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Flowers For The Dead

Model: my niece

Makeup: my husband and daughter.

 

Dia De Los Muertos is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. People gather to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration takes place on Nov. 1st and 2nd in connection with the Catholic holiday of All Saints Day. A common symbol of the holiday is the skull. Foods, such as sugar or chocolate skulls, are given to both the living and the dead. One of the most popular modern figures of the Day of the Dead is the elegant skull mask or makeup known as La Calavera Catrina, popularized by Mexican cartoonist illustrator and artist Jose Guadalupa Posada, who in 1910-1913 did a series of calaveras which were humorous images of the upper class depicted as skeletons.

 

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Uploaded on October 31, 2012
Taken on October 21, 2012