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Oct 12, 2022 · Transforming a very brunette Ana de Armas into a platinum blonde with skin mimics the Vaseline-slicked appearance of Marilyn Monroe was no easy feat. It was a transformation that required...
Sep 15, 2022 · To transform into Monroe, she said at the premiere, de Armas spent three hours every morning of the nine-week production donning a stocking cap and having prosthetics glued underneath her...
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Sep 27, 2022 · To transform brunette actress Ana de Armas into flaxen vixen Marilyn Monroe for “Blonde,” the film’s glam team had to carefully study “The Bible.” It was a 800-page anthology of...
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The highly anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde is now officially on Netflix. Whether you've seen the movie or just its trailer, there's no denying that the resemblance between the...
- Max Factor, Martinis, and Finding Marilyn
- Blonde Wigs and Bleached Brows
- Lashes and The Beauty Mark
- The Seven Year Itch Dress
- The Some Like It Hot Hair
- The Red Lipstick
- Channeling Marilyn’s Presence
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“I took the makeup team to Max Factor, we toured it together, took a lot of photographs, and then we walked down the street to Musso And Frank’s and had a martini,” explains Kerwin about the pre-COVID excursion to the Hollywood Museumthat resides in the home of Max Factor. It is here that Monroe’s hair was dyed its famous shade (ditto Lucille Ball’...
Monroe’s famous platinum roots needed retouching every four to five days, but de Armas didn’t undergo a drastic cut and colour. “We had so many looks and only so much money,” McIntosh explains. Two creamy blonde wigs of slightly varying lengths took the bulk of the looks, with a third “true platinum” wig introduced toward the end. “The hairline was...
A couple of days of testing was required to “find out what worked, what didn’t and to find ourMarilyn in Ana,” says Kerwin about her expressive lashes. “Enough lashes, you’ll change the shape of somebody’s eye,” the makeup department head explains, and she “applied the lashes in a way that was a little straighter across so we can give that Marilyn ...
A larger-than-life Marilyn in the legendary pleated Seven Year Itch dress designed by Travilla opens Blonde and reappears later in a moment Johnson calls “absolute dress porn.” It is a defining image, and one Johnson knew she had to get right. “A lot of the research was trying to pick apart how those dresses were initially constructed because a lot...
In a movie with this many changes (including a whirlwind montage of Norma Jeane’s pinup days that the team shot in one day), there will inevitably be some looks the creative team is less enthused by. “If I may be so bold, I did not like that look when we were researching it,” McIntosh says about the “I Want to be Loved by You” styling. The “little ...
Like Monroe’s movies and famous photographs, Blondeis a combination of black and white sequences with colour imagery. The two formats impact the choice of makeup, and the “biggest thing to figure out was the lip colours” because some pop, whereas others fade away. One day, they shot a mammoth 36 looks (for the photography sequence), which Kerwin de...
Recreating famous photos such as Norma Jeane wearing polka dots with the Playwright (Arthur Miller, played by Adrian Brody) wasn’t a simple case of imitating the garment. “Sometimes when you do recreations, it can feel costumey, flat, or it doesn’t have a life to it. It was important to honour those original designs but also to feel alive, and a ki...
Gowns, furs, and glamorous on-set ensembles are a fraction of the costume story being told in Blonde, which has a “sense of naturalism” that Johnson notes is the focus of the novel and Dominik’s direction. “It’s about her elemental mental state. That is the most important thing to get there and not just stick a costume on her.” One area Johnson dec...
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Dec 3, 2022 · Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Courtesy of Netflix. While the still images were shot using off-the-shelf wigs with the fronts removed and customized, the three wigs used the most...
Sep 28, 2022 · Home. Artisans. News. Sep 28, 2022 10:00am PT. How False Eyelashes, Wigs and Blue Contact Lenses Helped Ana de Armas Transform Into Marilyn Monroe for ‘Blonde’. By Jazz Tangcay. Matt...
