Face Off: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Face Off Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Return to Oz
Jan 11, 2012
Fourteen aspiring makeup artists face off in the Season 2 premiere, which has them re-imagining characters from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
Water World
Jan 18, 2012
The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is visited ahead of a challenge in which the contestants must make waterproof creature makeup.
Rock Your Body
Jan 25, 2012
A nude body painting challenge unfolds as the contestants try to make an album cover for hip-hop star (and guest judge) Asher Roth.
Night Terrors
Feb 1, 2012
A late-night call summons the contestants to an abandoned hospital in Los Angeles. When they arrive they each get to choose an obscure phobia to use as the basis for creating a mon
Dangerous Beauty
Feb 8, 2012
The team competes in a trauma wound foundation contest then return to the lab, which has been transformed into a jungle, and discover they'll be studying live animals to create som
Triple Threat
Feb 15, 2012
For the foundation challenge, the contestants must debeautify attractive models,.make triplets appear to be at different stages of their elderly lives.
Alien Interpreters
Feb 22, 2012
This week, aliens are the artists' focus and guest judge Star Trek Next Generation's LeVar Burton helps out.
Burtonesque
Feb 29, 2012
Creating a new character from an ordinary occupation for a Tim Burton film.
Dinoplasty
Mar 7, 2012
The five remaining contestants participate in a double-elimination event to create a human-dinosaur hybrid to determine which of them will go to the finale.
The Ultimate Spotlight Challenge
Mar 14, 2012
The finalists must each create three original characters from a specific movie genre who will perform a choreographed-dance routine at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA.