Fourteen aspiring makeup artists face off in the Season 2 premiere, which has them re-imagining characters from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is visited ahead of a challenge in which the contestants must make waterproof creature makeup.

A nude body painting challenge unfolds as the contestants try to make an album cover for hip-hop star (and guest judge) Asher Roth.

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 monster.

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 something beautiful but deadly.

For the foundation challenge, the contestants must debeautify attractive models,.make triplets appear to be at different stages of their elderly lives.

This week, aliens are the artists' focus and guest judge Star Trek Next Generation's LeVar Burton helps out.

Creating a new character from an ordinary occupation for a Tim Burton film.

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 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.

The art of body painting is demonstrated and explored during an hour hosted by McKenzie Westmore and featuring commentary by the cast of "Naked Vegas" and former "Face Off" contestants.

The artists arrive at the Port of Long Beach and board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter U.S.S. George Cobb, which is where they learn they'll be making beautiful but deadly sirens based on unique sea creatures. Working in teams of two, one group feels compelled to start from scratch on Day 2. At the same time, another duo struggles with streamlining different visions into one makeup.

The reality competition celebrates its 100th episode in style when the artists turn real-life couples into whimsically undead duos. Following the challenge, host McKenzie Westmore, who recently became an ordained minster, will perform a marriage ceremony attended by friends and family.

The artists must create a mashup character from famous works of genre literature.

The artists paired up to create the gatekeeper to an alternate dimension ... and the creature he or she guards.

Retro-style alien characters created for a Foundation Challenge come into play when the artists receive their Spotlight Challenge.

The artists face the challenge of taking a male model and turning him into a female character from a classic Shakespearean play.

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The remaining artists add their own twist to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

A "barbaric" Foundation Challenge is judged by Oscar-winning makeup artist Robin Matthews. That's followed by a trip to the circus as the seven remaining artists compete to dazzle the judges with their freak show-inspired makeups.

Inspired by Syfy's The Expanse, the artists must create a character that represents the next stage in human evolution.

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Part 1 of 2. The finalists learn their last challenge is to work with a real-life Hollywood director and full production crew to create three stunning short films on location.

A winner is crowned in the conclusion of the two-part Season 9 finale. But first, the finalists finish work on their characters for the short films they're making with director and creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos.

Season 10 begins with the 14 competing artists working in teams of two to create alien bounty hunters.