Bharatanatyam Makeup Tutorial In 10 Simple Steps

Bharatanatyam is a famous Indian form of classical dance that requires not just proper postures and movements but right kind of makeup too!!! Dancers of this form often go with bold and colourful makeup to show grace on the stage as well as to do justice to this unique dance form. If you are wondering how they do the perfect Bharatanatyam makeup, you will find answers to all your queries in this article!!!
Bharatanatyam makeup is done with great precision, ensuring it suits the dance form and also the ambience lighting that highlight the makeup. Thus, most artists in this field stick to waterproof and smudge resistant makeup that ensure that dancer looks picture perfect at all times during performance.
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Make up must be suited to the skin tone perfectly and for that, you will need good quality makeup brushes and makeup sponges. The unevenness of the skin tone should also be covered with makeup perfectly.
How To Do Bharatanatyam Makeup? – Stepwise Tutorial
You can follow these simple basic steps for Bharatanatyam makeup.
Step 1:
Use a sweat proof concealer and foundation so that the makeup stays on place. Also, you need to apply a good quality photogenic primer.
Step2:
Start with brows, darken them using an eyebrow pencil. Now take a brow powder and apply over the brow with a sponge applicator to smudge the brow pencil’s effect and give it a more natural effect.
Step 3:
Step 4:
Step 5: Lip Makeup
Step 6: Cheeks Makeup
For the cheeks, use a rosy blush on to the contours by sucking your cheeks in.
Step 7: Put Bindi
Put a large round bindi if you have a round face or you may go for a teardrop shaped bindi.
Step 8:
Your Bharatanatyam makeup is done. As for the hair, you could make a bun and decorate it with false flower garlands or seek professional assistance for a different hairdo.
Step 9: Nose Decoration
Front nose rings are a common jewellery accessory in this dance form, you could consider it as optional if you are uncomfortable wearing it.
Step 10: Final Decoration
Finally, you can decorate your palms, on top and inside region by colouring with red in the form of circles, also using the same colour for the fingertips.
And thats it! Your perfect Bharatanatyam eye makeup and face makeup is done!
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