• Course introduction and overview

• Health and safety aspects of SFX makeup

• Professional hygiene and sanitation practices

• Ensuring client comfort

• Special FX vs Beauty makeup

• Career paths in SFX makeup artistry

• Set etiquette and professionalism

• The right way to search and use reference photos

• Common mistakes and how to best handle them

• Complete overview of SFX tools and products

• Eco-friendly products and the proper disposal of hazardous materials

• Properly station setup for SFX makeup

• Essential materials and products on SFX artist’s table

• How to make your own tools

• Creating naturalistic bruises of various stages

• Techniques and products for creating simulated scars

• How to make graphic scrapes on the skin

• Application techniques for various kinds of cuts

• Using Transfers as a fast 3D effect

• Easy and inexpensive way to create a gunshot wound

• ears and crying effects of various intensity

• Creating the illusion of a real sweat effect

• Chopped lips of different levels

• Frozen look: from front bite to hypothermia

• The nuances of creating a realistic dead look

• Application techniques and products for teeth FX

• A fun and easy way to create a sunburn look

• Using color theory in the SFX world

• Detailed airbrush overview and user guide

• Tattoo cover-up techniques, tools, products

• Fake tattoo

• Pen, transfer, airbrush application

- Types of fake hair for professional application

- Face preparation for best application and wear

- A step-by-step guide to beard application

- Applying a realistic-looking mustache

- Fake nails application for various effects

- Wigs and body hair application

• What are bald cap used for in the SFX world

• Types of bald caps and how to handle them

• Hair prep for a perfectly smooth bald cap application

• How to best apply a bald cap

• Bald cap painting -from color correction to finishing touches

• The most efficient bald cap removal technique

• Making your own bald cap

• Types of prosthetics: pros and cons

• Adhesive types and their uses

• How to prepare skin for prosthetics

• Prosthetic application steps

• Specifics of silicon prosthetic application

• Completing the look with teeth application

• Adding Special Effects stage blood

• Special FX hair and nail design

• How the face ages

• Gravity and wrinkles

• Challenges to aging makeup and how to overcome them

• 3 ways to achieve an aging makeup

• How to make the face younger

• Latex application methods for aging makeup

• Styling hair for aging effect

• Time-saving tips for character prep

• Fake ears application

• Face prosthetic application

• How to properly paint over prosthetics and adhesives

• Fake nails: prep, application, removal

• Body painting and hair styling to complete the look

• Nude makeup prep and application

• Perfect base matching

• Evening makeup: eye and lip application techniques

• Editorial/creative makeup application

• Elegant and soft bridal hairstyle

• Easy way to create Hollywood style updo

• How to create a Victorian period updo

• Etiquette and industry standards in body painting

• Professional body painting safety and sanitation guidelines

• Complete body painting kit overview

• Fundamentals of color theory and color mixing

• Metallics in bodypainting

• How to plan the look ahead of time

• Essential airbrushing techniques: brushstrokes, sponging, blending, stencils, and more.

• Futuristic robot look body painting

• The Starry Night Van Gogh-inspired body painting

• Career paths for body painting artists

• How to make the most of social media

• Why networking is still important

• How to optimize your website

• How To Budget As A Body Painting Artist

• Body Painting Licensing

• What You Need To Know About Copyright In Body Painting