Henna

Henna is included to body painting, although henna is used to hands, but hands is the part of body. The henna plant is a little tree that grows in hot climates such as northern Africa, the Middle East and southern Asia. The leaves of this plant are harvested, dried and ground into a fine powder. This powder is made into a paste and used to dye skin, hair and even your fingernails. Henna (also known as Mehndi) is an ancient Indian Body Art. Henna tattoos are applied using henna pen and ink. Traditional henna cone cannot be utilized for this purpose. Henna ink and pen are available online from many stores. Though it can be easily prepared at home. For centuries, mehndi— the art of henna painting on the body — has been practiced in India, Africa, and the Middle East, where the henna plant is believed to bring love and good fortune, and to protect against evil. Mehndi is traditionally practiced for wedding ceremonies, during important rites of passage, and in times of joyous celebration. A paste made from the crushed leaves of the henna plant is applied to the skin, and when removed several hours later, leaves beautiful markings on the skin that fade naturally over 1 to 3 weeks

It is used in creating designs and patterns on various parts of the body, though traditionally applied to the hands and feet of women preparing for special ceremonies like marriage. It is completely natural, non-permanent and painless. This Body Art ( Henna Art) is a Painless temporary tattoos unike real tattoos as designs from Henna fade within 1 to 2 weeks. Henna's color does not pass through into the dermis, it only stains the dead cells in the epidermis. Henna's color naturally makes the brick/red/brown stains, it usually takes 2-3 hours to get a good Henna stain (color) on the skin, and that (color) is quite harmless. Pure Henna, with the help of heat, moisture and time, leaves a reddish brown stain on skin, first light, then darkening during the next 24 hours. The shade various according to the quality of Henna (paste) used, and the methods used when applying, and sometimes the colour can darken to almost black, but basically the colour is brown. Henna painting has become very popular as a form of temporary tattoo and is liked by a lot. The best aspect of henna is that it is totally natural, made from a plant plant whose leaves are first dried and then crushed to make a fine powder. While applying, the powder is mixed with water. This makes henna totally safe to use. Along with that, its application is totally painless and the effect is temporary. You can use henna to get tattoos, without worrying about pain or infection. In case you are not satisfied with a particular tattoo, just wait for a few days. Its color will soon wash off and you can easily go for another design. Though there are no set patterns or designs for Henna, there are some popular designs that have been followed since ages. One of the most popular designs is a paisley that is often filled with a checkerboard pattern. Another popular pattern is a lovely peacock, with the sharp and curved beak and the corona on the head. Floral patterns are quite popular as well.

Henna Designs for Bride Henna designs for traditional eastern brides are usually very detailed and complicated. The designs are oriental and some of them are Arabic (Arabic designs have bigger motifs than Indian designs). The design is applied to hands and feet. The hands are covered from fingers to knee but some people prefer to have simple designs for their weddings that cover only palm of hands. In recent years some brides like to tattoo their shoulders or neck but the tattoo does not suit a formal wedding attire, it is more suitable for informal occasions.

Previously special henna mixtures were being made for the brides henna, which contained many other ingredhents apart from henna to give it better shade but in recent years the problem has been solved by the henna cones that are widely and cheaply available. These cones impart color within an hour or two so the henna needs not to remain on the hand for long time to give color.

After the application of henna a coat of sugar caramel, by lightly brushing the areas where the henna has been applied, can enhance color. When the henna is removed from hands the color it leaves may last at most one week. The color is burnt orange and it starts to fad in two to three days.

How To Make Henna ?

You can get your henna at an eastern shop or a 'souk' in many different colors. There's orange, mahogany, brown and black. The orange one is the traditional henna. The black henna is synthetic. It contains PDD (P-phenylenediamene) and can cause allergic reactions. Even if it doesn't cause irritations, it's still unhealthy. Moreover, in the past, black henna at your wedding was considered a disgrace.

Henna Recipe

With one pack of henna, you'll have enough to body paint the entire football team. Put the henna in a bowl and gently pour some lemon juice and boiling water in the bowl. Don't use too much water, the mud has to resemble the thickness of sate sauce. The purpose of the lemon juice is to help the color hold better on your skin.

Your skin should be clean, dry and not fat. If you want to color your nails too, they shouldn't have nail polish on them. Make sure you really want this, because your nails will be orange for about 2 months. It doesn't come off! When the henna is cold, you can get to painting.

