Makeup by Courtney Shaw

 Information for the Makeup of Lord of the Rings

Gimli: He would come in 4 ½ hours early every day to get started on his makeup process. We would put on a whole prosthetic on his face, which was made out of latex. Once it was placed on his face, the airbrush team would come and made sure it would blend in with his skin. After that was accomplished we would glue every hair on his beard and head. He had a cut of middle finger, so we made a cast out of his other middle finger and painted it on his finger. We hand painted his finger nail. 

Leoglas: His wasn’t as difficult as most of the characters. He wore a wig, and had makeup on, but nothing that really changed his appearance.  He wore latex ears that only lasted one day. He was in and out in the make up department.

Gandolf the White: He already had a bigger nose but once you got all the hair on this head and face, you couldn’t see it as much. So we decided to make a prosthetic nose that was even bigger. The makeup team put glued all of his hair on him as well.

Aragon: His was also very easy compared to the other cast. He wore a wig and had makeup on. He had a beard that we would put on him. But after doing everyone else’s makeup that was a breeze. We had everything premade and it went really fast.