Face Off (2011) s01e07 Episode Script

Previously on "Face Off" came to Los Angeles to compete to join the world's elite.
Your Spotlight Challenge is Zombies.
- Yes.
And the stakes are higher than ever, because two people will be eliminated.
I need a wardrobe change.
I just crapped my pants.
This week's winner is Tate.
That's what I'm talkin' about.
Glenn, who is going home tonight? Anthony.
The second person going home tonight is Tom.
And tonight on "Face Off" You will be disguising yourselves.
And your disguises will be put to the test in the real world.
A special guest is going to be sent in, and you are going to have to fool them.
Oh, oh! It's such an overwhelming challenge.
I'm sweatin' it.
Oh, my God.
Phenomenal, very realistic.
I am thoroughly disappointed.
The judges aren't happy.
It's an insult to everybody else that's worked so hard in this competition.
To make it to the top, they'll have to impress our award-winning panel of judges.
Ve Neill, legendary makeup artist, who's work includes "Edward Scissorhands", "Beetlejuice", and "The Pirates Of The Caribbean" films.
Glenn Hetrick, cutting edge makeup effects artist on "Heroes", "Legion", and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer".
And Patrick Tatopoulos, visionary creature designer for "Independence Day", "Godzilla", and director of "Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans".
Who will be the next great name in movie magic and earn $100,000 and a year's worth of makeup from Alcone? Get ready for "Face Off".
We are down to two people in this loft and it's getting a little empty.
down to five people all together.
That's pretty crazy.
So we're all gonna condense and see how it is to all live together.
What's up, y'all? - Hey, roomie.
We all just kind of look at each other and it's like, wow.
The reality of the situation is weighing now, you know.
It's insanity.
Cray-cray bananas.
Well, now there's only five people left in the loft.
I worry because it's just it's too unpredictable.
We're all going home soon.
It's just a matter of who goes first.
We walk in and McKenzie's waiting for us and she has these black envelopes.
It's like, oh, God.
What is this now? Hey, guys.
- Hi.
- Hello.
Welcome back to the lab.
Makeup artists can be masters of disguise and your next Spotlight Challenge is gonna take this to a whole other level.
However, you will not be disguising your models this time.
You will be disguising yourselves.
For the next two days, you will have to create and apply a look that will completely alter your appearance.
Think of this as your very own "Mission Impossible.
" Instantly, I start thinking about character disguise.
I'm like, oh, this could be cool, this could be cool, but what the hell's in this envelope.
After you create and apply your makeups, you're gonna have to play the part of a wig shop employee.
I'm thinking, should I change my ethnicity, I'm thinking, should I change my age.
I'm really worried about how do we change our appearance? One at a time, a special guest is going to be sent in to see you, and you are gonna have to fool them.
Now, inside these envelopes is a picture of your target.
I go and I open it and there's blond, there's blue.
Oh, oh! Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, it's my mom, and I start freaking out.
It's my mom.
As you can see, we have brought in one of your loved ones who has no idea what this challenge is really about.
Why don't you show us who you have? This is Brian.
This is my husband.
This is Matt and he's my boyfriend.
This is my mom.
Her name is Donna.
This is my girlfriend, Holly.
This is my sister, Colleen.
They actually think that they're buying you materials for your next challenge, and what they don't know is that they're gonna have to buy them from you.
You will be required to interact directly with your target and the judges will view footage from you mission.
So they will be looking not only at your makeup technique but also at how much you interact and whether or not you fool your target.
The only thing left is to start that clock.
Your time starts now.
We have our lifecasts, which are stone replicas of our own faces, and on top of those, we'll sculpt new features out of clay.
I'm gonna have to round out my face a lot.
It's such an overwhelming challenge because we haven't seen our loved ones in so long, yet I have to convince my boyfriend that I'm a totally different person.
So I don't know why, but there's something inside me that wants to bust out and turn myself into an overweight black woman.
It's like, it's gotta be done.
My sister has some knowledge of prosthetics, enough that I would expect her to see through a disguise if there's a lot of latex on my face.
So I went into this half seen portion of my face, I'll make a smaller mold and I immediately cast my teeth and poured dental acrylic into the mold.
I was definitely gonna utilize those.
