Hair and makeup in film help to tell a visual story without any use of words.
Hairstyles in Film
Hairstyles have altered and changed over the years these different everyday styles give insight and ideas into film. Imagine going to the theater to see a film based in the 1920s and the actor has a current day hairstyle, it would change the atmosphere of the film. Often the character will cut off or color their hair to give the character unique features. With the many changes in hair, wigs and hair pieces became more popular for actors in the 1970’s gave the actors more freedom with their hair and could change between roles or change hairstyles in a pinch.
Most Iconic Movie Hair Moments – Best Movie Hairstyles Of All Time
From Cher Horowitz To Cruella De Vil – The Best Movie Hair Styles Of All Time
16 Actors Who Wore Wigs In Their Iconic Roles
Makeup in Film
The use of makeup on camera became highly used in the 1930s, known as “pancake makeup” created by Max and Frank Factor. This makeup is heavy and compact to be obvious on the skin, it was important to actors and filmmakers so that the emotion and the look of the makeup was bold enough to tell the story. This type of compact pancake makeup lasted all day, in turn there were less touch ups to be done on set and more time to film scenes.
On-screen beauty: 15 Iconic beauty moments in film – BURO.
The 32 Most Iconic Movie Beauty Looks of All Time
Prosthetic makeup started in 1902 in the French film ‘Le Voyage dans la Lune’. Though it was around, it was not majorly used until the late 1920’s when Lon Chney started using prosthetic makeup for monster movies such as ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ and ‘Phantom of the Opera’. Prosthetic makeup is very powerful in a film as it can be used for the whole body to change or reshape any feature. The use of this allows actors to fully be in character by changing or adding anything such as wounds, beauty marks, and even extra limbs.
10 Actors Before And After Movie Makeup
I’m 23 years old from Tulsa Oklahoma, involved in athletics and arts since I was young.
I’ve volunteered at art centers, theaters and small festivals back home.
I went to school for cosmetology. After graduation I worked in a spa and salon behind the chair doing hair, makeup and nails. I am one of the interns at Raindance. My goal is to be involved in marketing and filmmaking from styling hair and makeup for actors on set to editing clips behind the scenes.
