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Shneak
Mar 6, 2015

A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.
Missy can't say poo poo about this show shaming her appearance while it has Glenn walking around. Artists looks eccentric, news at 11.


I think that Mayan gatekeeper might be one of my favourite terrible makeups on the show. It looks like somebody crushed the head of a giant snake, mummified it, and it went to a costume party dressed as a 1920s flapper girl.

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Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Shneak posted:

I think that Mayan gatekeeper might be one of my favourite terrible makeups on the show. It looks like somebody crushed the head of a giant snake, mummified it, and it went to a costume party dressed as a 1920s flapper girl.
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the guy responsible for that peed his pants when he found out he wasn't eliminated.

Missy Munster posted:

"I never thought somebody as freaky as me would ever be on TV. I was like, there's no [expletive] way they would put me on TV. There's no way. I don't play to the camera. I was just gonna be myself the whole time."

The stupidity present here is kind of great. No, networks want nothing but normal people on TV. Also lol that she claimed someone like that Glenn Hetrick guy would eliminate her based on looks.

Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Aug 26, 2015

Miz Kriss
Mar 17, 2009

It's only an avatar if the Cubs get swept.
I think the snake gatekeeper is slightly behind the anime girl in the OP as the doofiest makeup in recent history.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




Crazy Ted posted:

The stupidity present here is kind of great. No, networks want nothing but normal people on TV. Also lol that she claimed someone like that Glenn Hetrick guy would eliminate her based on looks.

Yeah... compared to Glenn she's not freaky at all... dude walks around in a black leather corset in the desert for fun.

Also, I've got a feeling that Jasmine, the plump goth girl, is about to start running away with the season. I thought for sure that she would win last night, but I can understand they went with the goat man because they were impressed with the amount of fabrication. I hated the shading under the faun's nose, though, it looked like she had some kind of STD.

Mob
May 7, 2002

Me reading your posts

I thought I was an idiot at 20 but Missy Munster has shown me I was a pretty level-headed cool person

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Shneak posted:

I think that Mayan gatekeeper might be one of my favourite terrible makeups on the show. It looks like somebody crushed the head of a giant snake, mummified it, and it went to a costume party dressed as a 1920s flapper girl.

I started laughing when the snake appeared on screen. I knew it was going to be bad from the glimpses we'd had of it but drat.

Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
I kind of liked the mayan beast character. At least the face had an interesting concept of being like a sculpture monster. The rest of the body was bad, though.

I also thought that the winner's beast gray skin was kind of flat, and that the red wounds didn't look like scars as much as halloween stickers. But it was otherwise fully realized and consistent with the challenge.

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
I have to admit I'm still kind of bummed the guy with a lot of movie credits that had to take ten years off to deal with serious family issues got knocked out so early on. I didn't even think he deserved it.

Gaz2k21
Sep 1, 2006

MEGALA---WHO??!!??

LabyaMynora posted:

Yeah... compared to Glenn she's not freaky at all... dude walks around in a black leather corset in the desert for fun

She seems really stuck on her supposed freaky image it's quite sad really when I can go to Download festival and see literally hundreds of people who look like her.

Glenn at least has a somewhat unique style.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
I think her "freaky style" wouldn't be so bad if her clothes were at least flattering to her body type and not stretch pants that accentuate her FUPA.

Morkfang
Dec 9, 2009

I'm awesome.
:smug:

Kung Food posted:

I think her "freaky style" wouldn't be so bad if her clothes were at least flattering to her body type and not stretch pants that accentuate her FUPA.

But that is her "freaky style". She dresses up to provoke so that she can then go and say "omg, you are bullying me! you're a meanie!" and grab all the attention. She's one of those people who "play their cards", if you know what I mean.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
If that's how she reacts to being politely and respectfully eliminated from one of the friendliest reality TV shows ever made then I dread to think how she would have fared in one of the nastier reality TV shows.

Actually they probably would have kept her around forever in one of those other shows just for the inevitable drama.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




Snowglobe of Doom posted:

If that's how she reacts to being politely and respectfully eliminated from one of the friendliest reality TV shows ever made then I dread to think how she would have fared in one of the nastier reality TV shows.

Good point. If this is how she reacts to her Face Off elimination, it kinda makes you want to re-evaluate all of her "I was so bullied" sob stories...

Morkfang
Dec 9, 2009

I'm awesome.
:smug:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

If that's how she reacts to being politely and respectfully eliminated from one of the friendliest reality TV shows ever made then I dread to think how she would have fared in one of the nastier reality TV shows.

Actually they probably would have kept her around forever in one of those other shows just for the inevitable drama.

I'm trying to imagine her on Ink Master.

Oh, and there's a rather large build young lady on this season of Project Runway as well and she's great. It's not size that matters, it's attitude.

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008
I can't believe that young guy with the frizzy black hair that wanted to do the clam on day one is still in this season. He hasn't done anything that stands out and all his stuff is ridiculous.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
I thought the fish chick's head looked more like a helmet.

