Editing Corpse paint (section)

{{Short description|Type of black and white body painting}}
{{this|a style of body painting|the paint pigment made from corpses|mummy brown}}
[[File:Urgehal Metal Mean Festival 20 08 2011 10.jpg|thumb|Enzifer of [[Urgehal]] wearing corpse paint with the spiked armbands and inverted crosses commonly worn by black metal musicians]]
'''Corpse paint''' is a style of [[body painting]], used mainly by [[black metal]] bands for concerts and band photos. The body painting is used to make the musicians appear inhuman, [[Cadaver|corpse]]-like, or [[demon]]ic, and is perhaps "the most identifiable aspect of the black metal aesthetic."<ref>Patterson, Dayal: ''Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult''; 2013, [[Feral House]], Port Townsend, Washington; p. 144.</ref>

Corpse paint typically involves making the face and neck [[white]] (or pale), sometimes with [[red]] marks to signify blood or laceration, and making the area around the [[eyes]] and [[mouth]] [[black]]. Musicians will often have a trademark style. Other colors are seldom used, yet there are notable exceptions, such as [[Attila Csihar]]'s use of [[neon color]]s and the bands [[Satyricon (band)|Satyricon]] and [[Dødheimsgard]] experimenting with color as well.

Outside of black metal, black and white [[face painting]] has been used by a variety of other public figures such as [[shock rock]] artists (notably [[Arthur Brown (musician)|Arthur Brown]], [[Alice Cooper]], members of [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]], and members of the [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]]) and [[Professional wrestling|professional wrestlers]] (e.g. [[Sting (wrestler)|Sting]] and [[Vampiro]]), as well as for the normal beautification or ornamentation denoted by [[cosmetics]].