Life Imitates Body Painting Art

Body Painting is not a new Art Form, it has however become a very refined Art Form with specially formulated water activated cake makeup, and the influence of a movement of Body Painting Makeup Artists who are always exploring the next dimension. In the last few years the Art of Body Painting has evolved from simply using colorful Body Painting Makeup on Face and Body into an art form that includes all the schools of art, including Cubism, Modernism, Realism, Symbolism, Impressionism and Surrealism. With influences from tribal Body Painting performed with ancient methods of making body painting Colors from the art supplies of nature, colored clay, barks, plants and berries, Body Painting has come into its own with a wide selection of Body Painting Makeups, Brushes, and Applicators that offers the Body Painting Makeup Artist of the present a selection of colors that surpasses the colors that traditional canvas artists have had for centuries. The modern Body Painting Makeup Artist is truly an Artist, using all the disciplines and skills of more traditional artists to accomplish a living breathing art, that is infinite yet temporal. Unlike the masters of Art, the Body Painting Makeup Artist creates a masterpiece that is temporary and can only be preserved through the art of photography.

On September 9, 2011, at The Studio of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center located in heart of New York City, Mumbai Based Fashion Designers Falguni and Shane Peacock unveiled a Spring 2012 Fashion Collection that reflected the history of the arts of Ancient Cultures combined with the influences of the Art of Body Painting. Taking inspiration from various historical periods at their artistic apex and melding it with the current renaissance period of Body Painting Art, Falguni and Shane Peacock created a Spring Fashion Collection for 2012 that is temporal and infinite. Like the Art of Body Painting, the Art of the Falguni and Shane Peacock Spring 2012 Fashion Collection is only preserved by the Art of Photography, unless the fabrics of designs are specially preserved and exhibited. Like Body Painting, an art that is living, breathing and temporary, the Falguni and Shane Peacock Fashion Collection is an Art that is meant to be worn and lived.

The 2012 Spring Fashion Collection Presentation by Falguni and Shane Peacock with Mehron Makeup, Innovators of Face and Body painting Makeup included yet another Art that can only be preserved and enjoyed via a medium other that its own. The September 9, 2011 fashion Show of Falguni and Shane Peacock And Mehron makeup at New york Fashion Week included a Special appearance by Porcelain Black, a quickly rising star in the Art of Rock and Roll. It took the photography of Richard Esposito to capture the Art of the Falguni and Shane Peacock and Mehron Makeup, and the Body Painting Art of Jinny throughout 2011. Without the art of recording the art of Porcelain Black would also not be preserved beyond its performance time.

A Falguni and Shane Peacock fashion Design that encompasses the colors of the Asian Cultures with the intricate patterns and symbolic iconic intricate art work of Body Painting Makeup Art

A 2011 Body Painting Art Work on Model Sindy Perez by Makeup Artist Jinny with Mehron Makeup captured by Photographer Richard Esposito

Photographer Richard Esposito immortalizes the Falguni and Shane Peacock Fashion Collection on film.

Paradise Makeup AQ in the hands of its co-creator Jinny as painted on Model Sindy Perez in 2011 and photographed by Richard Esposto in New York City, NY

This Falguni and Shane Peacock Fashion shows influences of Body Painting with influences of historic patterns.

A Body Painting by Makeup Artist Jinny with Paradise Makeup AQ that could easily be a part of the Falguni and Shane Peacock Fashion Collection if made in fabric.

Part of the 2012 Spring Fashion Collection of Falguni and Shane Peacock previewed at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2011, a design that can be replicated by today's Body Painting Makeup Artists with Paradise Makeup AQ.

Special Guest Star at the Falguni and Shane Peacock Fashion Preview at the New York Mercedes-Benz Fall 2011 Fashion Week was rising Rock Star Porcelain Black who is wearing a Falguni and Shane Peacock Fashion Design with Body Painted stockings and garters by Jinny with Paradise Makeup AQ, showing how the Designs of Falguni and Shane Peacock Fashion and Body Painting Makeup can be complimenting and interchangeable. Jinny was able to perfectly match the design with the colors of Paradise Makeup AQ and create the illusion of real stockings.

The Birth of Makeup - Black and White

In 2011 the choice of makeup colors is astounding. A little over eighty years ago around the time of the foundation of Mehron Makeup, the two basic Theatrical Makeup Colors were Black and White. No just in the new medium, the Motion Picture, but also on stages and performances as varied as the opera and the circus, Black and White were the predominant Makeup colors used at the time. In the beginning Mehron Clown White won as instant audience from the Clown Tent of circuses to the Stages of Broadway. The purity, brightness and longevity of Clown White was a hit with the performers, actresses and actors from the theaters of Broadway to Thomas Edison studios in New Jersey. Mehron also produced a White Greasepaint Makeup and Black Greasepaint Makeup, the Theatrical Makeup that was fine for live performances but proved to be too overbearing on the screen. The refinement of film and the films industry resulted in Max factor formulating Pancake Makeup, which was replacing Greasepaint Makeup on Movie Sets.

Mehron didn't invent Pancake Makeup but did instill it with a whiter white and blacker black, Mehron Black and White Makeup was joined over eight decades by hundreds of colors across a wide range of Makeup Product Lines formulated by the color master researchers and developers at Mehron Makeup. Today a color depth that will satisfy almost any makeup need is available through Mehron along with Black and White. Although the depth and range of colors to choose from, Black and White are still among the most popular. At the May 2011 Face and Body Art International Convention (FABAIC), an annual event for Makeup Professionals and Novices held in Orlando, Fl. USA, Jinny was busy at the Mehron Exhibition Booth demonstrating the use of Black and White Paradise AQ on Model Sindy Perez.

With Jinny, Black and White take on a whole new meaning , by her use and control of blending, shading, and mixing to produce Black and White Body Paintings that, although just Black and White, project a new meaning to Black and White Makeup. Paradise Makeup AQ was co-created by Jinny and the Mehron Team. Since its introduction, Paradise Makeup AQ has been a favorite of Face and Body Painting Makeup Artists around the world. At FABAIC 2011, Jinny showed why she has been called "The First Lady of Face Painting" by the press. Her control of not only the Makeup Brush and Sponge, but of the texture, depth and hue of basic Black and White Paradise Makeup AQ Makeup. Using only Black and White, the Body Art by Jinny on Model Sindy Perez at the 2011 FABAIC, projects a completed Body Painting that appears to have more than two colors of Makeup, yet it was created with only Black and White Makeup by Face and Body Painting Makeup Artist Jinny.