If you want to paint your foot soles, which is a traditional custom in Marokko, make sure you have a pillow of some kind to keep your feet off the floor, before you know it, the henna mud is everywhere! You can apply the henna with all sorts of instruments, what works best is a syringe (without the needle of course).

Symmetric and geometric shapes work best. Don't make the lines too thin, the color won't come on to your skin very well. The bigger the surface, the brighter the color will be. 

Let the henna dry in the sun, the warmth of the sun will get your color deeper into your skin. You can also use a hairdryer.

If you make a mistake in the picture your painting act quickly! If you wipe it off too late, the henna will leave a red spot.

After a while, the henna will start to burst. Don't peel it off yet! The henna has to stay on for at least two hours. Then you can start removing the crusts of mud.

Don’t remove the henna with water! Just scrape the crusts of your skin, you can do this with a bold knife. Don't let your body painting get in touch with water for the first couple of hours. Right after you scraped off all the crusts, rub your skin in with olive oil. It will make the color brighter and help keep the color on as long as possible. Your henna painting will survive for about a month or so.

New Trend Of Body Painting

Body Painting growing trend today to be one of the most popular type of art on the body. Body painting is a form of temporary art, which usually only lasts for a few hours. But if you use henna can last for several weeks. 

Traditional Body Painting 

Man in the days of pre-history to paint the body using the natural paint dyes, such as paint, pigment, tattoo, ash and clay. Because at that time with the paint on the body is considered to have magical powers, which can ward off evil spirits at that time. Usually the body paint is used to celebrate the traditional ceremonies. This activity can still be seen on the natives of New Zealand, Australia, Pacific Islands, and in certain regions of Africa. 

Henna or Menahdi is made of herbs known by the same name and is also in use in India and middle east countries. Especially in pernikahn ceremony. Mehandi became popular in western countries starting in the 1990s. While in South America in this body painting using wet charcoal, annatto, and huito to decorate their faces and bodies. Because huito This is a form of black dye, and its color can last for weeks. 

Modern Body Painting 

With the liberalization of thought and wider acceptance of public expression of cultural freedom, especially regarding nudity, in the 1960s, body painting is an art form has seen resurgence in the West. However, there is still debate about whether the body painting is really an art form? although practitioners and followers have no doubt about it. This is quite clearly not only the proliferation of salons and artists body painting, body painting festitival often held on a regular basis in the state of the United States as well as in European countries.


Fine Art Body Painting 
In the era of post-1960s, several experimental methods were tried, like the model covered with paint by rolling on the canvas so the paint will stick to the body. And it depends on the paint used, whether the multi-hued or in monotones, because the images created will be very interesting. 

In painting the body, an idea taken from various sources such as alternative art, fine art, runes, mythology. Usually this activity is associated with a form of protest such as in this case the protest about political policy, or in terms of football. 
So first of my articles, about the New trends of Body Painting.

New Henna Body Painting

Henna is a seed, found in both Middle Far east along with India intended for thousands of decades to make beautiful, momentary skin color paintings. Maybe you have have the printer ink and also coloration spot on your own hands that will appeared to adopt weeks to be able to fade? Henna operates by simply very much similar rule.

Applied to the surface area from the skin color, that intrinsic and extrinsic stains lower from the surface core, leaving behind signifies that can previous to the much better portion of per month. Considering that skin color is obviously developing, the henna may slowly fade and use down fully. That similar surface seed powder offers you the brassy reddish shade if applied to the hair.

Clean henna, at times labeled mehandi, will be rather strong along with dependant upon your epidermis form along with treatment regime, the style done by it can certainly previous several to be able to six weeks when we take out. A large number of stores sell off the pre-made insert which often frequently endures additional for a week and also therefore due to unstable grow older connected with the henna arrangement.

If you are doing skin-rubbing and also skin-cleansing exercise sessions things such as floating around, gaining lotions, and also soaking inside the bath, home furniture may fade away more speedily. If doggy, try to clean the tarnished skin color because lightly as possible in order to to not motivate skin pores to be able to slough down more speedily.

Henna does not injure. You´re not necessarily injecting anything at all into your epidermis. THE veg coloring will be becoming brushed over that. If persons kick in badly to be able to henna entire body painting like a professional, its frequently to be able to a necessary oil from the henna insert as an alternative to to the henna once more.

