Face Off (2011) s07e12 Episode Script
Off With Their Heads
Shockingly awful.
That is the high point for you thus far.
Previously on Face Off Drew's emo faun gave him his first win, and Rachael was sent home.
Now just six artists remain.
And tonight, they'll face a mythical twist.
It's time to make something just a little more powerful.
But for some, it may prove to be their Achilles' heel.
Shit-balls.
I'm so stupid.
It has that grand, majestic nature to it.
In the end, only one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Make-Up to one of their 85 international locations, a brand-new 2014 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
Welcome to Face Off.
Ooh, looks lovely in here.
We get into the lab, and it's been transformed by all this Greek architecture, and it looks like a coliseum.
Hey, guys.
Hi.
Before I give you the details of today's foundation challenge, I want to introduce you to your special guest judge.
Her work has been featured in major films, like Oblivion and one of my favorites, The Cell.
Oh, my God.
She's also been nominated for six Academy Awards, and she won twice for her work on Dracula and Quest For Fire.
Please give a warm welcome to makeup artist Michele Burke.
Oh, my God, Michele Burke.
She's done all sorts of makeups, including one of my favorite movies, The Cell.
So I really want to impress her.
- Hi.
- Hi.
It's so great to have you here with us.
Thank you, thank you.
I'm delighted to be here.
All right, guys.
Today's foundation challenge is inspired by one of the most recognizable and feared characters of all Greek mythology.
Her deadly gaze will turn you to stone.
Medusa.
Nice.
Oh, nice.
So your foundation challenge is to create one of Medusa's victims who is turning into stone.
Yes.
- Nice.
- Yes.
So what advice do you have for these guys today? What I'm really looking for is how you create stone and duplicate the textures, and I'm also looking for the expression of when they're frozen, the fear or the shock of being turned into stone.
Excellent, thank you.
Okay, guys, the winner of this foundation challenge will receive their very own spray booth, courtesy of our friends at Paasche.
That's a big wow.
- Yeah.
- Holy cow.
That amazing booth will help keep the air in your own lab clear of any dangerous fumes and is worth $2,000.
- Wow! - Nice! My spray booth is a table in front of a window with a box fan.
So I want that Paasche spray booth so bad, I can taste it.
All right, you have two hours for this challenge.
Good luck, guys, because your time starts now.
Oh, yes! I envision Medusa's gaze so intense that it actually sears your eyeballs, so my character is gonna be shielding his face, but it's also burning his fingers.
I grab some clay, water it down to make a slush, and then I also tint that with some of the Kryolan aqua proofs and start painting that on my model.
You're turning to stone, Alex.
_ _ My victim was sent out to defeat Medusa because they thought, as a woman, she wouldn't be affected by her.
I have this idea to cut up cosmetic sponges into shapes of rocks.
And with the paint job, it'll look really cool.
I can't imagine having my own spray booth.
That would be so awesome.
This nose looks like a beast's nose.
I find this prosthetic, and it's got mean eyebrows and a funky lip and chin.
So he's going to be a creature that has come to kill Medusa.
And I want a paint scheme to have more color than just gray and white.
I like that.
My concept is this protector of the forest who saw Medusa, and he's just frozen for all eternity.
Open and look up.
There are certain things that happen to stone when it gets really old.
Like, it gets moss on it, and lichen, which is, like, this really vibrantly colored fungus.
I'm gonna incorporate that to just make it a little more interesting.
That looks really cool.
All right, 30 minutes.
That's it, time's up; brushes down.
- Hi, Sasha.
- Hi.
All right, so tell us about your Medusa-struck woman.
She's a princess, and Medusa wanted to rule, so she turned everyone royal into stone.
I like the idea of the ultra-color in the hair.
That's really interesting.
What could have been done better, if this line here was not a straight line, because on camera straight lines catch the eye faster.
She was out gathering things to help feed her family, and she accidentally wandered into Medusa's den.
You've really captured the stone in her face - and the crackling - And the texture.
That you could have showed complete stone and lesser stone, but that's minor.
She is a warrior sent out to defeat Medusa.
I really like that you gave it a 3-D aspect to the makeup.
And I think that would translate very well in film.
Excellent work.
Medusa's stare is so intense, the heat sears your eyeballs, so he put up his hand to block it, and it burnt the tips of his fingers.
I really like this idea.
I would have liked to have seen a little bit less uniformity around the eyes.
Mm-hmm.
But this is very creative.
He was a woodland warrior, and Medusa stared him straight in the face, so he is entirely stone.
And this happened a while ago, so I did some moss on the stone.
I love the fact that you aged him a little and made him a complete frozen character.
Because he's young and foolish, he decided he was just going to charge in and kill Medusa with his horns.
I like the fact that you did use a prosthetic to give him more dimension to the face.
The eyes are good because they're deep-set and they show a fierceness, and I like your paintwork.
You did a very good job with that.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
All right, so, Michele, who created your favorite looks today? Stella.
It was really creative and different to everybody else.
Thank you.
And George.
Your back-story was very, very different, and I love that you aged the face.
- So, well done.
- Thanks.
Who is the winner of this challenge? It was a very tough choice, but the winner is Stella.
Ah! You nailed that expression, and your paintwork was really good.
Thank you so much.
Stella, congratulations.
As the winner of today's foundation challenge, you have won your very own Paasche spray booth.
Are you excited? Yes.
I won a spray booth from Paasche, which feels awesome, so, yay.
Michele, thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you so much.
It was a pleasure.
Good luck, everybody.
It was just a pleasure to see you work today.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Okay, guys, let's talk about your next spotlight challenge.
You've already created the victim of a Greek beast.
Now it's time to make something just a little more powerful.
While films like Clash Of The Titans and Percy Jackson And The Olympians feature Greek gods as powerful immortals, their incredible abilities are rarely reflected in their appearances.
So, with that in mind, your spotlight challenge is to re-imagine one of the Greek gods, using their own powers as inspiration for a supernatural fantasy character.
- Nice.
- Whoa.
I'm kind of nervous right now.
I really don't know that much about Greek gods, so I'm hoping that I'm going to pick up on it really fast.
Each of the items beside me represents a Greek god.
We have Demeter Poseidon Athena Zeus Artemis Aphrodite Apollo and Hades.
Stella, as the winner of the foundation challenge, you get first pick.
Yay.
Ah okay.
Poseidon.
Aw.
Drew.
Hades.
Aphrodite.
Apollo.
Zeus.
Athena.
All right, now that you all have your gods, Greek mythology is filled with epic stories of heroes and gods conquering unspeakable monsters.
In keeping with this season's life and death theme, you must also create the severed head of a mythological monster conquered by your god.
Yes! This is awesome, but it's gonna be a lot more work, because not only do you have to make a head, but you have to make a makeup that looks cool too.
All right, guys, you can go home and get some rest.
When you get to the lab in the morning, get started on your designs.
I'll come by with my dad to see how things are coming along.