I am doing a pregnant, bitchy woman, because my mom, she hates bitches, but if I'm pregnant, she's not gonna know how to conduct herself.
Now, see, I think that's the biggest part of this is knowing who you're dealing with and fooling them.
Yeah, I'm totally gonna be disgusting.
I'm gonna, like, snort and snot and ask for her number.
The advantage of being with my girlfriend of six years is that I know the things that drive her crazy.
And she really has a problem with fat, pasty goth kids.
So I'm gonna sculpt a double chin, obviously, a brow piece to cover up my brow.
My goal is to have the sculpture done by the end of the day.
This is gonna be so awesome.
I hope my mom doesn't make me laugh 'cause she knows my laugh.
We all know your laugh.
Can't even tell you how excited I am to see Brian, I'm just gonna want to run up and kiss him.
This is the hardest challenge that I can conceivably think of.
Every single last one of us is just fretting over how do we pull this off? Unless I decide to make myself male.
I finally came down to the realization that changing gender had the most impact and it seemed to make the most sense with my particular facial structure.
I'm going to increase the size of my brow just slightly.
And, of course, the Adam's Apple.
Big old fat gelatin belly, a little paunched happy trail and a belly ring.
Ugh.
Come on.
I'm definitely gonna go with gelatin 'cause gelatin's usually really easy to work with.
It is a risk due to its weight and I'm gonna be in it all day, but it will look beautiful if I can pull it off.
I'm really nervous about fooling my boyfriend because he knows me, which is why I'm going all out.
I'm changing my skin tone, I'm covering my tattoos, I'm taking all my piercings out, I'm doing full prosthetics, I'm doing the wig, 'cause I want it to be real.
I want it to be believable and I'm just gonna go there.
I'm worried about Gage's makeup because I truly believe that less is more.
Transforming a lanky, tall white boy into a heavy-set black woman isn't gonna be easy.
I'm sweatin' it.
Like it's I'm really a bundle of nerves now.
The challenge that we received yesterday was to create a costume disguise so that when somebody who is very close to us shows up, they are unable to recognize us.
It's good.
It's going to be really hard to fool somebody who has been staring at you for three years.
When the sculpture is finished, it's time to make a mold.
You do this by putting a cement like substance on top of a sculpture.
So once it hardens, you clean out the clay, and fill it with foam or silicone, which eventually becomes a prosthetic.
So I'm doing prosthetic ears.
I just molded them to cover up my piercings.
Yesterday, I made teeth.
I just kind of had to improvise, put a little bit of copper wire in there to make it look like a gold cap.
Teeth are a really great way to create a quick change to someone's appearance.
I decided to grab a mannequin, start sculpting this fat belly.
I'm gonna cast the belly in gelatin, so I can't wait.
It's gonna have a little bounce.
I'm tryin' to get my voice down.
Huh.
Oh, my God.
I started toying with my voice and stuff.
And then Glenn walks out with McKenzie.
Hey, Megan.
- Hi.
How are you doing? - Good.
So is this your inspiration for your altering? Yes.
I mean, ever since day one, I love her structure in her face.
Yeah, she has a great look.
She's absolutely gorgeous.
It's funny because Megan, for her inspiration, she chose Diana, which was Conor's last model, and model before, and she's sculpting her exact face on top of hers.
It's an odd approach.
So the entire makeup is just this piece.
That's the only prosthetic.
I really think subtlety is the key here 'cause I think if my face is covered in rubber, she's gonna notice.
Tell me about the materials for both pieces.
What I think I'm gonna do with the stomach because I don't want to deal with too much weight, I'm gonna do a decently thick gelatin skin and then I'm gonna push foam into the back of it.
What material do you plan on using? Probably gelatin.
I'm using gelatin because it takes just minutes to do, but gelatin is a funny substance.
It can mimic flesh in a beautiful way.
But it also is heat reactive and it can actually melt right off of the actor.
I look forward to it.
- Yeah, good luck.
Thanks, guys.
Thank you.
How do you feel about, individually, what they're doing? How they're gonna alter themselves? With Conor, it's the most minimal.
I really am interested in seeing where he goes with that idea.
It seems like it would be easier, but it's more difficult.