If you've virtually any aroma and also oil sensitivities, i highly recommend you check with the henna artist regarding the exact recipe utilised, and also specifically point out what contents you happen to be hypersensitive to be able to. The most typical facet influence through henna uses is a make contact with dermatitis, ordinarily manifesting like a summary rash along with irritated. Because this is certainly the spot on along with from the skin color, you can find poor quality methods henna removing. Only when sent applications for moments and also a couple of a long time, washing the insert down results in the paler spot, which is frequently absent inside a couple of days.

 Even so if you have put on the insert on your own skin color that intended for several hours and also suddenly, a person may have to wait for approximately twenty eight days to the orange-brown spot to be able to keep your epidermis. You will need that prolonged to the skin color core comprising skin pores to develop out there along with become sloughed down fully.

Traditionally henna ended up being applied to the hair, hands along with feet, yet current henna entire body painting like a professional can be carried out quite nicely on virtually any non-bending patch of skin pores surface area. During neighborhood gatherings you'll find musicians painting like a professional armbands, swirls all-around abdominal buttons along with tribal skin image design lower people’s backs. Just in case you’ve generally wanted to have a shot at the skin image, yet ended up worried from the permanence connected with that, have a shot at the style inside henna first.

You can observe how much you like the paintings in that , place just the summer weeks previous to acquiring the next step

Cultural Face Painting

 

Tribal or Cultural Face Painting has been used for many motives. For hunting, religious reasons, and military reasons (mainly as a method of camouflaging) or to scare ones enemy. Several tribal fighting techniques were calculated to strike terror. Some warriors entered battle naked except for a loin cloth, but their bodies were streaked in bizarre examples in red and black paint. Decorating one's face in various patterns and shapes has been a part of the cultural make-up of many societies since the beginning of time. Face painting is a common theme across cultures as divergent as the Indigenous American tribes in North America and various tribes in Africa and South America. In Native American Tribes, Face Painting has been used for artistic expression since ancient times. The art of transforming ourselves with make-up and masks is a universal phenomenon. Before we sought to vent our artistic impulse on a cave wall, we painted on our faces and bodies. Indigenous peoples of the Amazon have said that in this power to change ourselves, we demonstrate our humanity and set ourselves apart from the world of the animals.

Patterns developed over time to signify a variety of cultural events and these, conveyed an emotional meaning that was attached to them. The wide range of patterns that a face painter can create, enhance the emotions and meaning of the cultural events. The patterns can be color specific or randomly geometric seemingly without any significance. The shapes and colors convey a strong bond and meaning amongst people who have a face painting tradition. They are a connection to their past and carry a very strong cultural meaning in their lives. Tattooing was practiced and known by the ancient Egyptians, starting during the Middle Kingdom. Geometric designs have been found tattooed on the chests, shoulders, arms, abdomens and thighs of the mummies of dancers and royal concubines. 

The reason tribes use face art to transform themselves may be varied. Sometimes they choose to do so as a part of a tribal ritual or at other times they do so to mark their status (as is the case with some aboriginal tribes), but the colorful and dynamic language of the face painting remains the same.

Traditional Body Painting

Body painting, decoration and personal adornment traditionally carry deep spiritual significance for Australian Aboriginal people. Body painting is carried out within strict conventions that are primarily related to spiritual matters, although the creative nature of these activities is also acknowledged.

The particular designs or motifs used by individuals reflect their social position and relationship to their family group and also to particular ancestors, totemic animals and tracts of land.

People are not free to change their appearance at will; they must conform to respected patterns. In many situations individuals are completely transformed so that they 'become' the spirit ancestor they are portraying in dance.

Decoration - scars, painting and adornment

The art of body decoration includes scarring, face and body painting for ritual, wearing of ornaments, and the transformation of the body using added texture and headdresses to form living images of ancestral beings.

Scars were made on the body for many reasons, but mainly during ceremonies to mark age, initiation or to raise a person's status. Techniques varied from place to place, but scarification (or cicatrisation) usually involved cutting the skin with a sharp shell or rock, then rubbing irritating substances like ash into the cuts so that prominent keloid scars resulted. This process created raised, pigmented patterns on the chest, back, arms or legs of the initiate. Scarification is now rarely practised.

Decoration varies in the regions

Body painting ranges from simply smearing clay or natural ochres from the earth onto the skin to detailed geometric paintings on the torso, face and limbs.

Throughout Arnhem Land, communities decorate the bodies of young boys before initiation. Their chests, and sometimes upper arms and thighs, are painted in clan patterns and totemic subjects. These designs are the same as those used in the bark paintings, and they are also painted on ceremonial objects, burial poles and coffins.

