Tuesday, July 5, 2011

A Year of Makeup in a Day (video)

(nowness.com)

If "beauty is only skin deep," what is makeup? A way of knowing that there has been too much aging ("oxidative stress")? No one wants to see what makeup can't hide... unless we've cultivated beauty within as well. The Buddha taught that beauty now and beauty in the future is the result of karma -- willing, performing, and accumulating mental, verbal, and physical acts of loving kindness, compassion, joy in others' joy, impartiality, the Five Precepts, non-anger, and other merit. In Natural Beauty, Dutch artists Lernert and Sander apply a year's worth of makeup on Belgian supermodel Hannelore Knuts. More

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