This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.

Laura Thudium, author of Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials, was a professional makeup artist and costume designer. She served as an editor and was a writer for the Costume Society of America's quarterly newsletter, and taught costume design at Southern Illinois University, where she was an associate professor of theater.