Face Off (2011) s10e09 Episode Script

1 That looks so cool.
It's too on the nose.
- I absolutely love this.
- Thank you.
McKenzie: Previously on Face Off Rob's spell-binding sorceress brought him his third win, but Anna faltered and was sent home.
And tonight the artists tackle a whole new world.
- That's right, genies.
- Nice.
[dramatic music.]
I'm having a lot of issues.
I feel sick to my stomach.
[screaming.]
Come on.
Fuck.
It's a disaster.
Fuck.
It's just not an attractive image.
Just such solid, daring decision-making.
McKenzie: In the end, only one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Makeup to one of their 85 international locations, a brand-new 2016 Fiat 500, and $100,000.
[exciting music.]
This is Face Off.
[exciting music.]
Oh, my God.
What the hell? We arrive at the lab, and there's McKenzie, and there's six models, and they have these amazing, humongous, beautiful wings.
And it just looks like the coolest thing ever, and I don't know what it is, but I can't wait to get started.
- Hey, guys.
all: - Hi.
In today's Foundation Challenge, we'll dive into the rich world of Norse mythology and its winged warrior goddesses, the Valkyries.
They say that the Valkyries soared over battlefields, collecting the souls of heroic soldiers deemed worthy of spending their afterlife in Valhalla.
For today's Foundation Challenge, you will choose one of these stunning winged models and create a powerful Valkyrie warrior goddess makeup.
I don't know anything about Norse mythology at all, so this challenge is gonna be interesting.
Ladies, why don't you go ahead and take your places, please? [exciting music.]
All right, before we begin, let me introduce you to your guest judge.
He's an Emmy award-winning makeup artist with an impressive list of credits, including the modern classic Pulp Fiction, The Avengers, and something especially appropriate for today's challenge-- the Marvel megahit Thor, The Dark World.
Please welcome the very talented Douglas Noe.
McKenzie brings out Douglas Noe, which is really exciting.
Everything he does is very stylized, which is really cool for this Foundation Challenge.
- Hi, Douglas.
- Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you.
My pleasure.
Now, obviously you had to immerse yourself in Norse mythology for Thor, but are there hallmark design elements that you want these guys to keep in mind for their characters? Shapes and angles are really important.
The color palette as well.
Bold and dramatic, but never garish.
It can be flamboyant, but usually color is used for emphasis.
Anything else you'll be looking for in their final makeups? Yes, will your Valkyrie tell us a story without ever uttering a word? Fantastic advice.
All right, guys, the winner of this Foundation Challenge will earn immunity and cannot be eliminated in this week's Spotlight Challenge.
You have two hours for this challenge, and your time starts now.
[upbeat music.]
So I choose Salmansa as my model.
Her wings have purples and blues and whites, so I want her to be more of the ethereal goddess type.
Can you turn your head that way, please? - Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
Absolutely.
Adding elf ears changes up the shape of the head and gives it that fantasy quality.
I end up getting Megan.
She has a bunch of brown tones, and in those tones, there's the green and yellows.
So I decide to give my Valkyrie the Mother Nature vibe.
I'm doing more of a beauty makeup for everything-- no prosthetics, 'cause I really want to focus on making her powerful and beautiful.
I want to lay a headdress, so I take a bunch of different feathers, and I just start laying them down, overlapping each other.
I think it'll be a complete character.
My concept is that she is a fallen warrior that was so bold and brave that she was turned into a Valkyrie instead of going to Valhalla.
I really want to bring in the colors that are in her wings.
Supposed to be a warrior, so I want to give you some kind of war paint.
I decide to paint her forehead white, 'cause I think that that could look really cool, and I want to create this circle design.
I used Kryolan aqua color to create the white base, and then I used the super color to paint the ring.
I like this idea, so I'm running with it.
My concept for my Valkyrie is that she collects soldiers from anyone who has died by fire.
I really want to frame her face.
I start with my reds, and then I switch over to black.
She looks like she fits the challenge, so I'm really thinking that I could possibly have this one.
Five minutes, guys.
You have five minutes left.
[rushed music.]
I look around, and I see everybody is just doing beauty makeup, but she's a warrior.
Aah! [hums Flight of the Valkyries.]
