Kryolan

Kryolan Professional Makeup
Founded	Berlin, Germany (1945)
Founders	Arnold Langer

Kryolan is a world-wide cosmetics company founded and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. By some estimates, Kryolan creates two-thirds of global production of professional makeup for film, TV and theater.[1]

History

Kryolan was founded in 1945 in post World War II Berlin. Kryolan's Hollywood breakthrough came with the silicon masks used in the 1968 feature film Planet of the Apes.[1]

In Media

Kryolan was featured in season 3 of the American reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race, wherein thirteen drag queens competed for a prize package that included a "lifetime supply" of Kryolan makeup.

References

Roxborough, Scott (February 2, 201). "Inside Berlin's Kryolan: 8 Tons of Fake Blood, Most of Hollywood's Makeup". The Hollywood Reporter.

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[HollywoodReporter-1] Roxborough, Scott (February 2, 201). "Inside Berlin's Kryolan: 8 Tons of Fake Blood, Most of Hollywood's Makeup". The Hollywood Reporter.