The Art of Body Painting and Face Painting

Body and Face Paint at the Berlin Love Parade

Children enjoy the diversity that changing fashion can provide, seeing the constant change as a way to satisfy their desire to experience "new" and "interesting" things. Two of these are body painting and piercing.

Body painting is a form of body art, considered by some as the most ancient form of art. Body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts from hours to weeks.

Painting of the face is known as face painting. Actors and clowns around the world have painted their faces and bodies for centuries.

Today, body paintings are typically worn at football matches, at parties and at certain festivals. There are also body painting artists who do work for publicity or artistic purposes. In recent years, face painting has become very popular among children at theme parks, parties and festivals throughout the Western world.