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leia131Time for the facing off!
-This episode has a Foundation Challenge: Take the single item in the box on your workstation, and use it as the basis for a creation.
-Valli O'Reilly (Oscar award winning makeup artist) is going to be judging the Foundation Challenge, and the winner receives immunity in the Spotlight Challenge.
-They have two hours, and the items in question turn out to be various types of false teeth. Lovely. We have cartoony rabbits, demons, alien mutants, all kind of weird-ass things.
-Basically, all the foundation looks are creepy and weird and awesome. Valli's favorites were Tate, Roy, and Miranda. Winner: Roy! It's because of the fishnet stockings he used to create texture in the face, no lie.
-Ok, time for the Spotlight Challenge! The lab is full of fog and gravestones, because this is a semi-well timed Halloween challenge.
-Challenge: Re-imagine a 'classic' Halloween character as a new, original, creature of the night. Their options are skeleton, clown, vampire, scarecrow, and devil. Each character will be taken on by two different people.
-Miranda ended up with skeleton, and she's not happy about it.
-McKenzie then adds a twist; they have to add a 'trick' to their makeup, like a blood gag or light or something that moves. Apparently Tate did this kind of thing for the first five years of his career, so he's all over that.
-Alana wants to do some kind of lava version of the devil, with LED's inside. I know from the preview last week that this is going to go poorly for her.
-Frank wants to do a fairly basic scarecrow, and Eddie wants his scarecrow to be feeding on crows, which I think is neat. Then again, he had that cool river arm idea last week that totally didn't pan out AT ALL, so I'm not super confident in his ability to pull off his ideas.
-Miranda is freaking out, and not sculpting anything while everyone else is hard at work in the clay. So she goes to ask Lyma about Dia de Los Muertos, which is a totally awesome concept for a skeleton costume. Her drawing is of this super cool bone queen looking thing, that people make offerings to to bring their loved ones back from the dead. If she can make it look like her picture, I will be SO HAPPY because it looks great. Also, Andrew said, "Yes. Skelita. Do that!" which is why I love him.
- Lyma herself is going with a half man half bathalf pig version of a vampire, which just makes me think of Man Bat.
-Scott has designed a serial killer clown. How uninspired.
-The other clown is by Laney, wonderful Laney, who wants to have her pulling her intestines out of her stomach like the scarf trick that clowns sometimes do. I prefer this idea to Scott's.
-Miranda, you've won bunches of challenges, have some confidence in yourself! She keeps asking everyone else what they think she should do/what they think of what she's done, and Tate is like, "Stop it! You're wonderful!"
-Laura is going with a vampire who feeds on himself... Interesting. With an arm spewing blood. All right then.
-Tate is doing a crapload of interior detail on his 'deteriorating body cavity' and I hope it comes out awesome.
-Roy wants to put wings on his devil, which I support, and Alana's devil is going to be albino because it lives underground.
-Mr. Westmore gives everyone good advice, about sculpting, painting (especially concerning the clown makeups), and 'tricks', including the proper width of tubing to use for spurting blood, and how best to make a heart held in a hand beat.
-Scott has trouble getting his mold out, as someone usually does. He's particularly offended about potentially going home over a Halloween challenge, because I guess he used to run a Halloween store, or make Halloween masks, or something. When he finally gets it open, it's cracked. I want to feel bad for him, but I don't like him and I don't like his idea, so it's hard.
-Laney is adorable, even while making latex intestines.
-Application time! I love how fast this show moves along, with no nonsense.
-Scott is basically fucked, as his makeup is totally falling apart.
-Everyone, as usual, has too much to do in too little time. Alana and Miranda especially are having issues. Lyma continues to worry about doing the wrong kind of paint job.
-Tate is teaching me about stipple latex, and how to use it to make old looking withered skin. I love how I learn things on this show that I will never need to know in real life. :)
-Laney is using actual cotton candy for hair, which looks really cool, but Roy (and I) are worried about it melting. I also want to know where she got cotton candy. (BTW, it must be so much fun to be the gophers on this show. "Ok, I need 60 LED lights, 30 pounds of cotton candy, a spiked leather motorcycle vest, and 500 plastic bones."
-Alana's sculpt does look more like a bunny than the devil. Oops.
-Oh dear. Miranda has completely run out of time, and her hands are purple. I really don't want to see her go home. Then again, Alana is also in trouble (imo) and I don't want to see her go home either! MAKE IT WORK PEOPLE. You know Tim Gunn is at home watching this and yelling that at his TV.
-The cotton candy hair melted off Laney's model's head. Roy and I are not surprised.
-TIme for the reveal! I'm so nervous for these people, I want them all to do well.