It stands in stark contrast to what gage is doing.
I kind of think that those two polar opposites probably have, in my mind, the best chances of succeeding.
What do you think about Tate's? I'm a little worried about the weight of the gelatin.
When you have that much weight, just getting it on is a challenge.
Going on to Megan, then.
I'm looking at the size of it and just thinking gelatin is gonna be really heavy.
If she goes with just straight silicone, I think it could come to life for her, but it's gonna be all about the color.
And then last, Sam.
I think that the head sculpture's a bit blocky.
Sort of half and half, where some of it's masculine, some of it's feminine.
It may come out just looking like this sort of weird, androgynous makeup.
Bye, guys.
Bye.
- Good luck.
Do you have the teeth in? All right, guys, that's it.
Get out of here.
I'm working on the fly.
I am not making decisions until they have to be made, and I am a bit freaked about this whole deal.
It's all fine and good up until my boyfriend comes into play.
Walks in the door.
I am tensing up at the thought of it.
Tate, let's go shave.
Tate needs to shave his face, I need to shave mine.
Neither one of us want to do it.
But we have to for the makeup.
We're suffering for our art.
I'll be 12-years-old when I get back.
It's not gonna be pretty.
All right.
- Oh.
I haven't dude.
I know.
I'm right there with you, dude.
It's okay.
She'll still love you.
You know guys that walk on their toes and they kind of fall forward all the time? They just kind of everybody seems a bit anxious at the house.
Practicing our walking, practicing our talking.
Just going over our mannerisms.
I've got a gut, there's some love handles.
So I just kind of revert back to slouching and walking with kind of my feet pointed out and well, plus, you're older so your bowlegging it.
Yes, I'm an old man so did you notice Meg's reference today? Yeah.
The model? Yeah.
Yeah, that's weird.
I know.
It's only weird because is she turning herself into that model? It's possible.
I wouldn't put anything past her at this point.
Today is application day.
Once the prosthetic has set up, it can be removed from the mold, applied to the model's face and painted.
And we get assistants for about two hours.
When our helpers come in, we immediately get down to applying.
They're there to assist us in putting on our prosthetics and covering up the back areas where we wouldn't be able to get to.
I think the one bad thing about thin gelatin Little tiny air bubbles.
It's a hard challenge and I don't know if it's gonna work.
I'm doing things with types of materials that I haven't really used before so I'm coming at this like, "I'll tell you when I get there.
" It already looks disgusting.
I can't wait to get into costume.
On a black person you use a lot of reds and a lot of browns.
You need to layer it, you need to build it.
And aside from applying the face, I still have to do my arms from the elbows down and my legs from the knee down.
I'm so paranoid that my sister's gonna see through the disguise.
My main focus today is getting the prosthetic glued down and getting it blended, and doing just good hair work that's gonna be convincing, yet changing it up enough so that it's not gonna be recognizable as me.
Lookin' good, Conor.
Your ass is so big.
Oh, my God, how dare you.
This just looks awful.
I mean no, it really does.
This is not gonna pass for anything.
I'm realizing as we're putting it on, things are not working out.
I'm like, "There's no way that I'm gonna fool my mother with all these freakin' buckling edges.
" I could definitely see what Megan was so concerned about.
She did have this problem with folds being created in the piece whenever she moved, but I actually thought she did a really good job.
Had she walked past me on the street, I wouldn't have even looked twice.
First I peel off the neck, then I peel off the cheeks.
Maybe I can save the jawbone and the nose.
And then I look at the profile, and I said, "Oh, no.
This all has to go.
" I just know that this appliance on my face is not gonna work.
I see Megan and she's struggling with her piece.
Really, really, really struggling.
And she eventually starts ripping it off.
I'm not feeling this makeup at all.
It's not working.
And if it's not working, I'm not gonna continue going down that path.
What? My biggest fear was time, and she didn't have good edges and she wasn't convinced by the prosthetic.
She's thinking at this point it's a fail.
She knows that she's in trouble.
We were given two hours with an assistant, but that time is up.
I would not have been able to get this on without you.
I want to hug you but nice meeting you, yeah.
- You, too.
- Bye, Gage.
- Bye.
Bye-bye.
