A handbook covering make-up for the stage, ideal for individual make-up artists, local groups and schools. Illustrated and informative, with step-by-step guidelines and useful lists, hints and tips, this book aims to make the art of make-up accessible to all, whether novice or expert. Information is included on make-up for straight plays, pantomime, dance, children, fantasy and animal, monsters and clowns. Make-up advice is given for various nationalties such as Arabian and Afro-Caribbean. In addition historical make-up effects are suggested from ancient civilizations through Restoration, Victorian and the 1920s to the most recent decades.