-Frank's scarecrow is creepy, if not a particularly new design. The wood holding up his arms is a nice touch. Trick: glowing red eyes. They really elevate the makeup to a whole new level and the sculpting is phenomenal. Ooh, and his arms can come down off the stick too, that's cool!
-Laura's isn't great, but it's not terrible either. It just looks kind of... plasticy to me. (EDIT: It looks 1000% better in the pictures than it did on TV, so maybe the plastic face effect was just because of the cameras.) Trick: Blood comes out of his arm (it dribbles out, and I don't know if it was supposed to be more dramatic than that). I guess she's always wanted to do a vampire makeup, and this week she got her wish!
-Laney's is creepy and misshapen and I love it, but she's worried about the application (which I can't really judge from here.) The hair looks all right to me, if a little flatter than before, so she must have fixed it. Trick: She pulls out her own intestines like a trick scarf.
-I like Lyma's vampire more than Laura's, but it looks more like a snake than a bat. Trick: Glowing red eyes. Also, his costume is seriously lacking.
-Roy's devil is very impressive, though I'm not sure about the speckled paint job. And I like how the model's arms are in the wings (so they can be moved) not in the arms of the figure. I think that's his trick?
-Eddie's scarecrow took off his burlap mask, which was kind of neat, but his 'face'... still looks like a mask. It doesn't look right around the eyes to me. Trick: the chest leaks blood. If there's any vestige of the 'feeding on crows' thing left in this makeup, I can't see it. (He says the chest mold has bird skeletons in it... maybe that will be more obvious close up.)
-Tate's skeleton is good from a distance, but I again feel that it looks like a mask in closer shots. Trick: The revealed heart beats.
-Alana's looks like a cat, and the makeup is totally at odds with the headpiece and staff, in both sculpt and paint job. Trick: The horns glow from within.
-Scott's clown is the stuff of nightmares, but I still don't find it very original. Trick: I'm not 100% sure. I think it's the squeaky toy heart?
-After all that, Miranda's in my favorite. It doesn't have the big bone collar from her sketch, but it is, as she said, a cool character. I love the look of it overall and the costuming is spot on. Trick: LED lights in the flowers.
-As the judges go a-poking, they find Frank's to be something they've seen before, but well executed. Laney's hair is melting off again, and they noticed... I think they liked Laura's and Roy's, they did notice the birds in Eddie's up close, and yay, they like Miranda's (especially in the hands).
-I have to say, I personally am underwhelmed by just about everyone this week. :(
-Hattrick doesn't like Scott's, and likens it to Bert and Ernie, which can't unsee now that he's said it. They, and I, like the pierced cheeks forcing the smile though.
-They like Roy's, and they dig the paint job, which I was worried about. Hattrick and I like the facial sculpt, which is particularly amazing to me because I can't even tell that it's a woman under all that.
-Oh Laney, you're in trouble, I fear. Oh, shit, really? Neville loves it, and Ve likes the hairy armpits, and they didn't even care about the melting hair! Neville said the hair wasn't even on his radar... Laney and I are both extremely surprised by this, but she's on the top rather than the bottom. Hurray Laney!!!
-Hattrick doesn't like Lyma's sculpt or paint, and Neville doesn't like the glowing eyes. Wow, I really didn't see that coming, as Lyma got almost no screen time. Because of that, I don't see her going home.
-I knew they would like Tate's, because it's extremely well done, even if the eye part reads a little funny to me.
-And then there's Alana. The face was supposed to be a ram, I guess, but it's a cat bunny, like she said, and it's not devil-like at all. Hattrick likes the lava horns, and wants that to have gone through the whole makeup, and I agree... She could have done that at least in terms of the paint job.
-I think, based on what they're saying, that the judges were willing to overlook the melting cotton candy hair because everything else Laney did was so cohesive and well executed and had a lot of character. It did have great synergy, Hattrick.
-"Tabby cat with a turban on." You nailed it, Ve, that's exactly what Alana's looks like.
-I guess Eddie, at one point, traded looks with Tate in the 'spirit of Halloween'... You're right, Alana, he does look sexy in that bandana. SInce I don't find Eddie attractive at all, this surprises me.
-Winner: Tate! He did a ton of work, and nothing melted off it, so I'm behind this decision. Even though I love Laney so much.
-Andrew says Lyma's looks kind of like an armadillo. He is not wrong.
-Loser: Lyma. This shocks me, actually, I really expected Alana. Not that I wanted Alana to go home, but I think hers was worse. The judges said Lyma's biggest problem was anatomical accuracy, which, sure, if they say so. And damn, they're always so nice to the people they eliminate on this show! Just one more reason to love it.
-Next week: Elvira, and bringing art to life. That should be interesting!
Now with pictures!
Answer to last Tuesday's song: Mama Will Provide, from Once on This Island. Janeea got this one right, which makes sense as she sang this song. :)
-This episode has a Foundation Challenge: Take the single item in the box on your workstation, and use it as the basis for a creation.
