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In the late 20th century, fashion and Makeup industries started to pursue traditional things under influence of post-modernism. As a result, African beauty designs are used constantly for the modern fashion trend as a critical motif and also have providing endless source of inspiration. Thus, this study examined African beauty designs which has great influence on modern fashion designs and also analyzed modern fashion designs which utilized from African beauty design’s aesthetic characteristics. Firstly, African beauty designs are classified into face·body painting, scarifications·tattoo, deformation. Aesthetic characteristics are classified into form, color, material or technique by external appearance or formativeness and internal aspects. Internal aspects are classified into body protection, tribe·status·age indication, decoration for beauty, religious·magical·ceremonial meaning, sex-appeal. Secondly, African beauty aesthetic characteristics are came out as fanciness, symbolism, abstractness, appealability, naturalness. This study can broad perspectives of beauty area and used positively as a theoretical foundation for realizing total fashion Makeup design’s image.