Body Painting is an Art...!

Many artists work professionally as body painters across the world. Their work is seen regularly in television commercials, such as the Natrel Plus campaign featuring models camouflaged as trees. Body painters also work frequently in the film arena especially in science fiction with more and more elaborate alien creations being body painted. Stills advertising also used body painting with hundreds of body painting looks on the pages of the world's magazines every year.

Body art today evolves to the works more directed towards personal mythologies.

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Body painting, is a form of body art, considered by some as the most ancient form of art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts for only several hours, or at most (in the case of Mehndi or "henna tattoo") a couple of weeks.

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Models (L-R) Tionne Hawkins, Michelle Lee and Nicole Lindeblad pose after having their bodies painted by artist Emma Hack in Sydney November 23, 2004. Bodypaint artist Hack took more than five hours to paint the model's bodies in designs by Wayne Cooper, Sarina Suriano and Paablo Nevada, that were inspired by the glamour era of the 1920's, as part of a promotional event for the sensual art.

Model Michelle Lee poses after having her body painted in a design by Australia's Wayne Cooper in Sydney November 23, 2004.

Models Tionne Hawkins (L) and Nicole Lindeblad pose after having their bodies painted by artist Emma Hack in Sydney November 23, 2004. Bodypaint artist Hack took more than five hours to paint the model's bodies in designs by Wayne Cooper, Sarina Suriano and Paablo Nevada, that were inspired by the glamour era of the 1920's, as part of a promotional event for the sensual art.