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Learning Objectives

Chapter 1

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• The basic structure of the human face 
• The basics of creating a three-dimensional clay model of a head 
• The details of creating the nose, mouth, and eyes in a three-dimensional model of a head

Chapter 2

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Understanding and applying the principles of chiaroscuro 
• Using light and shade to achieve flat and curved surfaces 
• The principles of hard and soft edges

Chapter 3

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• The Characteristics of Color—hue, intensity and value. 
• Color Mixing

Chapter 4

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Color in light—red, green, and ultramarine 
• The effects of certain colored lights on makeup and how to adjust the lights and/or makeup accordingly 
• How the direction of light can affect facial features

Chapter 5

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• The principles of character analysis 
• The six determinants of physical appearance—heredity, race, environment, temperament, health and age 
• The principles of physiognomy

Chapter 6

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• The basic responsibilities of the makeup designer 
• How the costume designer's work may influence the makeup design 
• The difference between a character sketch and makeup sketch 
• Techniques for creating makeup sketches/drawings and worksheets

Chapter 7

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Individual makeup kits vs. group kits 
• Basic procedures for makeup hygiene 
• Makeup palettes 
• The ideal makeup room setup 
• Makeup rooms vs. makeup workshops 
• How to create and organize a makeup morgue

Chapter 8

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Basic types of makeup and how to apply 
• Basic types of makeup brushes and their uses 
• How to use cake and creme makeup together

Chapter 9

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• How to analyze a face to determine which areas need corrective makeup 
• Basic techniques for enhancing skin with foundation 
• Basic corrective makeup techniques for the forehead, nose, jaw line, chin, wrinkles, eyes and eyeshadows, eyebrows, cheeks, lips, neck, teeth and hair.

Chapter 10

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• What stippling is and when and how to use it 
• How and when to use a sponge for stippling 
• How and when to use a brush for stippling 
• Basic techniques on stippling for texture, reducing contrasts, adding color and concealing edges

Chapter 11

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Modeling hard and soft edges 
• Modeling the face and the neck 
• Selecting foundation colors 
• Stippling for highlights and shadows 
• Selecting highlight colors 
• Selecting shadow colors 
• Highlighting and shadows for the forehead, eyes, eyebrows, nose, cheeks, nasolabial folds, jawline, mouth, chin, neck, hands and teeth. 
• Using highlighting and shadows to reshape the face

Chapter 12

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Various materials used in three-dimensional makeup and to correctly use them 
• Basic techniques for changing the nose with three-dimensional makeup 
• Techniques for creating the following special constructions using three-dimensional makeup: a black eye, blindness, bruises, burns, cuts, various ear and eyelid shapes, fingernails, moles, perspiration and tears, pimples, scabs, scars, warts, welts, wens, and open wounds.

Chapter 13

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• How to prepare a subject for face casting 
• Basic tips and techniques for creating a negative alginate mold, positive plaster cast, clay model, negative plaster mold, and positive latex cast. 
• Basic techniques for creating prosthetic pieces for the nose, eyelids, eye pouches, ears, chin, neck hands and teeth 
• Basic techniques for creating a wrinkled forehead and a bald head 
• Basic techniques for applying and removing a prosthetic piece, as well as applying makeup over a prosthetic piece 
• When and how to use foam latex for prosthetic pieces and how to paint foam latex pieces 
• The basics of additional foam materials—propolyurethane foam, silicone foam and foam gelatin—that can be used for prosthetic pieces 
• Basic steps of advanced mold making 
• How to create and apply gelatin appliances 
• Basic steps of using silicone in developing age prosthetics

Chapter 14

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Crepe hair: what it is, how to prepare, mix, apply and remove 
• Attaching crepe hair to a latex base 
• Using crepe hair for beard stubble and eyebrows 
• Ventilated pieces: what they are, how to construct, apply, dress, remove and clean

Chapter 15

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Basics of restyling natural hair 
• Types of hair color/dye 
• How to choose a graying product for hair 
• The basic parts of a wig 
• How to measure for a wig 
• Basics of styling wigs 
• Falls and chignons 
• Cleaning wigs 
• Adding a natural hairline 
• Putting on and securing a wig 
• Removing a wig

Chapter 16

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Tips in preparing a likeness makeup plan 
• Basics in creating the likenesses of Queen Elizabeth I, Mark Twain, Stalin and Trotsky, and The Mad Hatter

Chapter 17

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Makeup tips when filming with high-definition digital technology 
• Choosing a foundation for film and television 
• Natural makeup for female performers 
• Natural makeup for the male performer 
• Key roles in the makeup department

Chapter 18

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Determining undertones 
• Choosing a foundation for darker skin tones 
• Concealers, highlighters, and neutralizers for darker skin tones 
• Contouring for darker skin tones
• Powder, blush, eyeshadow, and lip color for darker skin tones 
• The effects of lighting on darker skin tones 
• Skin types and conditions 
• The basic makeup kit for darker skin tones

Chapter 19

After completing this chapter, students should be familiar with:

• Stylization and relating the makeup to the audience 
• Basics of makeup for angels, animals, birds, clowns, "death," devils/demons, dolls, elves, fairies, ghosts, gnomes, goblins, grotesques, monsters, ogres, Pan, pierrot, statuary, toys, trolls, vampires, zombies and witches.