My plan b is to do an awesome foundation beauty makeup on myself.
I am going to change my skin tone three shades, I have my wig down, I got the green contacts.
I want to make this thing come together.
Damn.
My biggest concern is that this makeup's gonna last all day.
This isn't like doing an application, walking it in front of the judges, and that's it.
Everybody seems a bit anxious.
When it comes down to trying to fool somebody in person, the smallest of details can make it real, or it can make it a disaster.
There's a lot of anticipation now because the hard part with the makeup's over, now we gotta perform, and we have to fool our loved ones.
So you guys excited? I'm actually terrified.
Why? I'm gonna try and be as offensive as possible.
We should practice our voices.
So if you have to handle the wig and cap.
Here you go.
We have an amazing model that we've worked with before named Deb.
She's there posing as the other co-worker.
Deb's gonna be signaling us and calling upon us to do certain tasks in the store.
Here, honey.
That's it.
That was it.
Here, honey.
That's it.
Here, girl.
No.
I don't know.
"He-ah.
" I'll figure it out out there.
My sister goes into this thinking that she's helping me out with a challenge where she needs to pick up a couple wigs.
So she knows that the cameras are on her.
- Hello, there.
- Hi.
Welcome to Wilshire Wigs.
Is there anything in particular you're looking for today? - I'd kind of like to look around a bit.
- Okay.
Sort of maybe grab something that catches my eye.
All right.
I'm a little paranoid, of course, 'cause I have no idea if she's gonna notice anything wrong.
I like that one.
Could you bring us a wig cap? Oh, yes.
There's a number of parameters we need to follow going into this.
I have to hand her a wig cap.
Here.
You need wig cap.
Okay.
And, yes, I have to speak to her.
No.
That's okay.
It won't be my color.
And ultimately, I have to ring up the sale.
- It's going to be $160.
- Okay.
- And here you go.
- Great.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
How about a hug for your brother? Oh, my God.
That was awesome.
Did you have any idea? No.
Well, mission accomplished, then.
Let's get out of here.
By the time it was time for me to go out, I'm like, okay, "Let's just do it.
Let's just do it.
" The long ones tend to be around the top and the short ones are dotted all over the place.
Okay.
- Take a gander, and then bring 'em and we'll try 'em on.
Cool.
No matter what you do makeup-wise, there's just an uncanny feeling that they're gonna know.
I mean, what's that gonna look like if he's like, "Oh, my God.
Gage!" So I decide to make Monique, my character, more withdrawn, a little bit more soft spoken, because it's so polar opposite of who I am.
So you want yes.
- Go with this one? Yeah.
- I think so.
And then, of course, one of my main challenges is to ring him up.
Perfect.
$180.
Out of $200.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Thanks.
He still didn't know.
He didn't know at all.
He goes, "Oh, okay, thanks, and turned to walk out".
Hon, it's me.
- Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
I'm a black woman, hon.
- Hey.
My God.
I did get him, because he still didn't recognize me even after I revealed myself, so that's pretty good.
I think that's pretty good.
Oh, my God.
Did you know it was me? I had no idea.
I had no idea.
I was all, "Here you go.
" I had no idea.
Oh, my God.
The funny thing about holly is she's also a special effects artist.
Not only do I have to fool this person that has seen me for six years daily, I have to fool her with the same thing that she does that I do.
I don't know that I even have a shot.
Welcome to Wilshire Wigs, I'm Deborah.
- Oh, hi.
I have my back to the door, and I hear Holly come in, and I go full Gavin.
Dark brown, black.
I start mouth breathing and I start waddling around the room, and then I turn and I make eye contact.
She looked directly into my eye, and then she looked away.
And I was like, "Yes! My strategy worked.
" I think I want something probably a little darker.
Deb.
Yes, Gavin.
It's a blue wig.
Okay, well, this is a blue wig from Gavin there.
Yeah, that's a little crazy.
Could you get us a wig cap to try one of these on? Deb, what color? I want to go with a dark wig cap.
- Okay.
And Holly is just doing everything she can to not look at me.
This is just pretty like you.
I even smelled her hair and she didn't move, she was frozen.
Gavin, would you mind ringing her up for me? Oh.
Okay.
