Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance

Apply makeup to performers to reflect period, setting, and situation of their role.

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Tasks

• Alter or maintain makeup during productions as necessary to compensate for lighting changes or to achieve continuity of effect.

• Analyze a script, noting events that affect each character's appearance, so that plans can be made for each scene.

• Apply makeup to enhance, and/or alter the appearance of people appearing in productions such as movies.

• Assess performers' skin-type in order to ensure that make-up will not cause break-outs or skin irritations.

• Attach prostheses to performers and apply makeup in order to create special features or effects such as scars, aging, or illness.

• Cleanse and tone the skin in order to prepare it for makeup application.

• Confer with stage or motion picture officials and performers in order to determine desired effects.

• Design rubber or plastic prostheses that can be used to change performers' appearances.

• Duplicate work precisely in order to replicate characters' appearances on a daily basis.

• Evaluate environmental characteristics such as venue size and lighting plans in order to determine makeup requirements.

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• Name: Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

• Experience: Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a teller might benefit from experience working directly with the public, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be a teller with little difficulty.

• Education: These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.

• Job training: Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.

• Examples: These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include sheet metal workers, forest fire fighters, customer service representatives, pharmacy technicians, salespersons (retail), and tellers.

• Svp range: (4.0 to < 6.0)

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Knowledge

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• Sociology and Anthropology
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• Design
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• English Language
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• Communications and Media
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• Geography
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• Production and Processing
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• Mathematics
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Skills

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• Reading Comprehension
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• Active Listening
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• Coordination
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• Equipment Selection
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• Active Learning
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• Speaking
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• Critical Thinking
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• Monitoring
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• Complex Problem Solving
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• Writing
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Abilities

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• Arm-Hand Steadiness
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• Visualization
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• Information Ordering
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• Finger Dexterity
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• Deductive Reasoning
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• Manual Dexterity
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• Near Vision
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• Written Comprehension
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• Getting Information
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• Assisting and Caring for Others
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• Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
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• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
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• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
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• Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
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• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
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• Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
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Work Context

• Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls
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• Indoors, Environmentally Controlled
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• Contact With Others
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• Spend Time Sitting
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• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
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• Exposed to Contaminants
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• Deal With External Customers
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• Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions
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• Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting
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• Social Service
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• Achievement-Mean Extent
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• Ability Utilization
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• Achievement
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• Relationships-Mean Extent
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• Autonomy
  Workers on this job plan their work with little supervision.

• Independence-Mean Extent
  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employs to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.

• Independence
  Workers on this job do their work alone.

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