Saturday, January 29, 2011

Friday, January 28, 2011

Body Painting Gallery

Visit a Body Painting Gallery
If you love the look of body art, but are not quite ready for the commitment of a tattoo, consider body paint. As this body painting gallery demonstrates, body paint is useful for a variety of occasions, from Halloween and carnivals to tribal rituals and adult play. Whether you need ideas for a simple facial design or you're ready for head

Body Paint Fashion
Full Body PaintGet creative with face paint.
Dare to Be UniquePainted Baby Bump
Metallic paints accentuate a very pregnant belly.
Cultural Body Paint
In some cultures, body and face painting are part of rituals and ceremonies.

Body Paint Pics

Awesome Body Paint Pics

This body paint pics gallery will show you that there's more to this art than simple face painting. See how the artist turns flesh into living canvas and makes illusion look like reality.
For instance, take this cherry blossom design. It looks like a painting on clothing, but the garment is actually part of the painting.


Splash
It's difficult to believe that you can't put your hands into these drops of water. The best body paint artists use depth and highlight to bring realism to their work. It's a simple design, yet it has terrific impact.

Simple Flowers
This design is fairly simple, but it brings to mind some of the artistry found in henna tattoos. Burgundy-brown and pale turquoise contrast nicely to give this painting unique appeal.
Body Glow
An abstract design can certainly be interesting, but the addition of glow paint makes all the difference in this design's impact.
Live the Fantasy
This design is a complete fantasy piece that makes the most of simple black and white body paint. She looks fantastic!
A True Elemental
Opposing elements of fire and water come to life in one compelling design.

Exotic Body Painting

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Snow Leopard Girl
Golden Girl
Cosmic Girl
Domme Girl
Flower Child

Exotic body painting is body art that is considered to be one of the most ancient forms of art. Body painting, unlike tattoos, is not permanent and does not stain the skin like Henna. Body paint only stays on the skin for a few hours.

Exotic body painting uses the naked form (male or female) as a canvas. The natural lines and curves of the human body in its natural state can lead to many beautiful paintings. Body art is often seen to depict something wild and animalistic like a cougar or lion. In the casual sense, the body can be painted much like a tattoo, ranging from the mythical to the very real.

In the 50's and early 60's, exotic body painting involved covering a naked body with paint and having the subject roll around on a large canvas (or other medium) to transfer the paint. This technique of painting creates an image transfer reflected as an outline of the human form or a shadow figure. The art was rarely monotone and more than one color would be used. Sometimes more than one model would be used for each color in order to create several contrasts.

Body painting does not have to be for photo shoots or clubbing. Couples can participate in exotic body art in their own homes as a way to heighten sexual release. The couples can explore their partner's body on a most intimate level as they spread paint all over them.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Body Painting

women with body-painted with colorful blue
woman painted like a soldier
woman painted like a bikini on the beach

Body painting is a form of body art, and has probably been around since the beginning of civilization. In almost every tribalist culture, body painting was performed during ceremonies or merely just for the beauty of it. Back then they used clay and other natural pigments.
Body painting still survives in parts of the world, and especially 'Mehndi', the form of body painting that uses henna dyes, is now very popular in the western world. The henna tattoo is semi-permanent.

Since the 1960's, body painting emerged as an actual art form. However, there is the never-ending discussion about it's social acceptability because body painting practically always involves nudity.

But no art without paint of course, and you'll be happy to know that the paint is restricted to guidelines: the body paint has to be non-toxic and non-allergenic. The paint easily washes of with water and soap.

As for the henna dyes, which Mehndi uses, there's a difference between the synthetic black henna, and the natural brown henna. The natural henna dye is completely safe when body painting, but the synthetic black henna dye could cause allergic reactions. You should have yourself patch tested before using these at body painting.