This is a Colorful Arabic Bridal look, perfected by MakeupAdikt. What makes this tutorial unique is that the makeup artist begins her look by applying a blue tinted shade-stick and gold eye pencil on the eye lid, before applying her eye shadows. This helps strengthen the color and really make them pop.

One of our social friends just shared this video clip with us and we felt we had to share this with everyone.  This is one of the most beautiful Tribal performances I have ever seen and believe everyone, dance lover or not, should watch this.  Get inspired. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to [...]

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Frédérique, one of the pioneers of tribal fusion, is an avant-garde belly dancer with a unique and creative style. An artist at heart, she maintains creative control of her improvised performances, from advertising and costuming to even mixing her own music. Her latest project is Silent Sirens Theatre, a traveling one-hour long show based on [...]

Mirror mirror on the wall, wouldn’t I be prettier without the bump on my nose? I live in Orange County and I’m Persian, which translates to two things: 1) I watch the Kardashians religiously and 2) I know more people in my community who have performed plastic surgery than those who have not. Last week [...]

The mystery of Little Egypt, the first oriental dancer to perform in the United States, is still unsolved. When in 1893 a dancer called Little Egypt is said to have performed at the Chicago World’s Fair, America was introduced to raqs sharqi, a dance that was perceived, at that time, to be very scandalous. To [...]

For the last 4 months our team has been researching dance clothes that meet our standards in design and quality.  We are happy to announce that we’ve found a set of beautiful dance clothes that are beautiful enough to be worn on stage and affordable enough to be worn in class.  We will be releasing [...]

Dancers, It has always been my goal to generate an audience of supportive, strong women who know that they can make a difference in this world – no matter how big or small their desired impact.  Dancing has always taken me out of my comfort zone and introduced me to new cultures, experiences, and lessons. [...]

Every woman is like a flower to be discovered and appreciated. The sensuality of women has been very often reduced to an object of sexual pleasure, destroyed by centuries of religious repression or moral customs, so that women were brought up believing that sensuality and vulgarity were one. They were divided into two categories: virgins [...]

American Tribal Style, or ATS, is a style of tribal belly dance that’s becoming increasingly popular. But what is it, and how is it different from traditional belly dance? ATS was started in the 1980s by Carolena Nerricio. It’s characterized by its improvisational method, its lead-follow style, its group dynamic, and its costuming. ATS is [...]