"(McKenzie) After nine seasons, tonight the game has changed." "This'll be the most difficult challenge in Face Off history." " [sighs]" " Ugh." "How can you top the challenges that we've had already?" "We like to call it The Gauntlet." "Oh, my God." "Whoever is ranked in last place will be eliminated." "If it's a fight to the death they want, it is a fight to the death they will get." "I just screwed myself." "(Evan) I'm definitely going home." "Really beautiful paint work." "You're just not completing the challenge." "(McKenzie) In the end, only one will win a VIP trip from Kryolan Professional Make-Up to one of their 85 international locations, a brand-new 2015 Fiat 500, and $100,000." "[exciting music]" "♪ ♪" "This is Face Off." "(all) Whoo!" "[exciting music]" "Mm." "(Meg) We walk into the lab, and there's McKenzie." "And it looks like it's set up for a foundation challenge." "So, if it's a foundation, I'm all about that." "Congratulations on making it this far in the competition." " Thank you." " Thank you." "However, if you think this season has been tough, you haven't seen anything yet." "[sighs]" "This will be the most difficult challenge in Face Off history." "[scoffs]" "What the hell is going on?" "How can you top the challenges that we've had already?" "We like to call it The Gauntlet." "[sighs]" "A thousand thoughts are running through my head right now." "I just really have no idea what's going on." "The Gauntlet is a series of three challenges." "Each stage testing a different skill set and each more difficult than the last." "At the end of each stage, your makeups will be inspected, and we'll rank you from first to ninth place." "Your rankings will be combined over the course of the competition to give you an overall position on the leaderboard." "At the end of The Gauntlet, whoever is ranked in last place will be eliminated." "If it's a fight to the death they want, it is a fight to the death they will get." "Let's go." "Thunderdome." "Let's get into stage one." "In films like Cast Away, 127 Hours, and Alive," "Hollywood pitted man versus nature." "And today you'll show us your version." "Models, come on out." "So, as you can see, your models have either been stranded in the desert or the Arctic." "Your job will be to create an appropriate exposure makeup based on which wardrobe they're wearing." "And, remember, we are going for realism and visual impact." "You're gonna have two hours for this challenge." "So, on my go, I want you to pick a model and get started." "All right?" "Go!" "Got ya." "Got ya." " Hi." " Hi." "I'm Meg." "Nice to meet you." "We're gonna freeze you up today." "(Jordan) I'm a little bit nervous because I have only done one frozen makeup, but it was about five years ago." "I wasn't super happy with it, but I've got a lot more knowledge now." "So I think I can make the right choices this time." "Close your eyes." "So I'm gonna try and go subtle, like red nose, maybe some ice hanging off wet areas." "It's risky to go with a subtle makeup, but if I do it right, then I can be in a decent spot." "(Nora) My model's wearing, like, a full-body snowsuit, so I figured that he was doing some night boarding, got left in the middle of the woods by himself, and froze to death." "It's more important than ever to do well." "If you start off right away with a low ranking, it can really hurt you, so I want to make him look realistic." "I'm doing a gradation of deterioration into black to show the flesh dying." "Frostbite is frickin' nasty." "My model was part of a tour group and got lost." "I am doing a very harsh sunburnt look on her, with chapped lips, and I'm using Kryolan Tuplast to create a blistering effect on the tip of her nose." "That stuff is cool." "I'm hoping I'll be one of the top numbers so I can move into the next part confidently." "This is about a week's worth of damage that's setting in." "I just got to roll this and get some really nice, gross blisters." "I lay down a layer of Kryolan Old Age latex and once that dries," "I turn it into blisters and broken areas." "That was a little bit thick." "I'm hoping to land in the upper half of the leaderboard, because in The Gauntlet, every decision counts." "Close your eyes." "My plan is to make him look frozen, like, to the point he's on death's doorstep." "So I use some Kryolan eyeliner pencils to draw really fine, busted capillaries on his face." "I tried to give them some depth, so I layered them to make it look like they've busted and started spreading." "It's all about the layers." "If I'm gonna see my name on a board," "I hope it's somewhere near the top." "Having a high ranking is super important, so I want to do something different." "You done went down the wrong path today." "I come up with this idea that he has been exposed to some poisonous element, and I know I need to sell that effect." "I go in with the airbrush, and I am loving the vein work." "I feel like I might have a good opportunity here to be on top." " Ten minutes, guys!" " Ooh, whee!" "Time's up, brushes down." "All right, now, not just anyone can judge a challenge