always advisable to do a makeup test. A makeup test is like a dry run.
Makeup testing is often done to determine the correct order to appliance application (if they are being used), choice of makeup colors, and to see how the makeup reads on camera. Makeup Artist Barry Koper and I met at Gower Studios to test colors for a well-known soft-drink commercial. The concept of the ad was that two large sumo wrestlers were to be running through a dark forest and converge on an unsuspecting man who was sitting on a tree stump. The commercial spot would finish with a close – up of the two enormous bellies of the wrestlers squishing an unsuspecting man between them.
by Bradley Look
Anytime a complex makeup is to be tackled—whether it might be for a feature, television series, and/or commercial—it is
Oh, and I left out the most important part. Each of the wrestlers would need to be airbrushed from head to foot: one yellow, and the other lime green. We met with the actors that were to play the wrestlers at the studio.