See you then.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Severed heads! - Yeah! Yay.
The first time I've been in top looks for a foundation challenge.
- Yeah.
- So that felt nice.
Congratulations.
Yeah, good for me.
After being on bottom last challenge, it's nice to be in top looks this time.
I'm feeling really positive and more confident.
Now I just want to focus on impressing the judges with my Greek god and my monster head.
It's day one in the lab.
We have ten hours to work today.
We pick our models and start designing.
I chose Hades, the God of the Underworld.
Because he's been in the Underworld for so long, he is starting to shrivel, like the dead.
So I'm doing this very desiccated, leathery, corpse-like makeup.
My idea for the severed head is, like, an impish, demonic servant creature that displeased Hades.
I'm gonna do, like, really gnarly stringy bits coming out of the neck.
Like, he didn't just cut their head off.
He, like, pulled it off their body.
My character is Zeus.
He's the God of the Sky.
He controls the lightning and the thunder.
I'm kind of thinking of him as almost like a-- like a Renaissance oil painting.
So he's gonna have the long hair and the long beard, but I want to give him this ethereal armor.
So the first thing I start working on is the face sculpt.
I want it to have Mediterranean features, like the nose.
He's gonna look attractive, but also aged.
I think I'm doing my piece out of silicone.
Nice.
Zeus banished all the Titans to the sea in this underwater prison.
Because of that, I want my severed head to be the last remaining Titan that he didn't quite round up.
My God is Aphrodite, and she's the God of Beauty and Love.
And she was actually born in the sea, so I'm thinking I want to add sea elements into this makeup, and I'm just gonna do a cowl and some shoulder pieces.
For my severed head, I want to do, like, the ugliest thing I could think of in the ocean, which is the angler fish.
Ooh, gorgeous.
I picked Apollo, and since he's the God of the Sun, I really want to play up the fire element and design some really cool fire armor.
So I decided I'm gonna do a cowl and a severed head.
Since he was the God of Plague, I want him to have slain this diseased abomination.
He dips his arrows in the blood of this beast to spread plague and disease among his enemies.
I'm having the hardest time figuring out what my concept is gonna be.
My goddess is Athena.
She's the Goddess of War and Skill, and she represents the owl, because the owl is the wise bird.
But I've done an owl makeup already.
I can't do another owl makeup.
There's no clay on my life cast at this point, and everyone else is already sculpting.
I can't come up with anything right now.
Coming up Now I have to figure out how I'm gonna open it without cracking any of it.
I know it's not the focus, but it becomes such a distraction.
Today is day one of our Greek gods challenge, and I'm having a really hard time figuring out what my concept is gonna be.
There's no clay on my life cast at this point, and everyone else is already sculpting.
I find that Athena guided Perseus' hand to cut off Medusa's head, so I'm thinking, well, then, maybe Medusa could be Athena's severed head.
But she can still turn people to stone.
So my goddess, Athena, has been turned to stone and is being controlled by the Medusa head.
I hate my concept, but I just have to go for it.
Hey, guys, my dad and I are here to check in on you.
- Hello.
- Hi.
So Poseidon was the God of Seas, and he created the horse.
So I figured I could do a really cool, like, water creature with a sea horse element.
And I'm gonna do an octopus for the severed head.
What is your thinking on the cutting in along the nose there? The gills.
- The gills? - Yeah.
I think you ought to over-emphasize these, and then you could even carry it on down - into this upper piece here.
- Mm-hmm.
So Hades is the God of the Underworld, and the severed head is actually going to be one of the Underworld minions who has failed him.
What are you gonna do for eyes? I'm actually going to mold it with those eye forms in and paint the latex and epoxy over them.
You've got them centered straight ahead.
You might just roll them a little bit, because your dead eyes roll up into your head.
Oh, yeah.
All right, so you chose Aphrodite.
Yes.
She rose from the sea foam, so I wanted to incorporate, like, seashells.
That's great.
You might even pull this back a little further to be able to put iridescent shadow on there to bring this makeup out.
We know you have Athena.
Yes.
I'm gonna have her holding Medusa.
She turned into stone.
Now Medusa is, like, controlling her body.
Interesting concept you're doing, because you're going a reverse of what everything else is.
To really pull it off, your head - has to have life in it.
- The fake head.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
It can't look like a silly, cheap Halloween head.
All right, guys, it's looking great.
Good luck to everybody.
- Thank you.
- See you later.
- Check it out.
- Oh, looks good.
So I get the face done, and now it's time to make the mold.
I'm gonna be casting my face out of silicone, because if you're using silicone, you can just paint a few light layers, and you get that translucent look of skin a lot easier.
But the mold needs to be as perfect as possible so that when it opens it doesn't tear.
I have to get my severed head molded on day one, because I want to be able to slush some latex into it and allow it to set overnight, and I can run foam first thing in the morning.
Mr.
Westmore tells me that I really have to sell this Medusa head, so I start sculpting snakes on a flat board.
When they're done, I'll mold them, run them in foam latex, stick a wire in them, and paint them, bend them however I want.
I like it.
But I think he looks like the alien.
That's what I'm trying to avoid.
The flames are looking really cool, but it resembles something I had done in a previous challenge for the alien, and I don't want to do something that looks the same.
I just really want to illustrate fire.
Instead of going for armor, I envision him more wrapped in, like, this divine flame.
That gives me even more freedom to not be in the confines of just armor.
I know that changing my cowl is gonna be a lot of work, but I'm fired up.
- Do I look like Zeus? - You look like a hippie Jesus.
Go back to Woodstock.
That's time.
So it's the end of day one.
I've got my mold finished.
I've got my head roughed out.
Ah! There's a lot that I need to do tomorrow, but I feel pretty confident that I'll get it all done.
How'd it come out? I don't know how this could be any better.
So it's day two.
We have ten hours in the lab.
And the first thing I do is pour my poly foam in my severed head mold, I let it completely set up, and then I pull it out of the mold, and there's a couple of little imperfections, but whenever I'm painting this, I'm just gonna turn them into some scrapes or old scars or something so that they make sense.
I'm, like, a zillion times more excited about this now that I'm not doing hard flames.
Good.
Athena is the Goddess of War, so she needs to have some sort of armor.
So I decide to fabricate a helmet.
I take L200, and I shape it into a helmet shape with a heat gun.
And then I mix some Ultracal and drip it on to create a stone look.
Good job, Sash.
It's cool to get some compliments, and maybe today will be better than yesterday.
I need to finish my cowl.
And because I only have this one main piece, I want to make sure that it's perfect, so I'm taking the extra time to mold it properly.
I have so much detail in my design that I want to make sure I have a really great piece tomorrow.
I need to get my mold opened and cleaned, because I really want to start pre-painting my severed head.
I realize I forgot to put pry points in this.
Shit-balls.
I'm so stupid.
Pry points help the mold separate without cracking the mold.
Oh, my God.