like this." "Please welcome our very own expert series judges..." "Glenn Hetrick, Ve Neill, and Neville Page." "[cheers and applause]" "It's a little bit intimidating that the series judges are gonna be in the lab and critique us." "All right, guys, the judges are gonna come talk to each of you and check out your work." " Hi." " Hi, Evan." "You look like you've been better." "[giggles]" "She was in a plane crash, and now she's in the desert trying to figure out where she is." "Right now her eyes are so clean, it's like they've been avoided." "And there's weather damage everywhere but there." "I also don't see much sunburn either." " She just looks lightly tanned." " Okay." "I'm not feeling like I'm gonna win it, but I definitely feel like it's not terrible." "I'm hoping to at least rank in the middle." "My guy was venturing in the Himalayas, got stranded, and started freezing." "So I wanted to show busted capillaries." "Kind of blood rushed to some of his more extremities." "I think some of these broken capillaries look like gunshot wounds with spider legs coming off of them." "(Neville) They're pretty radiant in how they spread." "It doesn't feel like what you're describing, though." "I don't think it works for this challenge." "Okay." "I started off with the Kryolan aqua colors and based out the whole face and, like, a white with a little bit of blue in there." " Very, very well done." " Thank you." "The colors are so good." "You didn't overdo the whole ice thing, but it's there." "I like how you can see some of the flesh tones peeking through still." "The biggest success is the color variation that you used." "I know that usually, like, the cartilage-y areas like tips of the ears and the nose are gonna die the fastest, so I really wanted to keep all my darker colors in those specific areas." "(Ve) I think you did a great job creating all that frostiness." "I mean, he looks like he would have been frozen solid." "My favorite thing about this is where you placed the color, 'cause it's right... the tips of your ears, the nose, lips, fingers." "Overall, I think it shows a really great attention to detail." "Thank you." "It's a pretty advanced frostbite, all the way through to her ears." "I tried to attack all of her." "She still has a little life to her." "Not much." "No." "[laughs]" "I like some of these super-dark colors." "That's looking pretty realistic for severe exposure, to the point where the nose would have to be cut off." "(Ve) This is good all around in there, but I think your foundation is a little heavy." "Okay." "I'm hoping that I can still pull a really good seeding to give myself a good footing in the next round." "He was exposed to some exotic poison." "(Ve) What was the direction you were given as far as what type of exposure this was supposed to be?" "You know, up until I just heard you guys critiquing did I realize that a lot of people went with a weather element." "We're definitely looking for exposure to heat." "[sighs] I just screwed myself really hard." "I can only pray that I'm not dead bottom for this." "So, Glenn, who were your top looks?" "Nora... the frostbite details around the nose were spot-on, and you made good color choices." "Thank you." "Jordan... yours was definitely one of the more subtle makeups, but the painting was especially well handled." "Thank you." "All right, who is the winner of stage one of The Gauntlet?" "The winner of stage one is..." "All right, who is the winner of stage one of The Gauntlet?" "The winner of stage one is..." "Nora." "Nice." "Thanks, guys." "Yours is probably the most accurate portrayal of the extreme-exposure nature of this challenge." "Thank you, guys." "I'm on Cloud Nine right now, and it's giving me so much motivation to, like, keep kicking ass and take The Gauntlet." "Nora, congratulations." "Let's see how everyone else did." "I'm happy to be in the top three." "I need to just keep the momentum going in stage two." "(Kevon) It's embarrassing to see my name at the very bottom." "I really feel like I'm eating some humble pie right now." "I have to improve, or my time could be running out." "Congrats to those of you on the top half of the leaderboard." "To those of you on the bottom half, stage two is weighted more heavily, so you still have plenty of opportunity to prove yourselves and claw your way up the board." "Ooh, redemption." "Yeah, me too." "Are you ready to find out what stage two has in store for you?" "(both) Yeah." "Check it out." "(all) Oh!" " Sweet." " Oh, cool." "So as you can see, your models already have prosthetics applied." "In this challenge, you should be focusing on creating incredible paint jobs that complete these characters." "(Evan) Painting is not my strongest skill." "I feel like I got a short straw on this one." "Now, the most important thing is that you don't apply big blocks of color." " Make it look real." " Got it." "Okay, guys, you'll have two hours to complete this challenge." " Is everyone ready?" " Ready." " Oh, yeah." " All right." "Go!" "Hey, buddy!" "All right, let's see, let's see." "(Stevie) Man, oh, man." "The