The essential episodes of Face Off
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Face Off — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.
- 02
Fourteen aspiring makeup artists face off in the Season 2 premiere, which has them re-imagining characters from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
- 03
Sean Astin greets the contestants, who are challenged to create original aliens for the "Star Wars" cantina scene in the Season 3 opener.
- 04
The artists create goblin kings and are judged by actor John Rhys-Davies.
- 05
Eight newcomers take on eight former contestants as each team creates a series of hyper-stylized fantasy characters.
- 06
Today the artists take inspiration from a swamp and make cryptids.
- 07
Guess what? We have a Foundation Challenge today, hooray! The contestants walk into the lab to see an array of models striking their very best "save the world" poses. McKenzie tells them they'll be basing an entire superhero, backstory and everything, on the costume that their model is wearing.
- 08
Fifteen new artists – coached by three returning champions - join forces to spawn a legion of alien creatures.
- 09
The artists must create their very own freak show character inspired by a promotional poster.
- 10
The competition is turned on its head as the eight remaining all-stars are combined into a pair of super teams that must each create a frightening family of three mutated characters.
- 11
The seven remaining artists, and their two super teams, each create a coven of cursed witches, and another all-star is eliminated from the competition.
- 12
The remaining artists, competing individually, must create an alien delegate for an intergalactic congress.
- 13
The final three create animalistic kung-fu masters for an actual fight scene.
- 14
The artists must bring the four seasons to life for a dance to be choreographed by Travis Wall.
- 15
Through the Looking Glass, Part 2
It's part two of the Face Off: Battle Royale finale, as the artists and their teams create their short film, and one is crowned champion.














