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Whether you are an actor in a summer-stock or regional theater, an acting conservatory program, a high-school or college production, a community theater, a local holiday pageant...or anywhere else, this is the best all-purpose "how-to" guide to makeup for the theater. Besides period makeup, age makeup, and special-effects applications, the book delves into fantasy makeup, animal faces, and other kinds of stylization found on the contemporary stageand with the use of the most up-to-date materials. Explaining all the basic techniques the actor needs, the author offers tips on putting together a personal makeup kit, analyzing one's own facial features, creating a picture file, caring for one's skin, and using a color-mixing chart. Here, then, is the most complete makeup resource - for students, for amateur groups, for everyone performing on today's stage, and at any level.
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 The Very Best Primer in the Biz |
| Review Date: March 24, 2001 |
| Reviewer: Rick Morse, Flushing, Michigan USA |
| At last--a makeup book that doesn't aspire to be the encyclopedic end-all; instead, it teaches techniques that all theatre students should master for the roles they play most often. The full-color photos are second to none, and Thudium's recommendations for makeup products that are kind to young actors' faces -- such as Mehron's wonderful Celebre line -- make this an ideal text for advanced high school students as well as for those attending colleges and universities. I've always been a Corson devotee, but this excellent source has convinced me that, while Corson's book should be available for reference, Thudium's book should be number one on the high school, college, or university instructor's list. |
Excellent Primer Textbook
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| Review Date: September 16, 2002 |
| Reviewer: Jennette Day, Bellingham, WA USA |
| I'm an absolute beginner in makeup, even though I'm in my 30's. My recent interest in Theatrical makeup led me to buy this book. I was EXTREMELY delighted to find clear pictures presented on a variety of faces and skin types. The book is layed out very like a college text with examples and exercises. I found it VERY useful in developing a solid foundation (hee hee!) in doing my own and others makeup. |
Excellent beginning makeup text
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| Review Date: October 9, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Rae, Arcata, US, Canada |
| I am so happy I stumbled upon this book. I've been teaching stage makeup at various universities for over five years and using the Corson book. This book offers clear, color, step-by-step, examples of the basic makeup techniques I cover in my course. The only other book this easy to follow is Makeup for Theatre, Film, and Television by Baygen and it's out of print. This is definately my new course book. |
nothing special
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| Review Date: February 24, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Karribdas, Los Angeles, Ca United States |
| The design techniques for basic contouring and period make-up are solid and the full color photos are helpful. Also, the author includes solid instructions for tranfering drawn schematics onto the face. The "fantasy" make-up section though is a joke-she showcases design projects from her jr. high/high school classes and many more closely resemble advanced face-painting instead of useful stage techniques. Unfortunately this book is still superior to many beginning stage make-up books on the market. |
Great tool for all actors and crew.
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| Review Date: August 17, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Lester Mut, Baton Rouge, LA USA |
This is an excellent book for novice to veteran actors. Also good for makeup/costume crew.
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Good Book for Beginning Stage Makeup Class
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| Review Date: December 16, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Natalie H. Leavenworth, Portland, Oregon |
| I have used this as the textbook for three beginning makeup classes and really like it. It is ideal for college students who are just starting to do makeup. The pictures are large, and in color, and the instructions are clear. I like the period styles section very much. It is nice to use a textbook for a beginning course that doesn't cost too much too. Many of the students in my classes are only going to take the one class and they need to know how to put makeup on for the shows they will be acting in. Since they also have to buy a makeup kit for the class, buying an expensive, encyclopedic text would be a hardship and wouldn't be useful. This book is the best I have found for beginners. |
Excellent basic guide
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| Review Date: October 6, 2008 |
| Reviewer: steve, DeKalb, IL USA |
I'm active in community theater and needed some guidance on makeup. I'm at a disadvantage because I never had the classroom training in makeup that theater students receive, and misinformation about makeup techniques is rampant in the community theater world. For somebody like me, Laura Thudium's Stage Makeup is a gold mine. Unlike most other books on makeup (which have lots of confusing verbiage and small black-and-white pictures), Thudium's book has many large, detailed color photographs of the most common makeup applications, accompanied by very clear, brief explanations of the underlying principles.
I am currently in a production where I play an 80-year-old man (I'm actually 51) and I used Thudium's book as my guide. I'm getting lots of compliments on how realistic my old-age makeup is. |
Good choise for beginners
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| Review Date: November 13, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Leonardo B. Braga, São Paulo, SP, Brazil |
| This is a good book to introduce you in the world of Stage Makeup. The book has many photos with makeups step-by-step, and good texts. I'm brasilian and it was a suggestion of my makeup teacher, that studied stage and movie makeup in Hollywood. It's a good choice to study this tecniques. |
Good, but limited in scope
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| Review Date: May 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: K. Cusson, |
| I am an older actor (50's) and was looking for something that would give some solid help with good make-up technique, especially with the older face (all of the models are much younger in this book). The price is a little high for a book this short and too much time is given to "fantasy" type faces. Not as useful as I had hoped it would be. If this is a "textbook" it must be for a very limited "overview" type class. |
Stage Makup: The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials
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| Review Date: February 10, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Teme M. Levbarg, Durham, NC |
| Excellent resource for anyone who is interested in character and stage makeup design and techniques. The pictures of the designs are closeup and detailed. A must have for anyone involved in the theater productions. |
Fantastic!
