History Main / BodyPaint

* NippleAndDimed does not seem to apply to women in body paint, as even on American TV, the breasts are not visually bleeped out even though, technically speaking, the nipples are fully exposed. However, in a TV show, ''Skin Wars'', where body artists battle to be crowned America's best, the breasts of the ''unpainted'' models are pixillated out -- even though once painted, the ''very same models'' are still topless and uncensored. Work that logic out.
** To be fair, the women are actually wearing pasties.

* On ''Series/LasVegas'', one of the casino's bars featured cocktail waitresses who wear painted on tops.

* There is now a TV competition show called ''Skin Wars'', where body painters compete to be crowned America's best. As you would expect from US TV, when the models are introduced topless and unpainted, their [[NippleAndDimed breast areas and nipples]] are visually bleeped out. Yet the very same nipples are still in plain view under a coat of paint later in the show and are not pixilated. work that logic out!

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Wasted," a model sporting a painted-on swimsuit drops dead on the runway. Turns out the specific can of paint used to create her outfit had been laced with ecstasy in a smuggling attempt gone bad.

* ''Very'' cruelly subverted in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie''. A woman named Wendy who worked in a factory used some glowing paint from her work during intimacy with her husband. It turned out that said paint was ''radioactive'' (more exactly, made from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium radium]], and few years later Wendy died from bone cancer -- and some of her co-workers died as well. The other ill women who survived filed a successful lawsuit, and became [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls the "Radium Girls"]]

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "All for Our Country", Catherine and Sara investigate what happened to a college football fan whose body is found bloated in the bath tub. Sara examines a shirt and finds the number 7 traced on the inside. Catherine says it comes from the mans chest where it was printed in makeup.

** In ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' it's used an entirely normal substitute for clothing.

* ''Magazine/SportsIllustrated'' did a few bodypaint-swimsuits for their annual swimsuit issue a few years ago; they were so popular that they have continued the practice every year since.
* The yearly ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit'' magazine has nearly as many models wearing BodyPaint as opposed to actual bathing suits. One SI editor was eating breakfast on location with Rebecca Romijn and some of the crew and said he was halfway through the meal before he realized the bikini top Romijn was wearing was just paint.

* Creator/RebeccaRomijn's actual costume as ComicBook/{{Mystique}} in ''Film/XMen'' (2000) and its sequels is just blue body paint with judiciously-located pieces of textured lizard-skin make-up appliances. Creator/JenniferLawrence, Romijn's younger TimeShiftedActor, followed suit in the prequel films.

* NippledAndDimed does not seem to apply to women in body paint, as even on American TV, the breasts are not visually bleeped out even though, technically speaking, the nipples are fully exposed. However, in a TV show, ''Skin Wars'', where body artists battle to be crowned America's best, the breasts of the ''unpainted'' models are pixillated out -- even though once painted, the ''very same models'' are still topless and uncensored. Work that logic out.

* There is now a TV competition show called ''Skin Wars'', where body painters compete to be crowned America's best. As you would expect from US TV, when the models are introduced topless and unpainted, their [[NippledAndDimed breast areas and nipples]] are visually bleeped out. Yet the very same nipples are still in plain view under a coat of paint later in the show and are not pixilated. work that logic out!

* Both Music/{{Gotye}} and Music/{{Kimbra}} in the former's music video of "Somebody That I Used to Know."

* Creator/RachelNichols paints her body green to play a literal GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe in ''Film/StarTrek''.

* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': At the end of the second DVD special (where the dragon characters were dressing up like animals), [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Lucoa]] puts some splotches of black paint on her skin and calls herself a milk cow. She's [[RealityEnsues promptly]] [[RunningGag arrested]] for public indecency.

* According to Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/JustSoStories'', this is how the Ethiopian got his skin and the leopard his spots.

* In ''Literature/TheEmpressGame'', Kayla wears body paint [[ThisMeansWarpaint while fighting in the arena]]. It's mostly black, with dark red slashes -- this imitates the coloring of the animal she uses as her NomDeGuerre.

* The yearly ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit'' magazine has nearly as many models wearing BodyPaint as opposed to actual bathing suits. One SI editor was eating breakfast on location with Rebecca Romijn and some of the crew and said he was halfway through the meal before he realized the bikini top Romijn was wearing was just paint.

* 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 bibliomancer (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]].
* In the ''Sandstorm'' supplement for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', a type of elf called the Painted Elf lives in the deep desert, decorating their bodies with clay pigments to indicate their family and tribe while keeping them cool.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/IWillFearNoEvil'' has Eunice Branca, whose husband is an artist. He would very often paint her body. She wears an entertaining paint job to work one day that is intended to confuse her boss as to whether it is skintight clothing or paint.

* Justin in the {{Disney Channel}} crossover special ''[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Wizards]]'' ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck On Deck]]'' ''[[Series/HannahMontana With Hannah Montana]]''.

* In ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'', villainess Distracterella has the superpower to distract males (as well as lesbian/bi females). As it happens, [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=strip-51 her skintight suit is no suit,]] but body paint and three star-shaped pasties.

* In ''Fanfic/ANightInTheSculptureGarden'', Irene Adler uses white body paint to disguise herself as a white marble statue.

* The Creator/{{Syfy}} show ''Naked Vegas'' was centered around the employees of a bodypainting studio in the titular city, with each episode focusing on a particular task for different clients, from bodypainting a bridal party to aiding PennAndTeller in creating an illusion with painted contortionists.

* Justin in the {{Disney Channel}} crossover special ''[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Wizards]]'' ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck On Deck]]''''[[Series/HannahMontana With Hannah Montana]]''.

* Justin in the {{Disney Channel}} crossover special ''[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Wizards]]''''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck On Deck]]''''[[Series/HannahMontana With Hannah Montana]]''.

* Justin in the {{Disney Channel}} crossover special ''[[Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace Wizards]]''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck On Deck]]''''[[Series/HannahMontana With Hannah Montana]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Ashi's outfit (and by extension those of her sisters) is made of magical darkness from the Pit of Hate, as shown in a flashback when the High Priestess shoves her into a heap of it. Ashi eventually scrubs it off and switches to a dress made of leaves.

* Rebecca Romijn's actual costume as Mystique in ''Film/XMen1'' (2000) and its sequels is just blue body paint with judiciously-located pieces of textured lizard-skin make-up appliances.

-->-- '''Rebecca Romijn-Stamos''' (on her Mystique "costume" in ''Film/XMen'')

* Rebecca Romijn's actual costume as Mystique in ''Film/XMen'' (2000) and its sequels is just blue body paint with judiciously-located pieces of textured lizard-skin make-up appliances.

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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "All for Our Country", Catherine and Sara investigate what happened to a college football fan whose body is found bloated in the bath tub. Sara examines a shirt and finds the number 7 traced on the inside. Catherine says it comes from the mans chest where it was printed in makeup.
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* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Jill Masterson ending up painted solid gold. Spawned a myth ([[Series/MythBusters Summarily busted]]: You don't breathe through your ''skin'', people -- but if you're allergic to metallic powder, watch out) and thousands of imitators.