Cabaret is a story following the life of Sally Bowles and Cliff Bradshaw during 1931 Nazi Germany. Their drama and the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club is meant to distract the audience from the ongoing rise of the Nazi regime in the background of the musical. It calls out the ignorance of the characters towards this and the audience for getting caught up in the fun of the cabaret.

My inspiration behind Sally was to make her look very doll like. I wanted her to look like a gorgeous women from an expressionist film. I gave her expressive eyeliner and a unique lip shape to match this. I do not shy away from a more historical look as well, I give her thin eyebrows to match and rouge on the center of her cheeks. I also gave her teal eye shadow to capture her night-life aesthetic. 

Emcee, is based off the main character in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, who has black triangular shadows on the undereye. I added white face paint for stark contrast, black lips, heavy contour, and lines like a doll around his mouth. This is because Emcee is used like a doll to distract the audience from the Nazi agenda.

I plan on making Schneider's look follow the themes of Expressionism much more. I would continue to age her but I want to add an undereye black liner and possibly fun lipstick. For her aging, I would add a shade two tones lighter than her skin where the skin naturally creates lines or sagging. I would the highlight the areas near the aging lines that would pop out and hit the light, for example, above the smile lines. 

Fraulein Kost's look is meant to display envy and the energy of a villain. Her eyebrows will be heavily arched and her green eyeshadow will add to her mean personality, this is also supported by how colors represent emotion in Expressionism. The eyeliner is overly dramatic as an ode to expressionist cinema and she has that classic red lipstick. I plan on adding sharper cheekbones to her design to add to her a stark look.

Rosie, is inspired by the many girls in the movie, Metropolis, garden scene at the beginning. This is represented by the headpiece and fairy-like makeup. Her look is very soft with a circular almost sun-like motif on the character. I used reds for her look because of her name, and because she got it from her cheek color, her cheeks are heavily red.