Joanne Gair

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Joanne Gair

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Auckland, New Zealand

Joanne Gair (born c. 1958), nicknamed Kiwi Jo, is a New Zealand-born and -raised make-up artist and body painter whose body paintings have been featured in the Sports Illustrated…

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Joanne Gair (born c. 1958), nicknamed Kiwi Jo, is a New Zealand-born and -raised make-up artist and body painter whose body paintings have been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue from 1999 to 2017. She is considered the world's leading trompe-l'œil body painter and make-up artist, and she became famous with a Vanity Fair Demi's Birthday Suit cover of Demi Moore in a body painting in 1992. Her Disappearing Model was featured on the highest-rated episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not. She is the daughter of Hon. George Gair, a former New Zealand politician. In addition to achieving pop culture prominence and respect in the fashion and art worlds starting with her body painting of Demi Moore, she is a make-up artist in the rock and roll world who has helped several of her music clients win fashion and style awards. She is also considered a fashion and art trendsetter, and for a long time she was associated with Madonna. In 2001, she had her first retrospective and in 2005, she published her first book on body painting. At the peak of her pop culture fame after the Vanity Fair cover, she was seriously considered for an Absolut Vodka Absolute Gair ad campaign. She has done magazine editorial work, and in 2005, she became a photographer of her own body paintings in both books and magazines. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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  1. 2020
  2. 2019
  3. 2014
    Skin Wars

    TV show Self - Guest Judge

  4. 2012
  5. 2006
    Germany's Next Topmodel

    TV show Self - Guest Judge

  6. 2003
    Anger Management

    Movie Makeup Artist

  7. 1999
  8. 1996
    If These Walls Could Talk

    Movie Makeup Artist

  9. 1996
    Striptease

    Movie Makeup Artist

  10. 1994
    Only You

    Movie Makeup Artist

  11. 1991
    Madonna: Truth or Dare

    Movie Self

  12. 1988
    Earth Girls Are Easy

    Movie Makeup Artist

  13. 1987
    Siesta

    Movie Makeup Artist