“A Beginner’s Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, Maniacs and More” is a book that teaches you how to create special effects makeup using readily available and affordable tools and materials from local stores.

The book is organized into three sections: Simple Makeup, Advanced Materials and Techniques, and Advanced Makeup.

It includes tutorials for creating various character looks, such as a pirate, vampire, ghost, robot, burn victim, witch, zombie, and goblin. Each tutorial is illustrated with step-by-step, full-color photographs and includes instructions on creating fake teeth, applying bald caps, creating gory wounds and injuries, and making simple prosthetics.

This book is suitable for students of Stage Makeup courses and for theater technicians working and training on their own. It guides readers from the basics of foundation, highlight, and shadow to creating advanced creature makeups.

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