Face Off (Season 2)

Contestants

 * Rayce Bird, 29 — Shelley, Idaho
 * Ian Cromer, 22 — Staten Island, New York
 * Robert "RJ" Haddy, 35 — Charleston, West Virginia
 * ,Heather Henry 33 — Dallas, Texas
 * Nicholas "Nix" Herrera, 31 — Orlando, Florida
 * Beki Ingram, 30 — Hibbing, Minnesota
 * Miranda Jory, 21 — Seattle, Washington
 * Brea Joseph, 32 — San Diego, California
 * Tara Lang, 27 — West Hollywood, California
 * Greg Lightner, 35 — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * Sue Lee, 26 — Jersey City, New Jersey
 * Jerry Macaluso, 43 — Fort Lauderdale, Florida
 * Matt Valentine, 33 — Austin, Texas
 * Athena Zhe, 25 — New York City, New York

Episode 1: Return to Oz
Main Article: Return to Oz (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: January 11, 2012
 * Foundation Challenge: Create a character representing yourself using items from three trailers on the Universal Studios backlot
 * Reward: Immunity
 * Winner: Jerry
 * Spotlight Challenge: In teams of men against women and using a cohesive theme, reimagine the iconic characters from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West
 * Reward: Choice of team in next week's Spotlight Challenge
 * Top Looks: Brea & Beki
 * Bottom Looks: Greg & Nix
 * Winner: Brea
 * Eliminated: Greg

Episode 2: Water Works
Main Article: Water Works (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: January 18, 2012
 * Spotlight Challenge: In teams of 2 (and one team of 3), use animals from the Aquarium of the Pacific as inspiration for a make-up that will have to go underwater
 * Top Looks: Matt & Tara, Heather & Athena
 * Bottom Looks: Jerry & Nix, Ian & RJ
 * Winner: Matt
 * Eliminated: Nix

Episode 3: Rock Your Body
Main Article: Rock Your Body (Face Off episode)


 * Airdate: January 25, 2012
 * Foundation Challenge: In teams of 3, create a make-up based only on the contact lenses of the model. Only one artist works on the model at a time, and the others do not see the work until they have their turn in a relay race-like switch.
 * Guest Judge: Jennifer Aspinall
 * Reward: Immunity
 * Winner: Beki
 * Spotlight Challenge: In teams of 2, do a nude body painting to be used as the cover for hip hop musician and guest judge Asher Roth's upcoming album Is This Too Orange?; one model has to blend in with the background, while the other is a character interacting with the background, and each artist can only work one model.
 * Guest Judge: Asher Roth
 * Top Looks: Rayce & Beki, Brea & Matt
 * Low Teams: Jerry & Tara, Ian & Miranda
 * Winner: Matt
 * Eliminated: Miranda

Episode 4: Night Terrors
Main Article: (Night Terrors (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: February 1, 2012
 * Spotlight Challenge: Create a horror movie villain based on a phobia, after having 30 minutes to sketch the design in complete darkness at Linda Vista Community Hospital in the middle of the night
 * Guest Judge: Tom Savini
 * Top Looks: Ian, Beki, and Rayce
 * Bottom Looks: Athena, Jerry, and Brea
 * Winner: Ian
 * Eliminated: Brea

Episode 5: Dangerous Beauty
Main Article: Dangerous Beauty (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: February 8, 2012
 * Foundation Challenge: Create a trauma makeup that makes it appear that someone was attacked by a werewolf
 * Guest Judge: Sam Huntington
 * Reward: Immunity
 * Winner: Beki
 * Spotlight Challenge: Make an original creature that is both beautiful and deadly using one plant and one animal in the studio as inspiration
 * Guest Judge: Vivica A. Fox
 * Top Looks: RJ & Ian, Heather & Rayce
 * Bottom Looks: Athena & Tara, Beki & Sue
 * Winner: RJ
 * Eliminated: Athena

Episode 6: Triple Threat
Main Article: Triple Threat (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: February 15, 2012
 * Foundation Challenge: Take a runway model and turn her into a "plain Jane"
 * Guest Judge: Kim Greene
 * Reward: Immunity
 * Winner: Rayce
 * Spotlight Challenge: Make an old-age makeup to age a set of triplets, one to 50 years old, one to 75 years old, and another to 100 years old (initially shown as a set of twins)
 * Guest Judge: Greg Cannom
 * Top Looks: Sue, RJ, Jerry
 * Bottom Looks: Ian, Beki, Heather
 * Winner: Sue
 * Eliminated: Heather

Episode 7: Alien Interpreters
Main Article: Alien Interpreters (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: February 22, 2012
 * Spotlight Challenge: Take one of Patrick Tatopoulos' conceptual sketches and create an original alien makeup
 * Guest Judge: LeVar Burton
 * Reward: Tickets to the premiere of Total Recall
 * Top Looks: Rayce, Ian, RJ
 * Bottom Looks: Sue, Jerry, Tara
 * Winner: Ian
 * Eliminated: Tara, Jerry

Episode 8: Burtonesque
Main Article: Burtonesque (Face Off episode)


 * Airdate: February 29, 2012
 * Spotlight Challenge: After visiting the Watts Towers, make a whimsical character worthy of a Tim Burton film using an ordinary occupation as inspiration
 * Guest Judge: Catherine O'Hara
 * Top Looks: Matt, Rayce, RJ
 * Bottom Looks: Sue, Beki, Ian
 * Winner: Rayce
 * Eliminated: Beki

Episode 9: Dinoplasty
Main Article: Dinoplasty (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: March 7, 2012
 * Spotlight Challenge: After visiting the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for inspiration, make an original human-dinosaur hybrid
 * Guests: Cleve and Constance Hall from Monster Man
 * Winner: Rayce
 * Eliminated: Sue, Matt

Episode 10: The Ultimate Spotlight Challenge
Main Article: The Ultimate Spotlight Challange (Face Off episode)
 * Airdate: March 14, 2012
 * Spotlight Challenge: Create three original characters, from either horror, science fiction, or fantasy, that will perform a dance routine choreographed by Lindsey & Craig to the track "Cinema" by Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California
 * Guest: Michael Westmore
 * Winner: Rayce