Empowering body painting

Love & celebrate yourself just the way you are.

An empowering art experience to honour your body and deepen your connection to yourself.

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Discover the beauty and
power of your body

Your body is a precious gift, carrying you through life’s joys and challenges.
It deserves to be celebrated, honored, and cherished for the incredible journey it has taken you on.
My Empowering Body Painting experience invites you to embrace your physical self in a transformative, artistic ritual that deepens your connection to your body.
Are you ready to see yourself in a new light through art and love your body in a way you’ve never experienced before?

The closest feeling how I could describe it, is the experience of being loved - somebody sees me, somebody paints me alive.

Metsälintu Pahkinen

Feel Stronger, Braver and More Alive

Empowering Body Painting offers a sacred, intuitive experience that expands your capacity to love yourself. As I paint, you’ll experience a powerful transformation, not just visually but on a deeper, spiritual level, connecting you to the energy that flows through your body.

 

This is your moment to honour yourself, whether you’re looking for a new way to celebrate your body or simply wish to experience the joy and relaxation of this unique ritual.

WHAT IS THIS?

Celebrate the body that carries you through life

(Empowering Body Painting = Voimauttava vartalomaalaus® registered trademark in Finland) 
Your body is your sacred partner in life’s journey. Empowering Body Painting celebrates the physical aspect of who you are – the part that has supported you through good times and hard times. It’s a way to pause and appreciate everything your body has done for you, transforming the way you see and feel about yourself.
For two decades, I’ve seen how being body painted transforms not only how people see their bodies but how they connect with them. My Empowering Body Painting service was born from this understanding – offering an opportunity for you to feel amazing in your own skin and to see yourself as art.
 
Empowering Body Painting is about embracing your body in the present moment – letting go of judgment and allowing yourself to experience this sacred collaboration.
Empowering body painting | Voimauttava vartalomaalaus by Riina Laine | Photo: Emma Sarpaniemi
WHAT MAKES THIS SPECIAL?

Custom-designed, unique to YOU.

Every Empowering Body Painting is custom-designed based on your energy, ideas and desires. Whether it’s your favorite colours, a personal theme, or a place that holds deep meaning for you, the painting is created to highlight you.

This experience goes beyond external beauty – it reflects your inner essence, the divine part of you that is often hidden or forgotten. My intuitive approach guides the process, ensuring that the painting captures the truth of who you are.

The experience is both liberating and energizing, releasing stress, self-doubt, and any lingering discomfort about your body. It reveals the divine side of yourself that has been waiting to be seen and celebrated.

EMPOWERING BODY PAINTING

A liberating and energizing experience that relieves stress, shame and self-doubt.

It allows you to reconnect with the divine essence of who you truly are.

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IS THIS FOR YOU?

For You, who want to embrace and honor your true self

Empowering Body Painting is for those who are ready to embrace a transformative experience – those seeking a deeper connection with their body and self. It doesn’t matter what size, shape, or age you are.  This experience is for anyone who feels called to celebrate their body in a unique, meaningful way.
 
It’s especially for you if:
☆ You want to embrace your body with more kindness and see yourself through fresh eyes.
☆ You’re seeking a calm, reflective moment to connect with yourself.
☆ You want to let go of self-doubt and judgment, experiencing your body in a new way.
☆ You’re looking for a liberating experience that celebrates your physical presence.
☆ You’re ready to explore a new, empowering artistic perspective on your body and its story.

ARE YOU THINKING NOW…

Me without clothes on in front of a stranger? No way!

It’s completely normal to feel uneasy about the idea of being painted, especially when it involves being vulnerable in front of someone new. However, I want to reassure you that this experience is about acceptance, not judgment.
 

From the moment the painting begins, most people find that their discomfort melts away. The process becomes natural, relaxing, and even joyful. You’ll notice that the focus shifts from any fears about your body to the liberating experience of becoming a part of the artwork. You can relax, fall into your thoughts, and just be. Whether you want to talk or remain silent, it’s all part of the process.

