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O*NET detailed work activityApply makeup to alter or enhance appearance
Stays humanHands-on care
4 jobs9 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Apply hygienic or cosmetic agents to skin or hair, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Apply makeup to enhance or alter the appearance of people appearing in productions such as movies.
- Alter or maintain makeup during productions as necessary to compensate for lighting changes or to achieve continuity of effect.
- Select desired makeup shades from stock, or mix oil, grease, and coloring to achieve specific color effects.
- Duplicate work precisely to replicate characters' appearances on a daily basis.
- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Provide performers with makeup removal assistance after performances have been completed.
- Attach prostheses to performers and apply makeup to create special features or effects, such as scars, aging, or illness.
- Embalm, dress, cosmeticize, and casket the deceased.