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40 • THE ARTISAN SPRING 2023 with MAC Kohl Crayon, and her lips were a brownish maroon color, Freddie by Trinny, that I patted on with my fingers to give a more natural, stained look. The storytelling of Hilary's mental state was reflected in the amount of eye make-up she used. As she became more manic, she would put on more eye make-up. Her mood became obvious by the amount of kohl rimming her eyes, so much so that it became a point of reference for Olivia's performance. Sometimes she would ask me how heavy her eye make-up was today so she could gauge her angst! In her biggest moment of severe distress, her eye make-up consists of Black Kohl and blue eyeshadow, applied in a haphazard way and smudged, her lipstick is too bright and ending up on her teeth, and her hair is dirty and falling down from an updo she'd attempted. This reflected a woman making a valiant attempt to put herself together but failing miserably. A later scene shows her unkempt with the same make-up, now even more deteriorated from tears and distress. This is how the use of make- up can really help tell the story of the character: Hilary had stayed up all night, not caring enough to wash or take her make-up off, her state of mind dictating her appearance. This is a very different look from the times in the film when she'd gotten herself together and her make-up was well applied, hair freshly washed, and there's a general air of beginning to care for herself. Micheal Ward, who plays Stephen, was given a period haircut by his make-up artist Eyesha Yates. Since Micheal has very good skin, his make-up was minimal, and we concentrated a lot on good skin care. For that, we used Buttah, which is skin care for melanin-rich skin tones. We used a base by Sculpted by Aimee Connolly. At one point in the film, a violent racial attack by skinheads results in severe injuries to Stephen's face and body. Prosthetics were built by Mark Coulier and applied to Micheal's face by Susie Redfern to give him a severe swollen eye, swollen lips, and wounds over his face that faded to pink scars, which we used bondos for. He was left with small dark scars over his face for the duration of the L-R: Naomi Donne with Colman L-R: Doone Forsyth with Crystal Clarke; Tanya Moodie with Eyesha Yates and Rebecca Cole