Now I have to figure out how I'm gonna open it without cracking any of it.
It's day two of our Greek gods challenge, and I'm having a really hard time opening my mold because I forgot to put pry points in this.
I'm such an idiot.
So I very slowly and very carefully got around the whole thing to chisel my own pry points.
There's a chance that I could crack it, break it, and then I'll have wasted the entire day, and I'll not have a cowl.
Oh, my God, I did it.
I am so relieved that it finally opened.
It's got a few imperfections, and it set me back in time, but at least my mold is opened.
I have to fabricate armor for my Zeus character, so I heat up L200 and use my hands to press it over this mannequin shape.
Then I brush five-minute epoxy, which is a really quick-setting plastic that self-levels and becomes this really smooth plastic surface.
How did you do that? Magic.
After that hardens, I spray-paint all of this baby blue to suggest the sky, 'cause Zeus is the God of the Sky.
It's looking really cool.
I'm happy with it.
Ugh, it's a big, boily baby.
We have two makeups to do, basically.
And we're not gonna have time to do it tomorrow in four hours, so I think we all are in the same place, hoping to get these heads pre-painted today.
It's definitely weird seeing everyone pre-painting on day two, but we have no choice.
That looks so creepy.
- That's good.
- Yeah.
That's a good thing.
I hang my Medusa head from the desk because I want to see how it hangs.
It's looking okay.
But everything that I'm adding to this head is just making it look worse.
So I decide to move on, because I need to start pre-painting the face and helmet to look like stone.
That's time, guys.
Tomorrow I have to apply the face, paint her hair to look like stone, and paint her whole body.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to pull something together.
Whoo! Whoo-hoo.
Whoo.
So it's application day.
We've got four hours in the lab and one hour at last looks.
The first thing I do is grab my severed head and take this black gelatin and cover whole neck stump where his head's been torn off.
Then I take the rest, and I dump that in cold water, which allows it to form this stringy, mass-y stuff which is exactly what I want hanging out of my neck stump.
What's up? You are going to be Hades, the Lord of the Underworld.
This is your helmet.
_ I was on bottom last week.
I'm trying to not have that happen ever again.
I start applying my silicone piece.
Some of my edges are a little thick, but I have a patch paste that I can smear in there and blend down to his skin.
I'm really liking this facial piece.
That looks awesome.
The first thing I need to do is apply this puppy, but I realize when I put the cowl on him that I had over-sculpted so much that the face is overlapping the ears that I had sculpted on the cowl.
Yeah, that really overlaps a lot.
So I have to cut around the ears, which is going to create a thick seam between the pieces.
That's really thick edges.
I patch and I seam and I make sure all those edges are beautiful, but I'm running out of application time.
Betterish.
To paint flames, or anytime I do metallics, I like to base them out in black first, because it really makes metallic colors pop.
So I base the whole cowl in black.
Now it's time to start with the golds.
I airbrush on the Kryolan gold, and it's going down great.
It's really covering the black.
And as soon as I hit the highlights, the piece is really starting to pop.
Looking very godly.
There's some nasty edges on her neck, but the shoulder pieces cover them pretty well.
She's looking very godlike.
She's just so striking, and I'm liking the way it's going.
That's beautiful.
I hate you.
Painting's not going well.
Everything's just not looking good.
I paint her body, and I'm spattering, trying to break up the color to help this makeup look like stone.
I'm gonna stick some of the little stones on.
The day is almost over.
I did not get nearly enough finished.
I have a ton to do.
That's time, guys.
At last looks, we've only got one hour, and I've got probably three hours' worth of work to do.
It's not gonna come out as nice as I would like it to.
Coming up _ Take it off.
The helmet won't fit.
Oh, God, I hate this part.
It captures the essence of a god.
That wig's a bit unforgiving.
The sculpt is so good.
Let's do this.
Good luck, guys.
We arrive at last looks, and we have one hour to finish our makeups.
I just touch up her beauty makeup, give her some nice eyeliner.
I have a lot of gold, so I want to definitely bring that into her lips.
Hopefully it will make me a top look this time.
I get my mustache glued down, and I'm not happy with it, but I have to move on to painting the armor.
It's pretty important that I get the clouds on it.
Otherwise, it's just baby blue armor, and that doesn't make too much sense.
Good.
You look really cool.
Ten minutes, guys.
Does it kind of hurt? _ I still have to put the helmet on, and I realize it won't fit because I forgot to factor in the bulkiness of the prosthetic and her hair.
- I'll just take it off.
- Take it off.
So I can't use the helmet now.
All right, that's time.
Good job, guys.
I'm very disappointed in myself.
I don't want to go on stage with this mess.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight one of you will be eliminated.
First, let's say hello to our talented judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
Good evening, guys.
- Hey, Glenn.
- Hi, Glenn.
Oscar-winning makeup artist, Lois Burwell.
Hello.
Hi, Lois.
Creature and concept designer, Neville Page.
Hello, everyone.
- Hi, Neville.
- Hi, Neville.
And joining our panel tonight, he is a Golden Globe nominated actor with critically acclaimed roles in films like In The Heat Of The Night and Monster.
But he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hershel Greene on AMC's The Walking Dead.
Please give a warm welcome to Mr.
Scott Wilson.
I'm a huge Walking Dead fan, and I was so bummed when he got his head cut off by the Governor.
On the other hand, who better to judge a severed head contest than Hershel? Thank you.
Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
It's a real pleasure to be here with you.
All right, guys.
This week, your spotlight challenge was to re-imagine one of the Greek gods, using their own powers as inspiration for a supernatural fantasy character.
And in the spirit of this season's life and death theme, I also asked that you create the severed head of a monster your god had slain.
So let's take a look at what you've come up with.
My god's backlit by this beautiful sunset, hitting those golds perfectly.
I think he looks radiant and awesome.
Aside from some things with the hair, I'm pretty proud of this makeup.
It really reads Zeus.
I'm just so embarrassed.
It's terrible.
I know I'm better than this.
I have such a beautiful model, and then the head is so hideous.
I love seeing that contrast.
He's creepy and wretched and regal, and the overall effect of my makeup shows through.
I'm happy with what I did.
I definitely had a vision, and I saw it through.
Judges, why don't you take a closer look at our Greek gods? It's a form language cornucopia, which is great.
It's really hard to find the skull shape in this.
There are some highlights, though.
- That eye is nice in there.
- Yeah.
_ The silicone on his face is really nice.
It is.
Just not sure that it works as a character.
This look gives the feeling of man-boobs, doesn't it, really? Well, I'm just curious about the decapitation.
If it were a lightning bolt, wouldn't there be something burned? That's a good observation.
Looks like it's a dried clay more than a stone, doesn't it? Yeah.
It would have worked better had the natural skin tone been on the model and this been in the hand.
Mm-hmm.
It's lovely.
Yeah, it's stunning.
I love the shell shape.
The blend is good.
The head is amazing.
