Get Your Pirate On

Late Summer and early Autumn brings Pirate Festivals to communities around the world. The Pirate Festivals incorporate the myth and mystique of Pirate Lore with fun, adventure and excitement. Eastport, Maine, USA will hold their 5th Annual Pirate Festival on September 9-11, 2011, with a Pirate Invasion of Lubec on September 3, 2011 . The Eastport, Maine Pirate Festival is an entire weekend of Pirate Activities for the whole Community and Visitors. Eastport, Maine is a small city on the eastern most tip of Maine, in fact it is the easternmost city in the Continental United States, with nearby Lubec being the easternmost municipality in the United States. Originally settled by French Explorer Samuel de Champlain, this easternmost region of today's Continental United States would later become the home to fisherman and traders. The center of smuggling during the Embargo Act imposed by United States President Thomas Jefferson, the community has never lost its affinity to the myth of the Pirates.

On the evening of September 9th, 2011 The Eastport, Maine Pirate Festival begins with music and a Pirate Ball, where the King and Queen of the festival are crowned followed by nighttime Cutlass Fighting and Sword Demonstrations. The next morning, September 10, the children start the day off with a Breakfast with the Pirates and Schooner Ride. The whole town gathers for the days activities beginning with the Pirate Parade, Pirate Parade, Suddy 5K Walk/Run, Pirate Reenactments complete with cannon fire and small arms firing. The day winds down with entertainment and a Fireworks display. The festival continues on Sunday September 11, with the Pirate Pet Parade, International Lobster Boat Race, and The Trail of the infamous female Pirates Anne Bonney and Mary Read.

If you are attending the Eastport, Maine Pirate Festival in September or any number of Pirate Festivals that take place throughout the world, you want to be the most notorious pirate on land. To become a true to life swashbuckling pirate for the Pirate Festival is easy with the Complete Pirate Character Makeup Kit from Mehron, Leaders in Theatrical Makeup since 1927, not many years after the real Pirates stopped sailing US waters. The Complete Pirate Character Makeup Kit provides you with selected Theatrical Makeup hand picked by a Professional Makeup Artist to create a Pirate the Professional Way just as they do for Stage, Television and Film. Included in the Complete Pirate Makeup Character Kit by Mehron is Step-by-Step Detailed Illustrated Instructions written by a Professional Makeup Artist to guide you through the Pirate Makeup Application Process, that includes how to use the rest of the contents of the Complete Pia rte Makeup Character Kit. 3-Color Palette Tooth F-X,Makeup Remover Cloth, Colorset Setting Powder, Non-latex Foam Wedge, Powder Puff, Eye Patch, Head Bandanna and No Holes Earring, everything you need to become the Pirate you want to be for the Eastport , Maine Pirate Festival or any Pirate event you want to attend throughout the year.

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Pirate Makeup Kit for Pirate Festivals

The Gasparilla Pirate Fest held in Tampa, Fl, USA is one of many Pirate Festivals around the world that are held annually to commemorate a particular Pirate or Pirates in general. The Gasparilla Festival is worth mentioning here not only because it is usually the first Pirate Festival Held in the USA each year, but also because it is one of the oldest Pirate Festivals held each year. This year the Tampa, Fl, Gasparilla Festival is being held on January 31, 2010. The Gasparilla Pirate Fest is held to re-create the legend of the Pirate Jose Gaspar, be he real or not, his legend is recreated each year by the residents of Tampa and enjoyed by thousands of would be pirates

The romantic notion of pirates spans throughout the cultures of the world, with pirate festivals everywhere honoring the pirate traits of adventure and treasure. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world attend Pirate Festivals every year and most often in costume. Many attendees to Pirate Festivals make do with toy pirate hats, bandannas and eye patches, not realizing that a Complete Pirate Makeup Kit is readily available and affordable from Mehron, Leaders in Theatrical Makeup since 1927. The Complete Pirate Makeup Kit contains all the essential professional makeup you need to turn into a pirate. The Complete Pirate Makeup Kit isn't just a bunch of makeup in a box, a Professional Character Makeup Artist has selected the makeup that would be used to create a Pirate for Studio and Stage. Along with the preselected professional theatrical makeup in the Pirate Makeup Kit is an illustrated step by step instructional guide written by a Professional Makeup Artist to guide you through the Pirate Makeup Application. Along with the detail instructions written by a Professional Character Makeup Artists are clear, vivid photographs that accompany the step by step progression of becoming a Pirate by applying Professional Theatrical Makeup.

Whether you are gearing up for the Gasparilla Pirate Fest in Tampa or one of the hundreds of other Pirate Festivals held through the year, the Complete Pirate Makeup Kit by Mehron can help you feel like a Pirate. You can achieve the same authentic Pirate Look that Makeup Artists on Broadway and in Hollywood create when they need a Pirate. You can blend right in with the Pirates of the Caribbean when you apply the contents of the Complete Pirate Makeup Mehron. A theatrical secret is that looking the part is half the battle of personifying the part, you can look like an authentic pirate for no more than you are spending now to piece together an amateur pirate look. This Year Look Like a Pirate and you will Feel Like a Pirate, Mehron Pirate Makeup Kits are available throughout the world at Authorized Mehron Retailers.

Pirates Wanted In New York State

The New York Renaissance Faire is one of the finest in the Nation. Held in Tuxedo, New York on Saturdays and Sundays from August 1, 2009 - September 20, 2009 is a fantasy getaway into another time and place. The setting for the New York Renaissance Faire is a replica village featuring merchants, games, food and beverage harking back to 16th Century. The costumed staff of performers stay in character throughout the day transforming upstate New York into the days of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Complete with King and Queen, Knights vie for the hands of maidens in staged duels.

Special Weekends include Pirate Weekend being held September 12-13, 2009. Visitors are encouraged to attend Pirate Weekend in their favorite Pirate attire and enter Pirate Costume contests for both Children and Adults. Becoming a Pirate for the Renaissance Faire is easy with the Complete Pirate Makeup Kit by Mehron. The complete Pirate Makeup Kit and all Mehron Makeup is manufactured only miles from the Site of the New York Renaissance Faire. Founded in Manhattan in 1927 and currently headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, NY, Mehron has been neighbors to the New York Renaissance Faire since their inception.

The Complete Pirate Makeup Kit contains the Makeup and accessories you will need to transform from a 21st Century American into a 16th Century Pirate. Complete with illustrated step by step instructions, the Pirate Makeup Kit by Mehron guides you through the transformation to Pirate with the aide of instructions written by professional makeup artists who transform performers into characters all the time. Learn how to use the included 3-Color Palette of professional performance makeup contained in the Pirate Makeup Kit, how to transform your dental work into the rotting teeth of a Pirate with Tooth F-X, and set your makeup like a professional with Colorset Setting Powder. The Pirate Makeup Kit even includes a head bandana, an eye patch and a no-hole earring.

There is no easier way to attend the Pirate Weekend on September 12-13, 2009 at the New York Renaissance Faire than by using Mehron's Complete Pirate Makeup Kit. Residents of the New York Tri-State area can travel back in time with a visit to one of New York's most creative interactive events and participate by attending in full Pirate Costume and Makeup. No matter where you are travelling from you can obtain the Pirate Makeup Kit from an Authorized Mehron Dealer near you.