LONDON, Aug. 14, 2009
U.K. Jewel Thieves Used Hollywood Makeup
Makeup Artist In Protective Custody After Telling Cops he Unwittingly Transformed 2 Brazen Burglars
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Play CBS Video Video Jewel Thieves Wore Makeup A makeup artist in protective custody comes forward to authorities following a multi-million dollar jewel heist in London, reports Sheila MacVicar.
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In this image taken from CCTV released by London's Metropolitan Police on Aug. 11, 2009, shows two men who detectives want to speak to in connection with an armed robbery at Graf Diamonds in central London on Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police)
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This image taken Aug. 7 shows two security guards standing outside Graff Diamonds store in New Bond Street, London, following a brazen armed robbery on Aug. 6. (AP Photo/Clive Gee/PA)
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But CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports that an unwitting makeup artist, who's now in protective custody, has told police he spent four hours transforming the men.
Think Mission Impossible II - and the moment when Tom Cruise turns into the villainous Dougray Scott.
"Four hours is about the time it would take to make someone look different, realistically," says prosthetics expert Andy Deubert.
For a demonstration, a woman was turned, by all appearances, into a man using nothing more than latex makeup and a fake forehead. It took just two hours.
"My husband isn't going to recognize me," declared the model.
And that, of course, is the point; makeup so deftly done that the security guards standing at the door of Graff saw nothing wrong.
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just like in the movies
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