Face Off Season 1 Plot
The first season of the Syfy reality television series Face Off featured twelve prosthetic makeup artists competing in a series of challenges to create makeup effects. The winner received US$100,000 and a year's supply of makeup. The season premiered on January 26, 2011. Conor McCullagh of Mississauga, Ontario was the winner of Face Off season one.
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Season 1 Episodes
8 episodes
1
Welcome to the Jungle
The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.
2
Naked Ambition
A full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.
3
Out of this World
Makeup artist Michael Westmore meets the contestants at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California, where episodes of "Star Trek" were shot, and the competitors learn that they must create an alien for a newly discovered world
4
Bad to the Bone
"Friday the 13th" director Sean Cunningham serves as a guest judge for a challenge that has the contestants creating an original horror-movie villain along with an accompanying movie poster, title and tagline.
5
Switched and Hitched
In teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.
6
Dancing Dead
Zombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.
7
Family Plot
The five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.
8
Twisted Tales
The last challenge has the three remaining contestants creating fairy-tale characters derived from "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" for a cocktail-party setting in the first-season finale.