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18 • THE ARTISAN WINTER 2025 an iconic look for the movie and give him a really bold eye. I ordered the product from Morocco and got the real thing to make sure the pigments and the texture were accurate, because for me, texture in make-up is as important as pigment and finish. I used my Siân Richards Hydroproof Custom Palette for his skin, for his brows I used the black alcohol paint by Bluebird and for the finishing spray, I used Cover FX Dewy. Clarence's main wig style was a request of the director, he wanted it to look like his own hair. Jeymes is Nigerian and he has a really tight, coarse texture, so I got a wig made with hair to replicate his texture. en we began to break the texture down before we began styling it. I wanted it to be matted at base to look unwashed and unkempt and to have imperfect, sometimes broken, twists—like Jeymes' own hair—and when Jeymes saw it in the fitting. he just said one word, 'HARRRD!' Clarence goes through three main changes in the story. His basic look when he is poor and on the streets, his second look when he starts to accrue wealth, and his final look once he is arrested, then crucified. Once Clarence attains some coin, he takes a bath and starts to clean up, so I got a second wig made and I twisted it up more tightly than Clarence's poor wig, and it was cleaner at the base, too. Each twist was tighter and neater and I adorned some of them with gold lock clips which I recoloured to age the gold tone and bejewelled them with lapis lazuli stones. ere were 14 lock clips because I wanted to subliminally represent the 14 stations of the cross. Clarence's guyliner becomes more defined too and his skin lookes like he went to the beauty parlor, so we perfected his pigment more for this look. Moneyed Clarence could also take care of his beard and so we soened the hair very slightly and made his beard look more lush and polished by hand-laying in different patterns and steaming it open a little more. Jeymes wanted Clarence to have stones adorned on his teeth and so I got some teeth made at Tinsley and we put lapis on two of them. ey finished the look perfectly. Clarence arrested