Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 3 - Theater Makeup: "The Lion King" - full transcript

[upbeat electronic music playing]

[Stacey] Coming in to today,
our eight remaining MUAs

will be treading the boards
as they prepare to razzle-dazzle

and take the theatre world by storm.

They're on their way to come and meet me
here at the Lyceum Theatre

in London's West End.

They don't know it yet,
but as soon as they arrive

they'll be given their next big brief
here in the lion's den.

It's showtime!

If we're lucky, it's Lion King. Oh my God!

About to be lit. About to Africa.
About to be stripes.



[singing Lion King intro]

[singing Lion King intro]

[Stacey] Originally ,
an Academy Award winning animation,

[music playing]

the stage adaptation of the Lion King
has played in more than 100 cities

across the globe.

This smash hit show
will tonight invite one lucky MUA

to join their prestigious makeup team.

-[MUAs] Oh, my God!
-[Stacey] Nice and quick.

[all] Morning.

[Stacey] As always, the MUAs
have to impress Glow Up resident judges,

Val Garland and Dominic Skinner.

Gather round.

But this week,
they'll also need to satisfy



The Lion King Global Associate
Hair & Make Up Designer, Ashley Roller.

Today, you're going to be working for me
on a trial run,

to see if you've got what it takes to work
in the world of theatrical makeup.

Whoever impresses us the most,

will have the opportunity
to assist Ashley...

I've got goosebumps.

...for tonight's performance
on this very stage!

Oh, my God!

You'll be replicating looks
from four of our main characters,

and our standards are meticulously high.

[Dominic] There's four characters
and there's eight of you.

That means you'll be going head-to-head,
making up the same character

as a fellow MUA.

[MUAs gasping]

So, that will give us direct comparison

between your work
and that of one of your rivals.

The challenge is to exactly replicate
the character makeup

you've been given and remember
that theatre makeup is impactful,

so it needs to read from the front row
to the back of the house.

-[Stacey] Judges, thank you.
-[MUAs] Thank you.

[Stacey] With 90 minutes
to precisely replicate their character,

each MUA has been assigned an actor
from the current cast

who know exactly how the makeup
should look.

Best of luck. Your time starts now.

[fast tempo music playing]

Hey, guys. Keziah and Brandon.

[Stacey] Going head-to-head
replicating wise monkey Rafiki's look

are Keziah and Brandon.

[Ashley] It's a lot of precision.
We have angles that we wanna get right,

so, it's really important to get that
almost kind of geometric precision

down with Rafiki.

[Stacey] It's Hannah versus Berny

in a fight to recreate
the sinister lion, Scar.

The key things about Scar is distortion.

We want to be able to see sharp eyebrows,
sharp contour, very dramatic angles.

The blank canvas to start with.

[Stacey] Reproducing comical bird
Zazu's makeup are James and Eve.

Zazu's all about the clouds in the sky
behind the bird, right?

-Yes.
-Right.

What you wanna think about here
is the blending. Once you ruin your blend,

it's hard to step back from that.

[Stacey] And Jake and Ophelia
will battle it out

over the warrior king, Mufasa.

Mufasa is inspired by
the Maasai warrior tribe.

We want his makeup to look very strong.

Clean, nice lines.

He needs to look very chiselled
and just manly.

Have we got professional Jake
in the building today?

We have got professional Jake
in the building.

[Jake] I'm really excited.

But I'm trying to bear in mind
my first week's critique.

So I'm just a bit like...

-But then I'm trying to be professional.
-[slamming]

[Stacey] Salon worker, Jake, first made-up
his sister's dance troupe

at just 12 years old.

He's been devoted to makeup ever since.

[funky music playing]

I did used to have
a very toxic relationship with makeup.

I'd spend every penny I had,

criticised myself
'cause I wasn't doing stuff right,

constantly compared myself
to other people...

But now I feel happy
and I think my makeup emulates that.

Makeup's the only thing in my life,
I strive for excellence with.

-What yellow did you use on the forehead?
-I used the darker yellow.

