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56 • THE ARTISAN WINTER 2025 for that scene. She used K-18 and Roz milk hair serum and gave her a smooth blowout and the Dyson Corrale flat iron to seal it in. To finish the look, we airbrushed her hair a level to almost black. e next time we see her with Ron at the dog rescue event, her hair is a little bit lighter with sun-kissed highlights. We used her natural texture and touched it up with a one-inch GHD curling wand as needed to create different size waves to finish the styling with Andrew Fitzsimons, Apres sexy texture spray and a little bit of Roz Santa Lucia styling oil. For her flash-forward look, we really wanted to change Madison up to show her as a cute young mom. We chose a clip-in bang that Adria loved so much she was wanting us to cut bangs for her! My team and I which consisted of Haley Hinkle, Donita Sather and Shoney Lewis (who took wonderful care of Retta, styling her wig made by Rob Pickens of Wigmaker Associates) also had a lot of fun with potential clients of the hit man, from mullets to ponytails to my personal favorite look—Tammy's wild red curly up-do! For Jasper, played by Austin Amelio, we really wanted to play up the dirt bag vibes, so we used Reuzel hair pink pomade hair grease. Shooting this movie in New Orleans was such a special experience. Everybody on the production side was so amazing. Richard Linklater has an incredible crew. e producers Mike Blizzard and Ezra Venetos were so all supportive. My team had so much fun with the make-up team of Tara Cooper, Nicole Schultz and Wendy Karcher, and costume team of Juliana Hoffpauir, Jocelyn Pierce, Jonie Ziegler and Ray Brumfeild. We all had such a wonderful time creating all these looks and it's been really fun getting to see people's reactions as they meet the different Hit Man characters! From sweet nerdy Gary to sexy bad boy, Ron and everybody in between, you just have to ask yourself who is your hit man? • wigs and extensions. Tara matched this with make-up ranging from prosthetics, tattoos, freckles and scars! For the "Boone" wig, I wanted him to have a burned-out surfer vibe, so I added some ashy highlights and a man bun. "Tanner" had the perfect country boy vibe. For me to add a rat tail mullet, I was able to color extensions to match Glen's hair and blended them in for a perfect rat tail! "X" had an American Psycho feeling, so I kept him slicked back and sprayed. e reference for "Beck" was Snake Plissken from Escape From L.A., so to create that Kurt Russell shag, I razor cut and colored extensions to blend into Glen's hair. For our Russian assassin, I gave the wig a loose body wave razor cut it and colored it a deep espresso. For the hip-hop club, we did a bleach blonde ponytail. And last but not least is everyone's favorite redhead. is look went through several stages before we landed on a final version, the reference was Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men once I saw the orange chore coat Juliana had picked out, the whole look fell into place. e perfect orange bowl cut complemented by Tara's freckle work really brought it all together. Everyone's reactions seeing Glen on set that day were incredible! It's so much fun working with Glen. He is so collaborative, open to ideas and down to look wildly different! For the flash-forward, I wanted to blend the two looks of Gary and Ron together not only to help show the passage of time but to show that Gary has evolved into a more relaxed style in his new life. Madison, played by the gorgeous Adria Arjona, was a super fun character to create. Adria was super open to trying different looks and she has the most incredible hair. Madison's hair goes through some fun changes throughout the course of the movie. e version of Madison we meet at the Please-U Restaurant when she's trying to hire hit man Ron to kill her abusive husband is more reserved and demure. My key Haley Hinkle took great care of Adria's hair Retta as Claudette Powell and Austin Amelio as Jasper Glen Powell and Adria Arjona Arjona