"Face Off" Recap: "Judgment Day"

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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Boy, after last week's powerhouse Gaunlet, I felt exhausted tuning into this week's Face Off simply because last week was about as intense as a competition can get and I actually wondered how the show would manage to top itself this week. Turns out they were able to top the Gaunlet in amazing fashion, by bringing forth "Judgment Day".

Granted one can say that Judgment Day happens every week on this show in the last ten minutes, but this episode took it a little further, allowing the remaining eight contestants to team up in groups of four to design makeups that gave life to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (War, Pestilence, Famine and Death) and holy crap...some of the best makeups I've ever seen on the show showed up last night.  

In fact there were two of note that truly blew me away, Jordan's and Evan's. Jordan had War, and the picture at the end of this article is the result of his work and well, as you can see the damn thing is utterly terrifying and he did it in impressive fashion. Jordan took the time to design his entire make up to be set up at last looks, pre fabricating everything and pre painting what he could and seriously, for putting everything together and even pulling off some painting at the last minute he managed to put together one of the most terrifying makeups I've seen on this show in a long time. 

But, the winner turned out to be Evan. His fine work with a different kind of death (pictured above) put him over the top and it was all the little things that made this makeup work as he slowly put it together. It wasn't as scary as Jordan's per se but the other worldly look he created, combined with some lovely sculpting technique won the judges over and I do think it was well deserved. But this week, I do want to take a little time and talk about who was sent home in depth, because I vehemently disagree with it.

This week it came down to Kevon and Ben and well, Kevon and his wild and crazy take on Pestilence was far too abstract for the judges and in a stunner he was sent home. I say this was a stunner because Ben put together an absolute mess. Nothing worked, the ideas were everywhere and he gets to stay. That decision simply did not make sense to me and I'm not sure what the judges saw in his work to keep him on the show. I'm assuming it was his past work and progress thus far but this isn't the first time Ben has been lost in a concept. I really do think the wrong guy went home, but alas, nothing I can do about it. Either way, we will see if Ben rebounds from his scrape with elimination when Circus makeups come to town next week. Until then.

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Jordan's creation. Seriously, this will haunt your dreams.