[Flight of the Valkyries plays.]
[growling.]
[screams.]
That's it.
Time's up.
Brushes down.
Yeah.
She inspires the men to fight, but she's also, sort of, a reward when they die, so I wanted her to be badass, but beautiful.
Did you over paint her lips a little bit? I-- yeah, to make them more pointed.
I think it's fantastic.
You did a really nice job of keeping her beautiful but ominous.
Fantastic use of color, and the feathers as well.
- Nicely done.
- Thank you so much.
I like that this has a 3-D quality, but it's flat.
- Nice work.
- Thank you.
I love what you did.
In fact, I think you could've done more with the red.
- Yes.
- It'd be even more bold.
It doesn't look incomplete, but I would've love to have seen - you go 20% more with the reds.
- Mm-hmm.
I think this is a very interesting choice.
It could've gone alien or otherworldly really easy, but it still almost looks too polished, if it's war paint, - you know what I mean? - Yeah.
But it's all very well-conceived.
Thank you.
All right, Douglas, who created your favorite makeups? Yvonne loved how you used feathers to tie into the back wings.
- Very well done.
- Thank you so much.
Melissa you brought a very clear vision to your makeup, and the overall viewing was fantastic.
Thank you.
Okay, so who is the winner of this challenge? The winner of this challenge is [dramatic music.]
Melissa.
Yay.
Thank you.
I loved your concept.
You had an idea from the start, and the details showed that from start to finish.
- Well done.
- Thank you.
- Congrats - Yeah.
It feels good to win one.
Especially after having a couple of safe looks and not being sure of where my place is in the competition.
Melissa, congratulations, you have earned immunity in the next Spotlight Challenge.
All right, I will see you all tomorrow for your next Spotlight Challenge.
- Until then, bye.
- Bye, guys.
all: Thank you.
[upbeat music.]
[Middle-Eastern music.]
- Whoa.
- What do we got? What the hell? We walk into the lab, and it looks like a scene out of Arabian Nights.
- Wow.
- What do we have here? McKenzie's standing next to flowy fabrics-- lots of purples and pinks and oranges.
- That's cool.
- Wow.
Ooh.
Can't wait to see what's in store.
- Wow.
- Hey, guys.
all: Hello.
Today we'll be exploring one of the world's most colorful, devious, and mysterious mythical beings.
It's said that their spirits are find trapped in lamps and bottles, and we've seen them diversely represented in all sorts of movies and TV shows, like Aladdin, Clash of the Titans, and I Dream of Jeannie.
That's right, genies.
All right.
So you'll be choosing one of these unique vessels from around the world to inspire your own mischievous genie character.
- Cool.
- Nice.
I've never made a genie before, but there's some beautiful vessels inspiring a whole new world, so I'm very excited for this challenge.
When I call your name, come on up and choose a vessel.
Yvonne, you're up first.
All right.
- This guy.
- Ooh.
[upbeat music.]
- Thanks, Walter.
- Sorry.
[laughter.]
All right, guys, looks like you're all set.
Go ahead and get started on your designs, and good luck.
Thank you.
[upbeat music.]
I'm definitely happy with my vessel.
It looks very dirty and ancient, and there's a lot of cool carvings and shapes that I can incorporate into my design.
My concept is, a primitive culture finds this vessel and releases a genie who transformed himself into a deity figure so this culture would bow down and worship him.
I think it's gonna be pretty cool.
What is this animal? - Looks like a gazelle.
- Okay.
My vessel is very large, and it has some intricate design work with the gazelle, so I'm gonna make this a human-animal hybrid genie.
I'm just trying to get a form on the life cast, but everything I'm doing-- it just looks like a cat.
It's hard to translate gazelle, antelope, whatever it is, onto the human face.
Hmm.
I know very little about genies, so I'm kind of intimidated and very grateful for that immunity.
My concept for my genie is a fire elemental that has taken on certain characteristics of the vessel that contains her.
I want to incorporate the abstract pattern from the vessel into the face piece and pieces all over the body, but I want it to look decorative versus a disease.
That's pretty.
Thanks.
There's dragons all over my vessel, so I'm making my genie very reptilian but very witchlike at the same time.