I'm up against Ophelia.
I think it's quite a fair-ish matching.

I hope.

[Val] We are putting them head-to-head
this week so we can compare their work.

Which means,
there'll be tremendous pressure.

[Stacey] Let's talk
about Jake and Ophelia.

[Ashley] I've just seen Jake and, so far,
I feel like he's the stronger one.

The way he's blending out the yellow
on the top of the eyebrows.

[singing under breath]

[Ashley] Ophelia's being a bit more timid
right now. She's a bit like,

"I kinda don't know where to place
some of these colourrs."

-How's it going, Berny?
-It's going good.

-I'm just laying the color down first.
-Yes! Looks amazing.

And then I'm gonna go over the contours.
This is amazing!

I just find it visually easier

-to do the contour first and then...
-I know what you mean.

Then you can do all the blending
and stuff.

[Stacey] Contouring uses lines
to define and sculpt the face shape.

To achieve the distorted "Scar" look,
the contour lines must be sharp,

dramatic, and are usually added
at the end.

Hannah is really interesting
because she started the exact opposite way

that I would have done this.
She went in straight with the contour.

Once you start with that darkest colourr

it's really hard to work backwards,
'cause then you can't really layer

on top of dark.

[Ashley] Whereas Berny started off
the way I would have

with the yellows and the browns,
and he's layering the colours nicely.

[Stacey] Normally, these looks take
The Lion King team

just 40 minutes to perfect.

MUAs! Half an hour's passed.
You've got an hour left.

[Stacey] If applied by professionals,

by now the makeup
would be almost complete.

I need to start working quicker now.

I think I'm doing well.
I'm just blocking out all the colours

and then it's just the details
and the precision.

[Ophelia] So, look at me. I'm trying
to get everything symmetrical,

which I'm quite confident with.

[Ashley] Things have kind of taken a turn,
and now I feel like Ophelia

is taking the lead.
Once she laid down those eyebrows

it really felt like she wasn't afraid
to just get in there with the colours.

I'm applying a lighter blue in between
the white and the blue

to blend them together, basically.

I would rather have had anyone but James.

[laughs] Just anyone but James.

[James] Lovely jubbly! Brilliant!

He's in his element here. I feel like
I've got some tough competition.

[Ashley] Eve has a really good intuition.

She's laid down
the white and the light blue

as one of us would have done it.

James looks like he's already started
blending things without having laid down

all the colours which is not
what I would recommend doing.

When I train people,
I tell them to start with the white

and then blend that out into the blue

rather than do it the other way around,
'cause then you're closing yourself in.

I think it's going okay, but last week
I got some not-so-positive feedback

and it did throw me off a little bit.

I was feeling a little bit rubbish,

but all I can do is show the judges
that I'm better than that

and that I deserve a place here.

Can't let it get to me.

[Stacey] Social media queen
Keziah's makeup skills

have amassed her a huge online following.

I have about 162,000 followers
on Instagram. I post all my looks on there

and I love to interact with the community
and talk to people

about all things makeup.

If one day I wake up and I want to
turn myself into a painting,

I'll just turn myself
into a painting and post it.

I've been different my whole life.

When I was in school
I was the outcast kid.

So I wanted to have people notice me
and makeup really gave me an opportunity

to say the things that were in my head
almost without having to speak.

Keziah started with the red,
which is not how I would have started.

I would have started with the yellow.
Whereas Brandon did start with the yellow.

With the lighter colours,
it's easier to lay those down first

because when you start with a dark colour
and then go in with the light,

sometimes you can fight trying to get
those edges to merge.

The yellow that I'm using at the minute
is going patchy.

It's not something that I've necessarily
worked with before.

It's just sticking to the brush.

I don't know whether that's due to heat
or the way I'm using it or applying it.

Half an hour left, MUAs. Half an hour.

Oh, my God.

I've got hiccups, I'm so nerved!

[rapid drum beat]

[Hannah] I feel like I've stuck
as best I can to the actual face chart

and sort of adapted it to my model's face.

