Apply makeup to performers to reflect period, setting, and situation of their role.

• Body-Make-Up Artist
• Make-Up Artist

• Advise hairdressers on the hairstyles required for character parts.
• Alter or maintain makeup during productions as necessary to compensate for lighting changes or to achieve continuity of effect.
• Analyze a script, noting events that affect each character's appearance, so that plans can be made for each scene.
• Apply makeup to enhance, and/or alter the appearance of people appearing in productions such as movies.
• Assess performers' skin-type in order to ensure that make-up will not cause break-outs or skin irritations.
• Attach prostheses to performers and apply makeup in order to create special features or effects such as scars, aging, or illness.
• Cleanse and tone the skin in order to prepare it for makeup application.
• Confer with stage or motion picture officials and performers in order to determine desired effects.
• Create character drawings or models, based upon independent research, in order to augment period production files.
• Demonstrate products to clients, and provide instruction in makeup application.
• Design rubber or plastic prostheses that can be used to change performers' appearances.
• Duplicate work precisely in order to replicate characters' appearances on a daily basis.
• Establish budgets, and work within budgetary limits.
• Evaluate environmental characteristics such as venue size and lighting plans in order to determine makeup requirements.
• Examine sketches, photographs, and plaster models in order to obtain desired character image depiction.
• Provide performers with makeup removal assistance after performances have been completed.
• Requisition or acquire needed materials for special effects, including wigs, beards, and special cosmetics.
• Select desired makeup shades from stock, or mix oil, grease, and coloring in order to achieve specific color effects.
• Study production information, such as character descriptions, period settings, and situations in order to determine makeup requirements.
• Wash and reset wigs.
• Write makeup sheets and take photos in order to document specific looks and the products that were used to achieve the looks.

• apply make-up
• assess script quality
• compile historical data by consulting sources
• confer with client or staff regarding theme
• confer with other departmental heads to coordinate activities
• determine locale or period of story
• determine styles worn during historical period
• distinguish colors
• dress hairpieces according to instructions, samples or sketches
• dress wigs
• fit patients for prosthetic device, using static or dynamic alignment
• mix paint, ingredients, or chemicals, according to specifications
• review script to determine costumes required
• select desired make-up shades
• study examples of period clothing
• use hair, cosmetic, or nail care instruments
• use library or online Internet research techniques