Among the Yolngu of eastern Arnhem Land, adult men's bodies are still decorated in this way with moiety (dhuwa or yirrita) designs at large funeral ceremonies. The colours used originate from a range of earth-based pigments. These give the artists a full range of tones, from white through beige and brown to yellow, rust red and black. With the addition of feathers, leaves and plant substances and coloured arm and leg ornaments, the body could become highly decorated.

The Tiwi on Bathurst and Melville Islands also have a flourishing tradition of body art. They decorate face and body in particularly strong designs for both Pukumani (funeral) and  (yam) ceremonies.

In northwest Queensland, men rubbed charcoal on their foreheads and painted a white band from either eyebrow down the front of the ear and along the shoulders and arms. White and red bands were painted across the chest and the rest of the body was covered in red.

Decoration and ceremonies

The context and designs varied from place to place, but invariably the use of earth pigments to colour the body is indicative of an intricate relationship between human beings and the environment, and is practised mainly during ceremonies - initiation and funeral ceremonies in particular.

In many Desert communities of central and western Australia, men used extremely elaborate personal decoration on ceremonial occasions. During large gatherings closed to women, particularly those enacting the journeys of the Tingari men throughout the desert, ceremonies consisted of making elaborate ground constructions (also called sand paintings) and decorating the bodies of the many male dancers in linear symbolic patterns which related specifically to various sections of the song cycle being conducted.

Warumungu men painted for ceremony in front of a sand painting. Photo by Baldwin Spencer 1912

Body art in these contexts became part of the overall theatre of the ceremony. Women of the desert paint their upper chest, shoulders and breasts for communal women's ceremonies. The colours are paired - yellow and white is 'owned' by one moiety, red and white by another, similar to the eastern Arnhem Land Yolngu distinctions in dhuwa and yirritja colour 'ownership'.

The right to paint another woman's upper body is given to a specified relative. It is not appropriate for women to paint themselves for ceremony; however, in contemporary educational situations, for schools, social celebrations or cultural trips and demonstrations in major cities where women are showing the culture to outsiders, this sometimes occurs out of necessity when the correct artist is absent. The lengthy communal painting and decorating process before the dance and main singing commences is part of the entire ritual, and at the close of each performance the body ornamentation is smeared and disguised or obliterated, just as the stamping feet of performers eventually destroy the design on the ground.

Ornaments

Ornaments were worn by many groups. In coastal areas it was common for women to make necklaces out of strings of shells and beautiful examples were made in Tasmania. In Arnhem Land, animal teeth, bones and bird feathers were crafted into necklaces and pendants. This type of regalia was generally used in performances where body movements were emphasised as the string on waist and armbands flashed and arched with each twist of the hips. Bright strings of red inintibeans from the bean tree adorn desert women who wear them diagonally across the chest and under one breast.

Contemporary use of Body Painting

Body painting continues as a strong and live part of contemporary Aboriginal culture, not only in traditional ceremonies but also as part of art and practices by urban people. Stephen Page, the artistic director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre, has commented about body painting that "There are no time constraints, no boundaries; there’s an apparent timelessness about the ritual.". Djakapurra Munyarryun, a leading dancer with the company, says: "We never dance without ochre on... because that’s what we have been doing for a long time, like a thousand years. Body paint for us is really important for our culture, for sharing with other people too. Some people don’t recognise me when I do painting, when I am performing. They can see when I am dancing, it’s like they thought I am an old old man. Because when I am there, it’s like my soul is very strong and I watch the audience. The paint makes me more older, older looking."

FACE PAINTING

Now, not also body painting popular in the world. Face painting also popular in all around the world.Face painting is the artistic application of cosmetic "paint" to a person's face. There are special water-based cosmetic "paints" made for face painting; people should ask before having face paints applied what products are being used. Acrylic and tempera craft paints are not meant for use on skin and are not acceptable, nor are watercolor pencils or markers. Products not intended for use on skin can cause a variety of issues ranging from discomfort to severe allergic reactions.Just because the product is marked "non-toxic" does not mean it is meant to be used on the skin.