Painting for the back of the room
is quite hard.

Whoever said it was easy is a liar.
[laughs]

[Jake] What I'm nervous about
is putting powder on.

And obviously with this,
you're gonna be on stage, hot.

So, it's gotta be like: Powder!

[Dominic] Powdering makeup for theatre
is important

because that locks that pigment
onto the face.

It really is the ultimate sweat test
because under these lights,

those actors get hot!

-[Hannah] Oops!
-[Dominic] But if you powder too much,

-it stops it looking vivid and rich.
-My God, I literally am hating this!

I feel like
I don't know how to use powder.

Alright guys, we have five minutes left.

[Hannah] Oh, balls!

[James] "Hakuna matata!"

-[laughter]
-[Keziah] Can you close your eyes for me?

Now that I've nearly finished,
I'm buzzing. [laughs]

Look, it's pretty good!

You look a bit creepy!
You look like a mime. [laughs]

Come on, Jake.

Open up.

Okay, that's it! Time is up!

-Lovely to meet you.
-Go on.

Alright, all actors
follow me to the stage.

Thank you so much! See you.

[Eve] Bye! Nice to meet you.

Oh, mate, that was so rough!

[Stacey] The judges must now decide

which MUA has achieved
the most West End-worthy look.

[Ashley] The first that I see
when I look at Brandon's Rafiki is,

I think that he sold himself short
by not really taking that makeup

to the edge of her face.

In the front row they'll get it.

Back in the gods, it'll be lost a bit.

[Dominic] So, what about Keziah?

When I look at this yellow,
this is nice and sharp.

She got the line down the center, there.
Even in the back we would see that.

When you replicate an image
it's all about showing that intuition

and Eve really got it with this one.

The white is really dense.
That's a tricky colour to make solid.

And the blending
of that blue looks very smooth.

Especially on the forehead,
that blend is nice.

I just wanna lick it.

[Ashley] This is James's Zazu.

Are the lashes meant to be white?

No. That's an affect from the powdering.

So, now we're moving on to Mufasa.

For me, Ophelia's, this is one of
my favorite makeup applications

because of how clean it is,
how bright it is

and how strong these lines are.

Yeah, she's impressed me. This is great!

[Ashley] And so now we have Jake's Mufasa.

I don't think that that yellow
is going to read

beyond the edge of the stage.

I think it's good application
but it's just all too subtle.

[Ashley] Let's move on to Hannah
and Berny's Scar.

Hannah missed the mark on this one.

Scar is all about severity and distortion
and harshness.

We're not getting that.

It's less vicious and more... vicious!

You know? Sorry. Next.

Moving onto Berny's Scar.
The eyebrows have been brought out

with that nice sharp contrast
down the nose. I like to see that.

And his approach was really nice.
He started with the yellow

and then he worked with the browns
and built his way up.

He was able to then add the black on top,
which gives it more of a punch.

Yeah, he did a great job. Excellent!

I think I know who I'd like to assist me
tonight.

-[Stacey] Hey!
-[MUAs] Hello.

Seeing your actors on stage
really shone a light

on who delivered and who didn't.

Some of you really impressed me
with your ability to replicate the look

and adapt to your actors faces,
and some of you missed the mark.

The artist who impressed me the most
with their precision, their symmetry,

and their artistry, and the person
who will be assisting me tonight is...

Ophelia.

[applause]

Super excited. Can't wait to do it.

It is a priceless opportunity

to be working for Lion King musical.

-This is Nick. Nick is our Simba.
-Hi, Nick. Oh, Simba! Yeah!

[Ophelia] As a makeup artist,

doing amazing theatrical makeup
is like a dream come true.

You could maybe get a little bit more
under the eyes.

There we go.
I think Nick is ready to start the show.

Yay!

-Great job!
-Thank you so much!

[Nick] Awesome.

[Ashley] The next morning at Glow Up HQ,
the judges must decide which two MUAs

underperformed in yesterday's assignment,
landing themselves in the red chairs

and first in line
for the Face Off elimination.

