“Emerald was very specific with the nail look she wanted,” recalls Wells. This was a direct request from the director. Regardless of time of day or activity, Cassie is always wearing the same eye-catching manicure. “I even turned her eyeliner down to kind of pull her eyes down,” Wells says.
“The look was getting a little bit dark.” The deeper red isn’t the only cosmetic choice for this underlying despair. “She's starting to spiral down a little bit: she's getting sadder, she's getting heavier, it's getting deeper,” Wells says. This particular costume is not in focus-Steiner points out that “you don't really see much of what she's wearing there ”-and the makeup choice is darker than the opening scene, a reflection of Cassie’s state of mind. In the following scene, Fennell depicts the encounter with “nice guy” Neil (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) at his apartment rather than the trendy bar where he met Cassie. The film was shot in just 23 days, and time constraints meant there was a limited window for resetting the scene. This was a “collaboration between props and makeup,” Wells explains, recalling that Mulligan’s purposeful makeup misapplication took two or three takes. Watching a “blowjob lips” tutorial-Fennell cameos as the beauty vlogger-Cassie nails the bold look before dramatically smearing the dark shade across her face. "Homemade Kardashian"Ĭassie’s application of her cosmetic war paint follows a relatable endeavor: turning to the internet for techniques. This blank canvas offered plenty of room for experimentation with the bold nighttime looks. With a “very natural, very clean” face, the artist didn’t want viewers to notice the makeup. "I wanted there to be a real difference between Cassie in her regular, everyday life and who she became when she would go out and do these disguises,” Wells says. “It's a barrier as well.”Īnd her makeup is much more subtle. “It's her, ‘I'm happy, don't look at me’ ,” Steiner says.
Her collection of cheery gingham, floral, and delicate prints are a disguise.
A little bit of contemporary shopping, costume house, a little thrift, and then put it together.” Even though the story is contemporary, Steiner mixed and matched influences from the 1960s onward for Cassie’s daytime wardrobe. Steiner’s own resume is filled with girlish references that suggest a happy facade while concealing the film’s major themes in an interview with Little White Lies, Fennell referenced Steiner’s "beguiling" work in The Virgin Suicides and the daytime aesthetic she envisioned for her own heroine: “Cassie’s clothes are very tactile: soft pink inviting.” For Steiner, “It was a lot about the color palette of that pastel. When not hunting her prey, Cassie masks her pain in saccharine pastels.
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To get the flushed, blotchy skin effect, she changed her brush technique: “I stippled the blush on in a spotty way, so it's not this smooth-skin look.” Daytime Cassie “While it was wet, I said, ‘please close your eyes really tightly,’ which makes a mess.” Wells used a damp brush to smear the mascara around her eyes. Using techniques we try to avoid IRL, the makeup artist made Mulligan apply the mascara herself. “I love doing imperfect things like that,” says Wells. On the makeup side, smudges and a clammy complexion all point to Cassie’s “inebriated” state. It’s notable that we only see Cassie wear each “disguise” once: Steiner estimates Mulligan had approximately 35 changes in total. Fennell specified each location for Cassie’s hunt in the script, which provided Steiner with a wealth of costume inspiration. “She is dressed as a business chick,” Steiner explains of the movie’s opening scene, which sees Cassie slumped in a red booth, feigning intoxication to attract the attention of businessmen gathered for post-work drinks.
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