I really want to do a cowl, a face, and texture pieces for her elbows and her upper arms.
- This is so up your alley.
- It is.
I love fantasy, and as I'm sculpting, I'm really liking this design.
I haven't won a Spotlight Challenge yet, but I think this could be my chance, so I'm pretty excited.
The first thing I notice about my vessel is the spout looks like an elephant trunk, and the handle looks like an ear.
So the concept for my genie is an elephant-human hybrid.
The top of the vessel looks hat-like, so I want to incorporate that as his headdress.
My vessel is a glass bowl.
In the middle, it looks almost like a cat eye, so my genie is a cat demon.
And if you find her bottle, she will grant you three excessive parties, one more excessive than the next Hey, guys.
We're here to check in on you.
- How are you? - Hello.
Okay, well, this is my lamp that I picked today, which I think is quite beautiful.
- Gorgeous.
- I saw this antelope.
And I wanted to sculpt an animal person, but I can't get the silhouette correct.
I think you've got so much design work going on here, you ought to try to work a pattern into your face as opposed to trying to make it into an antelope.
I feel sick to my stomach thinking about doing something completely different.
I've already wasted all this time, and not having a solid idea at this point is a big setback.
You ought to try to work a pattern into your face as opposed to trying to make an antelope, because this genie-- he's coming out of there, and so he should have some type of semblance and color and pattern to your vessel, you know? These areas right down here are very bold, and it's the first thing you see as opposed to have to point out to the judges, "Yeah, I'm doing that.
" Make it obvious, okay? All right, thank you so much.
Mr.
Westmore gave me some good advice, but I feel like a crazy person because once again, like always, I am starting over.
The vessel has a bunch of dragons on it It's beautiful.
So I want to go with a reptilian genie.
Okay, but try to maybe leave a little bit of human to that nose.
I drew out a very heavy, witchy nose.
Yeah, this actually works great, because you've got so much dragon in here.
Cool, thank you.
So I took this little lamp, and I want to go with a cat genie.
Um I'd like to see you take it away from literal cat.
I'm just trying to think of something to add more fantasy to it than just feline.
I could add some horns, maybe.
I think that would be a good idea.
All right.
I'm kind of feeling like Incan-Mayan, very ancient culture-- that sort of feel.
I'm just wondering if you could lower that nose a little bit so the nose has a little more accent, because you want to see the Inca paintings and things, and the nose is really prominent on him.
And this nose isn't as prominent, so you might just add a little bit more to that.
- All right.
- Good.
- Cool, thank you.
- Good, good luck.
All right, guys, we're heading out.
- Can't wait to see your genies.
- Thank you.
- Looks good.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Bye-bye.
[upbeat music.]
I'm really happy with where my sculpture's going.
It looks great, I'm super proud of it, and I'm ready to mold.
Molding the face today is really helpful because tomorrow I will have something to line up to my cowl, and everything will match perfectly.
So I'm so happy with this.
It's all coming together very well.
Your lip sculpting is amazing.
I like it and I don't like it at the same time.
I really like my concept and the direction I'm going, but it's getting really frustrating to make both sides symmetrical.
Ugh! A dead giveaway for poor makeup is wonky symmetry, and I want it to be as perfect as possible.
And every minute that I spend trying to make this even, I'm worrying more and more that I won't get it done today.
22 minutes.
[exciting music.]
That's time, everybody.
Shoot this day.
- Give us a new one.
- [laughs.]
It's the end of day one, and I don't really feel happy with what I've gotten done, but I'm hoping to get a good night's sleep and come at this with some fresh eyes.
- Don't worry.
- Yeah.
[exciting music.]
- Good vibes, good vibes.
- Thank you.
Today has to be better than yesterday.
It defies logic that I would have that bad of a day again.
I want to get myself away from the face and work on something else, and so I just decide to start working on the cowl.
I wanted to emulate the top of the lamp, so I get different sized dram cups and put them in so that it creates this interesting silhouette, and then I add tubing to the cowl and the dead space to create one of the shapes on my vessel.
I still have a lot of work to do, but I'm doing all right.
I'm in a better spot than I thought I'd be.
My face piece comes out great, and I decide to start my cowl sculpt.