-Valli O'Reilly (Oscar award winning makeup artist) is going to be judging the Foundation Challenge, and the winner receives immunity in the Spotlight Challenge.
-They have two hours, and the items in question turn out to be various types of false teeth. Lovely. We have cartoony rabbits, demons, alien mutants, all kind of weird-ass things.
-Basically, all the foundation looks are creepy and weird and awesome. Valli's favorites were Tate, Roy, and Miranda. Winner: Roy! It's because of the fishnet stockings he used to create texture in the face, no lie.
-Ok, time for the Spotlight Challenge! The lab is full of fog and gravestones, because this is a semi-well timed Halloween challenge.
-Challenge: Re-imagine a 'classic' Halloween character as a new, original, creature of the night. Their options are skeleton, clown, vampire, scarecrow, and devil. Each character will be taken on by two different people.
-Miranda ended up with skeleton, and she's not happy about it.
-McKenzie then adds a twist; they have to add a 'trick' to their makeup, like a blood gag or light or something that moves. Apparently Tate did this kind of thing for the first five years of his career, so he's all over that.
-Alana wants to do some kind of lava version of the devil, with LED's inside. I know from the preview last week that this is going to go poorly for her.
-Frank wants to do a fairly basic scarecrow, and Eddie wants his scarecrow to be feeding on crows, which I think is neat. Then again, he had that cool river arm idea last week that totally didn't pan out AT ALL, so I'm not super confident in his ability to pull off his ideas.
-Miranda is freaking out, and not sculpting anything while everyone else is hard at work in the clay. So she goes to ask Lyma about Dia de Los Muertos, which is a totally awesome concept for a skeleton costume. Her drawing is of this super cool bone queen looking thing, that people make offerings to to bring their loved ones back from the dead. If she can make it look like her picture, I will be SO HAPPY because it looks great. Also, Andrew said, "Yes. Skelita. Do that!" which is why I love him.
- Lyma herself is going with a half man half bat
-Scott has designed a serial killer clown. How uninspired.
-The other clown is by Laney, wonderful Laney, who wants to have her pulling her intestines out of her stomach like the scarf trick that clowns sometimes do. I prefer this idea to Scott's.
-Miranda, you've won bunches of challenges, have some confidence in yourself! She keeps asking everyone else what they think she should do/what they think of what she's done, and Tate is like, "Stop it! You're wonderful!"
-Laura is going with a vampire who feeds on himself... Interesting. With an arm spewing blood. All right then.
-Tate is doing a crapload of interior detail on his 'deteriorating body cavity' and I hope it comes out awesome.
-Roy wants to put wings on his devil, which I support, and Alana's devil is going to be albino because it lives underground.
-Mr. Westmore gives everyone good advice, about sculpting, painting (especially concerning the clown makeups), and 'tricks', including the proper width of tubing to use for spurting blood, and how best to make a heart held in a hand beat.
-Scott has trouble getting his mold out, as someone usually does. He's particularly offended about potentially going home over a Halloween challenge, because I guess he used to run a Halloween store, or make Halloween masks, or something. When he finally gets it open, it's cracked. I want to feel bad for him, but I don't like him and I don't like his idea, so it's hard.
-Laney is adorable, even while making latex intestines.
-Application time! I love how fast this show moves along, with no nonsense.
-Scott is basically fucked, as his makeup is totally falling apart.
-Everyone, as usual, has too much to do in too little time. Alana and Miranda especially are having issues. Lyma continues to worry about doing the wrong kind of paint job.
-Tate is teaching me about stipple latex, and how to use it to make old looking withered skin. I love how I learn things on this show that I will never need to know in real life. :)
-Laney is using actual cotton candy for hair, which looks really cool, but Roy (and I) are worried about it melting. I also want to know where she got cotton candy. (BTW, it must be so much fun to be the gophers on this show. "Ok, I need 60 LED lights, 30 pounds of cotton candy, a spiked leather motorcycle vest, and 500 plastic bones."
-Alana's sculpt does look more like a bunny than the devil. Oops.
-Oh dear. Miranda has completely run out of time, and her hands are purple. I really don't want to see her go home. Then again, Alana is also in trouble (imo) and I don't want to see her go home either! MAKE IT WORK PEOPLE. You know Tim Gunn is at home watching this and yelling that at his TV.
-The cotton candy hair melted off Laney's model's head. Roy and I are not surprised.
-TIme for the reveal! I'm so nervous for these people, I want them all to do well.
-Frank's scarecrow is creepy, if not a particularly new design. The wood holding up his arms is a nice touch. Trick: glowing red eyes. They really elevate the makeup to a whole new level and the sculpting is phenomenal. Ooh, and his arms can come down off the stick too, that's cool!
