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At the Darkening of the Sun festival my kids performed at, I was asked to help with the face painting.
The theme was tribal that night, and they didn't want to appropriate native designs, so we went with an Avatar/tribal look, with lots of blue.
I probably painted a dozen or so faces, and am afraid it was done so fast, I barely got photos. I thought I'd get them after the show, but the light was bad and people were busy.
(that is our Hippy Chic in the background, doing hair for the show, she is a master braider)
Here is one of our practice looks before the show and I had more time to do it, plus had white. I didn't have any white with me for the performance, which I think made the designs not as vibrant from the crowd.
But the troupe has asked me to do butterfly faces in the future for an act Sugarwings has in mind, where the aerialists start out as eggs, and morph from caterpillars to cocoons to butterflies.
I'm excited about that, I love butterflies. And it is nice that they are asking me to help again. I loved doing it, even with the rush with less than perfect results, they were ok with what I did.
I was afraid I'd let them down.
We used eye shadow for the shading and eye liner for the designs. I think I'll have to throw in some white paint too for more distinction.
The makeup help up well, so much so that with no hot water, a lot of the performers woke up in their tents the next morning with the look intact.
I was curious about how that effected the sun screen situation…. When they went up on the hilltop in the bright sun to watch the eclipse, did they end up with a sunburn in a tribal pattern?
I've got plenty of shots of Sugarwings in her makeup, since she hangs around on our laps as much as she can.
And Sylvan's face was done first, so the light was good and the line of performers hadn't gathered yet for me to work on them, so I took some of her.
Avahni was the only other picture that I took.
I gave Sugarwings my leftover paints and she has been face painting everyone who will sit still for her. Maybe she and I will go into business together.