Getting started:

• “There’s nothing wrong with your face” - 3 minutes
• The Skull the bones beneath your face - 1 minute
• Photographing your face - 1.5 minutes
• Rendering with face outline sheets - 30 seconds
• Choosing your base color - 3 minutes
• Removing makeup - 30 seconds
• Cleaning your brushes - 2 minutes
• What is a Makeup Morgue - 2 minutes
• Makeup kits - 3 minutes
• A Brief History of Makeup in the West - 10 minutes

Lesson 1 of 13:

"Yourself Only Moreso"

Something that you aren’t going to need that often as an actual makeup; however it’s a very good exercise to learn more about your face, and that’s why we do it as our first exercise. You will occasionally find times that you use it when you’re doing a role where the director tells you “Oh, well, you don’t really need makeup, except just for the lights, but… just… like yourself.”
Well, at this point, you can do “Yourself Only More so” makeup.
25 Minutes

Lesson 2 of 13:

"Corrective" Makeup

The second exercise that you have is what is called, “Corrective” Makeup. Now, a word about, “Corrective” Makeup. “Corrective” implies that there is something wrong and that you are having to fix it. The reason I say quote “Corrective” makeup is because the mantra of this class is “There is nothing wrong with my face.” So, what you’re wanting on stage are usually characters.
36 minutes

Lesson 3 of 13:

"Aging Yourself"

For this exercise, we are going to go and do yourself aged. I do two age makeup lessons in this course and one of them is your self aged, and the other is an aged character. Most often for the stage what you will be doing is the aged character, however, understanding how your own face is going to age is going to make it easier to figure out how you’re going to do the various characters that you will want to go and make up your face.
65 minutes

Lesson 4 of 13:

"Aged Character Happy"

For this lesson, we will be doing an old age or middle age character. I will be doing two versions of this that aren’t specific characters in drama, but are two extreme types, so you can see the kinds of variations you can do with using age make up and tilting it a little to one side or the other of what you do when you are simply doing yourself aged. I am going to first do an extremely pleasant nice old lady.
32 minutes

This lesson also has some alternative design examples (featuring time-lapsed videos):

• 04a Age and Glamour Lorraine Pettit - 2 minutes
• 04b Age in Unnatural Colors Tara Maginnis - 30 seconds
• 04c Happy Old Character Mandara Nott - 2.1 minutes
• 04d Trailer Trash Abrah - 1.75 minutes
• 04e Mrs Candour – Tara Maginnis - 1.25 minutes
• 04f Illustrates 1900 Stage Period Makeup - 1.5 minutes
• 04g Glamour Doll – Tara Maginnis - 1 minute

Lesson 5 of 13:

"Aged Character Angry"

For the second of the two age make-ups, I am going to do a very scary old lady. This makeup is loosely based on that of the Serefema Berman’s in Ivon the Terrible parts one and two. Serefema plays the part of Ivan’s very scary aunt, the one who is so scary that it makes Ivan seem like a nice guy. So she has a number of facial features that will be in line with mine, but I will take all of the previous facial features that I was using and twisting them towards being more scary and more angular and ignoring the happy friendly ones.
48 minutes

This lesson also has one alternative design example (featuring time-lapsed video) 2 minutes:

Lesson 6 of 13:

"Hyper feminine / “Drag”"

To go and do makeup that is hyper-feminized-- as in Drag Queen if you’re a man, or completely extreme female chorus kind of makeup for characters that are not real women, but cartoon women—there’s a number of tricks taken mostly, originally pioneered by drag queens to go and make either a male face look more female or to go and make a female face look like a cartoon female.
43 minutes

This lesson also has one alternative design example (featuring time-lapsed video) 1 minute:

Lesson 7 of 13:

"Beards - Facial Hair"

This lesson is how to apply a crepe hair beard. However, one doesn’t just simply apply crepe hair beards by themselves, you use them as part of a complete makeup. And so this will also be a complete makeup doing Vladimir Illych Ulanov, normally known as “Lenin”, the father of the Soviet Union, and I will include not only the crepe hair beard but a revised version of a wax nose and a middle aged character makeup done reverse sex. So, I’m going to do historical dead person makeup that will also include a crepe hair beard and a wax nose and so on so you can see how each of these lessons builds on one another.
52 minutes

This lesson also has one alternative design example (featuring time-lapsed video) 2.25 minutes:

Lesson 8 of 13:

"Horror"

Today’s makeup lesson is for doing stylized horror makeup. Not as in three dimensional, but simply to go and use the tools that you use for doing aged character makeup and applying them in unusual ways to go and suggest unusual characters, like vampires and other creatures from classic horror.
21 minutes

This lesson also has one alternative design example (featuring time-lapsed video) 1.5 minutes:

Lesson 9 of 13:

"Cross Gender"

For this makeup I’m going to be doing the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara. Tristan Tzara was a man, so this will illustrate how to do reverse-sex makeup, as well as how to do an historical dead person. In order to go and do Tristan Tzara I’m going to go and have a rendering that I do based on as many photographs as I can get of him as a young man. So I take these several photographs and use them to make a guesstimate as to what his face looks like and how I can make that face apply to mine.
23 minutes

Lesson 10 of 13:

"Nose and Tooth Wax"

In this lesson we will be going and putting on nose wax and tooth wax. Nose wax is the simplest, fastest way of attaching a artificial nose to your face. It’s not very stable, but it is very fast and easy and doesn’t require months of planning or buying special prosthetics or building special prosthetics, it’s very simple. Tooth wax is also a way you can go and do exciting things to your teeth that don’t involve putting on enamel over your teeth.
63 minutes

Lesson 11 of 13:

"Cuts and Bruises"

Today’s lesson is Bruises, Cuts, and Burns. That is to say the kind of thing that you do onstage when you need to go and have somebody with a black eye or somebody with a split lip, or a cut, or vampire bites, or some other thing that you’d be likely to find in a normal drama.
56 minutes

Lesson 12 of 13:

"Kabuki"

For this lesson I’m doing Kabuki makeup. When I teach this in a face-to-face class, students will do some Kabuki makeup, some will do Chinese Opera, some will clowns, some will do other sorts of makeup that are highly-stylized traditional forms very often taken from masks—Alaska Native masks, other sorts of African masks—anything that is a pre-existing makeup design from some culture—and this could be Western culture too, as I say clowns, Punchinello, so on—that is a highly-stylized version of a face.
23 minutes

This lesson also has some alternative design examples (featuring time-lapsed videos):

• 12a Chinese Opera Cat Tara Maginnis - 1 minute
• 12d Chinese Opera Character Tara Maginnis - 1.5 minutes
• 12e Kabuki Character Heather - 2 minutes
• 12f Kabuki / Hyper feminine / Horror Tara Maginnis - 1 minute
• 12g Northwest Coast Mask – Tara Maginnis - 1.5 minutes

Lesson 13 of 13:

"Animal"

Today we’re doing animal makeup. Animal makeup you sometimes need to do for children’s theatre, but most often I regard this as mainly an exercise in using the skills that you have been learning for doing character makeup of how to go and alter the shape of your features to match that of a person with a different skull shape than yourself. Now the reason that animal makeup is really useful as a practice for this is animals have completely different skull shapes.
55 minutes

This lesson also has some alternative design examples (featuring time-lapsed videos):

• 13a Frog Lorraine Pettit - 1 minute
• 13b Realistic Monkey Tara Maginnis - 1.5 minutes
• 13c Simple Monkey Abrah - 1.25 minutes
• 13d Kabuki style Bird Tara Maginnis - 1.2 minutes