-Laura's isn't great, but it's not terrible either. It just looks kind of... plasticy to me. (EDIT: It looks 1000% better in the pictures than it did on TV, so maybe the plastic face effect was just because of the cameras.) Trick: Blood comes out of his arm (it dribbles out, and I don't know if it was supposed to be more dramatic than that). I guess she's always wanted to do a vampire makeup, and this week she got her wish!
-Laney's is creepy and misshapen and I love it, but she's worried about the application (which I can't really judge from here.) The hair looks all right to me, if a little flatter than before, so she must have fixed it. Trick: She pulls out her own intestines like a trick scarf.
-I like Lyma's vampire more than Laura's, but it looks more like a snake than a bat. Trick: Glowing red eyes. Also, his costume is seriously lacking.
-Roy's devil is very impressive, though I'm not sure about the speckled paint job. And I like how the model's arms are in the wings (so they can be moved) not in the arms of the figure. I think that's his trick?
-Eddie's scarecrow took off his burlap mask, which was kind of neat, but his 'face'... still looks like a mask. It doesn't look right around the eyes to me. Trick: the chest leaks blood. If there's any vestige of the 'feeding on crows' thing left in this makeup, I can't see it. (He says the chest mold has bird skeletons in it... maybe that will be more obvious close up.)
-Tate's skeleton is good from a distance, but I again feel that it looks like a mask in closer shots. Trick: The revealed heart beats.
-Alana's looks like a cat, and the makeup is totally at odds with the headpiece and staff, in both sculpt and paint job. Trick: The horns glow from within.
-Scott's clown is the stuff of nightmares, but I still don't find it very original. Trick: I'm not 100% sure. I think it's the squeaky toy heart?
-After all that, Miranda's in my favorite. It doesn't have the big bone collar from her sketch, but it is, as she said, a cool character. I love the look of it overall and the costuming is spot on. Trick: LED lights in the flowers.
-As the judges go a-poking, they find Frank's to be something they've seen before, but well executed. Laney's hair is melting off again, and they noticed... I think they liked Laura's and Roy's, they did notice the birds in Eddie's up close, and yay, they like Miranda's (especially in the hands).
-I have to say, I personally am underwhelmed by just about everyone this week. :(
-Hattrick doesn't like Scott's, and likens it to Bert and Ernie, which can't unsee now that he's said it. They, and I, like the pierced cheeks forcing the smile though.
-They like Roy's, and they dig the paint job, which I was worried about. Hattrick and I like the facial sculpt, which is particularly amazing to me because I can't even tell that it's a woman under all that.
-Oh Laney, you're in trouble, I fear. Oh, shit, really? Neville loves it, and Ve likes the hairy armpits, and they didn't even care about the melting hair! Neville said the hair wasn't even on his radar... Laney and I are both extremely surprised by this, but she's on the top rather than the bottom. Hurray Laney!!!
-Hattrick doesn't like Lyma's sculpt or paint, and Neville doesn't like the glowing eyes. Wow, I really didn't see that coming, as Lyma got almost no screen time. Because of that, I don't see her going home.
-I knew they would like Tate's, because it's extremely well done, even if the eye part reads a little funny to me.
-And then there's Alana. The face was supposed to be a ram, I guess, but it's a cat bunny, like she said, and it's not devil-like at all. Hattrick likes the lava horns, and wants that to have gone through the whole makeup, and I agree... She could have done that at least in terms of the paint job.
-I think, based on what they're saying, that the judges were willing to overlook the melting cotton candy hair because everything else Laney did was so cohesive and well executed and had a lot of character. It did have great synergy, Hattrick.
-"Tabby cat with a turban on." You nailed it, Ve, that's exactly what Alana's looks like.
-I guess Eddie, at one point, traded looks with Tate in the 'spirit of Halloween'... You're right, Alana, he does look sexy in that bandana. SInce I don't find Eddie attractive at all, this surprises me.
-Winner: Tate! He did a ton of work, and nothing melted off it, so I'm behind this decision. Even though I love Laney so much.
-Andrew says Lyma's looks kind of like an armadillo. He is not wrong.
-Loser: Lyma. This shocks me, actually, I really expected Alana. Not that I wanted Alana to go home, but I think hers was worse. The judges said Lyma's biggest problem was anatomical accuracy, which, sure, if they say so. And damn, they're always so nice to the people they eliminate on this show! Just one more reason to love it.
-Next week: Elvira, and bringing art to life. That should be interesting!
Now with pictures!
Answer to last Tuesday's song: Mama Will Provide, from Once on This Island. Janeea got this one right, which makes sense as she sang this song. :)
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Date: 2013-09-23 10:45 pm (UTC)Also, your logic powers have served you well, regarding the song. :D