It's gonna take a long time to texture it and to get all the scales the way I want it, so I really need to leave enough time so I'm not struggling to get my piece molded.
Robert, how's your party animal going? She's great.
That looks really cool.
I don't know about the nose.
Not liking that.
Once I have the cowl in a good place, I go back to the face, and I bring in this plastic tubing to the face to match the cowl.
Looks very machine.
I'm not thrilled with it, but it just has to be done at this point.
I spent a lot of time on my cowl sculpt, and it's ready for molding, but if I don't get this mold done today, I won't have a complete character.
And I don't have a lot of time to get it molded, so I'm gonna mold this as fast as I possibly can.
- Can you tell what the time is? - 37.
37? Oh, my God.
Ugh! I'm fucked, man.
I'm very scared.
I don't have time to get my mold finished and open.
I literally just threw everything I've ever learned about mold-making right out of the window.
At this point, I'm just dumping globs of hemp and Ultracal on this mold.
But I have a sick feeling in my stomach.
I spent too much time sculpting this cowl, and it's gonna come back and bite me in the ass.
Fuck.
Mine's still fucking dough.
I have mere minutes left, and I haven't even opened my cowl.
Oh, yeah, whole piece is gonna tear off.
Fuck.
It's cracking.
It looks like it's breaking, and I start to panic.
Come on.
It's a disaster.
What do you want me to do? I can't find how to get this open.
Yeah, we'll break it.
[dramatic music.]
Please separate.
Come on.
Whoo! I actually get my mold open with Melissa's help, but I've got to clean this thing.
- You need help, Walt? - Yeah.
We're rushing the whole cleaning process.
I'm in there, cramming it in little spots and just trying to get as much out as possible.
Time! Oh, fuck.
Team effort-- thank you, guys.
I get my cowl cleaned thanks to the other artists, but there's no way I got all the clay out of the ears and every little nook and cranny, so I'm really worried because if this doesn't come out, I'm gonna have trouble tomorrow.
Ay, yi, yi, that was terrible.
I thought it was exciting.
[laughs.]
Well, maybe next time, you crazy people don't all do cowls.
- No cowl for you this time? - Meh.
Everybody else is doing cowls.
I think they're crazy.
I'd rather have a quality smaller piece than a bigger piece with flaws.
I don't think we cleaned the clay out.
I could have no ears.
I have no idea what my cowl will look like on application day, but I'm hoping it comes together, 'cause I need to win this.
Let's get the hell out of here.
Yeah.
[exciting music.]
How's your ears? [chuckles.]
They're intact.
I actually have a complete cowl.
It is much better than expected.
My ears are all there, and I'm completely shocked.
I'm very relieved, and this is a good start to the day.
- Walt, did your ears come out? - Yeah.
Yay! - Yay, models.
- Hello.
- How are you? Good.
- Good, how are you? We turn you into a party animal.
- You are an elephant genie.
- Nice.
My elephant face came out beautifully, but my cowl-- it's a little beat up.
I have a lot of patching to do, but once that's done, the most important part about this application today is getting everything blended well, 'cause I really want to make sure those ears look cohesive with the design.
[upbeat music.]
Hopefully I can pull some interesting shit out with paint.
I start to pre-paint, because I want to get as much of this painted as possible before I apply.
I want it to be that gold, ancient-looking color, but coming up with that color is an interesting experience.
I end up going with more of, like, a teal color that I'm mixing with a lot of bronzes and golds and silver and laying them over black so that it will look like it's something that sat in the sun for a while.
I kind of hate this makeup, but everything's looking as good as it can, and I'm just trying to make it work with the time I have.
I have to start getting this on you.
Ready to become a cat? I start on the legs, because I always feel like when I apply things, I need to kind of warm up to it, so at least if I screw up on the leg pieces, it's not a big deal.
I can fix it.
As I'm working on this, I do feel good about it.
I think it's a really unique design.
It's a fun idea.
Yeah, it's very different than your typical genie, but she's gonna be very childlike and mischievous, and I think I nailed that part of it.
- Do you feel okay? - Mm-hmm.
Make the lines disappear.
Then we go lighter up top.
I start painting, and I'm using Kryolan grease paints, which are awesome.
