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FACE OFF
July 11, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Syfy, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

This competitive fantasy makeup show is hit and miss, but when it has a good theme of the week, the competing makeup artists can be stretched in entertainingly diverse directions. Tonight’s assignment: Design makeup for a creature that would be likely to emerge from one of the nine circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. Expect inordinate representation from the Second Circle, which contains hellbound victims once consumed by lust (Cleopatra, Helen of Troy). Fun fact: When I was 15, and launched an underground magazine in 1969, I called it Seventh Circle. What a fun, jolly kid I must have been…

 
 
 
 
 
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