Oasx
Oct 11, 2006

Freshly Squeezed
I loved how Scott went full fanboy this episode.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Megan continues to be the best model. "It'll cost you." :wink:

KungFu Grip posted:

I can't believe that young guy with the frizzy black hair that wanted to do the clam on day one is still in this season. He hasn't done anything that stands out and all his stuff is ridiculous.

Also he always looks pissed off whenever he doesn't get picked for top looks. :v:

Blazing Ownager
Jun 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

KungFu Grip posted:

I can't believe that young guy with the frizzy black hair that wanted to do the clam on day one is still in this season. He hasn't done anything that stands out and all his stuff is ridiculous.

Just so much stuff has been worse.

Holy poo poo the melted chin overbite on the loser tonight. I don't think anyone can suggest that was an unfair elimination.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
I loved the twist on this episode of having to base your spotlight challenge on whatever poo poo you threw together for the flash challenge, that was pretty interesting.

angerbot
Mar 23, 2004

plob
I won't miss that guy's crazy big eyes

We've gotten to the part of the season where they start giving camera time to people and you're like "wait who's that"

Shneak
Mar 6, 2015

A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.
Jordan always had that deer in headlights look, which is fair. I can't remember him not being in bottom looks.

squarerandom
Mar 24, 2007

Obviously you're not a golfer.
So why has this season been so terrible? There doesn't seem to be the runaway artist, there doesn't seem to be a competition of who made the best, but more who didn't make the worse. I can't even remember most of the winners, but I still remember the Candy Soldier, the Violin Man, the Bell Boy-Dresser, and Roy's crazy builds. But this season it just seems so awful.

mcswizzle
Jul 26, 2009

squarerandom posted:

So why has this season been so terrible? There doesn't seem to be the runaway artist, there doesn't seem to be a competition of who made the best, but more who didn't make the worse. I can't even remember most of the winners, but I still remember the Candy Soldier, the Violin Man, the Bell Boy-Dresser, and Roy's crazy builds. But this season it just seems so awful.

That's been said about the last few seasons but even as an uninterested follower (my wife really enjoys the show, so I watch it with her), it seems to me that it always balances out. Maybe not as many stand outs but they usually have some pretty awesome makeups.

That being said, the early seasons were unfairly stacked. I get the feeling they didn't expect the show to be as successful, and so they pulled as many great artists as they could. Now instead of getting 3rd year art students/whatever, they're getting the guy who works IT but is really into playing dress-up with his daughter competing in a visual effects make up competition

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




I feel like this season is a bit of a step up from last season, can't put my finger on why yet though. It may also be too early for me to be totally sick of this season, we'll see.

But yeah, overall, there just aren't that many people out there doing this as there are, say, chefs and tattoo artists. So this many years into it, I have a feeling the pickings are getting slim.

poo poo, how many of this years contestants are fresh out of Tom Savini's school? I don't remember ever hearing any contestant being associated with it before this season.

squarerandom
Mar 24, 2007

Obviously you're not a golfer.

LabyaMynora posted:

I feel like this season is a bit of a step up from last season, can't put my finger on why yet though. It may also be too early for me to be totally sick of this season, we'll see.

But yeah, overall, there just aren't that many people out there doing this as there are, say, chefs and tattoo artists. So this many years into it, I have a feeling the pickings are getting slim.

poo poo, how many of this years contestants are fresh out of Tom Savini's school? I don't remember ever hearing any contestant being associated with it before this season.

Should have previous losers compete against each other. I have been liking the challenges more, especially the star trek retro to reboot designs. That is a killer idea, but the final products haven't been as crisp, clean or lasting as other seasons. Hopefully when it dwindles down to the actual challengers, the competition will get much better.

Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
I think it's too early, for the last several seasons it's always the second half which is the best when the riffraff have gone and the better contestants are more comfortable. I do think the overall production is still pretty fresh, we had the face focus thing and the morph your first challenge into your second challenge thing. I like that stuff. As long as casting can keep providing at least decent artists, why not keep making it.

Speed Crazy
Nov 7, 2011

LabyaMynora posted:

poo poo, how many of this years contestants are fresh out of Tom Savini's school? I don't remember ever hearing any contestant being associated with it before this season.

There has been at least one every single season from the beginning. I've worked with makeup artists in the Pittsburgh area before, and it actually has a pretty terrible reputation. Some of the absolute worst contestants (Autumn, the gummy bear lady) came out of their program. Plus Savini's name means nothing. He drives his motorcycle back and forth hoping for attention and wanders around my neighborhood in a tracksuit.

But yeah, you are definitely right in that they are extremely young and fresh out of school.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




Speed Crazy posted:

There has been at least one every single season from the beginning. I've worked with makeup artists in the Pittsburgh area before, and it actually has a pretty terrible reputation. Some of the absolute worst contestants (Autumn, the gummy bear lady) came out of their program. Plus Savini's name means nothing. He drives his motorcycle back and forth hoping for attention and wanders around my neighborhood in a tracksuit.

