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The head-dress worn by the dancer is a creation of beauty, grandeur and majestic art. In their make-up, green, red, black, yellow and white colours are used. The make-up itself takes 6 to 8 hours of labour on each character. This colourful make-up gives brilliance, softness, virile splendour and grotesque appearance to the dancers. The audience which is accustomed to Kathakali art can immediately know
the characters by looking at the make-up and head-dress as well as the
costumes. The kathakali dancers, depicting men or woman, wear long flowing black hair touching
their hips thus giving the characters super human touch.
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for the skirts they wear, some people believe that there is an
influence of some western people who settled down or visited the
shores of Kerala. To get the Kathakali dancer ready for the stage,
hours and hours of hard work is put in by the make-up men in
dressing rooms.
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