Yeah, it's a great creature-y angler fish head.
Thank you.
_ There's always a chance the judges are gonna hate the makeup.
So I'm sweating a little bit.
I really hope they like this makeup, because there's only six of us, and at least two have to be in the bottom, and those are strong odds.
We want to know what you think of tonight's transformations.
Tell us on Twitter using hashtag #FaceOff.
God, I hate this part.
Hey, I love this.
Yeah, that's rather marvelous.
Whatever this is, is super cool.
_ It looks like he's killed a fish from Fraggle Rock, right? It looks and feels like a potato.
I do like the colors, and the iridescence is always fun.
Thank you.
So, Scott, what do you think of tonight's characters? They're extraordinary.
I take my hat off to-- Or maybe I should say I take my head off to you.
Okay, the judges have scored your creations and would like to speak with some of you to learn more about your work.
Cig, please step forward.
Cig, tell us about your character this week.
I picked Apollo, the God of Plague, and he rides the sun across the sky in his chariot of fire and uses this slayed pestilent beast to spread disease and plague among his enemies.
This is a very successful makeup.
I think you've done a wonderful job of bringing the fire aspect of him to life.
It captures the essence of a god.
It has that majestic nature to it.
Thank you.
The flame on the right side is really successful.
It looks like a flame licking.
But I wished you continued the shape, because it looks at the moment as if the shoulders are puffed sleeves on a girl's dress.
This is a really difficult sculpture to do because of this three dimensional filigree shape.
But you've got an overall character that reads very strong.
I think the look that you have is very nice.
I like your explanation for the way he looks.
It's a wonderful job that you've done.
Thank you.
Cig, will you please step back? Thank you, guys.
Sasha, please step forward.
Tell us about your makeup.
My goddess is Athena.
Athena guided Perseus to cut off Medusa's head.
But even when Medusa's head is cut off, she still turns people to stone, so she turns Athena to stone and takes control over her body.
How do you feel about the makeup? I think it's unacceptable.
I think you're right.
It doesn't say "Stone" to me.
Just looking at the picture behind you, there's stone.
This looks more like the gravel than the walls made of stone.
I think the surface of the skin and everything should have been more solid, and her beauty should have been more apparent through her turning to stone.
Your second character looks like an anime sex doll head.
I know it's not the focus, but it becomes such a distraction that it is the focus.
Sasha, you can head back.
George, please step forward.
Tell us about your character and your god's attributes in this.
This is Zeus, and he controls like, the thunder and the lightning.
He's also known for banishing all the Titans to below the sea.
So I thought for a severed head it might be cool to have and undersea crustacean bottom-dweller.
The face, the sculpt is so good, but then you turn it into a cross-dressing Zeus with this wretched costume.
He's got cloud man-boob armor.
I would have taken advantage of your model's body and used minimal costuming and let that be part of your character.
What I'd like to talk about is actually the facial hair, because the beard is actually somebody else's beard in comparison to the mustache.
The curl is a very Grecian curl.
Had you used that on the beard form as well, then it would have worked.
But as it is, they're growing on separate people.
Mm-hmm.
And that wig's a bit unforgiving.
George, you can step back.
Dina, please step up.
Dina, tell us about how you designed your character based on the parameters that you were given.
My goddess is Aphrodite.
She was born in the sea.
She's so beautiful that every living thing falls in love with her, including her victim.
How do you feel about your performance this week? I'm not very confident, but I really do love this makeup.
It is amazing.
Are you joking? I don't know how you got the level of detail and symmetry.
It's astoundingly gorgeous.
Thank you.
I think it's a feast, because you've listened visually to the form of your model.
You can't ignore the actor in the chair, and you've come up with something that is triumphant.
Well done.
Thank you.
From the bottom of the hem to the top of the head, everything is in place.
Everything works.
It all flows together.
It's beautiful.
Thank you.
Dina, please step down.
All right, guys.
The judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room while they deliberate.
All right, judges, why don't we talk about tonight's Olympians? Let's start with Cig.
He really did manage to capture the glorious nature of Apollo as a god, and his explanation of the Plague God as his enemy, it all made sense.
Yeah.
The relief filigree is hard to do, but it really lent itself to a solid character idea.
The thing that was disappointing was the little tiny puff sleeves, because it wasn't godlike.
If the shoulders had been broadened a little, he would have enhanced it big time.
All right, let's move on to Dina.
She told a whole story there.
Right out of the gate, you know an awful lot about her.
It's very successful.
Wonderful use of color and form.
Beautifully done.
Taking the scalloped shells as a headdress was a beautifully unique way to manifest the aquatic attributes of this god character.
All right, judges, let's move on to George.
Fundamentally, George just missed the mark.
He didn't create a character based on the god's powers.
That facial hair, honestly.
No one ever takes a beard out of a box and just sticks it on a face.
All right, let's move on to Sasha.
She didn't really satisfy the challenge.
To have a god be affected by her creature - just made no sense.
- No.
Her beauty should not have been clouded over.
Just because you turn to stone doesn't mean you turn ugly.
The idea of building a face out in big, round forms in order to create a gravelly texture, it's just not good enough.
All right, judges, have you made your decisions? Yes, we have.
Okay, let's bring them back out.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Actually, there is only one top look this week.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Actually, there is only one top look this week.
Dina, you were head-and-shoulders above everyone else.
The sculpture was insanely beautiful.
You lavished that with a gorgeous paint job.
And then, on top of it all, you gave us an absolutely phenomenal severed head.
Truly great work.
Thank you so much.
It feels so amazing.
This is my third spotlight win.
In the beginning, I definitely did not think I would make it to the finale, but if I keep doing makeups like that, I think I have a good chance.
Dina, congratulations.
Thank you so much.
You, Cig, Stella, and Drew can all head back to the makeup room.
Thanks, guys.
Unfortunately, that means the two of you are on the bottom this week, and one of you will be eliminated.
Please step forward.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the bottom looks.
Sasha, you started with a flawed concept, and then, expectedly, that led to a rather underwhelming goddess character.
George, your beautiful silicone makeup was obscured by atrocious hair work, and we didn't see your god's powers clearly reflected in the character.
So who is going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Sasha.
Somewhere along the way, you lost your confidence, but we believed in you enough to use the save on you, so we hope that you leave here with your head held high, because you are a truly talented artist.
Thank you.
Sasha, I am so sorry.
That means you have been eliminated.
George, you are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
Thanks.
Give me a hug.
I really appreciate the opportunity, and I'm not giving up.
Oh, bless you for that, Sasha.
Sasha, it has been so great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
Thank you.
Good luck, Sasha.
It was a pretty bad makeup, and I'm not proud of it.
I'm just proud that I made it this far.
It's me.
- Ohh - Oh, Sasha.
I have all the confidence in me somewhere.
I just have to go find it.
Come in here.
And I'm so thankful for this opportunity, because I've learned what it takes to make this my career.
