Stage Makeup:The Actor's Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials is the only stage makeup guide with a contemporary outlook.

Here is a superb, all-purpose resource for anyone doing theater, on any level. Filled with large color photographs and actors' design sketches, Stage Makeup will help you acquire the essential skills in doing:

• period makeup
• age makeup
• special-effects applications

And you'll get valuable advice on:

• assembling a makeup kit
• color-mixing charts
• keeping the skin healthy and clean
• analyzing your facial features
• applying facial hair and wigs

Any complete makeup book has to include the magic of today's theatre. Stage Makeup goes beyond familiar formulas to creating totally new designs on paper and translating them in terms of makeup. You'll find the keys to:

• exploring the realms of fantasy on the stage
• making up children as animals for a holiday pageant
• creating your own stylized faces

Full of step-by-step instructions and detailed exercises, this is the basic book every actor needs!

This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.