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Make-up

Actors carefully use make-up to define characteristics and the personalities of characters they portray. They must exaggerate stage make-up to overcome the bright lights of the stage and help characters look life-like from the audience. They can further exaggerate make-up to set a style or mood of a play or to enhance certain qualities of a character, for example, making a person look like a villain or appearing virtuous and naive.

Make-up also provides special effects to the body. For example, make-up can create an appearance of wounds, illusions of physical deformities, or make characters seem to age.