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2. Body painting - Wikipedia

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   Face painting is the artistic application of nontoxic paint to a person's face. The practice dates from Paleolithic times and has been used for ritual purposes, such as coming-of-age ceremonies and funeral rites, as well as for hunting. Materials such as clay, chalk or henna have been used, typically mixed with pigments extracted from leaves ...

3. Aztec body modification - Wikipedia

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   Aztec body modification. Aztec body modification (or body alteration) was practiced by the members of the Aztec Empire in Mesoamerica. Many times the body modification was used in ritual or ceremonial practices. It was also a crucial part of movement between major life stages.

4. Blackface - Wikipedia

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   Blackface is the practice of performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment. Scholarship on the origins or definition of blackface vary with some taking a global perspective that includes European culture and Western colonialism.

5. KISS's Paul Stanley on painting, facepainting and why he ...

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   My gig, my face, my makeup.’ And I just went back to [the Starchild look]. And I just went back to [the Starchild look]. So, a lot of people believe that [the Bandit character] came first, but ...

6. Blackface in contemporary art - Wikipedia

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   Blackface in contemporary art. Blackface in contemporary art covers issues from stage make-up used to make non-black performers appear black [1] (the traditional meaning of blackface), to non-black creators using black personas. [2][3] Blackface is generally considered an anachronistically racist performance practice, [4] despite or because of ...

7. Scarification - Wikipedia

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   Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/ branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art. The body modification can take roughly 6–12 months to heal. In the process of body scarification, scars are purposely formed by cutting or branding the skin by various ...