14 — Sanday, October 29, 1989 — North Shore News

HEAD-TO-TGE COVERAGE

Makeup artists

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MAKE-UP ARTIST Maria McGuire from North Vancouver says this
ow?-painted face was a relative-quick design. The competitors in the
Foarth Annual Fantasy Makeup Championship will take up to five
hours to complete their body painting.

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CONTRARY TO its sexual innu-
endo, bedy painting, expiains
makeup artist Maria McGuire, is
an art form which aims to camou-
flage the near-naked body.

By ELIZABETH COLLINGS
News Reporter

“If you know how to put the
makeup on, it looks like clothes.
It’s not revealing. Only when you
get close, you see her naked, more
or less,"* McGuire says.

Actually, the modeis wear G-
Strings and bikini tops for decen-
cy’s sake but after five laborious
hours of head-to-toe painting with
grease and water paints, it’s dif-
ficult to distinguish body parts
from body adornment.

McGuire, who lives in North Van-
couver, first saw 3 body painting
competition on a trip to her native
Italy. Along with her mother,
Rita Dominelli, McGuire brought
competitive body painting to Van-
couver four years ago.

McGuire took first prize in 1986
with a traditionally dressed bride
and a tuxedo-toting groom. In
subsequent years, winning designs
have included a peacock in full
plumage and a walking totem pole.

The competition is a chance for
makeup artists, hair dressers and
estheticians to show the extent of
their talent and creativity, usually
limited in their day-to-day work.

Now a judge for the Fourth An-
nual Fantasy Makeup Champion-
ship, McGuire says originality and

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beauty are key factors in winning.

“I found the people who win
usually use bright colors, fun col-
ors, and usually have a theme.”

Although this year the competi-
tion will fall on Halloween,
McGuire says demons, devils and
other death-like subjects are not
favorites with the judges.

One year an artist portrayed a
mummy which was well-executed,

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but a bad choice of subject
nonetheless.

“She did excellent work but it
was too ugly. It looked like a dead
person coming out of a coffin,”
McGuire says.

This year’s competition promises
to be the biggest yet. McGuire and

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