First contender for me,
would have to be Hannah.

[Ashley] Technically, what isn't right
about this is just the way

she started right in with the contour.

Because then what happened
is all that contour

just got muddy and got lost.

This is James's work.

He hasn't understood
the idea of replication.

[Ashley]
And adapting to the performer's face.

I think we're gonna have to talk about
Brandon and his Rafiki.

[Val] I wonder if he should have got
his yellow on and then come back later

and packed more yellow into the design.

Because it's patchy,
it's not impactful enough.

There are the Face Off chairs
and two of us are gonna be in 'em.

I'm trying to not think about them.
If you think about them,

there's more chance that they can
get into your head.

Okay, let's go.

You know how it works.
Nice and quick. Find your chair.

[Stacey] If an MUA finds their name
on a red chair, they are headed for

the Face Off elimination
at the end of the day.

There is still one way
to escape the Face Off.

Oh, my God!

Knock the judge's socks off
in today's brief

and hope another MUA underperforms.

Ba-bum.

[tense beat playing]

[dramatic note crescendoes]

-Once again.
-We've been here before.

We know what to do. No, look at me.
Please don't give up.

-Promise me?
-Okay.

James, Hannah, you've found yourself
in our Face Off chairs.

That does mean that you'll have 15 minutes
less than the other MUAs

to complete today's creative brief.

In the theatre yesterday, the show
used more than 200 masks and puppets.

For today's brief
you will need to do a look

that incorporates a mask
that reveals more than it hides.

[Dominic] We want ambition. We want to see
what's lurking behind your masks.

Are you ready? Bring in the models!

[uptempo guitar music playing]

Nice to meet you. Take a seat.

Oh, my God, perfect!
I'm very happy. [Berny laughs]

Alright, MUAs. Two and a half hours
for this creative brief.

I'll let you guys know when you can start.
Everybody else, your time starts now.

[Stacey] The MUAs have been allowed
to prepare for today's creative brief

and have been allocated models at random.

Look up for me.

This look is based on something
called the golden ratio mask,

which is the supposed perfect face.

I can't decide whether to do brow cover
or not. I'm in two minds about it.

So I'm gonna whack a brow on first.

If it doesn't look right,
I'm gonna take it off

and then we'll do brow cover.

[Berny] Just close your eyes for me.

I'm doing a look based on my journey
as an artist.

I was inspired by Monet

and artists that used oil on paints
as a medium.

-[Ophelia] Where are the sponges?
-Hey, Stacey.

Hello, love. What are we gonna do?

[James] It actually comes back to when
I was a teenager,

and I used to sail a lot with my family.

And I was caught out
on stormy seas one evening when I was 16.

When I got back to bay,
we got a phone call that my grandfather

had been rushed into hospital.

He passed away quickly afterwards.

It took me a while to realise
that underneath all that chaos,

that thrashing sea,
that there is a calm after the storm.

-[Ophelia] You okay so far? Amazing.
-Mm-hmm.

James, Hannah, off you go!

[James] Great, I'm just gonna get
a few products.

It's been 15 minutes. Oops!

[James] Good luck and smash it, okay?

We know what we're doing,
we've been here before. Come on!

This is when I start panicking
a little bit.

I don't think I am gonna do brow blocking.
Oh...

I don't know.

I think... I don't what to do.

I like the model's natural brow.

[Stacey] Blocking is a technique
for covering eyebrows using glue

to stick them down
and concealer to mask their colour.

Mm, let's block 'em. Let's do it.
Let's go crazy, get stupid.

Might as well have not had
that first bloody 15 minutes.

Oh! Product poo!

[Val] Ophelia...

I ain't a-feelin' Ophelia.

[laughter]

The clay represents the exterior
that I present to other people,

which is hiding my emotions.

-[Berny] Okay, amazing.
-Tell me how you're feeling, Keziah.

I've never been in a situation where I get
my makeup judged like this before.

