Language of Film: Makeup

Timely news:

• 2022 Makeup/Hairstyle Guild Nominations
• Being The Ricardos
• Best Makeup in Film 
• How Charlize Theron Became Megyn Kelly (video)
• Bombshell Makeup
• 1917s Hair & Makeup
• Bombshell Makeup
• The Harriet Makeup Artist on Authenticity
• Bohemian Rhapsody Hair & Makeup
• How Christian Bale Became Dick Cheney (VICE)
• Blade Runner 2049 Makeup Designer
• Gary Oldman on Churchill Makeup
• Suicide Squad Wins 2017 Oscar for Makeup/Hairstyle
• 7 Films Advance In Makeup/Hairstyle Race
• Hollywood Special Effects Industry is Cratering, Taking An Art Form With It
• Plastic Surgery: With A Click of a Mouse
• Behind The Makeup/Costumes of Mad Max
• Vocations: Makeup Artist
• The Revenant Makeup Feature
• Oscar Winner Rick Baker Announces Retirement
• How cosmetics took a starring role in Hollywood
• 3 Oscar-nominated Makeup-Hairstyle Teams Spill Their Secrets

Lesson plans:

• Costume Design: Defining Character (AMPAS)
• Costume & Makeup (AMPAS)
• Hair & Makeup Design-Template (IntoFilm)
• Monster Makeup (Newton’s Apple)
• Makeup Artist/Costume Design (Cascade Pass)

Recommended resources:

• Cinemamakeup.com
• Dick Smith: Makeup Artist (Movie Magic)
• Fantastic Flesh The Art of Make Up EFX
• Film-Makeup.com
• Historical Makeup (TCM video feature)
• HowStuffWorks “How Movie Make-up Artists Work”
• In The Studio With Rick Baker (AMPAS video)
• Jack Pierce: The Maker of Monsters (doc)
• Lighting for Makeup
• Makeup  (Britannica)
• Makeup411
• The Makeup Gallery
• The Makeup Gallery Blog
• Making Faces: Makeup In The Movies (TCM doc)
• Stuart Freeborn, makeup artist (streaming doc)

Periodicals and text recommendations:

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