Joanne Gair's Disappearing Model was featured on the highest-rated episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not.
29 Facts About Joanne Gair
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Joanne Gair is considered a fashion and art trendsetter, and for a long time she was associated with Madonna.
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Joanne Gair has done magazine editorial work, and in 2005, she became a photographer of her own body paintings in both books and magazines.
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Joanne Gair, who is New Zealand-born and was raised in Auckland, lives in the United States and is based in Los Angeles.
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Joanne Gair moved from New Zealand at the age of 21 and had a variety of stops on her way to Los Angeles.
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Joanne Gair then approached the Chanel and Gaultier beauty salons to offer her already well-respected make-up artist services.
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Joanne Gair has done work on music videos for Aerosmith and Nine Inch Nails.
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Joanne Gair worked on ad campaigns and for photo features in efforts to exhibit the artistic visions of others.
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Joanne Gair was the primary body painter of this art and the magazine cover art propelled Joanne Gair to fame.
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The 1992 cover that entailed a thirteen-hour sitting for Joanne Gair and her team of make-up artists was a commemoration of the August 1991 photo.
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Joanne Gair refers to herself and others refer to her as an image-maker for her contributions to people's perceptions of others.
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Joanne Gair was originally inspired to specialise in body painting by facial skin adornment of the indigenous Maori people of her native New Zealand.
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Joanne Gair began using Sharpies to draw on people in 1977.
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Joanne Gair has worked with leading celebrities and been in editorial, fashion campaigns, cosmetic companies and mega-brands such as Evian.
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When Madonna teamed up with Herb Ritts for black and white photographs, Joanne Gair did the eyelashes and make-up.
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Joanne Gair has earned many motion picture credits for work as a make-up artist.
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Joanne Gair earned a 2003 credit for work on the short documentary The Work of Director Chris Cunningham.
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The first Joanne Gair Sports Illustrated body paintings occurred at Richard Branson's Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.
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Some appeared in a 2001 Sports Illustrated calendar, and Heidi Klum's tie-dyed swimsuit bodypainting earned her and Joanne Gair the cover of the German edition of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
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Joanne Gair contributed to this theme by body painting the models as statues of goddess: Klum, Diaz-Rahi, Veronika Varekova, Molly Sims, Noemie Lenoir, Fernanda Tavares, and Shakara Ledard as goddesses.
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The 2016 Swimsuit Issue designated three cover models for three separate covers, one of which was a photograph of Ronda Rousey in a Joanne Gair-painted one-piece bathing suit, thus making it the first Swimsuit bodypaint cover.
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The book contains reproductions of photographs of all of the body paintings that have been included in the swimsuit issue since Joanne Gair has become involved and excludes all body painting that preceded Joanne Gair's involvement.
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Joanne Gair's first body paintings was memorable as she painted a moko on a female Ford Modeling Agency fashion model named Jana, which is a tabooed employment of a traditionally male ritual face mask.
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Joanne Gair participated in Germany's Next Topmodel by painting and photographing the final four contestants in leopard prints.
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Joanne Gair is always well prepared for her jobs, but does not generally sketch her work on paper.
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In recent years, Joanne Gair has added photography to her professional skills.
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Joanne Gair is from Takapuna in the North Island of New Zealand, but she now lives in both Los Angeles and New York City.
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George Joanne Gair, a former New Zealand politician, and her nephew Alastair Joanne Gair is a competitive Etchells racer.
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Joanne Gair's mother is Fay Gair, and her elder sister Linda Gair served both as a model and as a painting assistant in several of the paintings in her first book.