In this competition/elimination series, special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood's next great effects artist.
Face Off (Season 2)
Return to Oz (Episode 1)
Air date: 2012-01-11
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: Fourteen aspiring makeup artists face off in the Season 2 premiere, which has them re-imagining characters from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
Water World (Episode 2)
Air date: 2012-01-18
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is visited ahead of a challenge in which the contestants must make waterproof creature makeup.
Rock Your Body (Episode 3)
Air date: 2012-01-25
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: A nude body painting challenge unfolds as the contestants try to make an album cover for hip-hop star (and guest judge) Asher Roth.
Night Terrors (Episode 4)
Air date: 2012-02-01
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: A late-night call summons the contestants to an abandoned hospital in Los Angeles. When they arrive they each get to choose an obscure phobia to use as the basis for creating a monster.
Dangerous Beauty (Episode 5)
Air date: 2012-02-08
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The team competes in a trauma wound foundation contest then return to the lab, which has been transformed into a jungle, and discover they'll be studying live animals to create something beautiful but deadly.
Triple Threat (Episode 6)
Air date: 2012-02-15
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: For the foundation challenge, the contestants must debeautify attractive models,.make triplets appear to be at different stages of their elderly lives.
Alien Interpreters (Episode 7)
Air date: 2012-02-22
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: This week, aliens are the artists' focus and guest judge Star Trek Next Generation's LeVar Burton helps out.
Burtonesque (Episode 8)
Air date: 2012-02-29
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: Creating a new character from an ordinary occupation for a Tim Burton film.
Dinoplasty (Episode 9)
Air date: 2012-03-07
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The five remaining contestants participate in a double-elimination event to create a human-dinosaur hybrid to determine which of them will go to the finale.
The Ultimate Spotlight Challenge (Episode 10)
Air date: 2012-03-14
Runtime: 40 min
Overview: The finalists must each create three original characters from a specific movie genre who will perform a choreographed-dance routine at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA.
