The competition takes place across multiple categories, including sponge paint, airbrushing and face painting, all featuring different techniques and materials to achieve the transformations.
After Garibaldi's death in 1882, an official national cult did its best to sanitise the hero worship, airbrushing away the old hero's biting criticism of poor or corrupt government.
The result is a blow-by-blow account of what those who made recent British history were thinking as they did so, with no subsequent airbrushing out of the misjudgments of the moment.