- Come on, now, you remember how to do it.
Deb.
You've got it.
You're fine.
Okay.
Sorry.
- That's no problem at all.
Thank you.
- Have a good night.
Thank you very much.
Uh, Miss Martinez.
Yes? How you doin'? Oh, my God.
Did you know it was me at any point? - What did you - I was trying to not pay attention.
Let's get out of here.
Fooling my mom is gonna be harder than maybe anybody else's 'cause, you know, she's known me since day one.
I thinking that it looks like Megan with a spray tan.
How can you fool your own mom without a prosthetic? Hello, there.
- Hi.
Welcome to Wilshire Wigs.
I'm Deborah, nice to meet you.
I'm Donna.
Oh, my God.
I hear my mom's voice.
I don't know what to do.
I just don't think this is gonna work.
- - Coming up He's just across the cash register, I'm going to be found out.
There's still so much of you coming through that makeup.
All that's incredible, so fantastic work.
I think you were pretty darn successful, and congratulations.
Fooling my mom is gonna be harder than maybe anybody else's, 'cause, you know, she's known me since day one.
Hello there.
- Hi.
Megan had problems with her prosthetics so she didn't use any.
But moms have this weird voodoo that they know their kids, you know? So I have no idea how she thinks she's gonna make it work.
At first, I start hiding my face a little bit, I'm just like going around like this, like, "mm-hmm.
" But we're supposed to interact with our loved ones, we're supposed to help them out, so I start playing off of the other people in the shop.
I start to test out my voice on them.
You okay here? And I'm like, okay, okay, I can do this.
How you doin' over here? You good? Great.
This one's nice natural.
This one right here.
It's a bit lighter.
Then comes the moment of truth.
Nancy, would you mind ringing her up with these two? Did you find everything you were looking for? Uh, yeah.
Uh.
Oh, van-damnit.
I'm going through this like, "Please don't recognize me, 'cause if you do, then that just might show the judges you're not that good with beauty makeup.
" You did need a prosthetic.
Here you go.
Thank you very much.
Mom, it's me.
It's Megan.
It's Megan.
- Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, you look so cute pregnant.
No.
No, no, no, no.
Oh, did you know it was me? No! My husband and I have been together for three years.
He studies people's faces and postures and walking patterns.
He's really observant.
It seems impossible.
Hello.
- Hello.
How are you today? I'm good, how are you doing? I hear his voice, and I look like myself still.
I there's no way that he cannot know that it's me.
So I'm trying to just show my profile because it looks least like me.
Oh, wow.
Would you like to try this one on? Give it a shot.
See what it looks like.
Mark, could you get a wig cap for us? Put this on.
Okay.
Every time Deb gives me an instruction Mark, could you oh, perfect.
You read my mind.
Could you bring that one over here? Go and give him a wig cap.
Go and pick out this wig.
Suggest that you like it.
It's kind of hard to resist, yeah.
Take a look at that.
I'm terrified all over again that I'm gonna be found out.
Mark, could you ring him up for these two, please, and I'll start putting these back.
And then the very end, this was the part that was the most nerve-wracking to me because, I mean, he's just across the cash register.
The lighting is not normal effects lighting.
Every part about it is just like, "Oh, of course, this is the time I'm going to be found out.
" Thank you very much.
Thank you, sugar.
Have a good one.
Brian.
- Oh! Oh, wow.
I can't believe you did this.
How are you? - Ohh.
Wow.
Yeah.
Going back to the loft, we all got to, you know, just meet and mingle.
It was cool, I mean, challenges aside, that is hands down the most levity we've had since we started this.
Woo-hoo! Hey, it's nice to meet you finally.
We were shut off from our loved ones for so long, to have them come into this world and have just be able to be like, "Oh, now you see what I've been dealing with and you're part of this one section in our life that will never happen again.
" We're gonna do a really big toast to everyone who's here, who made it this far and who trekked across the country to be here tonight.
Thank you.
You're amazing.
Cheers.
It's time to go.
Once our loved ones had left for the night, I think we were all infused with a new sense of motivation, and a new sense to keep going.
Welcome to the "Face Off" reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
Say hello to your judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
Good evening, guys.