leaderboard is right next to me, so it's definitely getting into my head that I have to do well on this one." "He looks like a medieval goblin, so I'm going with this poppy orange color for his face, and then I want to bring a lot of greens into it to add into that fantasy look." "Wow." "There's a lot on you." "What am I gonna paint you, man?" "You look very reptilian." "(Kevon) I really feel defeated." "Painting is what killed me on stage one, and stage two, it's painting all over again." "I do see that he's wearing gold and purple, so I figure gold base with purple accents." "Purple and gold..." "that's a tough one, man." "(Meg) My character has some really cool ears so I'm doing a gargoyle/demon hybrid type thing." "Most people paint light to dark, but I paint dark to light." "I know that I'm taking a risk, but I feel like I have a good command of what I'm doing." "Can you look up for me?" "There you go." "(Evan) I'm spattering green and yellow to break up the color for my classic green witch, and I want to add a couple of mole and liver spots to complete the look." "Kind of sucks being in seventh." "The Gauntlet is the biggest curveball ever, and I have to do better this time." "Now I'm really nervous." "(Ben) For my sea queen, I do a dark green around the eyes, and then over that," "I brush some blue metallic powder pigments, and then just a light dusting of gold just to add sort of a richer, warmer color." "I never thought I would make something this pretty." "[chuckles]" " I'm really liking this." " Yeah?" "(Ben) Yeah, it looks cool." "Time's up, everybody!" "Brushes down." " Hey, Ben." " Hey, guys." "I don't have any beauty experience before all this, so, you know, I thought this was kind of the perfect opportunity." "I love the turquoise." "Oh!" "So pretty." "And there's so many beautiful, soft variations in the metallic." "Thank you very much." "She's my fun-loving alien." "When you're going for realistic paint, try to be careful that you're not using body-painting airbrush techniques." "As cool as this looks going down here, it feels very airbrushed, and those skills are the antithesis of what is that you want to do when you're creating a realistic makeup." "I understand what Glenn's talking about." "Mm-hmm." "(Ve) But she's just kind of a fun, kooky-looking thing." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I tried not to be heavy-handed with the airbrush." "I tried to just get a mist." "Then I went back over it." "I used a lot of dry brushing, stippling." "It shows." "It looks fantastic." "Whoa." "You can see it's exactly what we just asked you to do." "You did such a great job with breaking this up graphically." "Very good, man." "I really was not expecting the judges to rave about my makeup." "This feels amazing." "I imagined him as this medieval goblin, so I went in, and I first paxed him out." "I did modeling with green to bring in that green tone." "I just think you missed a couple of opportunities there to really highlight and shadow." "It's just a little bit all too flat in here." "When you have a color like this on a goblin character, you really want to go and add some spotting to break it up." "Okay." "I wanted to bring out the burlap pattern, so that was done through dry brushing, and then went back with several spatter paints." "If you think about fabric..." "weathered, out in the elements, the sun is always bleaching the top, and it would have been really dark in all the hollows." "Authenticity to it, right." "It would have given extra contrast, for sure." "You're absolutely right." "There are some beautiful paint jobs as I look around the room." "I'm in third place." "I know the stakes are high, and it could drop." "It's crucial that I get as high as I can on the leaderboard for stage three." "Okay, guys, the judges have once again ranked everyone from first to ninth place." "So, Glenn, who were your favorites in stage two?" "Kevon... you used a ton of great techniques and beautiful colors to deliver a very comprehensive paint job." "Ben... you really impressed us with your ability to navigate all of those iridescent and metallic paints so well." "So who is the winner of stage two of The Gauntlet?" "The winner of stage two is..." "Kevon." "Thank you." "I'll take it." "You applied all of our advice in such a short amount of time." "Nice job, man." "Whoa." "[laughs]" "I did not think I had the moxie to win this Gauntlet challenge." "I really needed this." "My self-esteem needed this." "Kevon, great job on taking first place." "Thank you." "Let's see how everyone else did." "Oh, my God." "(Evan) I can't believe that I'm in ninth place." "Honestly, I thought I was hitting all of the judges' points." "I'm completely shocked." "It's not looking good for me right now." "All right, let's combine the results from stages one and two." "Remember, stage two is more heavily weighted than stage one." "Congratulations, Kevon." "After two stages of The Gauntlet, you are our leader." "How does that feel?" "It feels good." "This is almost too good to be true." "Unfortunately, Stevie and Evan, you