If you're looking to up your costume game this Halloween, a professional makeup artist may be the solution. The big picture: Kate Johnson, who has a background in special effects and film, founded The ...

Expert advice from a drag performer, a special effects makeup artist and an actress. By Hannah Coates Beauty School, a series from T Magazine, answers common beauty questions with help from creative ...

Myiah Pastorius was 11 when she began watching horror movies. Knowing the gore in the likes of “Friday the 13th” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” wasn’t real left Myiah, of Plum, more curious than scared ...

San Antonio-based special effects artist Sergio Guerra knows a thing or two about turning people into monsters. In 2011, he was a contestant on the first season of the SyFy reality show Face Off, ...

“I really want the flesh and blood to be real.” In “The Substance,” a fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of ...

In “The Substance,” writer-director Coralie Fargeat turns her lens on toxic beauty standards and takes body horror to new, visceral extremes. The film follows former fitness star Elisabeth Sparkle ...

The work won the very first Academy Award for Best Makeup, and forty years later, it remains unmatched. Robin Williams spent ...

In the world of horror, special effects makeup plays a crucial role in creating terrifying creatures and gruesome scenes that leave audiences screaming. I dare say it is the unsung hero that decides ...

Geoff Bennett: With the Oscars this coming Sunday, it’s a good time to learn about the essential people in Hollywood we don’t see, often referred to as working below the line. Makeup and special ...

An old photograph of special effects makeup showing bruising on a man’s back is being misinterpreted by some social media users as being caused by a lightning strike. A post with more than 220,000 ...