Joanne Gair: Beyond the pages of SI Swimsuit

Rebecca Shore | Sep 28, 2014

AS MUCH as we're loath to admit, no, we did not invent body painting. (We are pretty sure we mastered it though.) Nor is SI Swimsuit the only place you can witness the ingenious of SI's resident body painter Joanne Gair. Joanne, who was born in New Zealand, is first and foremost a makeup artist (she was Madonna's personal makeup artist on her Blonde Ambitiontour in 1990), and has done loads of body painting for various magazine covers and ad campaigns.

• Joanne Gair on that fishnet suit, that damn fishnet suit

In fact, while Rebecca Romijn was one of the lucky models to appear in SI Swim's first body paint shoot, it wasn't the first time the model and the artist teamed up. Rather, it was Gair who turned this 1997 GQ cover:

into this decidedly less newsstand-friendly/more newsstand-sales friendly, one:

Courtesy of Joanne Gair

The Perfect Drug (Nine Inch Nails) (for which she won "Best Makeup" at the '97 Music Video Production Awards)

Nine Inch Nails: The Perfect Drug (1997) from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.

Courtesy of Joanne Gair

Courtesy of Joanne Gair

Courtesy of Joanne Gair

Courtesy of Joanne Gair

Stewart Shining/SI

FOR MORE OF JOANNE'S WORK VISIT JOANNEGAIR.COM, AND FOLLOW HER ON INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER. 

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