TELEVISION MAKEUP
As a professional makeup artist, Barbra Jo Batterman does everything from making celebrities look flawless to transforming actors into costumed characters. Television makeup can improve or alter someone’s appearance, add character to a face, make a face appear natural under various lighting conditions or create special effects such as scars, tattoos and even alter someone’s age.
Makeup is an essential part of the television and film industry as it is often required to just retain a subject’s normal appearance due to the process of television and film, in addition to making modifications, as noted above.
For the past 35 years, Barbra Jo has been hired by film and television producers, photographers, advertising executives and celebrities to make them look good on television and in film, or in many cases, do her best to make them someone you would never recognize.
The advent of High Definition Television (HDTV) has added another layer of technique used by professional makeup artists such as Barbra Jo. With HDTV, basic makeup is necessary for someone to look natural, especially in close-ups. In addition, lighting determines what type of makeup should be used, as a made-up face would look different under studio lights or fluorescent lights, and vastly different under sunlight for an outdoor shoot.
Dick Clark Productions hired Barbra Jo to do hair and makeup for the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. She’s not only a stylist, but she coordinates all of the hair and makeup artists for the entire show. With such a massive production, it’s great to have some so professional and knowledgeable on board. We hire her for all of our Las Vegas production work as we know she’ll always do an incredible job.