Pearl Lux al make up

Pearl Lux applies make up backstage before her performance at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 17 September 2010. The Festival was founded in 2009 to showcase classic and traditional burlesque, bringing back the glamour, humor, music, and excitement of the era that ran in New Orleans from the 1940s to the 1960s and was a major attraction of the French Quarter and Bourbon Street. (EPA/BEVIL KNAPP)