The idea was to be a simple and quick design. I cut three different stencils out of 2ml pvc (as that is what I happened to have handy). Each stencil was a different graduated flame profile. I planned to put these flames at each of the major joints of the body: Knee, hip, waist, elbow, shoulder, chest, neck, jaw and eyeline. I would layer each over the others for depth. Under normal light the flames would be nearly invisible, but under blacklight the flames would appear to jump away from the skin.

I put down a base coat of a medium transluecent red. Then starting with the larges of the three stencils, I blew a hyper-UV reactive yellow. The next layer I used a fluorescent orange thay I steped down with a bit of transparent red. For the smallest flames, I created a dark shade of red that also had a UV reactive quality. This required a blending of tranparent red, fluorescent raspberrry, and flourescent hot pink.

This particular design went on with out any glitch or problem. It is so hard to capture UV reactive glow under black light on camera so there are not any good pictures of the effect. Here you can almost see the effect though.

 My model did give me a fright though. When she walked out of the painting area and in to the party she looked great. Later in the evening I saw her and the paint had nearly disentegrated on her face and neck. I found out that she had received a massage on her face and that the oil had loosened the paint. After the event I learned that she had also had a reaction on her face. I had done a skin test with her and all the colors I used prior, but some thing didn't agree with her skin. I can't say weather it was the paint, the oil,or some combination of the two, but will be very careful if i ever use this model again.

Photos by EJO, Model Naughty Nurse