I'm not gonna lie. It gets to me a bit
when I get...

Last week I got some iffy comments.
I am a massive perfectionist

and I always feel like
if I'm not getting amazing comments

then I beat myself up about it
a little bit.

I suppose it is a real shift for you,
because you have

a really healthy following on social media
and with that comes a load of likes

all of the time.
It's like instant gratification.

With my Instagram, I have those followers

and I will get attention from it.

-I love them and I miss them. [laughs]
-Really?

I get messages like,
"Where have you gone?"

"We've missed your work."

And I'm like, "I'll come back soon,
I promise."

-[Stacey] BRB.
-Yeah, they're like friends you know?

[emotional harp playing]

Do you know what?
I'm gonna take those off also.

My mask part is the mirror.

So, it's how you look at yourself,
how you portray yourself.

And then I'm gonna have
all of the real you, breaking through.

-Jakey!
-Alright?

Talk me through your concept
and your creative brief.

[Jake] I like to look a certain way
and I'm exploring

how futuristic, psychedelic,
animalistic people

are gonna be in the future.

Okay, cool. This is what we might
look like in, what, 20, 30 years to come?

Give it a thousand, babe.

-Okay, we're going right forward.
-We're going all the way.

-What will you look like in 20, 30 years?
-A stretched out piece of skin on a sheet.

I'll just be lips.

When's the last time

-you had your lips done?
-Ages ago.

-I'm on a lip ban.
-Why?

-They'll burst.
-[Stacey] Really?

Okay.

Look straight for me.

Lovely.

Makeup artists, you've had one hour.

You have one and a half hours left.

-[Jake] Eve.
-[Eve] Hi.

[Jake] Do you reckon I should take
this brow block off and do it again?

-I think just maybe one.
-Just do that one again?

Just do the ends.

The makeup's on, the makeup's off.

[repeating to a beat]

This is a very old record.

[Jake] Close your eyes. Sorry babe.

And here we go, we're wiping off again.
Off it goes!

[Jake singsong] How do bitches do this?
I literally don't understand.

[Dominic] Oh, hello.

Hannah's giving us a bit of a sci-fi brow

and then has completely covered the mouth.

This looks like this could be

a really original idea.

There's a lot of potential here.

[Hannah] I'm actually using Artex
right now.

You can mold it on the skin,

it dries quickly
and then you can paint on it,

and it sort of gives this scarring effect.

It looks quite horrible
and that's what I wanted to achieve.

No.

It's so hard!

Berny, how do you get brow cover off?

You just wipe it.

[Stacey] Over an hour has passed,
but Jake is back to square one.

If I was him and this was what
I was gonna do

and then I look around the room
and I see shattered glass,

a mouth covered, a bald cap with a scar...

I would be thinking,

"I need to do something different."
I'd be panicking.

Let me know if I poke you at any point.

I'm using dressmaker's pins

because they're sharp and they hurt.

I think Matt is feeling nervous.

But he trusts me, doesn't he?

[Matt laughs]

[Brandon] This is the idea
that once you peel back skin

there's only skull and muscle left.

The diamond's gonna be muscle
and then these reflective bits

are gonna be highlights of bone.

[Jake shushing]

[dramatic beat intensifies]

This is shit, man.

[Ophelia] Oh, no.

[Ashley] I love that eye.

That's sensational!

[Keziah] I've gotta see
whether I get this wire perfect

and whether the message gets across.

I'm basically writing "fraud"
across the mirror.

It's about how you see yourself.

And people with impostor syndrome
see themselves as frauds.

MUAs...

You have 20 minutes.

[rhythmic vocal music playing]

There.

I'm just doing a casual bit of gardening
whilst I've got some time, you know?

It was much more successful
before she added in all the flowers.

-Last five minutes.
-[Eve groans]

[Stacey] You've got five minutes left.

Right. [Ophelia gasping]

I forgot about this.

Sorry,
your hair is so beautifully quaffed.

