The Hair & Makeup Plot
The Plot view of the Hair & Makeup tab is the department's running document: a grid with one row per character and one column per scene in running order, each cell saying which look is on and how the actor gets into it. It is the hair-and-wig counterpart of the costume plot, and it is what gets pinned up at the wig station.
- Fill a cell: Click any cell to add or edit its entry. Pick the look (from the looks assigned to that character), give it a look number (1st look, 2nd look…), and add a description if the look needs a scene-specific tweak
- The change: Record how the actor gets from the previous look to this one — Preset Standard or Quick change; where it happens ( Stage left Stage right Dressing room Makeup station Wig room); and how many seconds a quick change has
- Crew notes: What the person at the station needs to know — which pins come out first, the wig cap stays on, the blood is applied after the sweat
- Empty cells stay empty: A scene with no entry means the previous look carries, so you only fill the cells where something changes or is first worn
- Where it also shows: each character's plot rows appear on the By Character view, each linking to the scene
Printing the plot
- Hair & Makeup Plot (PDF): a landscape grid — one row per character (with the actor's name), one column per scene, each cell the look number ( L2, with a for a quick change, a dash where the character is in the scene with no entry) — followed by a Hair & Makeup Details page per character listing every plotted scene with the look's name, the change, the description and the crew notes the grid has no room for. Download it from the Plot view or from the Reports tab
- Hair & Makeup Plot (spreadsheet): the same plot as CSV rows — Character, Actor, Act, Scene, Scene Title, Look #, Look, Change Type, Location, Seconds, Description, Crew Notes — for sorting, filtering, or sending to a wig shop or a freelance stylist
- Same data, both ways: the screen, the PDF and the spreadsheet all read the same plot rows, so the paper can never disagree with the tab
Both documents are available to anyone who can see the cast list, since a row is a character and the actor playing them. Deleting a look leaves its plot entries in place with the look blank, so a renamed or rebuilt look never erases a change the crew has rehearsed.
More in Hair & Makeup Tab
- Hair & Makeup Tab: The Six Views — The Hair & Makeup tab has six views, switched with the row of tabs under the title. The address bar follows (?tab=hair-makeup&view=plot, for example), so a link to one view opens on it.
- Hair & Makeup Tab: Creating Hair & Makeup Looks — On the Looks view, click "Add Look" to create a new hair and makeup entry.
- Hair & Makeup Tab: Adding Reference Images — Each look can have multiple reference images. Click the image icon to open the Add Image dialog:
- Hair & Makeup Tab: AI Image Generation — Generate professional hair and makeup reference images using AI:
- Hair & Makeup Tab: Assigning to Characters — Link hair and makeup looks to one or more characters, from a look card on the Looks view or from a character card on the By Character view:
- Hair & Makeup Tab: By Actor: Looks, Photos, Wig Measurements and Allergies — The By Actor view of the Hair & Makeup tab answers the question a wig maker or makeup artist actually asks — what does this person wear, and what do I need to know before anything goes on their head…
- Hair & Makeup Tab: Look Photos — The Photos view of the Hair & Makeup tab holds photographs of an actor in a look — the wig fitting, the makeup test, the finished look under stage light. A reference image on a look says what the…
- Hair & Makeup Tab: Who Can Do What — The Hair & Makeup tab is readable by every collaborator on the show and writable by the department itself, so a stylist does not need to be made a Stage Manager to maintain their own plot.
- Hair & Makeup Tab: The Hair & Makeup Department: Notes, Tasks, Reports and Scene Readiness — The Hair & Makeup tab is one end of a department that runs through the rest of the show. "Hair & Makeup" is a department everywhere the app asks for one:
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