And then I'd need to pose for the camera? NEVER.

Many people feel nervous about being photographed, especially after such a vulnerable experience. But once your body is painted, the fear of posing fades away. The art on your skin helps you feel more at ease, and you begin to focus on the beauty of the moment rather than any perceived flaws.

 

The photos are a way to capture the transformation and keep a reminder of the experience. You’ll be surprised at how natural it feels to pose once the painting is complete – it’s not about perfection, but about being present and real in the moment.

Empowering body painting | Voimauttava vartalomaalaus - Artist Riina Laine
Empowering body painting | Voimauttava vartalomaalaus by artist Riina Laine
Empowering body painting | Voimauttava vartalomaalaus by Riina Laine

The experience stays with you long after

The transformation that happens during Empowering Body Painting often stays with you long after the paint is washed away. Many clients share that the experience deepens over time, as they reflect on both the artwork and the connection they felt during the session.

 

The body painting process touches not only your skin but your spirit, creating a lasting impact that resonates far beyond the surface. It can be so profound that it often takes time to absorb fully. Weeks later, you might still find yourself discovering new aspects of the transformation. The photos serve as a beautiful reminder of this journey, allowing you to revisit the powerful emotions and connection whenever you need to.

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TESTIMONIALS

How does it really feel?

Outi Mäenpää -Empowering body painting by Riina Laine | Voimauttava vartalomaalaus ® | www.riinalaineartist.com

Thank you, Riina. ❤️ It was an incredible experience, a deep journey to somewhere where I've never been. I believe that journey is a healer and I recommend this from the bottom of my heart, to yourself or as a gift to someone. You definitely get more than any material things could ever give you!❤️

Outi Mäenpää

Body painting simply as an experience is really empowering, you don't realise it until you experience it. Riina did a really good and high-quality job, from processing of the idea to implementing it. We had only talked about the painting via email and phone, but the end-result was simply more than I could have even thought of!

Antti P.

"Thank you! It was a really wonderful experience. I looked at my mobile phone picture the whole train trip to Tampere 🙂 I thought in advance that body painting is the most powerful thing. In the end, the painted face was so much more important to me. Through that, I realized how much appearance affects a person. The painting was amazingly miraculous and truly natural. Thanks again, hope to see you again someday!"

Maria

The feeling of being painted was empowering and surprisingly comfortable! I would be happy to implement a different kind of painting sometimes, just as I pondered after our session. ❤️ I would recommend Power Colour painting to a wide variety of people, who want to see, through these exceptional and perhaps distressing times, how powerful and beautiful they are in the end, regardless of gender or age!

Jenni

Thank you again for a great eagle. It is perhaps the best gift I have ever received in my life. The whole evening I've spent staring at it and bragging about it to others. You are the best, well, it has already been proven in 2014 and a nice person as well. All the best and thank you again.

Heikki

Riina Laine is a world champion in body painting and I also reward a medal for her for being a good judge of character and the use of intuition in creating art.

Our bodies and faces are works of art and Riina wants to respect everyone’s unique and natural beauty and personality. The body carries our story with us and body painting is one way to start accepting one’s story, accepting oneself, one’s body and one’s life.

I wanted to tell my story to Riina without words and Riina had the will to listen. Energy flowed strong between us as Riina painted without a plan, respecting and trusting in the wisdom of that energy. I would look like me, the painting would express what I feel, what I am, inside my body. In addition to the turquoise I mentioned as my favorite color, the brushes found rainbow colors on my skin, to Riina’s surprise and to my delight. My book "The Ladders of Love" also has all seven colors of the rainbow. To me, the rainbow symbolizes Hawaii, the seven chakras, the balance of body and mind, the joy of nature, and the joyful colors of life. That's why my other book "Mother's Game" is gray and colored with rainbow splashes of color, because after all that gray, I've found colors and joy inside me. Riina didn't know anything about these - incredible, isn't it?

