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What’s in your bag?

Davina, March 3, 2012
Davina, March 3, 2012

It’s in My Bag,

My Makeup Bag!

I’ve had my head down and my elbows up working on my next book, The Cloth of Egypt. Over the past few months, I’ve participated in some Bay Area performance.  At each of these recent shows, I’ve made a point of wearing assiut, with the hopes of getting some lovely and useful photos of the event to use in the book.  This photo, was taken by the talented photographer Alisha Westerfeld.  This low-level shot really caught the glint of the assiut, but is, unfortunately, a bit too blurry for print.

However, I am pretty happy with the overall look of this picture!  So I thought I would share a few details on how I created this look. My headdress base is a simple cotton turban made from a shawl rolled into a long tube and wrapped twice around my head and tucked.  I topped this with my largest tiara.

This headdress is topped with an amazing assiut scarf. This long, narrow, and highly embellished scarf is modern assiut that I pounded, cleaned, and softened to achieve an almost vintage drape.  To keep the assiut scarf in place, I used long pearl-tipped corsage pins strategically located to keep everything from moving throughout a high-energy cane dance.

Of course, this look began with my makeup.  I was trying for a highly dramatic look, emphasizing my rather deep-set eyes to make them look very dark and intense.   Using the tools over on the Polyvore website, I’ve constructed a “snapshot” of my makeup kit from that day.  With the products pictured below, I created the look above.  If you like the results, you might want to try some of these cosmetics for yourself.

My Makeup Bag - May, 2012

My Makeup Bag – May, 2012 by davinadevine featuring a cream skincare

By Davina

Davina ~ Dawn Devine is a belly dance costume designer, dance instructor and author of more than a dozen publications on Middle Eastern dance.