Make-up world’s ultimate face off
GLOW UP: BRITAIN’S NEXT MAKE-UP STAR
BBC Three, 8pm
IT’S time to glow up! Maya Jama hosts this fourth series with 10 new make-up artists desperate to win the crown – and all the industry glory and contracts that come with it.
Over eight weeks, they will compete in various high-stakes professional assignments – from TV and theatre to fashion and front covers, as well as online beauty campaigns.
At the studio, their talents are pushed to the limit with creative make-up transformations, and each week the two who least impress judges Val Garland and Dominic Skinner go head-to-head in a Face Off elimination.
Val says: “Average work simply won’t cut it for me. I wanted to be wowed, I want to be bowled over. I want to see something I’ve never seen before.”
Dominic says: “I am the prince of precision and a stickler for symmetry. The bar is high but so are my expectations.”
The first challenge is to create a social media campaign for global fitness brand Gymshark.
The company polled its followers and discovered that a quarter of them wear make-up to the gym.
So they want the artists to come up with a natural make-up look that’s durable for a workout, keeps health at its core and grabs attention for a “fitspiration” feature.
The results are “too glamorous”, “too heavy” and “off brand”. Has anyone hit the mark?
Then they have to create a bold, dramatic look that tells the judges their hidden strength.
The final looks – including a part-concrete statue, a female-male face-off, a spacey explosion and an alien creature – are just astonishing.