Naked Body Painting Festival 2010

The champions of the World Bodypainting Festival 2010 in Seeboden, Austria and the multi coloured festival is shaping up to be fairly amazing.

Artists of 40 countries would be swishing the paintbrushes, sponges and airbrush pistols to generate vibrant operates of art on naked bodies.

The colourful contest has been bringing about place at Lake Millstatt as of 1998 and has become the world’s uppermost bodypainting event, attracting thousands of visitors year.

They can have the exquisite artworks personal, as are painted directly onto skin. Events at the festival’s Bodypaint City initiate at 10.30am every day and stay deep to the night. The goal of the game is painting and spraying to the heart’s content.

A judge will chosen world champions in 5 bodypainting categories, and there serves to furthermore be an amateur competition.

On Friday and Saturday artists will worked under the theme ‘sub cultures’, and on Sunday – that is the closing day – the topic is ‘sources of power’.

Full Color Body Painting Women on The Front Art

Full Color Body Painting Women


Full Color Body Painting Women


Full Color Body Painting Women


Full Color Body Painting Women

HennaBody Painting are an ancient custom in India: girls and women are body painted before ceremonies, like marriage. They painted complicated patterns on their hands and feet to symbolize their fertility.

Henna (or 'Mehndi', the Indian name) is made from the henna plant (Lawsonia Inermis). The leaves of the plant are dried and ground. The powder gets mixed with water and you get a sort of green-brownish mud. If you put that mud on your skin, let it harden, and then peel it off, you will notice it has left an orange color.

You can get your henna at an eastern shop or a 'souk' in many different colors. There's orange, mahogany, brown and black. The orange one is the traditional henna. The black henna is synthetic. It contains PDD (P-phenylenediamene) and can cause allergic reactions. Even if it doesn't cause irritations, it's still unhealthy. Moreover, in the past, black henna at your wedding was considered a disgrace.

Miss Universe Contestant : Rima Fakih with Body Painting Natural Style

Miss Universe Contestant : Rima Fakih with Body Painting Natural Style
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The World Cup 2010 -- A Body Paint Retrospective...

Surprisingly enough I watched most of the 2010 World Cup. I do not mind watching some good football. This is not to say that every game was a cracker and worth the price of admission. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it and I enjoyed watching it.

The final was a bit of a let down, on a personal level, I was hoping that the Dutch would get up for the win. However, in the big scheme of things it really did not bother me that Spain won. The game was interesting to watch for the comparison between the beautiful and brutal game adopted by Spain and The Netherlands respectively. I cannot recall a game where I have seen so many yellow cards and only one red one.

Now, on with the show. This retrospective is about what could have been. There definitely needs to be more fans getting into the body paint thing. This would ensure that the cameramen and camerawomen had something to do when the game became a little boring. Besides, I am not sure if anyone else has noticed this, there is a lot of crowd shots and close up shots of good looking crowd members (usually women) at all sporting events now. I noticed this not only at the world cup but also on the cricket last night on the television. I can understand it in cricket, there needs to be something to break up the monotony of watching the grass grow.

So, this post is about the fans that we did not see in the crowd (these are the more tame pictures that I found).