Calavera face paint
Face paint in the form of a decorated skull, worn for the Day of the Dead in Mexico.
Also: Catrina makeup, sugar skull makeup
For Día de los Muertos, on 1 and 2 November, many people in Mexico and beyond paint their faces as calaveras, decorated skulls, white with dark eye hollows and coloured flowers and patterns. The look draws on sugar skulls placed on family altars and on La Catrina, an elegant skeleton etched by José Guadalupe Posada in the early 1910s and named by the painter Diego Rivera in 1947. The festival honours ancestors.