Opera Facial Makeup: Color and Design

Facial makeup blends color and design, each aspect performing a distinct function. Colors used for this make-up range from red, white, black, rose, yellow, green, purple, blue, gray, and gold, to silver, silver-gray, light blue, ochre, and creamy white. Subject to the strictures of time and space and people’s ideas, while bearing evident stamps of history, facial make-up has both a romanticist and classic flavor, being at the same time very symbolic.