“In my research, I found a lot of handprints on the mouth and around the face and I’ve never seen anything like that before,” Redhawk said. Redhawk is Native American and has ancestors from those tribes lately she has been using handprints from paint on her face. Redhawk said she began wearing dramatic eye makeup to school and recently started finding inspiration from reading about the face paint and art used in Native American tribes, specifically the Choctaw, Creek and Shawnee. Redhawk, 18, just graduated from Silverado High School in Henderson and now has more time to experiment with art that she posts on her Instagram page. Now that she has 54,000 followers on Instagram, Redhawk’s art is similar to face paint and has a performance art aspect.

Madrona Redhawk started wearing makeup in middle school, but it wasn’t until high school that she got into more avant garde and dramatic makeup looks. Madrona Redhawk experiments with transferring paint from different surfaces onto her face.

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