With every second that goes down,
the more I'm analysing it

and doubting and comparing it
to everyone else's.

I'm quite proud of this.
I would gladly show this to the judges.

The symmetry's so off.

Probably not gonna do this again.

Not gonna lie. Bit stressful.

[Stacey] MUAs, your time is up.

Thank you.

Hopefully it photographs well.

[uptempo electronic music playing]

James, can you please come forward.

[James] My mask was the thrashing,
the craziness that can be

in the day to day life,
but just taking a moment back to know

that there is the calm after the storm
on the horizon.

I had a visceral reaction to this.

I can feel the ocean spray.

We all know that when you work
on your own, you produce brilliant work.

You need to be able to harness that energy
when you're working for somebody else,

following a brief, or you're on a team.

I will show you that.

I'll prove that. Thank you.

Ophelia.

Please can you come up?

[Ophelia] For this look I wanted to create
a concrete surface

and underneath is something
that's very fragile, emotional

and almost quite pretty.

It really does look like concrete.
There's something very hard about it.

And yet, when we look at the white
it looks like bone china.

Something so fragile, so gentle.

And to get a crisp white
so clean is really technically hard.

What I love are these beads here,
because it just feels like

that's the soft part of you
that's creeping out of the wall.

Thank you.

[applause]

Jake, please come forward.

Erm...

[dramatic notes playing]

So, my story, I wanted to... I'm...

Sorry...

I obviously am very conscious
about my image

and I was just interested to express
how future culture might be portrayed

in the mask of beauty.

But I've not succeeded.

I felt like you didn't have a handle

-on what you were doing.
-I don't think I did.

[Val] And I really felt for you.

[Dominic] If you have to put makeup on
and take it off, put it on, take it off,

you are struggling.

If you're removing
with any sort of cleanser,

you then need to remove the cleanser
because cleanser don't want makeup,

so, it's just gonna slip and slide.

[Jake] I'm really sorry for again
not impressing you guys.

[Ashley] Eve, please come forward.

[Eve] My look was inspired
by "impostor syndrome."

It's where you feel like
no matter how much you accomplish

you always feel like you're a fraud.

I was really impressed by the way
that you created this depth

around the shards,
but then when the flowers were added,

I felt like that kind of covered up
your great work.

I question why you have to write
the word "fraud." It's not needed.

What was needed was just the simple story
of the mirror.

-[judges] Thank you.
-Thanks.

[Dominic] Berny!

[Berny] I had a really difficult time
socially in school.

And I'd always use art as a means to hide.

And for me, that in itself was a mask.

I don't feel that this is anything
like what you're capable of.

It's not blended very well.

There is texture there, but it's patchy.

[Dominic] The colours are wishy-washy.
I find you're becoming forgettable.

I need more fire in your belly.
I wanna see passion.

You're in a competition,
so, you wanna fight for it!

Yeah.

[Dominic] Don't let any of these others
take your place.

So show me that passion.

Show me you've got drive,
because that is what's gonna keep you

in this competition.

-Thank you.
-[Dominic] Thank you.

Brandon, please can you come forward?

[Brandon] This mask is what my story
and journey has been here so far.

No matter what criticism
or feedback I get, I'm gonna use that

to find a light to shine under.

So, it's kind of the diamond in the rough.

We want you to grow.
We want you to be the best.

And that causes pressure.
And that then causes this.

'Cause this is stonkin'. It is so amazing!

Honestly, that grey scale on the skull.
Especially, if we look at that side, look!

I mean, hello, Mr. Shadow!

It is really cool.

I love this look.

Great in a theatre, great on a catwalk.

I think it was marvelous.
Absolutely marvelous.

Thank you, thank you.

Thank you, guys

[applause]

Keziah, please come forward.

Good luck.

[Keziah] My mask is based off of something
called the golden ratio mask,

which is supposedly the perfect face.

I wanted to represent
how we all feel pressure

to put on this perfect image.

both in real life, and nowadays
on social media.

I do kind of love it,
but I feel like it's just incomplete.

