What Is a Body Paint?

Body paint and powders are cosmetic-style products made for licking, kissing and brushing off skin. Paints come in a pot or tube with a brush, usually chocolate, strawberry or vanilla flavoured, and go on thick enough to see clearly. Powders are fine dry dusts applied with a feather or puff, leaving a light shimmer and a faint sweetness.

The point is the ritual: you paint, she waits, you clean it off with your mouth. Everything in the body paint and powders collection is made for outside-the-body use — chest, stomach, back, thighs and neck.

Are Body Paint & Powders Right for You?

This is for couples who like foreplay that lasts and don't mind a bit of mess. If slow, tactile and playful sounds like your kind of night, you're in the right aisle.

It isn't for you if you want something quick on a weeknight, hate the idea of a shower afterwards, or want something insertable — paint and powder stay on the outside. Anyone with a dairy or nut allergy should read the ingredient list first, since chocolate formulas are the most common style. If you want sensation rather than taste, a good massage oil or a warming gel is the smarter buy.

Types of Body Paint & Powders: Which One Suits You?

There are three real styles here, and they feel completely different on skin — browse the whole body paint and powders range to compare them.

Edible Flavoured Body Paint

Thick, brushable paint in chocolate, strawberry or vanilla, sold in a pot or tube with its own brush. It shows up clearly on skin, tastes sweet and licks off cleanly. This is the standard first buy and the easiest style to use with the lights on.

Body Dust & Shimmer Powders

Fine dry powder applied with a feather or a puff. Less mess than paint and more tease, because the feather does half the work for you. It leaves a faint shimmer and a light sweetness, and nobody has to strip the bed afterwards.

Glow Paints & Body Crayons

Luminous paints and skin-safe crayons let you write, draw and glow in a blacked-out room. This is the party end of the category and it washes off in the shower rather than licking off. If you want low light instead of glow, the Lacire drip candle set from our wider Couples range does it better.

How to Choose Your First Body Paint

Choose on flavour first, then the applicator, then how much cleanup you'll actually tolerate at midnight.

1. Start With Flavour and Texture

Taste decides whether this gets used twice. Chocolate is the reliable crowd-pleaser, strawberry and vanilla are sweeter and thinner, and unflavoured shimmer powders keep it purely visual. Thick formulas hold a shape on skin; thin ones run, which is fine on a stomach and annoying on a back.

2. Match the Applicator to the Play

A brush gives you control and a slow build. A feather puff turns powder into teasing all on its own. Fingers work but they smear. If you like the idea of tracing skin slowly, buy the kit with the better applicator rather than the bigger tube.

3. Plan the Cleanup and the Budget

Paint means a dark towel, an old sheet and a shower — decide that before you start, not after. Powders brush off with a hand. Since most of this category runs $20 to $40, put the rest of the budget into something that keeps the night going, like the Rockin Rabbit 2.0 ring from our wider Couples range.

Materials & Body-Safety

These are food-style formulas, so read the label the way you'd read a dessert. Look for body-safe edible ingredients: sugar or glucose, cocoa, glycerin and water in paints, cornstarch or rice starch in powders. If your skin is fussy, keep the ingredient list short.

Two compatibility rules matter. Sugary and oily formulas can weaken latex, and neither paint nor powder belongs inside the body. If a silicone toy joins the session, wash the paint off the skin first and use water-based lube with it — never silicone lube on silicone.

How to Use a Body Paint

Set the room up before anyone gets undressed. Dark towel or an old sheet on the bed, water within reach, room warm — paint feels cold going on.

Work from the outside in. Start on the shoulders, back and stomach, keep the brush moving slowly, and leave the places she actually wants touched until last. Paint is a tease, not the main event.

Clean it off with your mouth where you want to and a warm damp cloth everywhere else. Keep it away from the eyes and out of internal areas entirely. Low light from a massage candle makes the whole thing land better, and the shower afterwards is part of the deal.

Care, Cleaning & Storage

Cap paints tightly and store them upright somewhere cool and dark. Heat splits the formula, and a hot car will ruin a $30 pot in an afternoon.

Rinse brushes in warm water with a little soap, reshape the bristles and dry them flat. Wash feather applicators sparingly and air dry them.

Check the expiry date. Edible products don't last forever once opened — six months is a fair working life, and anything that smells off goes in the bin.

Our Top 6 Body Paint & Powders for 2026

Here's what we'd hand a bloke building a body paint night: the in-category cream that does the heavy lifting, plus a few honest picks from our wider Couples range that earn their place before and after the brush comes out.

Body Paint & Powders FAQ

Why Trust Naughty Boy

We've handled, compared and shipped every product on this page. Naughty Boy is Australian owned, stocks genuine brands only, and ships Australia-wide in plain unbranded packaging from our own warehouse. If something isn't right, talk to us — we answer our own emails, and we'll happily tell you when the cheaper option does the job.