I start with the darkest color, and then I layer them with a lighter one.
And then on top of that, I use skin tone to mash it together.
It's all working perfectly.
I have to finish my ear piece, and apply my cowl and face, and do a body paint, and do all that at the same time.
It's a little bit stressful, but I make a silicone mold of my ear, and I need to run two of these, so I'm trying to space out my time.
So I get the face and cowl applied, and I start painting while the first one sets up.
Once it's done, I grab a super strong adhesive, and I have my model hold the ear in position.
Can you do me a huge favor and hold that right there? It works pretty fast, and it holds up perfectly.
That looks like it's on.
There's still a lot to do.
I'm just hoping I can get everything done.
[exciting music.]
I need to start fucking painting.
I get everything down and applied, and I start painting.
I base everything in a flesh tone, and while that's drying, I paint the Mohawk horn pattern black and then dry-brush over gold so that it has that really cool, gold, armory look to it.
That looks so cool.
I'm really excited about this.
She looks fantastic.
She look very scary, very creepy.
I'm in love with what I've done.
15 minutes, everybody.
[dramatic music.]
That's time.
That was so much running.
I still have a lot to do with the paint, and I feel like I have an incomplete character.
And I'm not too thrilled with the whole look of it.
So I'm worried about how much time I have left and if I can finish.
[dramatic music.]
I have to glue down the mouthpiece, and I have to apply the hair that I have, but overall, I need to finish the paint job.
I need to finish painting the body, and I need to finish painting the face.
I feel like I positioned this wrong.
I start putting down the eyes and the lip, and I've glued it incorrectly-- the jaw-- and it's not lining up.
It's dragging his lip, and I'm having a lot of issues.
All right, this is very much off your lip.
Ugh, this whole thing is so ridiculous.
Okay, let me fix your-- your chin is kind of coming off.
I don't know what happened, but the whole chin piece is almost coming off.
I have to glue the piece back down, and then I cover the back of her hands with a wool kit and add some hair on her neck, and it still looks pretty good.
I'm gonna finish air-brushing a little bit.
I'm finishing up my paint job, so I go in with my air brush and just start really bringing out the sculpture with highlights and then contouring with low lights just to really make it pop on stage.
I love the character that I'm creating, but I'm nervous, because the competition's definitely getting tougher, but I need to win this.
15 minutes, everyone.
- Time! - Argh! - You look beautiful.
- You make me be a cat? - Sorry this isn't my best.
- Ugh.
The body paint isn't finished, and I'm freaking out.
I'm probably the most nervous I've been in the competition.
Welcome to the Face Off Reveal Stage.
You know our lovely series judges.
Owner of Alchemy Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening.
all: - Hi, Glenn.
Oscar and Emmy award-winning makeup artist Ve Neill.
- Sim sala bim.
all: - Hi, Ve.
Creature and concept designer Neville Page.
- Hello, guys.
all: - Hi, Neville.
And this week, we are joined by a very special guest judge.
He's an Oscar and Emmy award-winning makeup artist whose credits include Star Wars The Force Awakens, Marvel's Deadpool, and Foxcatcher.
Please welcome the incredible Bill Corso.
Hi, everybody.
It's Bill Corso.
I love Bill Corso.
He's such a great makeup artist.
He's done a lot of cool makeups that I really look up to.
Bill, you've been with us before, but we're so happy to have you join us on the Reveal Stage this time.
Glad to be here.
Excited.
You ready to see some makeups? As I would say, open sesame.
All right, let's get to it.
This week, your Spotlight Challenge was to choose a vessel and use it as inspiration for your very own mischievous genie character.
Let's take a look at your creations.
[dramatic music.]
It's not the worst makeup of all time.
It's just-- it is not what I'd be putting before this man-- ever.
It's a very unconventional genie, but she looks super cool.
It looks very magical.
I'm very, very happy.
Everything that I'm seeing, I'm really liking.
I'm very proud of this makeup.
I created it, and I'm even scared looking at her.
I'm worried that I went a little too far outside the box, but I am proud of this makeup.
Once my genie is on stage, I like it a lot more, but there's still some things that I wish I'd finished.
I see my makeup, and I love it.
It's perfect.
