Wedding Makeup for the Sweatless

http://player.vimeo.com/video/16759941?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0

Brides in the Trebesh community of Kosovo (about which there is mysteriously little information online) apparently paint and decorate their faces on the day they get married. Today Metafilter links to this video, by Yll Citaku, as well as an explanation of the tradition in Imprint magazine (which in turn excerpts from the magazine Kosovo 2.0). Gorgeous.

(The music in the video, by the way, is “Nusja Jonë” by the Kosovo-Bosnian jazz group the Marimanga Trio.)