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