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7.6/10 TV Country of origin United States No. of seasons 3 | 7.3/10 IMDb Original language(s) English No. of episodes 28 Latest winner Rick Uribe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Executive producer(s) Michael LevittJill Goularte Similar RuPaul's Drag Race, It Takes a Church, Face Off, Sing Your Face Off, Idiotest Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skin Wars is a body painting reality competition hosted by Rebecca Romijn that premiered on Game Show Network on August 6, 2014.
Contents
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- Production
- Contestants
- Contestant Progress
- Episode 1 Body Soul
- Episode 2 Sweet Savory
- Episode 3 Musical Harmony
- Episode 4 Queens or Divas
- Episode 5 Emotional Rollercoaster
- Episode 6 Im Steampunkd
- Episode 7 Big Time Big Top
- Episode 8 Man vs Machine
- Episode 9 Natural Beauty
- Episode 10 The Grand Illusion
- International broadcast
- References
Skin Wars Contestants on the series perform challenges containing body painting each episode. At the end of each episode, one contestant is eliminated and told "It's time to wash off your canvas."
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Production
On September 12, 2013, GSN ordered eight episodes of the series, making it GSN's first television show devoted to body art. On February 4, 2014, GSN announced Rebecca Romijn as host of Skin Wars, with RuPaul Charles, Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina serving as judges.
The series premiered on GSN August 6, 2014. That same night, the network also began airing an online series entitled Skin Wars: The Naked Truth with Kandee Johnson airing immediately after Skin Wars on DOOR3, GSN's YouTube channel targeted toward 18- to 25-year-olds. The series features commentary from Johnson as well as highlights from that night's episode and a "Skinterview" with one of the contestants.
On September 30, 2014, GSN announced plans to air a ten-episode second season of Skin Wars with Romijn and all three judges returning to reprise their respective roles. The second season premiered June 10, 2015.
A spinoff called Skin Wars: Fresh Paint hosted by RuPaul aired as a special on August 26, 2015. Where it features six highly accomplished artists, each at the top of their game, as they leave their comfort zones to compete in body painting for the first time. The artist must conquer three difficult challenges, as they are mentored by three top artist from the first season Bihary Dutch, Lawrence "Gear" Duran and season one champion, Natalie Fletcher where as the artist work closely with their body painting mentors as they try to quickly master the craft and win the $100,000 prize and become champion. It premiered to 456,000 viewers. Later, it became as a series itself on June 15, 2016.
On August 27, 2015, GSN renewed the series for a third season.
Contestants
The 10 body painters competing in the first season were:
Contestant Progress
The contestant won Skin Wars. The contestant was the runner-up. The contestant was in 3rd Place. The contestant won the challenge that week. The contestant was in the top in the challenge that week. The contestant went into a face off against another contestant and won. The contestant was in the bottom, but not in the bottom 2. The contestant was in the bottom 2. The contestant was eliminated. The contestant was eliminated after a face off against another contestant.‡ The contestant won the mini challenge.Contestants
The 12 body painters competing in the second season were:
Episode 1: Body & Soul
Original airdate: June 10, 2015
Mini-Challenge: Rebecca Romijn spun a wheel for each contestant and they must create a piece based on whatever the wheel
landed on. Options included Major Passion, Favorite Song, "Major achievement", "Memory of childhood",
Challenge: Each winner from the mini-challenge picked a chess piece and an opponent to head to head against with a full
body head-to-toe 360° body paint inspired by their chess pieces. Pairings were:
Episode 2: Sweet & Savory
Original airdate: June 17, 2015
Mini-Challenge: The painters were tasked with creating a body paint look that incorporates real candy.
Challenge: Each painter was assigned a specific buffet table background to camouflage their model into. Rebecca, randomly
assigned the tables to the artists but once every table was assigned, Cheryl Ann, was given the opportunity to switch tables with any
other artist. She chose to take the fruit table from Lana. Tables were:
Episode 3: Musical Harmony
Original airdate: June 24, 2015
Mini-Challenge: The painters came in to 11 chairs set up in a circle each with an instrument sitting in front of them. After playing
a few rounds of musical chairs, each painter was tasked with creating an upper body paint inspired by the instrument that was
sitting in front of them.
