“[The hair] is type of its personal character,” Stacey says. “It says one thing about who she is. It’s this fixed reminder of this actually stark, jet-black hair in opposition to all this wonderful coloration. She would not slot in every thing round her. She’s type of alien in all of that — she’s totally different.”

The size and elegance additionally function a strategy to distinguish Bella from her former self in addition to different girls of that point. “She would not know that there are society norms, and whenever you return in historical past, [an updo] can be the correct factor to have; to not see your hair down like that,” Stacey says. “However Bella would not know any of these guidelines. And that is why it is such a show of who she is.”

To perform the various hair lengths, Stacey micro braided underlying sections of Stone’s pure hair on both aspect of her head; wefts of hair have been anchored to the braids after which blended with the pure hair. As Bella’s “grew,” Stacey switched to longer wefts, going from 30 inches to 36 inches and ending with 42 inches of hair — virtually 4 toes lengthy.

Excluding one character, wigs weren’t utilized within the movie in any respect, in line with Stacey, as a result of Lanthimos “hates” them. “I feel even with the most effective wigs, in case you noticed that it was faux, it takes every thing away from who Bella is,” Stacey says. “She’s this pure being.” She additionally notes that Mark Ruffalo’s hair and mustache within the movie have been his personal and styled accordingly.

A Second for Make-up

One of many solely instances we see make-up within the movie is when Bella makes her strategy to Paris and begins working at a brothel with intercourse employees beneath Madame Swiney (Kathryn Hunter). For his or her make-up, Stacey says they performed off the colours of the movie’s units, which incorporate shades of “anatomical issues.” Suppose shades of pink and purple to characterize veins and crimson for blood.