“[The hair] is sort 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 towards all this wonderful shade. She would not slot in the whole lot round her. She’s sort of alien in all of that — she’s completely different.”

The size and elegance additionally function a method 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 once you return in historical past, [an updo] could be the right 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 facet of her head; wefts of hair had 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.

Except one character, wigs weren’t utilized within the movie in any respect, based on Stacey, as a result of Lanthimos “hates” them. “I believe even with one of the best wigs, for those who noticed that it was faux, it takes the whole lot 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 had 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 method 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.