Your date

Your date, your way

Use cosmetic-grade washable body paint or markers to create temporary designs on mutually approved areas of each other’s skin, then reveal the finished work together.

Buy only cosmetic-grade, washable products intended for use on skin and review ingredient warnings before the date. Each person chooses a few non-intimate areas they are comfortable having decorated, such as an arm, shoulder, upper back, or other mutually approved skin. Take turns as artist and canvas for about fifteen minutes. Create a temporary pattern, word, symbol, or abstract design inspired by the other person rather than trying to make realistic body art. When both designs are finished, use a mirror for the reveal and explain the detail you liked creating most. Take a private photo only if both agree, then clean up together. Avoid broken or irritated skin, eyes, lips, and any area not explicitly approved. The touch involved in painting never implies permission for anything else.