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THE ARTISAN SUMMER 2025 • 43 Do you know how many wigs you designed in total? What was your favorite look you created? I think at least 15-20 for our main cast, and we would have emergency wigs for day players who came in with the wrong era hair. There are too many favorites! I think my first favorite was the Leslie Abramson look—the curls were spot on and hopefully, not over the top. Also doing Jose Menendez's look was challenging and I thought Javier really looked like his character—thanks to Rob Pickens' wigs. Oh, and also, there was a dream sequence where Lyle and Eric had long Fabio hair to break out of prison—that was so crazy and so fun! What was the most challenging look of the series for you? Lyle's bald hairpieces were the challenge. We ended up using his real hair for the shoot until he had scenes where his toupee was ripped off or fell off. Making it look as real as possible was definitely a challenge and a collaboration with the very talented make-up team: Miho Suzuki, Sabrina Wilson, and Mike Ornelaz. • MAKE-UP Continued from page 40 costume department was so important on this. We worked so closely and crafted each character together to keep authenticity and realness. Also, the casting department did a fantastic job giving us such a wonderful group of actors who had resemblance to portray the real people. It really helped us to bring out their likeness. The make-up looks of the '80s are very specific and certainly over the top—how did you approach staying faithful to the time period while also creating looks that fit the tone of the series? As we all know, '80s was such a unique period for fashion. However, Ryan shared his vision early on, and wanted to make sure we don't lose the sophisticated side of that era. Actually, when I narrowed down the research, daily make-up fashion on real people in the surrounding area of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, at that time of the storyline wasn't too over the top, instead rather simple. So I made sure the color palette and texture were period-accurate and well curated, efficiently portraying the period. The best example of the make-up that translated this era within this story was the make-up I created on Judalon Smyth, portrayed by brilliant Leslie Grossman. Gray and white shimmer eyeshadow, gray eyeliner, velvet finish foundation, pink lipstick with blue undertone, shimmery magenta pink blush applied on the higher area of her cheekbone. Eyebrow was penciled on. I had so much fun doing this make-up on Leslie and she was such a great support and collaborator, sporting that make-up. Sabrina Wilson did such a fantastic job for Leslie Abramson, portrayed by Ari Graynor. She made subtle but effective changes of colors on Ari, cohesive to beautifully tailored colorful suits she wore for each scene. Ari looked striking as Leslie. Michael Ornelaz did such incredible work throughout, his delicate application was so seamless that no one could tell what was done and what was natural, Michael was responsible for the eyebrow covers on Javier Bardem who played Jose Menendez. Javier's signature brows are so masculine and prominent, contrasting with Jose Menendez, who had penciled skinny arched eyebrows. Justin Raleigh's Fracture FX created the custom eyebrow silicon appliance. Justin ventilated multiple sets of beautiful delicate eyebrow pieces. Ana Lozano who was brought on as Javier's personal make-up artist did his corrective make-up on the rest of the face except for where prosthetics was applied. This was a masterful collaboration among the talented artists. Some of the cast have mentioned how supportive and comforting you were throughout the intense shoot—what was it like collaborating with this cast? Cooper and Nicholas were chosen to portray the brothers who killed their parents in the most gruesome way you could possibly imagine, but they were also emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by their own parents daily since their childhood. It's easy to imagine how difficult and painful it could be for Cooper and Nicholas getting into Erik and Lyle's mind set, channeled into their pains, struggles and trauma. In our make-up trailer, we luckily had diverse personalities to ease their days. Sabrina Wilson was such a comedic relief; she made them laugh with jokes and funny stories. Michael Ornelaz was a kind father figure, always grounding and very comforting. We had the most amazing hardworking make-up PA, Boutheyna, who created such a fun trailer by putting up the stills of screengrab that we shot the day before. She did it so religiously that photos ended up filling so much of blank