In this competition/elimination series, special effects make-up artists participate in elaborate challenges for a grand prize and the honor of being Hollywood's next great effects artist.
Showing Season 2 of 14
Season 2
2012
The second season of the Syfy reality television series Face Off premiered on January 11, 2012 and ended on March 14, 2012. The season featured 14 prosthetic makeup artists competing in a series of challenges to create makeup effects. The winner of this season, Rayce Bird of Shelley, Idaho, received US$100,000 cash, US$25,000 worth of makeup from Alcone, and the 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid.
01. Return to Oz
2012-01-11
Fourteen aspiring makeup artists face off in the Season 2 premiere, which has them re-imagining characters from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
02. Water World
2012-01-18
The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is visited ahead of a challenge in which the contestants must make waterproof creature makeup.
03. Rock Your Body
2012-01-25
A nude body painting challenge unfolds as the contestants try to make an album cover for hip-hop star (and guest judge) Asher Roth.
04. Night Terrors
2012-02-01
A late-night call summons the contestants to an abandoned hospital in Los Angeles. When they arrive they each get to choose an obscure phobia to use as the basis for creating a monster.
05. Dangerous Beauty
2012-02-08
The team competes in a trauma wound foundation contest then return to the lab, which has been transformed into a jungle, and discover they'll be studying live animals to create something beautiful but deadly.
06. Triple Threat
2012-02-15
For the foundation challenge, the contestants must debeautify attractive models,.make triplets appear to be at different stages of their elderly lives.
07. Alien Interpreters
2012-02-22
This week, aliens are the artists' focus and guest judge Star Trek Next Generation's LeVar Burton helps out.
08. Burtonesque
2012-02-29
Creating a new character from an ordinary occupation for a Tim Burton film.
09. Dinoplasty
2012-03-07
The five remaining contestants participate in a double-elimination event to create a human-dinosaur hybrid to determine which of them will go to the finale.
10. The Ultimate Spotlight Challenge
2012-03-14
The finalists must each create three original characters from a specific movie genre who will perform a choreographed-dance routine at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA.