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| Review Date: December 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Lee, |
| This is a wonderful book. I used it as a textbook for a theatre class. The pictures are wonderful and show you step by step what to do. The book has everything from how to do old makeup, young, fat, skinny, scars, cuts, fantasy and more. I am excited about keeping this book and using it to work on future productions! |
Excellent!
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| Review Date: February 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jody, Northwest Ohio |
| As a quick and dirty primer for creating makeup effects for the theater, this book is great! Ms. Thudium is thorough without being redundant, and gives step by step instructions for outfitting a basic makeup kit, how to incorporate natural features into makeup design, examples of period makeup for period plays and best of all, how to create age and weight effects. These instructions are accompanied by color pictures that illustrate each stage of the process, and all are extremely helpful. The fantasy makeup section is very cool. |
Pretty darn informative!
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| Review Date: October 6, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Debra L. Weite, Las Vegas, NV |
I had certain expectations going in when I picked up this book. I have to say, though I am thouroughly impressed on the straightforward simplicity of the instructions!
The way the author covered the basics of highlight and showdow was very informative. Also the bit about the practicing brushestokes was helpful as well.
I am glad I now own it. |
Poor representation for Stage Makeup
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| Review Date: May 5, 2008 |
| Reviewer: MakeupMaster, Kentucky USA |
Sadly, I appear to be the only naysayer to this book. I purchased it some time ago. I have MANY books in my library about makeup, stage makeup, prosthetics and the like, including being a student of an academy award winning makeup artist's course, and this book ranks about as low as they come. I have an old, old set of books from way back (Herman Buchman or something like that) that are as bad as this one is. Sadly, we have yet again, another "costumer" who THINKS she knows how to do stage makeup because she has had a few courses in it herself and has SADLY taught others for some time. I marvel at how bad this really is. Has no-one ever heard of blending hard edges of makeup? Has no-one ever heard of not using pencils that are as thick as crayons to do lines and creases? Where is this stuff being taught? Where is quality makeup work on the college level? This isn't stylized opera makeup or avante garde makeup work yet it ALL looks like it is. I'll tell you. Good makeup work doesn't exist in this book and so many other poorly done works. EVERYONE SHOULD be made to use Corson's books - the best available still. But sadly many don't. This book while cheap - wasn't worth the $25 bucks I spent on it. Having done theater makeup for nearly 50 years, I find it amateurish at best and another poor repsentation of someone with "credentials" getting by on whatever status they've been able to achieve and banking on it to sell books, that while slick and flashy are poor in content and proper representation of an art that continues to make me laugh when I see how badly makeup work is being done by those who say they know. I wish someone would come out with a good book that doesn't distort people's understanding of how good theatrical makeup work should be done. This one falls short of helping in that regard. Back to Corson I guess. It's the only one so far EXCEPT MAKING FACES, PLAYING GOD
by Thomas Morawetz - one of the BEST, most academic treatises on makeup there is thus far of the newest presentations. GET this book - it too is inexpensive although it covers much more than theater makeup specifically, it's still an intelligent treatise on makeup, the psychology of makeup and displays some excellent examples of quality work. And again while NOT a theater makeup book, FAR better than this one by Thudium. I'd give mine away but I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even Vincent Kehoe's book on makeup is better than this by far. Sorry, just my 50 year experienced opinion. |
Wish it was mine!
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| Review Date: December 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: C. J. Collier, Allyn, WA |
| I bought this book as a Christmas gift for my niece, and glanced through it before I wrapped it up. It looks great! Very detailed, great step-by-step photos. Appears that it would be a good training book for a theatre makeup beginner. I've put it on my own wish list and am hoping to see it under the tree. If not, I'm certainly going to buy a copy for myself! |
Helpful photos~~
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| Review Date: December 31, 2007 |
| Reviewer: C. Mavis, Singapore |
This book is filled with very helpful photos. Unfortunately... I was hoping to see more variety. Example, more drastic changes on the people before and after makeup. Example, children having an "old age" makeup on, making them look like aged folks. More animal face painting maybe?
Perhaps a little more special effects in it?
Nevertheless... I enjoyed this book. |
Returned to store after reviewing
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| Review Date: April 5, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Ruth-Decker Chaney, Martinsville, VA |
| After looking through this book, I decided to return it. The makeup techniques shown were poorly done and looked very fake. The one good thing about the book is that the pictures are in color. |
not so much
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| Review Date: October 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Reak Kovacs, USA |
| The cover made it look a lot better then it is. It only gives you a few looks not as many as I hoped it would be. I guess it's okat if your playing an old person or a monster. *sruges* |
I can't believe the author is the same name as mine!
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| Review Date: January 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: LT, Winfield, WV USA |
| I have never read a page of this book, but I just can't believe there is another Laura Thudium in this world! This is quite exciting. I wish I could contact his author and tell her that I have the exact same name as her! Laura Thudium is not a name you hear every day. |
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