This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers. "Laura Thudium's new bookStage Makeupis a step by step guide to researching, designing and applying stage makeup....Unlike some makeup books from the past, these models vary in coloring, weight, and ethnicity. By using such young models (there is not a real wrinkle in sight), Thudium makes the reader even more aware of how makeup can truly transform an actor's face."Callboard Magazine "Many times, in the flurry of costuming a show, I've wished for a well-illustraed, non-threatening makeup book to ease beginning actors through their first dress jitters. In her 156 page book,Stage Makeup, Laura Thudium fills this need, offering readers a quick, understandable introduction to theatre makeup with plenty of step by step photographs. This book is successful in its enthusiasm, its clarity, and in its directness."Dramatics