Face off Episode Three Highlights

Episode Three of Face Off is entitled 'Rock Your Body'. There are two makeup challenges in this episode, a foundation challenge - which is a tag team challenge with teams of 3 and then the Spotlight Challenge, where teams were paired up and had to body paint models to blend into a background image.

The foundation challenge was an interesting look at team work and the skills of picking up a theme quickly and completing it. Each team had a model with special effects contact lenses that were to be the motivation for the full face makeup. Each team only had one member able to see the model at a time. So it was up to the first team member on each team to start a clear path to their vision and then each consecutive member to come in and continue and then finish the same look. Beki and her team won for their vision and execution of their Alien makeup and prosthetics.

For the spotlight challenge, it was very artistically driven as each team received a backdrop to work with and two models - one had to be camouflaged into the backdrop and the other incorporated into the picture. Guest judge is hip hop artist Asher Roth and the winner will be chosen as his new album cover.

Each of the teams come up with amazing album covers and do their best to fit into a theme for Asher Roth's new album. Brea and Matt run into a huge road block when Brea's model gets sick and passes out with only minutes left in the competition. She is allowed to get a new model and an additional 6 hours to complete it, but means that she had to pull double duty and finish by herself.

Her hard work ends up paying off as their team wins the challenge with their amazing sneaker mural!

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Face Off Episode One Highlights

Face Off is a makeup competition on the SyFy Channel. The show has professional makeup artists who specialize in special effects and theatrical makeup pitted against each other. Each episode one contestant is eliminated and the rest of the contestants are one step closer to being the next movie makeup magician!

Fourteen makeup artists begin the competition. Who gets eliminated is up to the show's judges are three-time Academy Award winner Ve Neill (Pirates of the Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands) and Hollywood veterans Glenn Hetrick (Heroes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files) and Patrick Tatopoulos (Underworld, Independence Day, Resident Evil: Extinction) as Face Off's judges.

Episode One of Season Two is called Return to Oz. And starts out with last year's champion Connor McCullagh and the show's host McKenzie Westmore assign the first challenge to the contestants: transform their live model into a character that represents their makeup style. The winner is Gerald with his Elvan Queen.

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And that means that he has immunity for the spotlight challenge and cannot be sent home.

The spotlight challenge was one I really loved because I am a huge Wizard of Oz fan. The makeup artists were split into two teams: the girls vs. the boys. Each had to design 4 iconic Wizard of Oz characters into a re-imagined design.

Here are the characters the boys came up with:

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And the girls won with their fabulous re-imagined Wizard of Oz makeup and costumes:

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The Wicked Witch makeup and headpiece for the Wicked Witch was really cool, but my favorite was the Spooky Scarecrow:

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The girls won, so someone from the boys' team had to be sent home and it was Greg, the judges were not impressed with the chest he designed for the Tin Woodsman.

Getting Ready for FaceOff Makeup Artist Competition!

We are excited to watch Face Off Makeup Artist Competition on SyFy to see the amazing special effects makeup transformations that will happen this season on the tv show!

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Face Off TV Show on SyFy Highlights Special Effects Makeup

We are so excited about season 2 of the makeup competition show Face Off premiering tonight on SyFy. It showcases the type of makeup that we carry and the amazing things that can be done with makeup in the hands of skilled and amazingly talented makeup artists. The previews of the show have been really intriguing with the fascinating makeup creations that come from the imaginations of the makeup artist contestants on the show who are competing to be the last artist standing and the Face Off Season 2 winner. SyFy.com has season 1 episodes available to watch and catch up on as well as previews and images of some of the great transformation of people into living art.

Stay tuned to the StageAndTheaterMakeup.com Blog as we will highlight the types of makeup and makeup techniques used in each episode.

Want to try to re-create the Face Off makeup special effects? We will show you what you need to do that, as far as matching the skills of the talented contestants? That part, is up to you!

Here are some pics from SyFy.com/FaceOff which are the best looks from Season 1 of Face Off:

Sam and Tate's crab-like alien from Episode 3.

Conor's Frog Prince from the final Spotlight Challenge featured creative design like a breathing bladder for the neck.

Tate's unique housewife zombie.

Sam and Marcel's beetle-human hybrid.