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52 • THEARTISAN SPRING 2022 in the lm. It was so important that the look we created on Anthony stayed current and his hair texture remained the same during the transformation from himself to Candyman. We wanted to create a modern twist by still paying homage to Tony Todd's look in the original Candyman. To align with the colorful production palette trend set by Nia, Department Head Make-up Aimee Lippert created a strategy to highlight the characters' creative style by adding pops of color with make-up. With her team, including co-key make-up artists Daria V. Wright and Latrice Edwards, along with assistant make-up artist J. Esther Han, they created real, authentic looks on characters. On males, they worked with imperfections by enhancing or muting and also created make-up looks to reect the seriousness of emotional scenes by highlighting the actors' natural beauty. Each character's childhood trauma played a major role in the structure of creating their current style. To complement Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris) as a ourishing young Black art cura- tor, we wanted her style to emulate the past and present of her life struggles and growth. Jessi and I went back-and-forth on ideas to cre- ate a perfect, natural texture and Jessi researched a hair style derived from African origins which women historically wore to show marital status, age and social position—we coined our recreation the "Sista Two Strand Twist." e twists were created by using three dierent textures of extensions to match the actors' natural texture to create a seamless blend. First, we sectioned the hair into half-moon shapes to start the twisting process by separating the section into two pieces of hair to add the extensions to the base of the hair. We took a piece of extension hair and added it into her natural hair by twisting clock- wise with our right hand and then twisting counterclockwise with the le hand. Bringing them together right over le to combine and lock into the "Sista Two Strand Twist." is look gave a nod to the little girl shown in the traumatic ashback to Brianna's past where she was wearing a more untamed "Twist Out" style. Our goal was to keep the idea of the twist and elevate it into a style to show the strength she overcame from her childhood. With the updo's we cre- ated, we incorporated handmade accessories and we wanted to make sure that when she stepped into a scene—the presence of a young, educated, Black woman curator was represented. Additional products used by Department Head Hair Jessi Dean and myself had no sulfates, silicones, parabens, articial oils or fra- grances as we tried our best to use products that were certied organ- ic. We used Hask Tea Tree Oil Rosemary shampoo & conditioner and Hask Curl Care shampoo & conditioner. To keep Brianna's edges laid during the duration of the scenes before the climax of the lm with her and Candyman, we used curls: Blueberry Bliss Curl Control Paste. We also used Taliah Waajid and Carol's Daughter hair products to achieve this look. During the nal sequence of the lm, Aimee Lippert had intentions to keep Brianna's skin looking natural while simultaneously highlighting her bone structure. She achieved this by applying Egyptian Magic, Mehron dirt powders, Fleet Street Blood and Skin Illustrator to enhance Brianna's struggle and to reect the mood of the scenes with various lights and colors around her. William Burke's (Colman Domingo) daed look was inspired directly from his childhood. His young character had a short, untamed, curly texture style in the opening of the lm. We kept him stuck in the '70s aer having a traumatic childhood experience with Sherman Fields (Michael Hargrove). We achieved his look with nger coiling to create an untamed texture. We used Mielle hair products to achieve the texture and the Temptu Brown/Black for fullness and depth. We let Colman's beard grow out naturally without enhancing it which gave him more of an unkempt textured Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Vanessa Estelle Williams as Anne-Marie McCoy