Makeup Artists Create Glitter Butt Makeup for Music Festivals


Makeup Artists Create Glitter Butt Makeup for Music Festivals
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You know people are running out of ideas for makeup when they start inspecting other body parts for trend potential. Shoulders? Well, there’s the whole shoulder strobing thing. Hands? Those are the territory of over-the-top manicures. So, logically, it can only be butts. One makeup artist apparently came to this conclusion when she began painting butts with glitter. Mia Kennington, self-described “glitter creature,” apparently came up with the idea with fellow MUA Sophia Moreno during a music festival. “We were in bikinis and were getting sand all over our butts anyway, so we were like, 'Well, what if we enhance this?'” she recounts. “So we just did loads and loads of glitter.”

The technique also involves copious amounts of gel and a fixative (like hairspray or setting spray). You can also add gemstones if you really want your butt to shine bright. None of this changes the fact that we still have many questions about the process. For instance, how is this in any way comfortable? Won’t you leave glitter-shaped butt prints everywhere you go, fixative or not? Can you expect to have a rash the next day?

Since we’re not exactly volunteering to test it out for ourselves, we’ll probably never know the answers. Just consider it one of life’s great unknowable mysteries.

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