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THE ARTISAN WINTER 2023 • 39 This followed through into our main teams and we are so thankful for the incredible artists that helped bring our designs to fruition: Seana Chavez the eyeliner queen, Ahou Mofid the tamer of fiery red wigs, Alex Storm the airbrush wizard, Meghan Heaney the ruler of the gents styles, Jeong-Hwa Fonkalsrud the lash-laying master, Renia Green-Edittorio the kiss curl controller and our background supervisors Mandy Artusato, Emma Burton, Akiko Matsumoto, Aubrey Marie and Katherine Barber. That was no easy task and they smashed it daily! Big thanks to all that came to help, you never knew what you would be faced with, everything from insane opulent party scenes with crazy amounts of nudity, to pooping elephants, vomiting starlets, windy, dusty hot days, armies of soldiers running into battle, cage fighting, rats eating through to high-society gatherings… Without you all, we would never have gotten this done and we thank you. We were also honored to have the elephant man and Siamese twin prosthetics design king, Arjen Tuiten, on board with us and of course, the one and only Jean Black, make-up artist to Brad Pitt. THE STORY AND HOW TO TELL IT FROM A MAKE-UP AND HAIR PERSPECTIVE A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence, and depravity in early Hollywood. Manny Torres (Diego Calva), a Mexican immigrant who embodies the outsider and the audience perspective. When Manny is young, boyish, and unkempt, he has a softness to him as he starts to gain confidence within the film industry and his job prospects and career grows stronger, so does his make-up and hair styling. HAIR: As the story progresses, we start to see him more put together. I styled his hair tidier with a side parting. By the time we see him toward the end of his story arch, he's a big shot in the movie world, I used more product with a full slick back, reminiscent of Michael Corleone from the Godfather films. This helps Manny look much older and harder compared to when we first meet him. MAKE-UP: Manny starts out tan and fresh faced. And as he gets more success and excess, I made him paler and used alcohol paint to show time passing and a little aging. I always used a patina of dirt on his hands and neck to show grittiness and texture. HAIR: With a time jump to the 1950s, I wanted to show thinning of the hair and slight receding, Rob Pickens made a top hairpiece to blend into Diego's own sides and back. MAKE-UP: I brought in Jason Collins from Autonomous FX to handle the aging of Manny in the 1950s. We tested transfer pieces; the stretch and stipple and paint job came out better for the lighting, so we went with that. Jason also applied a silicone bald pate to use under the hairpiece. Diego Calva