body paint

body paint (countable and uncountable, plural body paints)

1. Paint applied directly onto a person's skin, often as a form of body art.
   • 2015 August 14, Collen Wright, “The Desnudas of Times Square, Topless but for the Paint”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     This was part of Ms. Ovalles’s daily routine as a desnuda, a Spanish word meaning naked that has been embraced by the women who strut around the Times Square pedestrian plaza topless and covered in body paint to pose for photos in exchange for tips.

   • 2022, Alex Turner, “Body Paint”, in The Car (album), performed by Arctic Monkeys:

     There's still a trace of body paint / On your legs and on your arms and on your face

• “body paint”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.