I plan to be so much more driven and focused, so I'm gonna go out and work even harder.
That is the high point for you thus far.
Previously on Face Off Drew's emo faun gave him his first win, and Rachael was sent home.
Now just six artists remain.
And tonight, they'll face a mythical twist.
It's time to make something just a little more powerful.
But for some, it may prove to be their Achilles' heel.
Shit-balls.
I'm so stupid.
It has that grand, majestic nature to it.
In the end, only one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Make-Up to one of their 85 international locations, a brand-new 2014 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
Welcome to Face Off.
Ooh, looks lovely in here.
We get into the lab, and it's been transformed by all this Greek architecture, and it looks like a coliseum.
Hey, guys.
Hi.
Before I give you the details of today's foundation challenge, I want to introduce you to your special guest judge.
Her work has been featured in major films, like Oblivion and one of my favorites, The Cell.
Oh, my God.
She's also been nominated for six Academy Awards, and she won twice for her work on Dracula and Quest For Fire.
Please give a warm welcome to makeup artist Michele Burke.
Oh, my God, Michele Burke.
She's done all sorts of makeups, including one of my favorite movies, The Cell.
So I really want to impress her.
- Hi.
- Hi.
It's so great to have you here with us.
Thank you, thank you.
I'm delighted to be here.
All right, guys.
Today's foundation challenge is inspired by one of the most recognizable and feared characters of all Greek mythology.
Her deadly gaze will turn you to stone.
Medusa.
Nice.
Oh, nice.
So your foundation challenge is to create one of Medusa's victims who is turning into stone.
Yes.
- Nice.
- Yes.
So what advice do you have for these guys today? What I'm really looking for is how you create stone and duplicate the textures, and I'm also looking for the expression of when they're frozen, the fear or the shock of being turned into stone.
Excellent, thank you.
Okay, guys, the winner of this foundation challenge will receive their very own spray booth, courtesy of our friends at Paasche.
That's a big wow.
- Yeah.
- Holy cow.
That amazing booth will help keep the air in your own lab clear of any dangerous fumes and is worth $2,000.
- Wow! - Nice! My spray booth is a table in front of a window with a box fan.
So I want that Paasche spray booth so bad, I can taste it.
All right, you have two hours for this challenge.
Good luck, guys, because your time starts now.
Oh, yes! I envision Medusa's gaze so intense that it actually sears your eyeballs, so my character is gonna be shielding his face, but it's also burning his fingers.
I grab some clay, water it down to make a slush, and then I also tint that with some of the Kryolan aqua proofs and start painting that on my model.
You're turning to stone, Alex.
_ _ My victim was sent out to defeat Medusa because they thought, as a woman, she wouldn't be affected by her.
I have this idea to cut up cosmetic sponges into shapes of rocks.
And with the paint job, it'll look really cool.
I can't imagine having my own spray booth.
That would be so awesome.
This nose looks like a beast's nose.
I find this prosthetic, and it's got mean eyebrows and a funky lip and chin.
So he's going to be a creature that has come to kill Medusa.
And I want a paint scheme to have more color than just gray and white.
I like that.
My concept is this protector of the forest who saw Medusa, and he's just frozen for all eternity.
Open and look up.
There are certain things that happen to stone when it gets really old.
Like, it gets moss on it, and lichen, which is, like, this really vibrantly colored fungus.
I'm gonna incorporate that to just make it a little more interesting.
That looks really cool.
All right, 30 minutes.
That's it, time's up; brushes down.
- Hi, Sasha.
- Hi.
All right, so tell us about your Medusa-struck woman.
She's a princess, and Medusa wanted to rule, so she turned everyone royal into stone.
I like the idea of the ultra-color in the hair.
That's really interesting.
What could have been done better, if this line here was not a straight line, because on camera straight lines catch the eye faster.
She was out gathering things to help feed her family, and she accidentally wandered into Medusa's den.
You've really captured the stone in her face - and the crackling - And the texture.
That you could have showed complete stone and lesser stone, but that's minor.
She is a warrior sent out to defeat Medusa.
I really like that you gave it a 3-D aspect to the makeup.
And I think that would translate very well in film.
Excellent work.
Medusa's stare is so intense, the heat sears your eyeballs, so he put up his hand to block it, and it burnt the tips of his fingers.
I really like this idea.
I would have liked to have seen a little bit less uniformity around the eyes.
Mm-hmm.
But this is very creative.
He was a woodland warrior, and Medusa stared him straight in the face, so he is entirely stone.
And this happened a while ago, so I did some moss on the stone.
I love the fact that you aged him a little and made him a complete frozen character.
Because he's young and foolish, he decided he was just going to charge in and kill Medusa with his horns.
I like the fact that you did use a prosthetic to give him more dimension to the face.
The eyes are good because they're deep-set and they show a fierceness, and I like your paintwork.
You did a very good job with that.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
All right, so, Michele, who created your favorite looks today? Stella.
It was really creative and different to everybody else.
Thank you.
And George.
Your back-story was very, very different, and I love that you aged the face.
- So, well done.
- Thanks.
Who is the winner of this challenge? It was a very tough choice, but the winner is Stella.
Ah! You nailed that expression, and your paintwork was really good.
Thank you so much.
Stella, congratulations.
As the winner of today's foundation challenge, you have won your very own Paasche spray booth.
Are you excited? Yes.
I won a spray booth from Paasche, which feels awesome, so, yay.
Michele, thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you so much.
It was a pleasure.
Good luck, everybody.
It was just a pleasure to see you work today.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Okay, guys, let's talk about your next spotlight challenge.
You've already created the victim of a Greek beast.
Now it's time to make something just a little more powerful.
While films like Clash Of The Titans and Percy Jackson And The Olympians feature Greek gods as powerful immortals, their incredible abilities are rarely reflected in their appearances.
So, with that in mind, your spotlight challenge is to re-imagine one of the Greek gods, using their own powers as inspiration for a supernatural fantasy character.
- Nice.
- Whoa.
I'm kind of nervous right now.
I really don't know that much about Greek gods, so I'm hoping that I'm going to pick up on it really fast.
Each of the items beside me represents a Greek god.
We have Demeter Poseidon Athena Zeus Artemis Aphrodite Apollo and Hades.
Stella, as the winner of the foundation challenge, you get first pick.
Yay.
Ah okay.
Poseidon.
Aw.
Drew.
Hades.
Aphrodite.
Apollo.
Zeus.
Athena.
All right, now that you all have your gods, Greek mythology is filled with epic stories of heroes and gods conquering unspeakable monsters.
In keeping with this season's life and death theme, you must also create the severed head of a mythological monster conquered by your god.
Yes! This is awesome, but it's gonna be a lot more work, because not only do you have to make a head, but you have to make a makeup that looks cool too.
All right, guys, you can go home and get some rest.
When you get to the lab in the morning, get started on your designs.
I'll come by with my dad to see how things are coming along.
See you then.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Severed heads! - Yeah! Yay.
