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- From: bast@wam.umd.edu (Jaguar)
- Subject: Re: Body Paints
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.035126.14343@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:51:26 GMT
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- Woad can be used as a body paint.
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- Now time for me to comment on my pet peeve:
- Woad in itself is not a hallucenagenic... In olden times they may have
- mixed it along with other plant/plant extracts that were... but the dye
- itself is not.
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- Woad when painted on the skin gives a nice, dark/nayvy blue tyope
- color.
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- I buy the block of dye, pound it up in a mortar... and put the resulting poweder
- in a small (teeny tine)y ) jar. Then I add a bit of rubbing alcholol
- to it. I use the brush to mix up the paint in the lid of the jar as I go
- along, as well as to paint.
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- Other sources say you can use eggwhite... I find this causes the dye to
- flake off the skin..
- I was using water as a solvent for the paint for a while, but switched to
- rubbing alchol, as it is more sanitary when you are painting alot of
- people, and also it seems to let more of the dye dissolve than water does.
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- Paint on clean dry skin.... works best on areas that are NOT very fuzzy...
- You can 'set' the paint by sprinking baby powder or cornstarch on it, and
- then dusting it off.
- Jaguar
- On the woad again...
- Pictish..
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