We never realized how important make up was on TV until now. And we're not trying to take anything away from the excellent work done by this yearn's nominees: Zena Shteysel Green, Angela Moos, Patti Ramsey-Bortoli, Sarah Woolf, Julie Socash, Alison Gladieux, Donna Bard and Nadege Schoenfeld (DANCING WITH THE STARS), Bruce Grayson, Angela Moos, Jennifer Aspinall, Julie Socash, Valerie Hunt, Tym Buacharen, Jennifer Nigh and Robin Beauchesne (THE LITTLE MERMAID LIVE!),
Bruce Grayson, Angela Moos, Jill Cady, Peter D'Oliveira, Zena Shteysel, Jennifer Aspinall, James MacKinnon and Deborah Huss Humphries (THE OSCARS),
Natasha Marcelina, David Petruschin, Jen Fregozo and Nicole Faulkner (RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE) and Darcy Diana Gilmore, Kathleen Karridene, Alexis Walker, Nikki Carbonetta, Erin Guth, Gregory Arlt, Michelle DeMilt and Gloria Elias-Foillet (THE VOICE).
Those people were nominated for an Emmy this year in the category of Outstanding Contemporary Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program (Non-Prosthetic) and they are all deserving.
But . . .
If the pandemic has done anything for TV, it should have brought huge and tremendous appreciation for the make up and hair work of others.
For example, before the pandemic, did you realize how hard they had to work to make Stephen Colbert look anything other than beige?
What about the work required to make John Oliver look like something other than the pimply kid picked on in high schools across the country?
Worst of all? Those who work on Seth Meyers.
They deserve hazard pay.
If you ever suffered from an illusion that men on TV don't wear make up or that it wasn't needed, the pandemic should have corrected your faulty impressions.