Three-time Oscar winning makeup artist, Ve Neill.
Welcome back, everybody.
And creature designer and director, Patrick Tatopoulos.
Hello, everyone.
Hi, Patrick.
This week, your Spotlight Challenge was to disguise yourself and fool those closest to you by posing as a wig store employee.
Let's check out some of your videos and see how you did.
My video comes on and it's just so awkward to watch.
You're gigantic.
I knew that he had no clue who I was, but what the judges are gonna see of my makeup, I have no idea.
It's very nerve-wracking.
Hon, it's me.
- Oh, my God.
As soon as my video starts playing, I'm pretty excited about it.
Let me try both Of these, I guess.
I loved my makeup and I liked my acting.
Oh, van-damnit.
Oh.
I did get the vibe that her mom knew, 'cause it'd be really hard not to have known.
Mom, it's me, it's Megan.
- Oh.
Oh, did you know it was me? No! Oh.
- No.
My God.
I definitely don't like this color - I like this one.
You know, I feel great that I pulled off the challenge.
It's going to be $160.
But now it's like, how are the judges gonna rate this? How about a hug for your brother? Oh, my God.
Actually, you do kinda look a little like that.
Put this on.
Okay.
It's pretty cool to see more of my husband's reaction.
I felt nervous all over again, sort of like, "Oh, is he gonna recognize me?" I have the hardest time reading the judges' faces, so watching them, I can't really tell what they're thinking.
Brian.
- Oh! Oh, wow.
I take it back, I don't want to see mine now.
I completely changed everything about me, I changed my jaw line, my nose, my walk, my breathing, so I don't know that I will be in the top, but I don't feel like I'm going home.
All right, well, the judges would like to speak with each of you.
Sam, you're up first.
I really hope I get a win this time.
I've been in the middle the entire competition.
I think that this ended up Terrible.
All right, well, the judges would like to speak with each of you.
Sam, you're up first.
When I came in and I sort of looked at your sculpture, I thought that we were in some trouble as to where it was going.
We've talked about not having a completely solid idea before you take the next step and start turning it into makeup.
And here, I think that this ended up Terrible.
Terribly successful.
I I'm blown away by the fact that it came from where you were in clay to that.
And but I wanted so badly to do the multi-piece because I know you were stressing it before, so I decided to leave the edges unsculpted so that I could at least adjust and pull in various places.
That was an absolutely brilliant decision to leave this open so that you could move it around on your face and manipulate it during the application, especially when you're wrestling a gelatin piece, putting it on yourself.
I was blown away by the color that you achieved in your gelatin, especially for someone who doesn't do it.
Well done.
Thank you.
And you know what? You did a couple of things there that are very impressive to me.
It looks like a masculine face.
It doesn't look like a woman wearing a masculine makeup.
All that is incredible, very realistic.
It's a male figure that I'm looking at and I buy it.
So fantastic work, Sam.
Thank you.
I'm really proud of you, Sam.
This is amazing.
You have progressed leaps and bounds.
He looks kind of like one of these kind of weaslly, sickie type guys with dirty hair and I wouldn't have thought twice to look at him again, that it was like some weird makeup job.
You did a great job.
Thank you so much.
Good job, girl.
That's awesome.
Tate.
You're up next.
All right.
In a case like this, I felt the idea would have been to be a bit more discreet, and make something more casual.
But no, you went beyond that and you just created a character again.
I'm a big fan of that side of your work, man, so thank you so much.
- I'm on board.
How successful do you feel you were with the technical execution of this makeup? You know, I'd have to say about a six.
I liked the character.
I could have, obviously, done better with more time.
I like it.
I think that it was pretty successful.
The performance and the wig, I think, were the two things that had the greatest chance of giving you away because it was over the top and the the mutant level mouth breathing that you were doing was, although hilarious, I think it was almost endangering you of giving yourself away because it was so over the top, but it has nothing to do with your makeup.
I think that it was very successful.
Thank you very much.
You know what? I didn't even want to look at you.
So, I mean, I think you were pretty darn successful and congratulations.
He was nasty.
Wow.
Thank you very much.
Gage.
You are next.
Okay.
Upon initially visiting you in the studio, my feelings towards your makeup were grave amount of trepidation because of what you were trying to do.
