Hair and Makeup

Students in Hair and Makeup are required to have expertise in both Hair and Makeup. Students cannot do one without doing the other. Hair and Makeup always work hard, but they’ve been working even harder for Hairspray. Members are scrambling to get perfect 60’s updos and perfect makeup.

Hair

For Hairspray, doing everyone’s hair was often a difficult task. Students went through many bottles of hairspray and gel create hairstyles that looked stylish and remained intact. Students doing hair are always ready to assist in the case of a hair disaster. Junior Sarah Pereira waited in the wings in the case of a wig tragedy. For this show nine wigs were used, but the remaining performers needed their hair teased, curled, flipped, slicked and sprayed. Getting ready for a show like this, hair and makeup begins about two hours prior to the curtain going up. Teasing all that hair was an arm work out. After each dress rehearsal and show, the hair crew brushed and set two wigs with rollers to keep the flip going show after show.

Makeup

Everyone on stage wears makeup to accentuate their features. Without the use of stage makeup cast members would look washed out by the onstage lighting. Their eyes would look small and their skin would look very pale. Students who do makeup are responsible for applying makeup to cast members.

Applying that makeup is sometimes a problem. Some of the cast members don’t like getting makeup applied and actively fight against makeup. The worst of it comes with the eyeliner- many cast members don’t trust other people near their eyes.

The students who do makeup love their work, however. Makeup Supervisor Haley Vaughn reported, “I like it a lot because this is what I’m going to school for.”