The first time I've been in top looks for a foundation challenge.
- Yeah.
- So that felt nice.
Congratulations.
Yeah, good for me.
After being on bottom last challenge, it's nice to be in top looks this time.
I'm feeling really positive and more confident.
Now I just want to focus on impressing the judges with my Greek god and my monster head.
It's day one in the lab.
We have ten hours to work today.
We pick our models and start designing.
I chose Hades, the God of the Underworld.
Because he's been in the Underworld for so long, he is starting to shrivel, like the dead.
So I'm doing this very desiccated, leathery, corpse-like makeup.
My idea for the severed head is, like, an impish, demonic servant creature that displeased Hades.
I'm gonna do, like, really gnarly stringy bits coming out of the neck.
Like, he didn't just cut their head off.
He, like, pulled it off their body.
My character is Zeus.
He's the God of the Sky.
He controls the lightning and the thunder.
I'm kind of thinking of him as almost like a-- like a Renaissance oil painting.
So he's gonna have the long hair and the long beard, but I want to give him this ethereal armor.
So the first thing I start working on is the face sculpt.
I want it to have Mediterranean features, like the nose.
He's gonna look attractive, but also aged.
I think I'm doing my piece out of silicone.
Nice.
Zeus banished all the Titans to the sea in this underwater prison.
Because of that, I want my severed head to be the last remaining Titan that he didn't quite round up.
My God is Aphrodite, and she's the God of Beauty and Love.
And she was actually born in the sea, so I'm thinking I want to add sea elements into this makeup, and I'm just gonna do a cowl and some shoulder pieces.
For my severed head, I want to do, like, the ugliest thing I could think of in the ocean, which is the angler fish.
Ooh, gorgeous.
I picked Apollo, and since he's the God of the Sun, I really want to play up the fire element and design some really cool fire armor.
So I decided I'm gonna do a cowl and a severed head.
Since he was the God of Plague, I want him to have slain this diseased abomination.
He dips his arrows in the blood of this beast to spread plague and disease among his enemies.
I'm having the hardest time figuring out what my concept is gonna be.
My goddess is Athena.
She's the Goddess of War and Skill, and she represents the owl, because the owl is the wise bird.
But I've done an owl makeup already.
I can't do another owl makeup.
There's no clay on my life cast at this point, and everyone else is already sculpting.
I can't come up with anything right now.
Coming up Now I have to figure out how I'm gonna open it without cracking any of it.
I know it's not the focus, but it becomes such a distraction.
Today is day one of our Greek gods challenge, and I'm having a really hard time figuring out what my concept is gonna be.
There's no clay on my life cast at this point, and everyone else is already sculpting.
I find that Athena guided Perseus' hand to cut off Medusa's head, so I'm thinking, well, then, maybe Medusa could be Athena's severed head.
But she can still turn people to stone.
So my goddess, Athena, has been turned to stone and is being controlled by the Medusa head.
I hate my concept, but I just have to go for it.
Hey, guys, my dad and I are here to check in on you.
- Hello.
- Hi.
So Poseidon was the God of Seas, and he created the horse.
So I figured I could do a really cool, like, water creature with a sea horse element.
And I'm gonna do an octopus for the severed head.
What is your thinking on the cutting in along the nose there? The gills.
- The gills? - Yeah.
I think you ought to over-emphasize these, and then you could even carry it on down - into this upper piece here.
- Mm-hmm.
So Hades is the God of the Underworld, and the severed head is actually going to be one of the Underworld minions who has failed him.
What are you gonna do for eyes? I'm actually going to mold it with those eye forms in and paint the latex and epoxy over them.
You've got them centered straight ahead.
You might just roll them a little bit, because your dead eyes roll up into your head.
Oh, yeah.
All right, so you chose Aphrodite.
Yes.
She rose from the sea foam, so I wanted to incorporate, like, seashells.
That's great.
You might even pull this back a little further to be able to put iridescent shadow on there to bring this makeup out.
We know you have Athena.
Yes.
I'm gonna have her holding Medusa.
She turned into stone.
Now Medusa is, like, controlling her body.
Interesting concept you're doing, because you're going a reverse of what everything else is.
To really pull it off, your head - has to have life in it.
- The fake head.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
It can't look like a silly, cheap Halloween head.
All right, guys, it's looking great.
Good luck to everybody.
- Thank you.
- See you later.
- Check it out.
- Oh, looks good.
So I get the face done, and now it's time to make the mold.
I'm gonna be casting my face out of silicone, because if you're using silicone, you can just paint a few light layers, and you get that translucent look of skin a lot easier.
But the mold needs to be as perfect as possible so that when it opens it doesn't tear.
I have to get my severed head molded on day one, because I want to be able to slush some latex into it and allow it to set overnight, and I can run foam first thing in the morning.
Mr.
Westmore tells me that I really have to sell this Medusa head, so I start sculpting snakes on a flat board.
When they're done, I'll mold them, run them in foam latex, stick a wire in them, and paint them, bend them however I want.
I like it.
But I think he looks like the alien.
That's what I'm trying to avoid.
The flames are looking really cool, but it resembles something I had done in a previous challenge for the alien, and I don't want to do something that looks the same.
I just really want to illustrate fire.
Instead of going for armor, I envision him more wrapped in, like, this divine flame.
That gives me even more freedom to not be in the confines of just armor.
I know that changing my cowl is gonna be a lot of work, but I'm fired up.
- Do I look like Zeus? - You look like a hippie Jesus.
Go back to Woodstock.
That's time.
So it's the end of day one.
I've got my mold finished.
I've got my head roughed out.
Ah! There's a lot that I need to do tomorrow, but I feel pretty confident that I'll get it all done.
How'd it come out? I don't know how this could be any better.
So it's day two.
We have ten hours in the lab.
And the first thing I do is pour my poly foam in my severed head mold, I let it completely set up, and then I pull it out of the mold, and there's a couple of little imperfections, but whenever I'm painting this, I'm just gonna turn them into some scrapes or old scars or something so that they make sense.
I'm, like, a zillion times more excited about this now that I'm not doing hard flames.
Good.
Athena is the Goddess of War, so she needs to have some sort of armor.
So I decide to fabricate a helmet.
I take L200, and I shape it into a helmet shape with a heat gun.
And then I mix some Ultracal and drip it on to create a stone look.
Good job, Sash.
It's cool to get some compliments, and maybe today will be better than yesterday.
I need to finish my cowl.
And because I only have this one main piece, I want to make sure that it's perfect, so I'm taking the extra time to mold it properly.
I have so much detail in my design that I want to make sure I have a really great piece tomorrow.
I need to get my mold opened and cleaned, because I really want to start pre-painting my severed head.
I realize I forgot to put pry points in this.
Shit-balls.
I'm so stupid.
Pry points help the mold separate without cracking the mold.
Oh, my God.
Now I have to figure out how I'm gonna open it without cracking any of it.