guys are tied for last place after two stages." "However, the final stage of The Gauntlet is the most heavily weighted, so you still have a chance to pull yourself out of the bottom and avoid elimination." "See you guys back here at the lab in the morning." " Good night, guys." " Thanks, guys." "(all) Good night." "(Nora) Third and final battle royale will be something totally out of the box, I'm sure." "Oh, it's gonna be nuts." "I'm a little nervous, after being on the bottom." "Now me and you have to step up the game." "Step it up." "Of course I'm nervous, but if I bring everything I've got, I could still even win this." "I'm not gonna give up." " All right." " Yeah!" " Gauntlet!" " Let's do it." "Oh, shit." "Ho ho." " Oh, my God." " Oh, God." " [sighs]" " Shit." "Whoo." "Oh, my God, there's a lot of people in here." " A lot of models." " Oh, my God." "What the hell?" "There's so many models that I have no idea what is going on." "This is just... crazy." "Holy crap." "(Jasmine) That's a whole lot of models." "I see I've already got your attention." "(all) Yeah." "(Stevie) There are more models than there have ever been in this room on Face Off." "This is terrifying." "In the makeup industry, artists are responsible not just for featured makeups, but for background characters as well." "For the final stage of The Gauntlet, you will each be creating one hero, or featured makeup, and two background makeups." "Wow." "Seriously?" "This is a lot of work to do." "I'm in seventh place, and I'm more nervous than I have ever been this entire time on Face Off." "(McKenzie) Your models have been broken into groups of three and pre-designated as one of three types of characters." "So, when you choose your group of models, you'll find out which type of characters you'll be making." "Meg, you're up first." "Number nine." "(McKenzie) You have witches and warlocks." "(Meg) Come on down, guys." "Scott, you're next." " Three." " Goblins." " Lucky number seven." " You have angels." "Number one." "Six." "Let's go with number eight." "Number two." "Go with number five." "Sweet." " Four." " You have angels." "Cool." "All right, guys, you will have four hours for this challenge and one hour for last looks." "When time is up, you're gonna head to the stage so that the judges can see what you guys have come up with." "Now, for those of you at the bottom, this is your last chance to save yourselves from elimination." "Your time starts now." "So, in stage one, I was ranked in second place." "Stage two, ranked in third place." "So I'd like to kind of keep up at the top of the list with my three goofy witches that hang out in the woods and perform black magic." "This is the combination we're gonna go with you." "Okay." "I think I'm gonna go with, like, a green skin tone, just kind of give it that old-school Halloween look." "This is really hard, but I'm gonna try my hardest, man." "I get stuck with angels, which I absolutely didn't want." "I just really want to avoid a beauty makeup." "I find this prosthetic that's kind of more demonic-looking, so my idea is this fallen angel, and he's got, like, a grunt with him, and they've kidnapped this beautiful, youthful angel girl" "so that they can get back into Heaven." "So I pick goblins, and I can really get into some goblins." "This will give you more of a hook down nose." "So far, this application is going really well." "I'm hoping that I can win this thing." "I need to get paint on you." "Who's ready to party?" "I pick witches and warlocks, and I'm starting to get a little nervous because I notice a lot of really cool stuff around me, and mine look just kind of boring." "I want to do something different and exciting, so I grab a taxidermy eye, and my idea is to use Kryolan Artex to encapsulate the edges around it and kind of make it look like it's growing out of her forehead." "And we'll see if it works out." "My concept is that these witches were born with a skin abnormality, and it sort of has almost a Rorschach effect." "I apply a facial appliance on my male model and find a couple of noses for the female models." "It's a real subtle makeup, which is a huge risk, but it definitely has a striking visual." "Two hours?" "Fuck." "All right, look up." "I have chosen to use my shortest model for my hero goblin." "I thinks she's really gonna have a cool presence onstage with these two bigger goblins behind her." "I'm standing in a solid second place, and I'm still really hungry for the win, but I got to get all three of these makeups done, so I'm just gonna push on through all the fatigue" "and make the magic happen." "I like that, that I gave you some, like, spots." "I did not want the angels, but nonetheless," "I think I'm gonna go outside my realm a little bit and do an unusual beauty makeup." "I want to make these big, beautiful eyes the focal point." "I know stage three is weighted heavier, and it's anyone's game, so I'm gonna shoot for the moon." "All right, cool." "Yeah, why don't you start changing?" "I'm gonna go get something else." "My concept is a fallen angel who captured two angels