US 11,857,814 B1 · Reusable body art stencil

Abstract

A system is provided enabling do it yourself body stenciling and/or body art. In particular, the system of the invention provides a body tight removable mask that masks an area of the body for body painting. The mask is sized to fit a particular portion of the torso or an appendage of a subject individual, and masks a standard area to enable an unskilled artist to paint a portion of the subject individual. The stencil can mask a logo of a sports team or other form such as a swimsuit form on a wrist or ankle or upper torso, forehead, or a bathing suit area of the subject individual. In its simplest form, the stencil is a mask of the thighs, and the waist, for example, with a preferably elastic mask panel that can preferably be easily removed once the basic painting is complete. Advantageously, the invention enables websites that feature body painting, such as Sports teams, Universities, Sports Illustrated or Fashion TV, to sell stencil product in association with displays of body painted models.

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Dependent claims

A body stencil system having a body tight mask arrangement having at least two mask bands for masking against overspray an area of a body for body painting, the mask bands including an upper chest mask band adapted to extend around the upper chest under the armpits and above the breasts thereby masking an upper delimitation of a bathing suit form, at least one bikini mask band extending around the waist to mask at least a lower delimitation of a bikini top form or an upper delimitation of a bikini bottom form and including two thigh mask bands attached thereto each adapted to extend around a thigh to delimit a lower bathing suit form.

A method for applying a decorative paint to the epidermis of a human, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) applying a stencil system around a body of a subject individual, masking thereby a bathing suit pattern on the epidermis, the stencil system comprising the mask bands which each mask a portion of the bathing suit pattern including at least the upper waist mask band adapted to extend around the waist delimiting the upper limitation of a bikini bottom form and comprising at least one bikini mask band including thigh mask band portions each adapted to extend around a thigh to delimit the lower delimitation of the bikini bottom form, the stencil system itself providing a layer which protects the underlying epidermal area from an applied body paint, defining further an epidermal painting area corresponding to the bathing suit pattern;
(b) covering the epidermal painting area with an epidermal painting material to cause the epidermal painting material to contact the epidermis only on the bathing suit pattern masked by the stencil system;
(c) allowing the epidermal painting material to dry;
and
(d) removing the stencil system from the subject individual, thereby leaving the painted bathing suit pattern.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Reusable body art stencil

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Reusable body art stencil

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Abstract

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