Make-up assistant

A make-up assistant helps the make-up department by:

• Supplying brushes and products to the make-up artists;
• Helping to fix prosthetics;
• Washing performers' hair, preparing scalp;
• Preparing performers' skin before anything is applied;
• Helping to alter, repair and dress wigs and hair pieces;
• Running errands, in general, for the department.

Make-up assistants can be distinguished from junior make-up artists, who do more hair and make-up work themselves, and from make-up trainees, who do a lot more running work.

Beryl Sanderson was an uncredited make-up assistant on An Unearthly Child.

Since the series reboot, the only credited make-up assistants have been on Torchwood. For example, for Combat and Out of Time the credited make-up assistants included Sarah Astley-Hughes and Kate Roberts.