Challenge: Each painter was teamed up in pairs of two (by Rio). The pairs were then tasked with picking two genres of music and
created a cohesive full body, two model look. Pairs were:
Episode 4: Queens or Divas?
Original airdate: July 8, 2015
Mini-Challenge: Each painter was assigned a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit location and was tasked with creating a location specific body
paint bathing suit for their model. Locations were:
Challenge: Each painter was tasked with creating a head-to-toe 360° body paint fit for a music award show for their Drag Queen clientele from previous seasons of Rupaul's hit show Rupaul's Drag Race based on their favorite music artists. Pairing were chosen randomly and were as follows:
Episode 5: Emotional Rollercoaster
Original airdate: July 15, 2015
Mini-challenge: Each painter must create a body paint that makes RuPaul laugh.
Challenge: In teams of four, the painters were tasked with coming up with a group horror body paint that tells a story and uses four models.
Episode 6: I'm Steampunk'd
Original airdate: July 22, 2015
Mini-Challenge: Each painter was given a treasure chest with a Victorian Jewel and were tasked with created a waist-up
360° design that tells the story of the jewel with only 2 hours to paint.
Challenge: Each painter was tasked to create a head-to-toe 360° full body paint that fits into the Steampunk genre, incorporating both
Victorian elements and futuristic elements. Painters were urged to bring Steampunk into the 21st century with bright vibrant colors.
Episode 7: Big Time Big Top
Original airdate: July 29, 2015
Mini-Challenge: Each painter was tasked with coming up with a body paint and pose for a Circus Playbill.
Challenge: The remaining 6 painters were tasked with creating 3 full body head-to-toe 360° body paints for modern day circus
performers from Lucent Dossier Experience in pairs. Additionally the teams were required to utilize ultra-violet paint to make their looks
visible under blacklight
Episode 8: Man vs. Machine
Original airdate:
Mini Challenge : Anatomy
WINNER : Cheryl Ann
Episode 9: Natural Beauty
Original airdate:
Mini Challenge : Baby Bumps
WINNER : Aryn
Episode 10: The-Grand-Illusion
Mini-challenge- the artists had to create a spiritual image using the soles of the model's feet.
Contestant Progress
The contestant won Skin Wars. The contestant was the runner-up. The contestant was in 3rd Place. The contestant won the challenge that week. The contestant was in the top in the challenge that week. The contestant went into a face off against another contestant and won. The contestant was in the bottom, but not in the bottom 2. The contestant was in the bottom 2. The contestant was eliminated. The contestant was eliminated after a face off against another contestant.‡ The contestant won the mini challenge.Contestants
The 12 body painters competing in the third season are:
Contestant Progress
The contestant won Skin Wars. The contestant was the runner-up. The contestant was the 2nd runner-up. The contestant won the challenge that week. The contestant was in the top in the challenge that week. The contestant was in the bottom, but not in the bottom 2. The contestant was in the bottom 2. The contestant was eliminated. The contestant quit the competition.‡ The contestant won the mini challenge.Episodes:
Episode 1: "Skintastic Celebration" Mini-Challenge (no elimination) - All painters are given a dancer and need to paint an costume that makes the model stand out from all the others (front and back). They are given 2 hours to complete this challenge.
Top 3- Shelley, Luis, Alison
Winner- Alison
Concept Challenge (elimination)- the painters are given a holiday. The objective of this challenge is to paint their models from their perspective on how celebrating the holiday would be like. They are given 5 hours to complete this head-to-toe 360 degree painting.
Top 3- Brittney, Micheal, Tiffany
Winner- Tiffany
Bottom 3- Jermaze, Kyera, Hans
Eliminated- Jermaze
Episode 2: "Not All Fun & Games"
Mini-Challenge: The painters chose different childhood fairytales and they modernized the fairytails onto their models in 3 hours (head-to-toe front and back)
Top 3- Tiffany, Jess(ica), Luis
Winner- Jess
International broadcast
In Australia, the series premiered on LifeStyle You on May 26, 2015.
In Canada, the series premiered on GameTV since 2015. It also airs on GSN on Cable/Satellite companies that air the channel.
In the United Kingdom, the series premiered on TruTV since 2015.
In Brazil, the show's first season has been broadcast on Multishow since February, 2016. In South Africa it broadcasts on Sony Max