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skin is associated with everything from the wonders of touch to racial profiling. Sensual, erotic, it has inspired standards of beauty captured in portraiture as well as a vast cosmetics industry and the poaching of rare animals - for compared to their hairy and often gorgeous pelts, the skin of homo spaiens is considered naked. skin is a responsive tactile boundary etween self and other and the inside and outside of the individual. vital to survival, skin si the geography where two can meet.
Make up on the skin represents both play and decorative art that creates a persona for the drama of life.
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on the other hand, the mouth is the emblem of eros and its lovely kisses. the feminine mouth in particular has been an objet of beauty from the fashion for the tiny rouged rosebud mouth to the vogue for arge sensual mouths and swollen bee stung lips.
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