Mary Queen of Scots Hair and Makeup Interview
You Won't Believe What Went Into Margot Robbie's Wild Transformation Into Queen Elizabeth
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"With anything you are working with Queen Elizabeth I, you have to hold in your mind's eye the iconic portrait of the white face and the red wig."
"With anything you are working with Queen Elizabeth I, you have to hold in your mind's eye the iconic portrait of the white face and the red wig," Shircore said. "I had this vehicle of smallpox to use to help me get to that iconic portrait, and so I put a few lightweight, pre-molded skin blisters and boils in areas where I wanted to change her features. I wanted to reduce Margot's beautiful bottom lip to get it closer to Elizabeth's thinner lip, so I put the blisters and the boils along her bottom lip because, like any woman, once the boils have gone and you are scarred, you would cover that scar with makeup. I also did that with her eyebrows and her nose because in a way, the scarring from the boils and the blisters thinned down her eyebrows and the bridge of her nose."