Re: Harquus Question, Please help
Posted by Zimra on January 24, 2000 at 06:16:12:
In Reply to: Harquus Question, Please help posted by Natalie on January 23, 2000 at 07:22:33:
: Have you found another recipe that will work at a lower temperature?
: I've wanted to make a historical harquus since I saw women wearing
: them at a dance workshop several years ago. Theirs looked like
paint
: or eyeliner to me though.
It probably was eyeliner, that's what most dancers use for facial
tribal "tattooing." Most dancers either try to reproduce actual
facial tattooes (tribal patterns and protective patterns) though some
modern tribal troupes make up their own designs.
If a dancer is really trying to imitate a facial tattoo, especially
north african ones, the best way to make it close to "real" is to use
blue, or a mixture of blue and green eyeliner. Black works, too,
(most tattooes are blueish or greenish though) I especially like
waterproof black liquid eyeliner for that (which doesn't look as
accurate, but it doesn't smear)
Zimra