The experience evoked a lot of memories and feelings, about which I will soon write more on the blog. I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone who wants to face themselves from deep within, celebrate their body from the surface, and have a stunning image seen through the eyes of the artist.

I especially recommend this to those wrestling with shame. Shame has been my faithful friend all year as I have become more visible than ever through my books and writings. This picture is therefore very relevant to me. I refuse to be invisible, no matter how the ego warns me through shame about other people’s opinions and ridicule, worthlessness and incompetence.

I AM ALLOWED TO BE ME, so crackling, loud, colorful and happy, and as profound, quiet, gloomy and low as I happen to be at that very moment. Free to experience depth and surface.

Thank you Riina.

Tara L.
Body painting and make-up artist Riina Laine

WHO PAINTS YOU?

Hi! I'm Riina. I have also struggled with accepting myself and my body.

As a child, I was brave and outgoing, loud and shameless. I had a lot of friends and I loved to perform whenever the opportunity came. According to what I’ve heard, at a party once I rushed to the stage excited and sang a popular Finnish childen’s song. When an error came, I stated “No” and started all over again. Brisk without a drop of shame.
 
But like many, that girl got lost somewhere on the threshold of middle school. She was replaced by uncertainty and difficulty accepting herself.
 
I was that girl with straight A’s who demanded more of herself than anyone else. My perfectionism increased my uncertainty, nothing was enough for myself. At the same time, I was in pain as I received positive attention for my success as well as name-calling. I just wanted to be like the others, to merge into the crowd. It was hard to accept that I was visible, even though at the same time I missed it immensely.
At the same time, insecurity about my body arose. It started from the inappropriate laughter of some boys in elementary school. Those comments stayed in my mind for years and I couldn’t let go of them. I considered them true and covered “the flaws” of my body even as an adult. With age, gentleness towards oneself naturally increases. I, too, gained confidence through work, friends, relationships. But nonetheless, I carried complexes with me.
 
I’ve been doing body painting since 2007, and over the years I’ve noticed how big a positive effect my paintings have on my models. The initial nervousness disappears and most forget that they are almost naked. The joy of seeing oneself as a work of art is palpable and no one has mentioned anything negative about their body after the painting has been finished. 99% would like to get painted again.
 
As I had painted so many people, I wondered if I could feel like my models. Could body painting heal my wounds too? I myself had only had my face painted, and I seriously suspected that the magic of body painting would not work for me. One day when I felt really down I forced myself to try the paint on myself. When applying paint to myself in front of the mirror, I remember feeling desperate, I saw all the flaws of my body. I cried too, but I persevered. And the more finished the painting looked like, the easier it felt to breathe. And when I looked at the pictures on my camera screen, I sighed out loud “wow!”.
 
I still don’t understand what happened at that moment, but the uncertainties about myself that had disturbed my mind for almost my entire life began to vanish. I named my painting “Dance with myself” and the printed artwork still adorns my kitchen. I’ve painted myself again since, but painting myself is so hard that today I prefer to focus on making other people works of art! 😄
 
That feeling is indescribable when I see my client’s joy and how they are moved by their own image. It’s so amazing to see them praising themselves and what they look like. They wouldn’t want to do anything else but to stare at themselves in the mirror and admire. That transformation touches me every time. That’s why I love this – Body painting is wonderful, but  there’s nothing better than making another person see themselves as gorgeous as the rest of us see them!

WHAT’S INCLUDED

How does Empowering Body Painting work?

BEFORE THE PAINTING
☆ We’ll begin with a Zoom call to discuss your vision and explore the available packages to find the one that feels right for you. This initial call helps us connect and ensures that the experience is designed with your unique journey in mind.
 
