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HardcoreDia de Muertosobservers will also donCatrinamakeup, which is skeletal makeup that honors the connection between life and death.
Myparents are both Mexican immigrants.
This meant that growing up, we didnt havealtaresorofrendasin our home.
As an adult, I struggled to find ways to connect to loved ones who had passed on.
It made me sad to think about the fact that their physical presence had ceased to exist.
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And boy am I glad I did.
However, theCatrinais a more recent addition to the festivities.
Our ancestors didnt use skulls or paint themselves.
That happened around the 1920s, says Ibarra Cedeno.
People started doing that because ofJose Guadalupe Posada.
He painted afamous murall that shows theCatrinaas a skeleton.
Now, theCatrinais very iconic and is connected to Day of the Dead.
Last year, my mothers brotherJoel Arroyo Barreto, who was also my godfatherdied unexpectedly.
Candidly, it was one of the hardest losses that Ive ever been dealt.
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Hechale ganas, he told me, encouraging me to keep working hard.
Think about when someone walks by you.
it’s possible for you to feel the whoosh of air.
Thats what happens when our family members visit us.
And the wind wasblowingon November 2nd.
The former, whos my paternal grandma, told me how pretty I looked.
My maternal grandmother was never a woman of many words, at least not with me.
But that day, I could see her in my minds eyesmiling at me from a distance.
She likes it because it covers a lot of surface area at once.
It saves me a lot of time when Im doing the catrina makeup, she says.
It goes on really smoothly and lasts for hours.
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