[tense music.]
Okay, judges, go ahead and take a closer look.
The application is rougher up close than I thought.
I'm finding the design choices so arbitrary.
They're not even artful.
I don't really understand these things.
It feels more like a fairy or a pixie than it does a genie.
I get what's going on here, but it feels like a condition or a disease.
- It just feels wrong.
- It looks like animal spots.
Kind of hard to tell what it is, yeah.
There's some really great sculpting going on.
The consistency of these scales on the jaw and around.
Really glad that he incorporated the metallics.
It helps give it some pop.
This is really clean, pretty makeup.
It's just-- I don't know if it's appropriate for the challenge.
Yeah.
I'm feeling uneasy at this point because it may not be what the judges are looking for for a genie.
There's sort of no artistic design that helps synthesize it into a genie.
This is super nerve-racking.
All right, guys, it's time to get on Twitter and tell us who made your favorite mischievous genie using #FaceOff It's an absolute literalization of a pachyderm.
I like the character, but I am very nervous.
He is so different from all the other genies that I really don't know what to think.
And I wish the horns and the helmet were a little bit more detailed.
This is pretty cool.
It's more unique and successful, I think, up close.
I like all this mottling all over him.
The entire approach to the idea is so goofy and so inappropriate for what this specific challenge was.
Yeah.
I do find it a little odd that the ears are growing - out of her eye socket.
- Yeah.
It begs for something that makes it feel more like a genie instead of a lion in a '20s cocktail dress.
All right, the judges have scored your creations, so let's find out what they thought.
Melissa Yvonne Congratulations, because you're both safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
That means the rest of you were the best and the worst this week, and the judges would like to speak with each of you before making their decisions.
Rob, can you please step forward? - Hey, Rob.
- Hi.
Tell us about your genie design.
His vessel was found by a primitive culture, and they broke the vessel and released the spirit.
I think you were very successful.
Using step temple ziggurat forms for the head shape was such solid and absolutely daring decision-making.
- Well done.
- Thank you.
I love the mottling on it.
It would've been cool if you would've taken a little bit of that up into his face, to do a little bit of breakup, but this is a cool makeup, honey.
You've got these almost pot-like handles.
Creating this beautiful silhouette of ears, I think is really smart and the fusion of cultural reference - is so beautiful here.
- Thank you.
I love some of the details in it.
Structurally, I like the stuff that you did.
I love the fact that you threw the hair in there.
It helps just push it over the edge.
So bravo.
- Thank you.
- Rob, please step back.
Mel, please step forward.
- Hi, Mel.
- Hey.
Tell us about your genie.
He broke some sort of genie law, and by doing this, he started to transform into a lamp, and he has to capture human souls to keep himself from fully becoming a lamp.
It's a little wonky.
He doesn't have anything to me that says "genie.
" It just looks like a weird alien thing with a metal-type hat on.
The most important thing, regardless of your goal, is to make sure that the thing is cool-looking and pretty or is unattractive in a pretty way, and it's kind of none of those things.
And that comes down to how thin you've made the face.
It's just not an attractive image to me.
Hi, Mel.
It's really exciting to meet you.
I'm sorry this is my makeup.
I'm a big fan of you.
Sorry.
Oh, you're very sweet.
Um, anatomically, sculpturally, there's some stuff that I wish was a little tighter.
I personally like to see things that are alive, and the way you've structured your sculpture seems like it's hindering him a little bit.
Mel, please step back.
Robert, please step up.
Robert, tell us about your genie character.
Well, her name is Agatina Infanal, and she is the genie of excessive celebration.
She's not even reminiscent of what comes to mind when you think of a genie.
From a design perspective, it just doesn't fulfill the challenge.
My biggest problem with it from a anatomical standpoint is that you put her ears at the sides of her eye sockets, which seems a bit strange to me.
And I also wish it was a little brighter.
I wish the colors that you used were a little bit more punchy, because it gets a little muddy in the coloration of it.
But there are definitely some interesting things going on.
I actually think that this is one of the most successful makeups you've managed to achieve thus far.
However, it was just presented in a shockingly inaccurate manner to the challenge, and that's such a shame to be so close yet so far away.
