This is wrong on so many levels.

I think they probably stick some kind of cover over the whole biz and paint over it. I think they sometimes do that with nipples.

But, I am pretty sure that it doesn’t matter either way as the photos you see in SI are heavily edited, airbrushed, smoothed out, distorted, and otherwise manipulated to form the ‘perfect shot’.

@lilikoi
True for the most part, but you can watch videos of the behind the scenes of the photoshoot. They don’t airbrush/edit every frame of the video.

It probably depends on what look they are going for and what body they are working with. I watched a video on how bodypainting is done once, but can’t find it…

I’m with @HTDC on this one.

I am guessing Photoshop

It’s not how you handle the vagina,it’s how you handle the paintbrush ;)

In soviet Russia, vagina paints you!

Pastease strapless bikinis

(nsfw)

Giant band aids.

I just want to know where one gets this job. ;)

Easy. They either cover the cooter with paint or panties.
I participated in a group bodypainting once of a very delightful young minx. She had panties on.

It’s all airbrushed (photo shopped)

My knowledge of all things gynaecological is a bit sketchy, so i’ll have to draw a line over this one.

@Violet I saw a “60 Minutes” or similar show on photoshopping recently and the interviewer was a very attractive woman. Not absolutely perfect, but certainly most attractive. The photoshop artist went over her whole image and literally, before our eyes, turned her into a goddess. He also commented that 99% of the images of women in print are photoshopped. (I preferred her appearance before he photoshopped her. Perfection is so sterile)

@Violet
Not always true.

@SeventhSense please see @plethora‘s comment “99% of the images of women in print are photoshopped.”

@Violet
Well I’m not going post actual artists with brushes touching vaginas but I could. Other than Demi Moore on the cover of Vanity Fair or print ads there are still actual artists out there who use real paint on a real nude women. I’ve been one of them.

So i asked my neighbor who used to do make-up and FX work for major studios in hollywood.. and still does promotional body paint. Usually for live events the models will wear flesh-colored spandex bottoms which will be mostly covered in the paint. For some shoots they will go nude and will be posed in such a way that the labia will not be visible, when the labia would be visible the can use a special tape or an adhesive panty (which is essentially no bigger than a very thin maxi pad).

@SeventhSense I was referring to Sports Illustrated (and Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, etc)