The BEST episodes of Face Off season 1

Every episode of Face Off season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Face Off season 1!

Face Off is a competition/elimination series exploring the world of special-effects make-up artists and the unlimited imagination that allows them to create amazing works of living art. The contestants are tasked with elaborate feature challenges including executing full body paint make up on models and creating their own horror villain. Not only will the show incorporate effects make-up, it will include a wide range of skill sets including prosthetics, 3-D design, sculpting, eye enhancers, casting and molding. Each episode involves incredible reveals of the competitors' finished work, and the drama of one contestant being sent home by the panel of expert and celebrity judges. It all culminates in one winner and one grand prize that will launch a career. Face Off is a production of Mission Control Media with Michael Agbabian and Dwight Smith serving as executive producers.

Last Updated: 2/23/2024Network: SYFYStatus: Ended
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Twisted Tales
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7.80
201 votes

#1 - Twisted Tales

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/16/2011

The last challenge has the three remaining contestants creating fairy-tale characters derived from "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Hansel and Gretel" for a cocktail-party setting in the first-season finale.

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Switched and Hitched
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7.68
167 votes

#2 - Switched and Hitched

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/2011

In teams of two, the contestants turn brides into grooms and grooms into brides.

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Family Plot
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7.62
205 votes

#3 - Family Plot

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/2011

The five remaining contestants must disguise themselves to fool their own family members at a Los Angeles wig shop.

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Naked Ambition
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7.60
284 votes

#4 - Naked Ambition

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/2/2011

A full-body makeup challenge for the contestants.

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Bad to the Bone
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7.56
220 votes

#5 - Bad to the Bone

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/2011

"Friday the 13th" director Sean Cunningham serves as a guest judge for a challenge that has the contestants creating an original horror-movie villain along with an accompanying movie poster, title and tagline.

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Out of this World
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7.51
267 votes

#6 - Out of this World

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/9/2011

Makeup artist Michael Westmore meets the contestants at Vasquez Rocks in Southern California, where episodes of "Star Trek" were shot, and the competitors learn that they must create an alien for a newly discovered world

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Dancing Dead
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7.47
235 votes

#7 - Dancing Dead

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/2011

Zombies take over as the seven remaining special effects artists must create an original zombie to avoid the dreaded double elimination on “Dancing Dead”.

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Welcome to the Jungle
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7.11
448 votes

#8 - Welcome to the Jungle

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/2011

The challenge is to create a new human/animal hybrid based from 3 exotic animals that are brought into lab.

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