PAINTING SESSION
☆ On the day of your session, we’ll start with a relaxed chat over coffee or tea. We’ll discuss your ideas as well as what I have in mind, making sure we’re aligned, while leaving space for the intuitive flow of the process.
☆ The body painting itself takes 2-5 hours, depending on your chosen package. I use professional, skin-safe paints to ensure your comfort throughout the session.
☆ After the painting is complete, we’ll have a photography session (60 minutes) to capture your transformation and the artwork.
☆ We’ll take time to reflect on the experience together, allowing you to absorb the journey and its impact.
 
AFTERWARDS
☆ Once home, you’ll have the opportunity to reflect on the painting and the experience.
☆ You’ll receive approximately 20 images to choose from, with one high-resolution, edited photo included in the package.
 
EXTRA
☆ If you’d like, I can also do your hair and makeup to complement the painting and enhance your overall look.
☆ Additional photos and prints can be arranged if you’d like more than one keepsake from the experience

Where & When

STUDIO
 
I have a studio in the city centre of Helsinki, Finland. This is where most of my private client appointments take place, and depending on the package you choose, your painting and photoshoot will also take place here.
 
WHEREVER YOU WANT
 
For the Power Place package, the painting is created and photographed in an environment of your choice. For other packages, I can also come to you if needed – just contact me in advance to discuss the details.
 
To inquire about available times, please reach out via email at riina@riinalaineartist.com. I don’t use an automatic booking system, but generally, I have availability within one to two months.
 
It’s best to reserve a full day for this experience in your calendar. That way, you can fully enjoy the painting even after the session – many clients like to keep the painting on for the rest of the day to savour the experience, and some have regretted washing it off too soon!
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What is the investment for Empowering Body Painting?

I have three different packages available for you – POWER COLOUR, POWER THEME and POWER PLACE. Below you can see how the packages differ from each other and you can click to view sample images. Below them you can see the additional services.
 
Choose the package most suitable for you and contact me!
 
If you have any questions, don’t be afraid to ask.

Power Colour

From 2 000 USD / 1 700 €

What colours touch you? What colours feel strong to you right now?

What colours attract you and give you energy? Or simply, what is your favourite colour?
 
This empowering body painting is abstract and created with colours chosen by you. The painting is done intuitively on a half or full body.
 
Style: Abstract
Location: Studio

Power Theme

From 2 500 USD / 2 130 €

What theme or subject is important to you?

 

Do you have any special or important matters in your life that give you power? (Examples from my clients: spirit animal, nature, a beautiful scarf inherited from grandmother.)
 
This empowering body painting is abstract or objective and created with a theme chosen by you. We can use your power colours for this one too. 
 
Style: Abstract and/or objective
Location: Studio

Power Place

From 3 500 USD / 3 000 €

Is there a special place that has great meaning to you? What place reflects your story? 

Or where do you find peace, feel centered and balanced? Is it maybe the forest near you, the seashore or the garden of your summer house?
 
This empowering body painting is abstract and photographed on your chosen location. We can use your power colours to this on too. Alternatively, we can merge you into the surroundings with camouflage painting technique. Depending on the location/ weather the painting is created indoors in advance or at the location.
 
Style: Abstract / camouflage
Location: Your chosen place
 
The package includes travelling costs in greater Helsinki area. If your special place is somewhere else, just request a quote.

Additional services

Extra photos: One digital photograph in high resolution form is included, but addition photos are available for 50 €/ 55 USD each. 
 
Hair & Makeup: I can also style your hair and do your make-up to match the overall look for an additional 300 € / 325 USD.
 
All prices include VAT 25,5%.
We reserve the right to change prices without prior notice.

"I recommend everyone to try body painting with Riina. The experience was something so amazing that it's hard to put into words. Riina made the situation feel so natural that it seemed obvious to undress and stand there being painted.

My important theme was translated perfectly onto the body and I could not have expected a better outcome. The photo shoot that followed the painting was again a place of pushing beyond my own limits, but thanks to Riina's encouraging feedback and atmosphere, I would have even left for the Senate Square to be photographed.

So for myself, this was a really empowering and memorable experience. Thank you."

ANNA

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