updated: 05/11/2006
This is not intended to be a comprehensive listing: but pointers to where to go to find information (eg if you’re looking for the makeup artist sites then you’ll find them through the makeup artists’ webring or from Lars’s links page).
My makeup artist index contains links to the sites and/or IMDb entries for makeup artists whose work is featured here in themakeupgallery.
Local 706 is the Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (Local 706 of IATSE – the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artist and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC). When makeup artists refer to the Union they usually mean Local 706.
NASMAH is the UK’ National Association of Screen Make-up Artists and Hairdressers.
CNoMA is the Canadian Network of Make-up Artists.
MakeUp Artist Magazine is the magazine to read and a very good website for its news and messageboard. They organise the Trade Shows which are truly unmissable. It’s even better since they dropped the hyphen!
Warpaint is a great British makeup magazine. Their website seems to be having big problems but they are thriving and well worth the subscription. The next issue includes: behind the scenes at Little Britain, an IMATS report, and Rob Smith on celebrity prosthetic make-overs. Subscriptions: 44 1371 810 433.
PPI Players is the place to go if you missed the demonstration makeups at the Trade Shows. Before, after and makeup process images from applications by the professionals: Matthew Mungle, Todd McIntosh, Bill Corso, Ve Neill, Richard Snell, Kenny Myers – convinced yet or shall I go on. Well I’m not going to – go there and see for yourselves. This is part of the revamped Premiere Products inc website.
Makeup411 where www means ‘Who’s wearing What’. If you want to know exactly what products Julie Pearce used to create Laura Harring’s look in Mullholland Drive you’ll find it here. You can search by actress, movie, TV show or music video.
The Makeup Artists’ Webring is the best place to look for makeup websites. If a makeup artist has a website it’s probably a member – but there are a few famous names who have not joined.
Lars Carlsson, a Swedish makeup artist, has a brilliant site. It has a nice layout with a big gallery, project diaries and the best listing of makeup artist websites I have seen: the links get updated monthly or bimonthly.
MaquiArte.com is the place to go for news about makeup artists in Spain. It has also got features, galleries and message boards.
Masks in the Media has no images but is a frequently updated and comprehensive reference document listing the use of the Mask Trick (female masks only) in comics and cartoons as well as on TV and in the movies.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is the best, most comprensive and indispensible link for movie information (titles, dates, cast lists, plot info, filmographies etc). My single most indispensible and most frequently visited site bar none. Oh yeah and they’ll even fix it if they get the credits wrong.
tv.com is ‘a whole new TV reference guide for the shows you love’ (or maybe hate). I find the episode guides and guest star listing particularly useful.
Ain’t It Cool News is just amazing especially for news and spoilers on TV shows like Buffy, Angel and Alias: as I live in the UK it’s really handy for things to look out, episode reviews, spoilers etc. I visit it daily.
OutNow.ch: great high quality movie stills especially for European movies.
Dark Horizons is the best site for current news about movies in production with links to stories, stills, trailers elsewhere on the Web.
Alex Fung’s Page (like Elizabeth’s description of ReelClassics.com below this is a real misnomer) is the place for information on movie awards. The link takes you to an index of awards by award and by year. What makes it so special is that it includes not just the Oscars, the Golden Globes, SAG and independent Spirit awards but the Baftas (UK), Cesars (France), Australian film Institute, European Film Awards, Goyas (Spain), Genies (Canada), Golden Horses (Taiwan), Guldbagga (Sweden), Lolas (Germany), and Hong Kong Film Awards plus various critics awards. And of he doesn’t exclude the Costume Designers Guild and Hollywood Makeup and Hairstylist Guild Awards. All from 1996 to current (the Feburary 2003 Baftas were there within days). I stumbled across this site a couple of days ago and I just don’t know what I did without it!
ReelClassics.com, Elizabeth’s classic moves homepage, is a brilliant resource for information on the golden years of Hollywood. Don’t be mislead by the title: a homepage this is not. It’s 1600 pages make this site feel positively minuscule. It probably is, at it claims to be, the Internet’s most comprehensive site dedicated exclusively to Classic Movies.
MonkeyPeaches is the best (english-language) Chinese movie site: news, reviews, images, gossip.
Soapsite: well the title says it all