It's just so much stuff.
But after seeing it on, I think that you did a really good job.
I think that it was very bold to try to incorporate this many different aspects.
I was a little scared of the voices that you were making when we were at the studio, as I think everyone was.
Yeah.
I'm glad you decided to pull that back a bit.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
This was a really brave move on your part to do the gender swap and ethnicity.
Just because I find it so interesting that you did Monique, how come you didn't put any beauty makeup on her? I tried to and it just started looking really cartoony.
I find some aspect of the appliance on the face a little patchy color-wise, but you really sold the character.
She's very much believable.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, you guys.
Thank you.
Oh, my God.
Conor.
You are next.
Please step forward.
Hey, Conor, another really beautiful makeup job.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, he looks just like you.
I mean, it looks like a terrorist version of you.
I can't disagree.
I mean, I didn't know exactly how it was all gonna look.
He's your ugly cousin, dude.
Yeah.
No, I don't disagree.
I I see myself in there as well.
It was just a little too on the safe side.
I wish you pushed a little bit more the aspect of the sculpt.
And you could have twisted yourself a little more and still be quite realistic, so it's just right there.
Unfortunately, I agree that there's still so much of you coming through that makeup and this week was all about disguising yourself.
Conor, thank you very much.
Megan, you are up next.
I had full intent of using prosthetics and when that didn't come out, I went with plan b.
Hopefully, the judges take that into consideration, but who knows? Megan, you are up next.
Megan, I am thoroughly disappointed in this makeup.
You probably had some technical problems with the time that you had.
I get all of that.
That said, when the competition is to create a makeup effect, and you've been here in front of us several times, and we keep saying we want to see what it is that you have to offer us, presenting us with what you were trying to do would, in my opinion, have been a better approach than doing a beauty makeup.
So that's all I have to say about this.
Last week you just barely skated by, you were on the fence and I think you have totally fallen off the fence this time.
And to think that you're gonna, like, hide your face and get away with that, I mean, you had your back to the camera most of the time.
You were hiding behind wigs and your hair and whatever you could.
I mean, I don't think you fooled your mother at all, quite frankly.
She's just smart enough not to say anything.
You know, all the people that have been dismissed from this competition, and then you do this? Megan, it's hard for me to add anything else.
I mean, there's no point telling you more than what you just heard already.
I I have to say, I'm extremely exhausted.
And I'm tired.
I'm tired.
All right, Megan.
Judges, have you reached a decision? Yeah.
- All right.
I'd like to remind you all that the winner of the Spotlight Challenge will have the chance to advise the judges on who they feel should be eliminated.
Glenn, why don't you tell us about the top looks? This week's top two looks are Sam.
You were the most unrecognizable of the group.
And Gage, for really going for it and swinging for the fences.
A massive amount of work.
And you also succeeded in burying yourself in your character.
Very tough decision.
A lot of good makeups this week.
So, then, who is the winner? Our winner this week is Sam.
Yay.
Congratulations.
Finally.
I'm thrilled.
I mean, I'm so glad to have this chance to finally say, "Okay, this is something that I'm really, truly proud of.
" Sam, you have earned the right to advise the judges on who you feel should be eliminated tonight.
Actually That's not gonna be necessary this evening.
There's a singular clarity to our decision process this evening.
The person going home tonight is Megan.
Megan, being tired and being worn out is not an excuse.
It takes a tenacity to succeed at what we do.
I hate to send the women home.
That's heartbreaking.
There's so few of us that can stick to it, it bums me out to have to send you home, especially with such a huge failure.
Megan, if you would please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
You are our final four.
Next week, one of you will be crowned the winner.
Congratulations.
- Congratulations, everybody.
Good work.
- Thank you.
I'm ready for that final challenge.
I'm ready to win this $100,000.
I'm ready to show why I'm here.
Sam, congratulations.
Great job.
- Thank you, lady.
I don't want to go home right now.
I have a lot to do, still, and I still want to spend more time with Conor.
I'll miss you most of all.
You were a great partner.
Thank you.
I know I totally screwed up.
I don't feel like a failure, though, because I've been through so much and nothing's gonna stop me from being in this industry and giving my all.