Joanne Gair

Joanne Gair is not a new comer to the cosmetic and art industry. She is the worlds most renown body painter and cosmetic artist, this love of body painting stemming from different mediums of art. Originally from New Zealand she later moved to the United States to continue and start her career.

Big Break:
The 1992 cover of Vanity Fair featuring Demi Moore in a body of paint depicting a suit and tie. This caused Joanne to have world wide recognition after this issue. Later in 1999 she was able to be part of a twelve page, six model layout in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Her work with Sports Illustrated can be seen every year.

People she has worked with:
She has work with such celebrities as Madonna, Cindy Crawford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kim Basinger, Christina Aguilera, Sophia Loren and Celine Dion and Donna Karan. Being involved with there changing make up look. She has worked with Madonna for most of her career during the 80’s spanning a long period of time.

Companies she has worked with:
Joanne as worked with many fashion and cosmetic lines, such as; Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Black Book, Harper's Bazaar, fashion campaigns, Versace, Victoria’s Secret, Guess, bebe, L’Oreal, Maybelline, Revlon, Olay and Rimmel.

Other Recognition:
Gair has also been featured on may tv shows such as Ripleys believe it or not, E Style on and a New Zealand show called ‘Coming home’ which features the lives of famous Kiwis. She has said that one of her highlights in her career happened when over 50 of her art pieces where featured in the Vodafone Body Art Exhibition at the Auckland Museum in New Zealand. All of the pieces that were included showed the span of her career and the many photographers she has had a chance to work with. She has also written two novels and been featured in one. Her first book was called Paint A’ Licious was released in 2005 and show cased 40 images of her work. The second book was named Body Painting
Masterpieces and was released in 2006 and went through her life as a body painter. Sports Illustrated wrote a book in 2007, ’In The Paint’ featuring all of Joanne’s work which was featured in Sports Illustrated throughout the years.

Joanne Gairs work as spanned all types of media including Television, magazines, adversiting, music videos and the list goes on. She shows that it may take a lot of hard work to accomplish what you set out to do but in the end you may just be that trendsetter that everyone wants to see.