Description
The Hair/Makeup designer designs the hair and makeup for the production. S/he is responsible for buying the necessary hair, makeup, and related supplies. You need to go to whatever make-up workshops/rehearsals there are to find out what kinds of base people need and what specialty make-up people need.
This job requires very little time during the semester (maybe one afternoon to do inventory and look through the make-up and a few hours in discussion with actors/directors/designers about what is needed) until about 2 weeks before the show. Then lots of little 1-2 hour blocks a week (you go out and buy make-up, then other people tell you what they need, so you go out and buy that, then someone else gets back to you and you go get that, then it gets used up opening night, so you go and buy more, etc.). You will also need to be able to be at every dress rehearsal during tech week to apply makeup to the actors and to teach them how to apply it themselves. If there is extremely complicated hair and makeup schemes, you might need to be at every performance to apply hair and makeup yourself.
General Makeup
Each actor needs foundation, regardless of whether or not they are male or female.
Specialty Makeup
Aging
but old age as in purply colors for making baggy eyes, and white and real dark tan for wrinkles.
Ghosts
Injuries and Scars
Products
Some good shades of foundation to have are:
1. Ben Nye's CH-0, CH-00, CH-01 for good highlights
2. Ben Nye's CS-3 for a good generic lowlight
Two good places for makeup and hair products are Dorothy's Costume (on Mass Ave in Boston by the Christian Science Center) and Boston Costume (near Kendall T stop and in the Garment District store). You can get brushes, makeup sponges, wet-wipes, and other things of that nature for pretty cheap and decent quality at CVS. Plan on a bag of sponges a night or a little less.