against their will." "And I'm just gonna go straight for beauty makeup with a little gold body painting." "Shit." "But then I realize that he just looks like one color." "When you get a lot of metallic on the body, it just eats everything else up." "And I'm in the bottom three right now." "So, if I get bottom again, I'm out of here." "My concept is a pimp goblin and his sexy lady ho-blins." "I'm gonna make him look a little meaner and tougher." "So I do a straight-up green skin tone, but it starts getting really muddy, and I'm really freaking out." "Trying to get this green to pop some more." "I am tied for last place with Evan, and so I can't let it go out onstage like this." "And all I'm thinking is, like, "Time, time, time." "Got to keep going."" "Hey, guys!" "You have one hour left!" "This is last looks." "Maybe something fading into here." "I need to save this somehow, someway, and I can keep trying to detail him and add color, but it's all just gonna look the same." "I'm hoping someone just does shittier than me right now." "This one did get muddy, but I'm bringing it back." "I have to fix this paint job." "I take yellow acrylic and airbrush paint, and I start adding it on top of all of my high points." "And it actually brings everything back out." "Yeah." "Oh, I got to lube you guys up too." "I put some translucent jelly on, just to make sure that they look as realistic as possible, and I'm going back and forth between the three of them to make sure that all my characters are on point," "because I'm so close to being back in that first spot." "[sighs deeply] 15 minutes!" "All right, everybody, that's time!" "[cheers and applause]" "(Evan) I'm feeling pretty nervous." "It doesn't look like the best makeup." "I absolutely have to rank higher than seven, 'cause if I'm in the bottom, it's a really high possibility that I'm gonna be going home." "Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage." "All right, it's time to see how your makeups turned out for stage three of The Gauntlet." "We asked you to create a hero and two background characters of a certain type, whether it was witches and warlocks, goblins, or angels." "Let's take a look at your final creations." "(Ben) They look really cool... like The Craft meets Charlie's Angels, but I'm concerned that it's just maybe too subtle." "(Evan) I think they all look cohesive, and I think I did a pretty good job." "I'm hoping that it will get me at least out of the bottom." "(Nora) They look perfect." "They're gross, and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out." "(Jasmine) I don't see the different breakups of the gold tones." "It's all looking like one color, and I'm worried that I'm still in a pretty low position." "(Kevon) Mission accomplished." "That is a slice of Heaven right there." "I think I'll be surviving this Gauntlet." "(Jordan) I'm really happy with my hero character, but on my female character, the nose is too big." "Hopefully that doesn't put me too far down on the leaderboard." "(Stevie) I love my pimp goblin and his ho-blins." "I hope I did enough to move me up in the leaderboard." "(Scott) I'm feeling very confident." "I lost a lot of ground in the second stage, so I have to make up for that." "I think this will do that trick." "(Meg) From this distance, the guy looks the best." "She doesn't even look like anything special." "This could send me home at the end of this Gauntlet." "Okay, judges, go ahead and take a closer look." "There's some beautiful paint work that's happening." "I just wish it wasn't so green." "They do all look like they go together, and it seems like a goblin pimp." "Yes." "This one really feels like it was thought out far longer than they had to do this." " I agree." " Even got nails on this guy." "Jeez, how'd they do this so quickly?" "I think there's some really beautiful stuff happening up here." "Massive amount of coverage for five hours and three characters for one person." "All right, let's go look at the angels." "I hope the judges appreciate the beauty makeup I did." "It's a little unusual, but striking." "The brow piece is too far down, and it's encroaching on her eye, which I don't like." "Yes." "I really like the way that's painted and accented with feathers." "Just airbrush." "This is such a strange prosthetic." "It really makes, like, one plane out of the front of the face." "I agree." "(Ve) That's a really cool prosthetic he chose." "Yeah, love the paint work on it too." "That looks so cool." "I'd like to see, like, a real-deal version of that makeup done." "Let's go take a look at the witches." "(Meg) I'm always nervous when the judges go up for closer looks." "It's very scary." "I wanted to push my makeup, but I don't know if I pushed it enough." "I wonder what this dealio is." "Is it an eye?" "Eye wonder." "That's unfortunate." "I mean, if you're gonna do that, it has to be so good." " This guy's better than she is." " I completely agree." "(Meg) They look really dark, and I noticed it's the same paint job that I just did the day before." "Great." "I just ate my own foot." "All