Robert, could you please head back? Walter, please step to the center.
Walter, I'd love to hear the backstory.
I really wanted her to be extremely creepy, extremely scary, and to look evil.
I also wanted to stick with a reptilian style because of all the dragons on my lamp.
- I think you did a great job.
- Thank you.
I love that you incorporated the stuff from your lamp.
Sculpturally, it works really well.
I think you did a great job, buddy.
Thank you.
The proportions are appropriately evocative of the mischievous, demonic nature of this thing, and that's what I love about this makeup the absolute most.
I'm thrilled with its ability to tell your story, and I'm even thrilled with the colors that you chose - and why you chose them.
- Thank you very much.
You did such an amazing job.
You even managed to get little bits and pieces of scale around her arms that we can have something else to look at besides just her face.
- Really well done, honey.
- Thank you.
Walter, you can step down.
All right, guys, please head back to the makeup room while the judges deliberate.
Okay, judges, so keep in mind that you do still have that special immunity available.
With that, let's start with the looks you like the most tonight.
Why don't we start with Rob? I personally think it was a really great idea to make all that mottling on the body makeup.
I love the paint job on the head.
I just loved this.
It felt so culturally immersive in his form language and the glyphs throughout the surfacing.
Very thorough.
Very precise once more.
The color, the design of it it had some beautiful, very smart choices in it.
All right, let's move on to Walter.
He couldn't have been more diverse and fluent in his form language with all the different references he had to work with.
And yet it all worked together.
Yeah, he even managed to get those little pieces on her arms as well, and the paint job was fantastic.
Let's move on to looks that really didn't work for you this week.
Let's start with Mel.
It seems like she took the idea of her vessel and put those ideas into the cowl, but the face was just lacking.
It just had a bizarre look to it.
She would've been better served not to have the face and just done a really cool makeup into the cowl.
All right, let's move on to Robert.
Nothing made sense on that makeup-- not one thing.
There were no visual cues that said "genie.
" It's so disappointing to see him do his best sculpture, but do exactly what we told him not to do the last time we spoke.
All right, judges, have you made up your minds? - Yes.
- Yes, we have.
Okay, let's bring them back out.
All right, Glenn, tell us about the top looks.
Rob, we love that you made such bold design and conceptual choices.
Your makeup achieved that all-important "we want to know more" status.
And Walter, we were really impressed with how well you integrated your various references, and she definitely gave off a demonic, evil genie vibe.
All right, Glenn, who is the winner of tonight's challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is All right, Glenn, who is the winner of tonight's challenge? The winner of tonight's challenge is [tense music.]
Walter.
We always knew that you had more to show us, and tonight you proved us right, and it is a great time in the competition for you to show off what you really can do.
Thank you very, very much.
I finally get my win.
I feel like I've been through a hell of a lot, so it means so much to me, and I'm extremely proud of it.
- Walter, congratulations.
- Thank you.
You and Rob can head back to the makeup room.
[exciting music.]
All right, guys, that means you two are in the bottom this week, and one of you will be going home.
Please step forward.
[tense music.]
Glenn, tell us about the bottom looks.
Mel, the colors you chose were absolutely gorgeous, but we found the shapes in the face disjointed and disproportionate.
And, Robert, as always, we appreciate your humorous aesthetic, but this makeup was just not a good fit for the challenge this week.
So who's going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Robert.
I think that your humor got the best of you this week, and it sent you down a completely wrong path in terms of the challenge parameters.
Robert, I'm sorry, but you have been eliminated.
That means, Mel, you're safe this week and can head back to the makeup room.
[somber music.]
Robert, I really, really enjoyed your unique, creative genius, and I can't wait to see what you do in the future.
Thank you.
Robert, it's been fun having you here with us.
Will you please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit.
- Good luck, Robert.
- Bye, Robert.
Ciao, ciao.
My last makeup was a symbol of creative freedom, of doing something unique.
- I'm out.
- You're out? And I went out with probably the most bizarre makeups ever created on this show, which makes me feel very happy.
Give me love.
[laughter.]
I did some good makeups.
I did some bad makeups.
Some things worked.
Some things did not.
But this last makeup is my gift to the world.
And yes, you guys are so welcome.