Maxillofacial prosthetics play a crucial role in restoring form and function for individuals with facial defects resulting from trauma, disease, or congenital conditions. Silicone elastomers have ...

Prosthetic makeup designer Kazu Hiro details his process, right down to learning the actors’ sweat patterns and using seven ...

Professional prosthetic makeup artist Meg Wilbur explains special effects makeup in 11 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Special effects makeup is a really broad category, so Meg defines ...

Demi Moore was a trouper. Her full concentration was always on the process, according to prosthetic makeup designer Pierre Olivier Persin, speaking from Paris about his work on "The Substance," ...

Heated wax was once commonly used to capture facial impressions or build up noses and chins, but it could stick to hair and be difficult to remove. The industry moved to alginate, then silicone, and ...

At last night's 95th Oscars ceremony, Brendan Fraser cemented his Hollywood comeback with a win for best actor for his performance in Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale." While the role itself received its ...

Prosthetics makeup designer Pierre-Olivier Persin tells IndieWire about parallels to David Cronenberg's "The Fly" in creating the mutations in Coralie Fargeat's film. In “The Substance,” Coralie ...

The Oscar-nominated prosthetics makeup team discusses the painstaking work for the severest physical deterioration, as well as the gruesome dummy corpses that were cut. Yet Netflix’s Spanish ...

If you didn’t know it was Colin Farrell playing Penguin in HBO’s new drama series about the Batman villain, “The Penguin,” you’d likely never guess. The Irish actor is hidden under a mound of ...