right, guys, it's time to get on Twitter and tell us who made your favorite characters in stage three of The Gauntlet, using #FaceOff" "This guy is better than she is." "I completely agree." "The whole point was to focus on one main character." "(Meg) It's the same paint job that I just did." "I'm such an idiot that I didn't take a second to step back when I really should have." "He went really minimal." "And this lead character certainly sticks out from the background, which is good, but how much has he done on the background?" "Noses." "Why didn't he bother putting noses on these women?" "This is a fun group." "(Glenn) When you get up close, the work is pretty rough." "It's so monochromatic and dry." "Okay, guys, the judges would like to speak with some of you before assigning your final rankings." "Scott..." "Ben..." "Kevon... you guys can head back to the makeup room for now." "Nora, you're up first." "Please step up." "Tell us about your goblins and the choices you made to create your makeups." "I wanted to go pretty straightforward goblin with them." "I like the classic aesthetics of those gross goblins in Legend." "Well, I think you were really successful in all your choices on this." "I liked the way that they're similar, yet they're all completely different when you look at them." "You kept your main guy a little bit lighter and the two additionals were more in that blue tone." "It was really well done." "Nice job, honey." "Thank you." "Yeah, you definitely achieved what you set out to do." "Having been a huge fan of Legend, that's the first thing that I got out of it as well." " Great work." " Thank you so much, guys." " Nora, you can step back." " [exhales sharply]" "Whew." " Good job." " Thanks." "Meg, please step forward." "Meg, tell us about your concept." "They're supposed to be elemental witches, and my hero character..." "I gave her, like, an all-seeing eye on her forehead." "I wanted to feel like it was growing out of her skin." "The fact that the hero character is not the strongest of the three makes that approach to it a failure." "Also, there's a redundancy in your painting style." "I implore you whatever other paint techniques that you have within your skill set, start exploring them if you make it past this challenge." "Did you not look at them all when you were finished and think, "Oh, but my male is so much better"?" "I would have moved him right into the middle and had the girls on either side of him, and it would have made perfect sense." "And we wouldn't have noticed that hideous eye in there." "Meg, please step down." "Stevie, please step to the center." "Stevie, tell us about your approach to this challenge." "I wanted to go very fantasy, and when I got my models, he was saying, like, how he was surrounded by these pretty ladies, so I figured he's the Gob Mob and his ho-blins." "[laughter]" "I called him the goblin pimp." " Yeah." " I totally got that." "I love it." "I love that you're getting all the speckling and you're trying all the techniques that we told you to do." "You've now learned to get the paint thin enough so that you're using colors that are variations of your base tone, and it's looking great." "Thank you." "It's really good the way you had a little bit of a treatment on the foreheads." "He had it as well." "That was a cool little tidbit that you put in there to tie them all together." "Boy, when you get up close, there was some gorgeous capillary work on the tip of that nose." "Beautiful paint work." "I think it's the best paint work I've seen you do." "Thank you." "Stevie, you can step back." "Good job." "Oh, God." "Jordan, please come forward." "Jordan, I'm dying to hear the story behind these makeups." "I'm a big fan of Halloween, so I wanted to go with a traditional witch with green skin, the nasty noses, and everything." "I call them the Woodlums, because they hang out in the woods and stir up trouble with their magic." "I didn't see the detailed type of painting that we're looking for." "They present well as a group from a distance, but I think you tried to do too much on all three of them, not giving you a chance to exhibit your best skills for what I was looking for." "Right." "I liked the group." "No problem with that." "It just needed more range within your greens." "And a pass of some kind of a gloss would add another level of interest, and it might just pull up some of the other colors that you've put down." "Jordan, if you please step back." "Jasmine, please come forward." "Hey, Jasmine, tell me about your characters, please." "Essentially, it is a fallen-angel idea." "He's only just recently left and decided to capture these beautiful angels and take them with him." "I think your makeups were just a little bit too intense for me." "You really overdid it." "He's a solid orange, bronzed angel." "It destroyed any kind of dimension in his face and destroyed the look of the group for me." "The male character starts to hearken back to, like, street performers in terms of that type of solid paint." "The aesthetic is only happening within the prosthetic, and there's nothing