Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star - Season 4

Hosted by Maya Jama, Glow Up returns for its fourth series as ten aspiring make-up artists are tested in varied professional assignments, from TV to theatre, fashion to front covers and on-line beauty campaigns.

The make-up artists (MUAs) travel to Birmingham for their first professional assignment, a social media campaign for a sport and fitness brand. Guest judge Ivy Weir-Ikpeme, the company's styling manager, challenges the MUAs to produce a gym-friendly, natural make-up look for their diverse customer base.

In the creative brief, the MUAs are challenged to produce a look on themselves based on their hidden strength. Encouraged to be bold and push their creativity to the limits, the MUAs produce some jaw-dropping creations, ranging from a prosthetics-based chameleon to an intergalactic atomic explosion. And a survivor of the Manchester terrorist attacks uses volcanic fire to display their hidden strength over adversity.

Finally, in the first face-off elimination, the bottom two MUAs are challenged to produce an on-trend look, the reverse cat eye. After this, the judges decide who is the first to leave the competition.

The nine remaining MUAs are put in the spotlight as they enter the world of theatre. They must complete the stage looks on the artists for a live performance of Cirque du Soleil's Luzia at the Royal Albert Hall. Joining Val and Dominic this week is the make-up designer for eight of Cirque's most iconic productions, Maryse Gosselin.

This week's creative brief sees the MUAs challenged to create a body paint look inspired by all things weird and wonderful, extending beyond their model's face and onto their torso, arms and hands.

Finally the bottom two MUAs face off in a make-up skill drill in which they must create a mermaid lip that glimmers with a metallic aqua finish. Following this, one MUA packs their kit and leaves the competition.

The MUAs enter the world of special effects for BBC's iconic sci-fi show Doctor Who. Assisting the show's prosthetic designer, Danny Marie Elias, the MUAs must create alien characters based around the Doctor's recent nemeses Swarm and Azure.

Danny Marie wants to test the MUAs' prosthetics skills, so after a short demonstration, the MUAs must apply three prosthetic pieces to a model, ensuring it looks vibrant, bold, and intricately detailed. To impress Danny Marie, the prosthetics must have flawless application and perfect blending, creating an authentic-looking alien. The MUA who stands out wins the chance to join Danny Marie on set for a day, whereas those that fail to deliver run the risk of starting the Creative Brief in the red Face Off chairs.

This week's Creative Brief is to create a character that is based on the idea of an extreme experiment gone wrong. The MUAs are encouraged to use their imagination and the skills they learnt the day before, as each final look must contain a minimum of two prosthetic pieces.

Then the bottom two MUAs go head-to-head in the Face Off elimination, where they are tasked with replicating a floating pearl eyeliner. The identical twins already have one eye completed and the MUAs must exactly copy, focusing on symmetry, balance, precision, and clean application. One MUA packs their kit and leaves the competition.

The MUAs are booked to create summer party looks for global retailer H&M Beauty for an online campaign that will be seen by millions. Joining Val and Dom are guest judge and global creative director for the brand Marjorie Lacombe-Jelinek.

The MUAs have just two hours to design and create party looks that focus on the brand's eyeliners, eye shadows and stand-out lip colours. Their looks and models are then screen-tested by the judges to see who has hit the brief and created the strongest look, which will then go on to be shot and featured in the global summer party campaign.

This week's creative brief is all about Seasons of Change. The MUAs are challenged to create a look inspired by a time of change in their own life. The judges want them to design bold, creative and conceptual looks in two and a half hours.

Finally, the judges decide which two MUAs will go head-to-head in the Face Off elimination, a make-up skill drill under intense time pressure, after which, one MUA packs up their make-up kit and leaves the competition.

The six remaining MUAs are thrown into the glossy world of fashion editorials and booked on a job for legendary music magazine Rolling Stone UK, where they must design make-up looks for Grammy-nominated DJ and producer Jayda G.

Working alongside the judges are the magazine's editor-in-chief, Cliff Joannou, and guest judge Hector Espinal, Fenty Beauty's Global make-up artist and one of Rhianna's personal MUAs.

Each MUA is assigned a female model and mood board, and the brief for today's feature is 90s raver. The stakes are high, as only one look will be chosen for the editorials feature/digital cover.

For this week's Creative Brief, the MUAs are challenged to produce a look that resembles a statue of how they would like to be remembered. It must include the face, head and shoulders and at least one 3D element.

The two MUAs judged to have produced the weakest looks go head-to-head in the Face Off elimination, and the one who least impresses packs up their make-up kit and leaves the competition.

The five remaining MUAs enter the world of digital make-up, creating fun and impactful make-up filters for global video-sharing platform Instagram.

The guest judge is AR creator Paige Piskin, who has 20 billion impressions and over 100 million shares. The MUA who develops the most inclusive and original filter will have it shared with Paige's one million-strong Instagram following.

For this week's Creative Brief, the MUAs are challenged to create a look that transforms their model into a real-life Avatar.

The two MUAs who produce the weakest looks go head-to-head in the Face Off elimination, after which one MUA packs up their make-up kit and leaves the competition.

The four remaining MUAs hit London Fashion Week, as they are booked to do the make-up for British Fashion Designer Mark Fast, under the watchful and talented eye of key make-up artist of the show, Pablo Rodriguez.

The Creative Brief sees the MUAs challenged to create a look that represents a moment of rebellion in their lives, something that goes against the norm and breaks the rules.

The two MUAs judged to have produced the weakest looks go head-to-head in the elimination Face Off, after which one MUA packs up their make-up kit and leaves the competition.

It's the Glow Up final. Over the past seven weeks, the three finalists have shown they have what it takes to become Britain's Next Make-Up Star, but there can only be one winner.

Their final assignment sees the MUAs face the ultimate test, presenting a masterclass to influential experts from across the industry.

In their final Creative Brief, make-up metamorphosis, the MUAs must show the judges how far they have come in the competition and what they are capable of.

Once the Creative Brief is over, the judges decide which MUA has fallen at the last hurdle and which two head into the final Face Off, with only one being crowned winner.