Skin Wars

Dutch was a talent, but every week his attitude towards the other artists was lousy. After the 5th episode I got tired of Dutch's idiotic comments and stopped watching.

Hosted by the beautiful Rebecca Romijn, "Skin Wars" is a competition show that pits body painting artists against each other in a series of challenges. Verdicts are delivered by a panel of judges.

Each season, the producers try to throw more varied, more difficult, and more imaginative tasks at the artists. Such challenges can include camouflage work (where they attempt to make the model disappear into a background image), themed challenges (which can involve anything from super heroes to scenes from nature), or images inspired by the artists' own stories.

I love this show because it really illustrates the incredible talents of these artists. Painting is difficult, in general, but painting on a curved, movable surface presents some specific, harder challenges.

They also use different types of models. On one episode, they painted inspiring images on breast cancer survivors, which was very empowering and extremely beautiful.

It's nice to have television shows that celebrate artistry and beauty. "Skin Wars" is one of the best.

I love this production, the art is amazing, Rupaul is one of my favourite characters of all time, but unfortunately I really don't think the judges picked the right winners of each season

Very fun concept for a show. I'm a sucker for reality shows that focus on artistic crafts. What sunk this for me is having RuPaul as a judge. Even if you disagree with Robin and Craig sometimes, they clearly understand the art form and have informed, intelligent things to say about the execution. RuPaul just has favorites and least favorites based on concept or arbitrary preference. This was clearly a huge determinant of winners throughout season 3, especially the final. Drove me crazy.

And don't get me started on the silly guest judges. Here to judge your body painting is... Linda Carter, who played Wonder Woman? Shawn Johnson, Olympic gymnast? Some pop star? The only thing they ever say is "Ooh, look how cool!" Guys, I can do that! Show me people who know what they're talking about.

Thoughts on seasons:

1: Best chemistry between contestants. Friendship between Gear and Natalie was really fun. 2: Wrong season winner, obviously. 3: I guess this has turned into the RuPaul show. Also so much laughter at RuPaul saying, "How dare you disgrace the dignity of this competition!" Lol it's reality TV, take it down a notch.

Skin Wars is so cool because there's nothing else on TV like it. The one thing it has in common with every other competition show filmed in the US, is they stage it and don't always send home the painter who did the worst artwork, and on the other end often reward a person top painter when there was someone else who deserved it more. They also need to come up with different ideas, they copied ideas from season to season which makes it really predictable.