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ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF APPLE to Rita as she moves through these locations. Her make-up is simple. She is a single mother working in a munitions factory with hundreds of women who also have very few resources. Her everyday make-up look, which was very natural and achieved with a CC cream in a very pale color was very sparingly applied. It was important that her skin showed through with no sign of make-up. I also used a cream blush that I worked into her skin around her cheeks and browbones to liven up her face. Some small definition on her upper lash line, mascara and red lipstick was applied as was the case with most women of this time. is look was slightly stronger when I used a proper eyeline in the scene where Rita went out to the pub one evening. For her younger look, I had a longer wig which gave her a youthful, fun- loving appearance, a contrast to her more responsible look as a working mother several years on. e longer wig still had the silver running through it. Most of the women in the film and quite a lot of men had wigs. Kathy Burke, playing Beryl, had a wig straight out of a Brassai photo, a waved bob with a styled fringe. is popped on easily every day and was complemented by some badly overdrawn eyebrows, smudged dark red lipstick, and finished with a diamond hair ornament probably looted from some jewelers! I let her make-up go throughout the day until it became worn into her face. I had the thought that she never really took anything off and just put a bit more make-up on when it wore off! With Stephen Graham's character Albert suffering from severe mental health problems which exploded into uncontrolled rage, I felt like he needed uncontrollable hair. He had a long, wavy, greasy top created by a toupee that I made from an old wig. When calm, the hair stayed pushed back but as his rage increased, it flopped into his face which accentuated his look of madness. Sometimes using an old wig where the hair had worn in really helped with certain looks. His make-up made his eyes look reddened and slightly mad, his skin was broken down and a bit grubby, and he had teeth made by Chris Lyons of Fangs FX to look yellow and neglected. Beryl and Albert inhabit a criminal world where people look worn, used and debauched. Filled with thieves and prostitutes, we recreated a world through wigs and make-up where these people were broken up and worn to reflect their lives. Paul Weller played Rita's father. Everyone was a bit nervous about telling Paul he had to have a 1940's haircut as his distinctive hair has always been a huge part of his persona. So, I gathered several photos of actors and models with short haircuts in case I had to convince him to have his hair cut. He just looked