For the geek in all of us,
this whole sort of mathematical wizardry

that you have, with your precision

and your symmetry,
is something that you could make it

even more rich and full.
I know you could do so much better.

[Val] I love the story...

but I think this is so not balanced

between the left and the right
under the eyes.

The colour blending on the forehead,
not good.

I'm just disappointed,

because you are an amazing artist.

-You know that and I know that.
-Yeah. Thank you.

[soft emotional music playing]

Hannah, can you come forward?

[Hannah] The shape is modelled
off of a scold's bridle

which was
a medieval humiliation headpiece

that was to clamp the mouth shut.

This really looks like a protest.

I love the message, I love the pins.
I really think it was very successful.

Thank you so much.

Believing is everything,
and Hannah, you've taken me to heaven.

I mean, it is so damn good!

It's editorial, it's right now,
it's fresh.

That scarring. That's a sci-fi movie.

I mean, you know, it's just amazing!
It is amazing!

Thank you! Ding dong! It's amazing!

-[applause]
-[Val] Amazing!

-[Val] Thank you!
-Thank you so much, everyone.

If you'd like to go next door,

the judges and myself
are going to deliberate

to find out which two
will be in the Face Off elimination.

Thank you.

[Stacey] The judges start to deliberate
but they aren't the only ones

making difficult decisions.

[Keziah] Makeup for me
is a massive passion

and having that
in a competition environment is kind of...

I've come to the realisation
that it's stifling that creativity

and that passion that is
what I love about makeup.

And I've realised that I need to do
what makes me happy.

[pensive music playing]

-[Stacey] Hey!
-[MUAs] Hello!

[sighs]

Obviously, we are missing Keziah.
She's not sat with us. Um...

You know, this is
a high pressure environment, right?

And I'm sure it's exhausting

and the judges are always
critiquing your work.

And so for those reasons, I think Keziah
has decided that she...

won't be continuing with us.

So, she has decided not to continue
with the competition.

It's just such a shame.

It is completely different doing makeup
in the studio,

as opposed to doing it at home.

I'm used to sitting in my bedroom,
music on, chilled,

and letting ideas flow
rather than having everything

so pre-planned
and high pressure environment.

She's such an amazing make-up artist.

I can't believe
that she's not carrying on.

I was hopeful that over the coming weeks

she was gonna really produce
some amazing work.

We're gonna continue with the Face Off

as we would have if none of this
would have happened.

So, there will still be two people
go head-to-head in the elimination.

I think we're pretty unanimous
when it comes to the first contender.

Jake is just underperforming.

He didn't follow the brief.
That is not a mask.

[Dominic] The second person
to talk about is Eve.

There are some simple technicalities
that you can do to make something

look more like glass
and mirror-like reflections

and refractions.

That would have made it a lot more clear
that we're looking at a mirror.

Let's just look at Berny.

I'm not getting a sense of sky,
I'm not getting a sense of:

"What is this revealing about Berny?"

There's nothing exciting about that.
And that is not gonna keep him here.

[dramatic piano music playing]

[Dominic] Hannah, James, you started today
in the Face Off chairs...

and you well and truly beat the seat.

You absolutely smashed it!

Oh, my God!

So, Jake...

you know you under-delivered today.

So, for that reason, you are our first MUA
in the Face Off elimination.

The second MUA,
who has great technical ability

but did not fulfill
their desired illusion...

[music intensifying]

is Berny.

-That's fine.
-Thank you.

So, Jake, Berny,

please may you say your goodbyes.

One of you won't be returning.

-Let's do it.
-Okay. Thank you, gang.

[Stacey] To decide which MUA
will be going home today,

Berny and Jake must perform
an exacting makeup drill

on identical twin models.

Yesterday, you learned how to use makeup
to exaggerate features for a performance.

Today we're going to ask you to exaggerate
just one feature.

The eyes.

Eyeliner has been used
for thousands of years to better define

and exaggerate the eyes.

We want you to create your own version
here today.

