Make-up:
Make-up, though regarded as necessary, its vast possibilities for effectiveness is generally underestimated, and thus not much heed or importance is given to make-up by directors and even actors.
Basically, there are two types of make-up:
the straight make-up and
the character make-up.
Straight make-up is generally used to correct the actor’ personal skin tone and to make him or her look little more attractive on stage and the objective of character make up is to change completely or partially actor’ appearance. It is important for the actor and the director to think right from the reading of the play what they want is desired for makeup for a particular character. It is sort of developing a mental visual image of the look of the character. Most of them ignore the hairdo for a character, except when age has to be shown. But it may be necessary to choose a particular hairstyle, say a center parting etc for accentuating the style of hair a particular character needs. Sometimes, wigs may be required to create a style for a character from a ** in history.
