Body Paint?

Now Dentrassi is worried...

perhaps more worried for your patients.... camel spittle probably would be the cleanest substance in the world. although considering some of the wacky health treatment going around at the moment, camel spittle may end up being the next wonder drug!

I heard today that some of the metallic body paints used at a previous beltane reacted badly with parrafin. Giving the person wearing it a nasty rash. You should be alright, but some testing might be in order?

it could have been just the metallic body paint though - I know some people react to some of them.

if you use the mehron (sp?) stuff you should be ok regardless though. it is more expensive, but worth it in coverage ability and being safe for all skin types. still isn't perfect, but better than most body paint solutions.

I do know that there was a problem up here someone had with gold body paint reacting badly with paraffin and causing some nasty rashes. 'Fraid I don't know the make tho sorry.

should be fine since you're not Fire Breathing. I imagine that doing tracing means you won't deliberately be spilling parrafin on your self...

that's a shame about the gold paint, because that's what I've got in my mind Lightning - some kind of play on adonis....

I am body burnig in a club next week and wondered if anyone knew if thats will be safe with say.."stargazer uv paint on my skin" has one body burned while painted before?

I don't know if it is flamable or any thing like that. But it will come straight of if it comes in contact with fuel.

della, I am a body artists as well as a fire perf.

It really depends on if you plan for the fire to come in contact with the paint.
UV body paint tends to be the worst for reactions as it is.
It is also not as water proof as one would like. Not only if it comes in contact with fuel but I've had it sweat off as well, which means you could end up..."streaky"...for lack of a better word.

However if you are doing chill spinning (not sweaty) and not wrapping or tracing you should be alright.

Best of luck!

as a belly dancer i've done some tribal shows here and there in a few clubs, the uv paint looks friggin awesome, but like Pele said, if you think you're going to be sweating your balls off, or going to be up on stage long enough for the lights to make you sweat, forget about the paint cause when it starts streaking it looks horrible and if you have it on your face it can get into your eyes and it STINGS! at least in my experience. if i know it's going to get hot, i usually stick to paint on my forearms and upper arms, where i don't sweat as much, still looks pretty cool and less likely to streak unless you hit it. if you want to play up the black lights, but don't want to wear the paints, wear white, that will still have an interesting affect and it won't wash off!!

good luck!

Excelsior!
Tori