else other than color happening in the lower part of his face." "My problem is how you managed your time with the background characters." "They're so minimal, they're just not completing the challenge." "Thank you." "Jasmine, if you please step back." "Evan, please step forward." "Tell us about your angel characters." "Those two are fallen angels that kidnapped a younger angel, and they're trying to kind of con their way back in to get their youth back and their wings." "It's an elegant array of characters." "You really put your attention in application, paint, finesse of your colors." "This is spending your time appropriately." " Beautiful work." " Thank you." "My first take on this entire thing was this guy looks like he's on his way to a Trojans game, and he got stuck in a perfume commercial" " with this chick over here." " [laughter]" "But your main makeup is so good that it makes up for it." "That's exactly what this was about." "Your hero makeup is just awesome." "Thank you very much." " Evan, please step back." " Thank you." "Thanks." "All right, guys, please head back to the makeup room while the judges deliberate." " Thank you." " Thanks, guys." "All right, judges, let's talk about tonight's makeups." "Why don't we start with Evan's work?" "(Glenn) It's definitely the strongest hero character out there." "(Ve) And I loved that beautiful, young, angelic-looking girl." "She looked like a Renaissance painting." "All right, judges, let's move on to Nora." "(Neville) What an incredible growth, 'cause she did kind of a similar makeup the other day, but it's so much better today." "Perhaps the most covered of any of the groups, in terms of all of them have prosthetics." "(Ve) Yeah." "All of them have a fairly complex paint job." "All right, let's move on to Meg." "If she just had the wherewithal to swap the two of them, she would have had a great central character." "Yeah, I don't know why she didn't do that." "She had to have seen that that eyeball thing she was trying to do was, like, a total flop." "(Glenn) That was atrocious." "And can I also say that this is the same paint job that she has done on her last two or three makeups?" "All right, let's move on to Jasmine." "There wasn't enough done to make it interesting, and it was buried under one bronze color." "If she would have dialed all of that back, they probably would have looked really, really cool." "(Glenn) It's a big gamble to put that as your hero with little to nothing on your background." "All right, judges, are you ready to crown a winner of The Gauntlet?" " Heck, yeah." " Oh, yes." "We are." "All right, let's bring them back out." "It's time to find out who won stage three of The Gauntlet." "Glenn?" "The winner of stage three of The Gauntlet is..." "It's time to find out who won stage three of The Gauntlet." "Glenn?" "The winner of stage three of The Gauntlet is..." "Evan." "Oh, shit." "Thank you." "(Glenn) Your hero angel was so incredibly well painted, it was hands down our favorite tonight." " Way to bounce back, man." " Thank you." "I'm shocked." "I can't believe it." "I mean, being dead bottom and then pulling through on this, it's a miracle." "And I'm feeling as happy as can be." "I told you you could come back from the dead, right?" "Evan, congratulations." "You came in first in stage three." "Thank you." "Now it's time to see who is our overall Gauntlet winner tonight." "Nora, you are the overall winner of the first Face Off Gauntlet." " Congratulations." " Thank you." "Thank you, guys." "[chuckles] Whoo!" "Thank you." "Holy crap." "I won The Gauntlet." "It's not just your everyday spotlight challenge." "I feel great, and this lets people know that I'm not planning on going anywhere." "(McKenzie) Now let's see the rest of the leaderboard and our bottom three tonight." "Unfortunately, Jasmine, Stevie, and Meg, you are on the bottom tonight, and one of you will be going home." "The rest of you, however, are safe and can head back to the makeup room." " Thanks." " Thank you, guys." "All right, guys, it's time to find out which one of you has been eliminated from the competition." "Jasmine, I'm so sorry, but after three stages of The Gauntlet, you have been eliminated." "Stevie and Meg, you both are safe this week and can head back to the makeup room." " Thank you, guys." " Bring it home, girls." "I love you." "You have personally given me some real inspiration with some of the work that you've done, truly." "It's such a shame to see you go." "Thank you so much." "That means the world to me." "Jasmine, it's been so great having you here with us." "If you'd please head back to the makeup room and pack up your kit." " Thanks." " Good luck, honey." " Bye." " Good-bye." "This is so much further than I ever thought" "I would ever make it on Face Off." "It's me, guys!" "No." "I've grown so much, and I'm so proud of all the work that I've done on here." " I love you so much." " I love you." "I'm ready to leave with my head held high and go out there and kick some ass and do some awesome makeup." "I can't wait to start the makeup career that I want."