From ancient times, it has been used for hunting, religious reasons, and military reasons (such ascamouflage and to indicate membership in a military unit). Recent archaeological research shows that Neanderthals had the capability and tools for face painting; although they are no longer considered a direct ancestor of homos sapiens, they lived alongside them in some areas and it is a reasonable assumption that humanity has painted faces and bodies since the very beginning. Although it died out in Western culture after the fall of the French aristocracy, face painting re-entered the popular culture during the hippie movement of the late 1960s, when it was common for young women to decorate their cheeks with flowers or peace symbols at anti-war demonstrations. The popular TV variety show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, featured bodies painted with comedic phrases and jokes during transitions.

For several decades it has been a common entertainment at county fairs, large open-air markets (especially in Europe and the Americas), and other locations that attract children and adolescents. Face painting is very popular among children at theme parks, parties and festivals throughout the Western world. Though the majority of face painting is geared towards children, many teenagers and adults enjoy being painted for special events, such as charity fund raisers. Face painting is also a part of cosplay practice, and is enjoyed yearly by people who dress up as zombies to dance with the annual worldwide "Thrill the World" event on the Saturday before Halloween.

There are many kinds of face paint, including:

• Designs that include the emblems favorite sports team ,cartoon characters , and other designs that are "cute" or otherwise appealing to the young.
• Dramatic designs that appeal to all ages.
• Costuming designs which transform the wearer into someone/something completely different, such as Jack Haley's silver face makeup as the Tin Man in The Wizard Oz.
• Designs that endeavor to color the face in such a way to indicate solidarity with a cause, usually the outcome of a sporting contest or membership in a group.

Popular face painting designs include;

• Tiger- This design, in most cases, consists of a body of orange and yellow paint, with black stripes painted on. Details include bushy eyebrows and a muzzle or whiskers, alongside a black painted nose.
• Clown- This design, in most cases, consists of a body of white painting. With shapes and features such as a red nose or bright eyes the model is made to take on the features of a circus clown.
• Spider-Man- This is a body of red paint with white eyes and spider like black patterns on the models face. Similar to that of the mask worn by Spider-Man.
• Dog- Commonly a dalmation, this design is white with large black spots on the eyes and cheeks. A black nose is added along with whisker pores. A tongue is commonly added to give the effect of the model panting, similar to that of a dog.
• Butterfly- A design consisting of the body of the butterfly being painted on the nose and the wings added across the cheeks. Wing patterns vary.
• Cat- Many designs may feature under this heading. It could be a plain black tabby cat or a wild leopard. Either way, it usually consists of a neutral body of paint with bushy eyebrows and a muzzle.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

It is common to find if someone is dressed in an animal costume, a black nose will be added alone to give the impression of an animal face and not just body. Sometimes, a full face is added or sometimes none at all.

Most theme parks have booths scattered around where a person can have a design painted on their face. A similar activity is the application of "instant tattoos", which are paint or ink-based designs that are put on as one unit and removed by means of water, alcohol, soap, or another mildsolvent. More elaborate temporary tattoos may be made using stencils and airbrush equipment.

Use in military

this common in militaries all over the world for soldiers in combat scenarios to paint their faces and other exposed body parts (hands, for example) in natural colors such as green, tan, and loam for camouflage purposes.

Use in professional wrestling

Many professional wrestlers paint their faces as part of their costuming. Examples are The Ultimate Warrior, Road Warrior Animal and his tag team partner, Road Warrior Hawk, and Doink The Clown.

In the late 1980s, American professional wrestler Steve Borden, under the stage name Sting, wore colourful striped facepaint as part of his ring attire, in the National Wrestling Alliancce and later, World Championship Alliance. In the mid-1990s, the Sting character was modernised along the lines of Brandon Lee's The Crow, with black and white facepaint usually following a pattern similar to that of a scorpion. Upon joining then Wo  Wolfpacstable in 1998, the facepaint was temporarily altered to red and black.

In 2002,WWE superstar Jeff Hardy began utilizing facepaint in different variations. Upon being drafted to WWE's RAW brand in 2002, Hardy began wearing neon or ultraviolet body paint, that would glow in its colour under UV lighting placed on the entrance stage. Upon entering TNA Wrestling in 2003, Hardy's facepaint took on a more luminous quality, before being quietly retired in 2006, upon his WWE return. In 2008, Hardy resumed using facepaint as part of his ring attire. Hardy continues to use facepaint as a key part of his act, though he no longer wears it in on-screen non-wrestling segments.

In 2007, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Women's Champion Melina was painted gold with glitter flames and barbwire by artist Mark Greenawalt. She posed with her title belt.