Yeah, I always had a feeling the Savini make up school was a crock, something about their ads in Fangoria and poo poo like that made me think it was just a way to make money off the naive.

lifts cats over head
Jan 17, 2003

Antagonist: A bad man who drops things from the windows.

Speed Crazy posted:

There has been at least one every single season from the beginning. I've worked with makeup artists in the Pittsburgh area before, and it actually has a pretty terrible reputation. Some of the absolute worst contestants (Autumn, the gummy bear lady) came out of their program. Plus Savini's name means nothing. He drives his motorcycle back and forth hoping for attention and wanders around my neighborhood in a tracksuit.

But yeah, you are definitely right in that they are extremely young and fresh out of school.

Does he still live in Bloomfield?

Coyote Ugly
Nov 14, 2006

Last night's episode was an utter train wreck. I can't remember any episode from a past season where all the make-ups looked like utter garbage in my mind. I know the models had some pretty masculine features, but c'mon guys, get your poo poo together. Maybe it was just me or my tv screen, but Stevie's model's face had a heavy red-tone to it that didn't mesh well with the rest of his skin tone to my mind and bugged the hell out of me the entire episode.

The Queen Mab had redeeming features and was likely the best overall, but still didn't look nearly as feminine as it still read "guy" to me in the face.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Yeah there was no way that contest wasn't going to be a trainwreck, I'm only disappointed that it wasn't an even bigger trainwreck.

Stevie's paint job was pretty woeful but at least it looked like a woman with a woeful paint job I guess?

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Getting accurate skin tones seems to be literally impossible for these people, and the winner just avoided the issue entirely.

Coyote Ugly
Nov 14, 2006

smackfu posted:

Getting accurate skin tones seems to be literally impossible for these people, and the winner just avoided the issue entirely.

It was smart move on her part with the direction she took it. It won her the challenge.

Cavenagh
Oct 9, 2007

Grrrrrrrrr.

Coyote Ugly posted:

It was smart move on her part with the direction she took it. It won her the challenge.

She was lucky that they didn't limit the selection to characters who actually have lines or appear on the stage.

These challenges do make me wonder if the contestants get to do any research. Would that have meant Stevie's Hippolyta looking Greek rather than from the Amazon Basin? Joan Of Arc often dressing as a male soldier confusing the challenge? Wasn't there a previous contestant, who had been raised Mennonite or Amish and had absolutely no cultural references (how the hell did she end up doing make up?), so she had to research most everything?

Shneak
Mar 6, 2015

A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.

Coyote Ugly posted:

Last night's episode was an utter train wreck. I can't remember any episode from a past season where all the make-ups looked like utter garbage in my mind.

That seems to be the running theme with "focus challenges" based on the two that we've had. You need to do a good face and that's apparently too much pressure? Honestly, I'm surprised there weren't more that looked like drag queens like Ricky's.

Meg's was nice because it wasn't just male to female. Stevie's I didn't get. I guess it was female enough but the skin tone went from 'ethnic' to bronze loving statue.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

I think "focusing" on the face just doesn't matter since that is what they focus on anyway, and they have one less day so it is the same difference in the end. Oh well.

Coyote Ugly
Nov 14, 2006

Shneak posted:

Stevie's I didn't get. I guess it was female enough but the skin tone went from 'ethnic' to bronze loving statue.

This right there. That bugged the hell out of me for the entire episode. The skin tone for the face seemed brighter than the model's own. Also, the costuming didn't read Greek to me at all.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




Cavenagh posted:

Wasn't there a previous contestant, who had been raised Mennonite or Amish and had absolutely no cultural references (how the hell did she end up doing make up?), so she had to research most everything?

Yes, in Laura and Roy's first season... I think her name was Sarah and she actually ended up 5th or 4th, but yeah... "Star Wars, I never saw that," "Terminator? I never saw that," it was like gee whiz, lady, how the gently caress did you end up here?!

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Coyote Ugly
Nov 14, 2006

Cavenagh posted:

She was lucky that they didn't limit the selection to characters who actually have lines or appear on the stage.

These challenges do make me wonder if the contestants get to do any research. Would that have meant Stevie's Hippolyta looking Greek rather than from the Amazon Basin? Joan Of Arc often dressing as a male soldier confusing the challenge? Wasn't there a previous contestant, who had been raised Mennonite or Amish and had absolutely no cultural references (how the hell did she end up doing make up?), so she had to research most everything?

You are right about that, I had to look up Queen Mab myself because the character wasn't clicking in my head with familiarity until I read it's from Mercutio's line.

I would like to think they are given enough time to research the subject matter of each challenge to get a good understanding of what they are doing. Of course, I am curious to know how much time they really do take with each challenge. Between the editing, the wardrobes, and other stuff going on behind the scenes it seems like some of it might be premade.

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