It's day two of our Greek gods challenge, and I'm having a really hard time opening my mold because I forgot to put pry points in this.
I'm such an idiot.
So I very slowly and very carefully got around the whole thing to chisel my own pry points.
There's a chance that I could crack it, break it, and then I'll have wasted the entire day, and I'll not have a cowl.
Oh, my God, I did it.
I am so relieved that it finally opened.
It's got a few imperfections, and it set me back in time, but at least my mold is opened.
I have to fabricate armor for my Zeus character, so I heat up L200 and use my hands to press it over this mannequin shape.
Then I brush five-minute epoxy, which is a really quick-setting plastic that self-levels and becomes this really smooth plastic surface.
How did you do that? Magic.
After that hardens, I spray-paint all of this baby blue to suggest the sky, 'cause Zeus is the God of the Sky.
It's looking really cool.
I'm happy with it.
Ugh, it's a big, boily baby.
We have two makeups to do, basically.
And we're not gonna have time to do it tomorrow in four hours, so I think we all are in the same place, hoping to get these heads pre-painted today.
It's definitely weird seeing everyone pre-painting on day two, but we have no choice.
That looks so creepy.
- That's good.
- Yeah.
That's a good thing.
I hang my Medusa head from the desk because I want to see how it hangs.
It's looking okay.
But everything that I'm adding to this head is just making it look worse.
So I decide to move on, because I need to start pre-painting the face and helmet to look like stone.
That's time, guys.
Tomorrow I have to apply the face, paint her hair to look like stone, and paint her whole body.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to pull something together.
Whoo! Whoo-hoo.
Whoo.
So it's application day.
We've got four hours in the lab and one hour at last looks.
The first thing I do is grab my severed head and take this black gelatin and cover whole neck stump where his head's been torn off.
Then I take the rest, and I dump that in cold water, which allows it to form this stringy, mass-y stuff which is exactly what I want hanging out of my neck stump.
What's up? You are going to be Hades, the Lord of the Underworld.
This is your helmet.
_ I was on bottom last week.
I'm trying to not have that happen ever again.
I start applying my silicone piece.
Some of my edges are a little thick, but I have a patch paste that I can smear in there and blend down to his skin.
I'm really liking this facial piece.
That looks awesome.
The first thing I need to do is apply this puppy, but I realize when I put the cowl on him that I had over-sculpted so much that the face is overlapping the ears that I had sculpted on the cowl.
Yeah, that really overlaps a lot.
So I have to cut around the ears, which is going to create a thick seam between the pieces.
That's really thick edges.
I patch and I seam and I make sure all those edges are beautiful, but I'm running out of application time.
Betterish.
To paint flames, or anytime I do metallics, I like to base them out in black first, because it really makes metallic colors pop.
So I base the whole cowl in black.
Now it's time to start with the golds.
I airbrush on the Kryolan gold, and it's going down great.
It's really covering the black.
And as soon as I hit the highlights, the piece is really starting to pop.
Looking very godly.
There's some nasty edges on her neck, but the shoulder pieces cover them pretty well.
She's looking very godlike.
She's just so striking, and I'm liking the way it's going.
That's beautiful.
I hate you.
Painting's not going well.
Everything's just not looking good.
I paint her body, and I'm spattering, trying to break up the color to help this makeup look like stone.
I'm gonna stick some of the little stones on.
The day is almost over.
I did not get nearly enough finished.
I have a ton to do.
That's time, guys.
At last looks, we've only got one hour, and I've got probably three hours' worth of work to do.
It's not gonna come out as nice as I would like it to.
Coming up _ Take it off.
The helmet won't fit.
Oh, God, I hate this part.
It captures the essence of a god.
That wig's a bit unforgiving.
The sculpt is so good.
Let's do this.
Good luck, guys.
We arrive at last looks, and we have one hour to finish our makeups.
I just touch up her beauty makeup, give her some nice eyeliner.
I have a lot of gold, so I want to definitely bring that into her lips.
Hopefully it will make me a top look this time.
I get my mustache glued down, and I'm not happy with it, but I have to move on to painting the armor.
It's pretty important that I get the clouds on it.
Otherwise, it's just baby blue armor, and that doesn't make too much sense.
Good.
You look really cool.
Ten minutes, guys.
Does it kind of hurt? _ I still have to put the helmet on, and I realize it won't fit because I forgot to factor in the bulkiness of the prosthetic and her hair.
- I'll just take it off.
- Take it off.
So I can't use the helmet now.
All right, that's time.
Good job, guys.
I'm very disappointed in myself.
I don't want to go on stage with this mess.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight one of you will be eliminated.
First, let's say hello to our talented judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
Good evening, guys.
- Hey, Glenn.
- Hi, Glenn.
Oscar-winning makeup artist, Lois Burwell.
Hello.
Hi, Lois.
Creature and concept designer, Neville Page.
Hello, everyone.
- Hi, Neville.
- Hi, Neville.
And joining our panel tonight, he is a Golden Globe nominated actor with critically acclaimed roles in films like In The Heat Of The Night and Monster.
But he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hershel Greene on AMC's The Walking Dead.
Please give a warm welcome to Mr.
Scott Wilson.
I'm a huge Walking Dead fan, and I was so bummed when he got his head cut off by the Governor.
On the other hand, who better to judge a severed head contest than Hershel? Thank you.
Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
It's a real pleasure to be here with you.
All right, guys.
This week, your spotlight challenge was to re-imagine one of the Greek gods, using their own powers as inspiration for a supernatural fantasy character.
And in the spirit of this season's life and death theme, I also asked that you create the severed head of a monster your god had slain.
So let's take a look at what you've come up with.
My god's backlit by this beautiful sunset, hitting those golds perfectly.
I think he looks radiant and awesome.
Aside from some things with the hair, I'm pretty proud of this makeup.
It really reads Zeus.
I'm just so embarrassed.
It's terrible.
I know I'm better than this.
I have such a beautiful model, and then the head is so hideous.
I love seeing that contrast.
He's creepy and wretched and regal, and the overall effect of my makeup shows through.
I'm happy with what I did.
I definitely had a vision, and I saw it through.
Judges, why don't you take a closer look at our Greek gods? It's a form language cornucopia, which is great.
It's really hard to find the skull shape in this.
There are some highlights, though.
- That eye is nice in there.
- Yeah.
_ The silicone on his face is really nice.
It is.
Just not sure that it works as a character.
This look gives the feeling of man-boobs, doesn't it, really? Well, I'm just curious about the decapitation.
If it were a lightning bolt, wouldn't there be something burned? That's a good observation.
Looks like it's a dried clay more than a stone, doesn't it? Yeah.
It would have worked better had the natural skin tone been on the model and this been in the hand.
Mm-hmm.
It's lovely.
Yeah, it's stunning.
I love the shell shape.
The blend is good.
The head is amazing.
Yeah, it's a great creature-y angler fish head.
Thank you.
