Skin Wars is a body painting reality competition hosted by Rebecca Romijn that premiered on Game Show Network on August 6, 2014.
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. It featured 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 artists must conquer three difficult challenges as they are mentored by three top artists from the first season, Dutch Bihary, Lawrence "Gear" Duran and Season One champion, Natalie Fletcher. As the artists work closely with their body painting mentors they try to quickly master the craft and win the $10,000 prize and become champion. It premiered to 456,000 viewers. Later, it became a series itself, premiering on June 15, 2016.
On August 27, 2015, GSN renewed the series for a third season.
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Season 1
Contestants
The 10 body painters competing in the first season were:
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Season 2
Contestants
The 12 body painters competing in the second season were:
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Season 3
Contestants
The 12 body painters competing in the third season are:
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- In Episode 5, Hans quit the competition at panel after a fall out with the judges.
- In Episode 7, Brittney and Rick were in the bottom two but neither was eliminated.
International broadcast
In Australia, the series premiered on LifeStyle You on May 26, 2015. All three seasons are now available on Netflix.
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 States of America, 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.
In India,the show's first season has been broadcast on FYI_TV18 since 2016.
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