Joe Blasco

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Joe Blasco
Born (1947-04-30) April 30, 1947 (age 78)
Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Website www.joeblasco.com archived

Joe Blasco (born April 30, 1947, in Jeannette, Pennsylvania) is an American makeup artist. [1]

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Career

Blasco has worked in Hollywood for 50 years and founded his own eponymous cosmetics company in 1983. [2] [a] In 1973, he founded the Joe Blasco Make-up Training Center in Hollywood and later opened a second location in Orlando, Florida in 1991. During the 1970s and 1980s, he worked on a variety of television shows, including The Red Skelton Show , The Dating Game , The Newlywed Game , General Hospital , Good Morning America , and The Carol Burnett Show . He directed makeup for films such as Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS , Albert Einstein – The Man Behind the Genius, The Werewolf of Woodstock , and Shivers and was the personal makeup artist for actors such as Orson Welles, Olivia Newton-John, Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall, and Bette Midler; as well as teaching make-up techniques to Kim Kardashian when she was a teenager. [3] He has been credited with inventing the bladder technique found in horror movies as well as special effects such as blisters and skin rashes. In 2004, he was given a distinguished achievement award in the makeup design category from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. [4]

Endnotes

  1. ↑ Joe Blasco cosmetics company is no longer in business as of 2024. However, as of July 2025, some of his makeup products are still available. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Buttsworth, Sara (2010). Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-war Popular. p. 105. I hired this young make-up guy named Joe Blasco, and he got into it. He came up with some of the greatest effects I've ever seen. Later on he became head of make-up at ABC and runs a series of schools on make-up.
  2. 1 2 "Joe Blasco". Camera Ready Cosmetics. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  3. ↑ Valenti, Lauren (May 12, 2016). "Beauty: The Oral History of Green Concealer". Marie Claire . Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Achievement Awards". United States Institute for Theatre Technology. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
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