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Managing makeup and hair

A cut that’s fresh in scene 12 has to be healing in scene 30, and the braid she wears at the dock has to come back after the dinner scene. Tag each makeup and hair element in the script, tie it to the character who wears it, and group elements into looks so the chair knows what goes on every actor in every scene. In the project nav, click Breakdown, then Elements. Under Makeup & Hair, click Open hub. Each row links to the element’s board and to its scene in the script, and shows how many scenes it appears in. Est. Cost shows what it’s expected to cost once someone costs it, for people who can see the budget.

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Tag makeup or hair from the script

1. Open Breakdown and click the arrow in a scene’s Breakdown column.
2. In the script, select the words for the element, like mascara.
3. In the panel on the right, under Select Category, click Makeup & Hair.
4. Click Add to breakdown.

You can also click Add Element without selecting any text and type the name yourself. See Tagging elements in a script breakdown for more on tagging.

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Link makeup or hair to a character

Open the element’s board from the Makeup & Hair list. Next to Character, click the character who wears it. The characters in the element’s scene are listed first; pick anyone else from Other character. Once it’s linked, the board shows Character appearance with the actor’s details from the character’s board, so the chair has hair color, skin tone, and anything to cover next to the look. Clicking a different character takes the element out of its look, since the look belongs to the first character. Pick one of the new character’s looks in the Look row. If the details are empty, open the character’s board and add a Specifications card with fields like Hair color, Eye color, Skin tone, and Tattoos / scars. See Managing characters. From the scene’s breakdown page, you can also open an element’s menu in the sidebar and click Assign look to pick the character and the look in one step.

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Group elements into a look

A look is everything on one character at once: the braid, the cut, the concealer over it. Once an element is linked to a character, the board shows a Look row. To start a new look:

1. Open the element’s board.
2. Type a name in New look name, like “Dinner”.
3. Press Enter, or click + New look.

To add an element to an existing look, click the look’s name in the Look row, like Look 1: Work braid. Each character’s looks are numbered in the order you create them. The Continuity tab on the board lists every scene the look covers: Originates here where it starts, Carried in the scenes after it.

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Delete a look

1. Open any element’s board for that character.
2. In the Look row, click the × next to the look.
3. Click OK to confirm.

Elements in it stay in the breakdown and move to None. Later looks move up a number, so Look 3 becomes Look 2.

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Pick a character’s look in a scene

A look carries forward until the character’s next look. When a character goes back to an earlier look, set it in that scene.

1. Open the scene’s breakdown page.
2. In the sidebar, click Manage costumes & makeup this scene.
3. Under Makeup & Hair, next to Wears, click the look they’re in.

Auto carries in whatever the character wore in the scene before. When elements are tagged in the scene itself, the scene uses that look, and Wears becomes Starts in. Costumes for the same scene are picked in the same window. See Managing costumes.

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Change looks partway through a scene

A character can start a scene in one look and end it in another: hair comes down, makeup runs, a wound gets dressed. The look they end in carries into the next scenes. When the new look is tagged in this scene:

1. Tag the new look’s elements in the scene and put them in a new look, like “Dinner”.
2. In the sidebar, click Manage costumes & makeup this scene.
3. Under Makeup & Hair, next to Starts in, click the look they start the scene in.

The look they carried in from the scene before is marked (carried in). If you don’t pick one, they start the scene in the new look. When they change into a look from an earlier scene:

1. In the sidebar, click Manage costumes & makeup this scene.
2. Under Makeup & Hair, next to Then changes into, click the look they change into.

Only looks the character already has are listed. Below the character, In this scene shows the whole sequence, like Look 1: Work braid → Look 2: Dinner. The makeup and hair continuity sheet prints it the same way.

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Example: Maya lets her hair down

Maya wears her work braid at the bait shop and the dock in scenes 1 and 2. In scene 3 she lets the braid down into loose waves and covers the cut on her cheek for dinner.

1. In scene 3, tag loose waves and concealer and put them in a new look, “Dinner”.
2. Open Manage costumes & makeup this scene.
3. Under Makeup & Hair, next to Starts in, click Look 1: Work braid (carried in).

Scene 3 now reads Look 1: Work braid → Look 2: Dinner, and scene 4 carries in Dinner.

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Example: a flashback or a daydream

Flashbacks and daydreams put a character in a different look, then return them to their main one. Mark the look so it never carries forward:

1. Tag the flashback look’s elements in its scene and put them in their own look, like “Teenage Maya”.
2. On one of those elements’ boards, in the Look row, tick Flashback or daydream next to the look.

The look shows flashback on its pill. The scene after the flashback goes back to whatever the character wore before it, with nothing to set. When the daydream happens inside a scene, also pick what the character starts in:

1. Open Manage costumes & makeup this scene.
2. Under Makeup & Hair, next to Starts in, click the main look.

The scene reads Main → Daydream, and the next scene carries in Main. To show the return on the continuity sheet too, click the main look next to Then changes into.

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See all of a character’s looks

On the character’s board, click the Costumes tab. Makeup and hair looks are listed there with the character’s costume changes, each marked Makeup & Hair, with the elements not in a look under Unassigned. Click View board to open any of them.

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Add a Specifications card

1. On the element’s board, click Add Card.
2. Click Specifications, then Continue.
3. Click + Add field… and pick a field, like Product.
4. Type its value.
5. Repeat for each field you want, then click Create Card.

For makeup and hair, + Add field… suggests Product, Color match, Application time, Removal notes, and Allergies, plus sourcing fields like Vendor and Cost. You can also type a field name of your own. An element’s board also takes Note, Link, Image, Todo, Contact, and Moodboard cards, for reference photos, product pages, a test-day checklist, or the wig maker’s contact.

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Track what makeup and hair costs

Open the element’s board and click the Notes tab. On the Cost / Budget card, type the Estimated amount. To list each thing you bought instead, click + Itemize this element and add line items; their total fills Estimated. See Line items and board sync and Budget.

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Print makeup and hair continuity

The Makeup & Hair Continuity PDF lists each shoot day’s scenes with the look every character is in and where it carried from. Elements tagged in a scene but not in a look are listed under Not in a look.

• From Breakdown, open Reports and click Makeup & Hair Continuity under Schedule.
• From the schedule, click Export, then Makeup & Hair Continuity.
• From a day’s board, click Makeup & hair continuity for that day only.

On the free plan, the day board’s Makeup & hair continuity card is on your first project only.

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Rename, merge, or move makeup and hair

Renaming an element, merging two elements tagged under different names, and moving one to another category with Change type work the same way as for props. See Managing props.

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Related

• Managing costumes
• Managing characters
• Tagging elements in a script breakdown
• Budget
• Boards and cards