Hardin Has 10 More Tattoos
DiMondi, who worked with department head Stephanie Arble, said that their team came in about halfway through the first movie's production process. With that, the tattoos — the specific designs, placements, and count — were pretty much set in stone. By the time they began filming the second movie, they were able to change a few things; one of those details being how many tattoos were in Hardin's collection.
"We added about 10 tattoos between the first and second movie," she said, noting that these additions definitely made the application process more complicated. "You're trying to do more work in the same amount of time that you did in the first movie." How much time exactly? According to DiMondi, applying all of Hardin's tattoos (there are 33 total) took about an hour and a half. But since Hardin is usually dressed in fitted black clothing and in a lot of scenes that, well, include skin-on-skin friction, touch-ups were a regular part of the process. "European Body Art makes a really nice tattoo palette, which I had with me [on set]," she said. "If any of the tattoos would start to deteriorate throughout the day, I would use a tattoo pen or the palette to fill in whatever needed to be filled in."