiawan

Two Bodypainted Women

Body-painting can be done for various reasons. Examples are:

• to make a work of art
• to camouflage one's body
• to act in some traditional theatre
• to take part in some traditional ceremony
• to party, to create a sensation

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  Blacklight body painting
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  Three saddhus at Kathmandu Durbar Square
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  Kadakali painting
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  Huli man from Papua New Guinea
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  Patriotic theme
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  Soldier with a painted face for camouflage

Related pages

• Cosmetics

• Nudity