In a lot of the bedroom segments, where the wigs were apparently off and the actors were showing their "natural hair" — even those were wigs, too. In fact, in some cases, sometimes it involved two wigs, laid on top of each other.
"It was important for us to have both stories on what they looked like when they weren't done up for the extravagant parties, where it feels more vulnerable and raw," she said. "With Catherine the Great, she was different from the other characters. Her being so bohemian and a little out-there compared to the others, we wanted her style to be a smaller reflection of that. We decided to keep the same curly texture [in those scenes] and had hair pieces made for her in three different sizes of curl, so it created a wild texture that made her look, I think, really sweet. It was important we showed that side of her."