Whether you are interested in body paint in general or looking to expand your Instagram feed with bodypainting artists, this list will be helpful. As one of the most known platforms for sharing pictures, Instagram is a good place to share body paint and makeup artworks.

This list will contain 8 Instagram pages of body paint artist with each their own background and experiences. Per body paint artist there will be a short description regarding their inspirations and styles, the person behind the art and what to expect of their Instagram. The list is in no particular order.

1.       Trina Merry

Instagram: @trinamerry
Follower count: 12,800 followers

Trina Merry is a world champion body painter who has worked on different projects, with a focus on blending people into nature or structure patterns.  Trina Merry has a studio located in New York City and Los Angeles. Her work can be seen on Instagram and on Youtube.

2.       Kay Pike

Instagram: @kaypikefashion
Follower count 266,000 followers

Kay Pike is body-painter, twitch streamer and cosplayer. On her Instagram you can see a collection of body painted characters from different videogames, such as Lara Croft from Tomb Raider, The Joker, and C3PO from the well-known Star Wars series.  The body paintings exist of detailed paintings in a corresponding vintage-cartoon style. At first sight you wouldn’t even notice that it is an actual person.

Every Saturday you can view her do a live painting session on her Twitch, which can be very entertaining to watch.

3.       Emma Fay

Instagram: @Emmafayofficial

Follower count: 2,270 followers

Emma Fay is a British body painter who is constantly looking to challenge your mind with a visual perception. Her body paintings are inspired by evolution, surrealism and symbolic expressionism. One of her well-known series, Marvels of Nature, exists out of animals painted on bodies combined with contortionism. Her Instagram exists out of process pictures and videos, her body paintings and exhibitions.

The work of Emma is used in exhibitions, media and live installations. Read more about Emma Fay her work on her website.

4.       Orly Faya

Instagram: @Orlyfaya

Follower count: 2,995 followers

Orly Faya has been travelling for the last 17 years, searching for the relations between humanity and earth, men and woman and especially what we all have with ourselves. Combined with her background in Anthropology, Orly Faya has expressed her experiences and her relations into a mix of body art, jewellery, photography and more. She is currently writing a book, but for now you can find her body paint art on Instagram.

If interested, you can buy her art through the website.

5.       Alexa Meade

Instagram: @alexameadeart

Follower count: 244,000 followers

Where you would probably confuse Alexa Meade her work with paintings hanging in an art gallery, you could see that there is an actual body painted person in her pictures. You might know her from her recent collaboration with pop artist Ariane Grande, were she did a body paint on Ariana Grande, while the musician was lying in an ocean of flowing paint.

Alexa Meade does something completely different however, mixing impressionism with body painting and modern-day styles and objects, such as cars and televisions. You can see her body paintings on Instagram and read more about her on the website.

6.       Paul Roustan

Instagram: @roustan[DM1] 

Follower count: 231,000 followers

Paul Roustan is an American body painter doing a wide variety of jobs. His style is referred to as contemporary art, known for its Technological and cultural diversity influences. Paul Rouston has been on national television with his body art. His Instagram consist out of a mixture of photos and process videos.

Just like a bunch of other body painters from this list, Paul Roustan takes care of the photography himself.

7.       Breanne Cooke

Instagram: @breannecooke

Follower count: 2,012 followers

Just like the earlier mentioned Kay Pike, Breanne works on cosplays. The difference between these 2 body painters are the inspirations. The art of Breanne is inspired by fantasy characters instead of videogames. Her Instagram contains body painted faeries, flower princesses, sea creatures and regular animals.

Besides her body paintings Breanne Cooke works as a graphic designer and even offers body painting classes on her website.

8.       Avi Ram

Instagram: @airbrushhero

Follower count: 721,000 followers

Known from his appearance on Skin Wars and Fresh Paint, Avi blends nature, religion and overall bright colours and brings it to life using an airbrush. Besides working as body painter with real life canvases, Avi offers his work on wall murals, portraits, apparel and more.

 Avi even started out in Israel bringing images brought in by his clients to life on t-shirts, were he later decided to teach his art skills to other people.

 He offers airbrush parties for kids besides his body painting and wall murals on his website.

This list of unique body painters will hopefully inspire you to even follow some of the artist. It is interesting to see how every artist is inspired by a different style or vision, and how this is brought to life with the body paint.

Did your favourite artist come by in this list, if not, who is it? Let me know!

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