History Main / BodyPaint

* [[TheLoonie Skippy]]'s List references this. "43. Camouflage body paint is not a uniform."

* ArtificialHuman Girl One from TopTen has an interesting variant of this -- her skin shifts color at will, with it's default being purple. Since her creators were a pair of horny fanboys, she was ''also'' engineered with a compulsion to not wear clothes -- she makes do by just creating patterns on her skin that make it hard to notice she's nude. (Note that the [[InnocentFanserviceGirl obvious sister trope]] is ''[[AvertedTrope not]]'' in play[[hottip:*:She has the same hangups and shame about being naked as normal humans, but she can't bring herself to wear clothing]] -- when she realizes her boss is colorblind and can see past her tricks, she decks him.)

* RobertAHeinlein's ''I Will Fear No Evil'' had Eunice Branca, whose husband was an artist. He would very often paint her body.

** Of course her boss, being a sentient dog in a humanoid exoskeleton, tells her that her naked body means as little to him as a dog's would to her, so she forgives him. However, [[spoiler: he's lying.]]

* During the Futurama episode "Roswell that ends Well" Fry uses a can of spray paint that actually creates a army uniform.

* There's some literal [=~Pokémon~=] {{cosplay}} photos floating around the internet of a [[FetishFuel girl wearing a full-body paintjob]] of a Mudkip.

* In [[KeithLaumer Keith Laumer's]] story "Wicker Wonderland", CDT diplomat Jame Retief decides to do a little diving beneath a Poonian floating city. To do so, he strips down and the diving suit is spray painted onto him. Various color schemes are optional.

* ArtificialHuman Girl One from TopTen has an interesting variant of this -- her skin shifts color at will, with it's default being purple. Since her creators were a pair of horny fanboys, she was ''also'' engineered with a compulsion to not wear clothes -- she makes do by just creating patterns on her skin that make it hard to notice she's nude.

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* ArtificialHuman Girl One from TopTen has an interesting variant of this -- her skin shifts color at will, with it's default being purple. Since her creators were a pair of horny fanboys, she was ''also'' engineered with a compulsion to not wear clothes -- she makes do by just creating patterns on her skin that make it hard to notice she's nude.
* In an issue of ''Avengers'', some dude on the street tells She-Hulk that he loves her "green body paint" and asks if she needs any help removing it. Jen, naturally, responds by stuffing him into the nearest trashcan.

** A similar cyberpunk RPG series had library-mages, mages that used the power of ancient texts to power themselves. The example given was of a biblomancer (a mage using the power of the bible's occult elements) who had tattooed the entire thing on her bare skin for [[MoreDakka more power]].

* Ahnk Su Namun's costume in ''The Mummy'' (1999) is a loin cloth and body paint. Apparently the director was prepared to digitally cover her up more and was surprised that the censors allowed it as-is.

* The opening scene in ''{{The Mummy|Trilogy}}'' has the actress playing Anck-Su-Namun dressed in nothing but paint and [[GodivaHair really long hair]].

* The opening scene in ''{{The Mummy|Trilogy}}'' has the actress playing Anck-Su-Namun dressed in nothing but paint and really long hair.

-->-- '''Rebecca Romijn-Stamos''' on her Mystique "costume" in X-Men

* ''Car and Driver'' magazine, believe it or not, once published a comparision test issue with a cover depicting two nude female torsos painted as national flags. A lot of people probably wondered what, if anything, that particular issue had to do with cars ''or'' driving.

* Several years back, a gentleman did an entire ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' uniform out of a black jockstrap, black slippers, stick-on rank pips and comlink, and everything else out of stage makeup. And then he went cruising the convention parties to much squeeing.
* Stumpen, singer of the German metal band Knorkator has the entire left side of his body tatooed. As the band was well known for its over the top hilarity and weired stage costumes, he often performed in [[http://p3.focus.de/img/gen/7/S/HB7S9wwc_Pxgen_r_311xA.jpg nothing but his underpants]].

* Kari Wuhrer gets this treatment in ''Vivid,'' not that it looks ''anything'' like clothing.
* The opening scene in ''The Mummy'' has the actress playing Anck-Su-Namun dressed in nothing but paint and really long hair.
* BetterThanChocolate: Maggie and Kim play with this.

* On ''Las Vegas'', one of the casino's bars featured cocktail waitresses who wear painted on tops.

* Jack in MassEffect 2 is absolutely covered in tattoos and wears next to nothing.

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* BetterThanChocolate: Maggie and Kim plays with this.

* The Savage Orc variant of {{Warhammer}} Orcs wear magic warpaint that provides mystical protection roughly equivalent to light armour, except that it can potentially deflect ''cannonballs'' - which is a good thing, since they otherwise wear nothing more concealing than a loincloth, due to the heat where thy live.

* The Savage Orc variant on [[Warhammer]] Orcs wear magic warpaint that provides mystical protection roughly equivalent to light armour, except that it can potentially deflect ''cannonballs'' - which is a good thing, since they otherwise wear nothing more concealing than a loincloth, due to the heat where thy live.