_ There's always a chance the judges are gonna hate the makeup.
So I'm sweating a little bit.
I really hope they like this makeup, because there's only six of us, and at least two have to be in the bottom, and those are strong odds.
We want to know what you think of tonight's transformations.
Tell us on Twitter using hashtag #FaceOff.
God, I hate this part.
Hey, I love this.
Yeah, that's rather marvelous.
Whatever this is, is super cool.
_ It looks like he's killed a fish from Fraggle Rock, right? It looks and feels like a potato.
I do like the colors, and the iridescence is always fun.
Thank you.
So, Scott, what do you think of tonight's characters? They're extraordinary.
I take my hat off to-- Or maybe I should say I take my head off to you.
Okay, the judges have scored your creations and would like to speak with some of you to learn more about your work.
Cig, please step forward.
Cig, tell us about your character this week.
I picked Apollo, the God of Plague, and he rides the sun across the sky in his chariot of fire and uses this slayed pestilent beast to spread disease and plague among his enemies.
This is a very successful makeup.
I think you've done a wonderful job of bringing the fire aspect of him to life.
It captures the essence of a god.
It has that majestic nature to it.
Thank you.
The flame on the right side is really successful.
It looks like a flame licking.
But I wished you continued the shape, because it looks at the moment as if the shoulders are puffed sleeves on a girl's dress.
This is a really difficult sculpture to do because of this three dimensional filigree shape.
But you've got an overall character that reads very strong.
I think the look that you have is very nice.
I like your explanation for the way he looks.
It's a wonderful job that you've done.
Thank you.
Cig, will you please step back? Thank you, guys.
Sasha, please step forward.
Tell us about your makeup.
My goddess is Athena.
Athena guided Perseus to cut off Medusa's head.
But even when Medusa's head is cut off, she still turns people to stone, so she turns Athena to stone and takes control over her body.
How do you feel about the makeup? I think it's unacceptable.
I think you're right.
It doesn't say "Stone" to me.
Just looking at the picture behind you, there's stone.
This looks more like the gravel than the walls made of stone.
I think the surface of the skin and everything should have been more solid, and her beauty should have been more apparent through her turning to stone.
Your second character looks like an anime sex doll head.
I know it's not the focus, but it becomes such a distraction that it is the focus.
Sasha, you can head back.
George, please step forward.
Tell us about your character and your god's attributes in this.
This is Zeus, and he controls like, the thunder and the lightning.
He's also known for banishing all the Titans to below the sea.
So I thought for a severed head it might be cool to have and undersea crustacean bottom-dweller.
The face, the sculpt is so good, but then you turn it into a cross-dressing Zeus with this wretched costume.
He's got cloud man-boob armor.
I would have taken advantage of your model's body and used minimal costuming and let that be part of your character.
What I'd like to talk about is actually the facial hair, because the beard is actually somebody else's beard in comparison to the mustache.
The curl is a very Grecian curl.
Had you used that on the beard form as well, then it would have worked.
But as it is, they're growing on separate people.
Mm-hmm.
And that wig's a bit unforgiving.
George, you can step back.
Dina, please step up.
Dina, tell us about how you designed your character based on the parameters that you were given.
My goddess is Aphrodite.
She was born in the sea.
She's so beautiful that every living thing falls in love with her, including her victim.
How do you feel about your performance this week? I'm not very confident, but I really do love this makeup.
It is amazing.
Are you joking? I don't know how you got the level of detail and symmetry.
It's astoundingly gorgeous.
Thank you.
I think it's a feast, because you've listened visually to the form of your model.
You can't ignore the actor in the chair, and you've come up with something that is triumphant.
Well done.
Thank you.
From the bottom of the hem to the top of the head, everything is in place.
Everything works.
It all flows together.
It's beautiful.
Thank you.
Dina, please step down.
All right, guys.
The judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room while they deliberate.
All right, judges, why don't we talk about tonight's Olympians? Let's start with Cig.
He really did manage to capture the glorious nature of Apollo as a god, and his explanation of the Plague God as his enemy, it all made sense.
Yeah.
The relief filigree is hard to do, but it really lent itself to a solid character idea.
The thing that was disappointing was the little tiny puff sleeves, because it wasn't godlike.
If the shoulders had been broadened a little, he would have enhanced it big time.
All right, let's move on to Dina.
She told a whole story there.
Right out of the gate, you know an awful lot about her.
It's very successful.
Wonderful use of color and form.
Beautifully done.
Taking the scalloped shells as a headdress was a beautifully unique way to manifest the aquatic attributes of this god character.
All right, judges, let's move on to George.
Fundamentally, George just missed the mark.
He didn't create a character based on the god's powers.
That facial hair, honestly.
No one ever takes a beard out of a box and just sticks it on a face.
All right, let's move on to Sasha.
She didn't really satisfy the challenge.
To have a god be affected by her creature - just made no sense.
- No.
Her beauty should not have been clouded over.
Just because you turn to stone doesn't mean you turn ugly.
The idea of building a face out in big, round forms in order to create a gravelly texture, it's just not good enough.
All right, judges, have you made your decisions? Yes, we have.
Okay, let's bring them back out.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Actually, there is only one top look this week.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Actually, there is only one top look this week.
Dina, you were head-and-shoulders above everyone else.
The sculpture was insanely beautiful.
You lavished that with a gorgeous paint job.
And then, on top of it all, you gave us an absolutely phenomenal severed head.
Truly great work.
Thank you so much.
It feels so amazing.
This is my third spotlight win.
In the beginning, I definitely did not think I would make it to the finale, but if I keep doing makeups like that, I think I have a good chance.
Dina, congratulations.
Thank you so much.
You, Cig, Stella, and Drew can all head back to the makeup room.
Thanks, guys.
Unfortunately, that means the two of you are on the bottom this week, and one of you will be eliminated.
Please step forward.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the bottom looks.
Sasha, you started with a flawed concept, and then, expectedly, that led to a rather underwhelming goddess character.
George, your beautiful silicone makeup was obscured by atrocious hair work, and we didn't see your god's powers clearly reflected in the character.
So who is going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Sasha.
Somewhere along the way, you lost your confidence, but we believed in you enough to use the save on you, so we hope that you leave here with your head held high, because you are a truly talented artist.
Thank you.
Sasha, I am so sorry.
That means you have been eliminated.
George, you are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
Thanks.
Give me a hug.
I really appreciate the opportunity, and I'm not giving up.
Oh, bless you for that, Sasha.
Sasha, it has been so great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
Thank you.
Good luck, Sasha.
It was a pretty bad makeup, and I'm not proud of it.
I'm just proud that I made it this far.
It's me.
- Ohh - Oh, Sasha.
I have all the confidence in me somewhere.
I just have to go find it.
Come in here.
And I'm so thankful for this opportunity, because I've learned what it takes to make this my career.
I plan to be so much more driven and focused, so I'm gonna go out and work even harder.