Joanne Gair

Biography

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...