Make sure you produce a continuous,
connected, strong eyeliner

that goes around both eyes.

This graphic liner involves
drawing a continuous line around each eye.

Shapes can vary.
They could be curved, straight or zigzag.

To make this look symmetrical
I would jump from one eye to another

slowly building up the shape
until you've got perfect symmetry.

The MUA should take a risk.
I wanna see something exciting.

A dynamic, striking eyeliner
that is identical on both eyes.

You'll be judged on your precision,

sharpness, symmetry and the creative shape
that you produce.

You'll have 15 minutes for this look.

Best of luck. Off you go.

[fast tempo beat playing]

-Berny's shaking so much.
-Bless him.

He's having to hold his hand
to stop it from shaking.

[Dominic] This is gonna be a killer
to try and recreate on the other side.

Especially being right-handed.
He started on the right side.

Which is like a fail-safe

to not be able to reproduce on the left.

Guys, you've had five minutes.

You've got ten minutes left.

The thing about Jake
is that I'm actually really loving

his ombré finish that he's going for.

Last two minutes. Two minutes left.

We've got a decision to make.

Do we go for the creative shape
with the single colour?

Or the simple shape
with the two colours?

Five... four... three... two... one.

That's us. Please may you stop
what you're doing?

[sighs] And the other side?

-Dom, I think we need a conflab.
-Yep.

[Val] There are pros and cons
on both sides.

I like the fact that Berny
hit the cobalt blue.

I like the fact that he has done
a more creative shape. Tick.

Jake... He has done an ombré orange
into a pink on the eye.

But...

when did pink eye ever look good?

But, he's done what we asked him.

It's one continuous line
and it's symmetrical. It's precise.

It's really well placed. It fits the eye.

The colour's not even.

The colour is even, Val.

It's not even, it's quite patchy.

[Dominic] I don't agree.
I had to pull Berny's eyeliner so far out

to make it symmetrical.

I was literally forcing her eye back
towards her ear.

Whereas Jake's... Yes, it's safe,

but it is precise and it is sharp
and it is symmetrical.

[Val] I would take creativity
over a straight line any day.

I think precision and symmetry
and execution

should win out over creativity.
I think I know where you're gonna go.

I'm gonna throw myself on the floor
and scream like a baby.

If we're in conflict over the look
that they've done today in the Face Off,

we have to look back at the previous look
that they did today.

[Dominic] They both put up a good fight.

They both have merits,
but someone's going home.

Jake, I loved the use of colour
to create that ombré effect,

and you really managed your time well.

However, your liner was simple

and it lacked creativity and imagination.

[Val] Berny, I loved the way you
just jumped in there

with that cobalt blue and you went for it.

It shows creativity,
it's a bit more dynamic.

However, your symmetry wasn't on point.

The shape on the right eye

is much more extended
than it is on the left eye.

As we couldn't make a decision
between you,

we've had to take today's creative brief
into consideration.

[Val] So, Jake, you'll be going home.

Thank you for your time.

Alright? Give us a cuddle.

I'm feeling proud of myself,
but I wish I'd had the opportunity

to show more.

Good luck with everything going forward.
Berny, do you want to follow me?

I'll see you next week.

[crying]

[Jake] I think I've learnt
how creative people can be.

And I think that will push me outside
of the box from now on.

You made that so flippin' hard.

-We were having a fight over it, honestly.
-We were there for a long time.

Hi gang!

[MUAs gasping]

Having Val Garland and Dominic Skinner
dissect your work...

I'm lost for words.
I don't know what to say.

I'm really thankful that I'm still here.

What was it?

Graphic liner.

[MUAs groaning]

We've never been
in that sort of situation before,

where we literally just don't agree.

And then there were six!

-Oh, my God! [screaming]
-[Stacey] Six of you guys left.

I feel sick.
[laughs]

It's gonna get really tough
as we move through the competition.

I have a funny feeling
your magnifying glass

is gonna get a lot of action.

-Good.
-[Dominic laughs]

[end theme playing]