The second season of the Syfy reality television series Face Off premiered on January 11, 2012 and ended on March 14, 2012. The season featured 14 prosthetic makeup artists competing in a series of challenges to create makeup effects. Season 2 was won by Rayce Bird from Shelley, Idaho.
Spotlight Challenge: In teams of men against women and using a cohesive theme, reimagine the iconic characters from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Reward: Choice of team in next week's Spotlight Challenge
Foundation Challenge: In teams of 3, create a make-up based only on the contact lenses of the model. Only one artist works on the model at a time, and the others do not see the work until they have their turn in a relay race-like switch.
Guest Judge: Jennifer Aspinall
Reward: Immunity
Winner: Beki
Spotlight Challenge: In teams of two, apply body paint to two nude models and incorporate them to a selected background for a photo shoot to be used as the cover for hip hop musician and guest judge Asher Roth's upcoming album Is This Too Orange?; one model has to blend in with the background, while the other is a character interacting with the background, and each artist can only work one model.
Spotlight Challenge: After visiting the Linda Vista Community Hospital in complete darkness at in the middle of the night, the contestants are to create a horror movie villain based on a phobia.
Foundation Challenge: Create a trauma makeup that makes it appear that someone was attacked by a werewolf.
Guest Judge: Sam Huntington
Reward: Immunity
Winner: Beki
Spotlight Challenge: In teams of two, the artists must create an original creature that is both beautiful and deadly using one plant and one animal in the studio as inspiration.
Foundation Challenge: Immediately after the previous episode's spotlight challenge, the contestants are each given a runway model and give them a head to toe make-under so she looks like a "plain Jane".
Guest Judge: Kim Greene
Reward: Immunity
Winner: Rayce
Spotlight Challenge: In teams of 3, make an old-age makeup to age a set of triplets, one to 50 years old, one to 75 years old, and another to 100 years old.
Spotlight Challenge: After visiting the Watts Towers, contestants are to make a whimsical character worthy of being in a Tim Burton film using an ordinary occupation as inspiration.
Spotlight Challenge: After visiting the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for inspiration, contestants are to make an original human-dinosaur hybrid.
Spotlight Challenge: Create three original characters, from either [[horror horror, science fiction, or fantasy, that will perform a dance routine choreographed by Lindsey & Craig to the track "Cinema" by Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go at the Alex Theatre in Glendale.
