Local 706 - The Artisan

Spring 2019

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themselves. They do their own hair and make-up.' We're continually pulling back on that. Sheila the She-Wolf in particular, is a tough challenge. Gayle Rankin has such an interesting face and beautiful eyes. When you load her up with black eyeliner, she just keeps coming out looking like a supermodel. We balance it by yellowing out her teeth and smudging dirt all over her. For her hair, we had thought, 'What would this char- acter do to herself if she feels like she's a wolf inside?' She's not going to go out and get pointy ears, but she might create a hairdo that's pointy on top on each side. We gave her a basic long wig, but made dreadlocks and braided them in. It's kind of like her security blanket, along with the fur in her costume. We also don't use anything that wouldn't have been available to working girls in the '80s. It's so tempting, because today, everyone wants smooth, beachy hair. '80s hair was very frizzy. There were no serums. So all of the hair has more texture; we don't smooth anything out. The basic products we use in the hair department are gel, mousse and hairspray. In general, all of the make-up colors we have now were available in the '80s, but back then, the more colors you could pack on an eyelid the better. You had that v-shape on the outer eye and everything was hard lines From top: Kia Stevens with Betty Gilpin. Photo: Beth Dubber/Netflix; Stevens getting glammed up. Photo: Katrina Marcinowski/Netflix; Alison Brie with make-up artists. Photo: Ali Goldstein/Netflix; Artists at work. Photo: Katrina Marcinowski/Netflix.

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