As Tanno put it, doing the prep work before filming was "really a masterclass in accuracy" — especially when it came to the inevitable tattoo cover-up required for Lady Gaga's transformation.
"Because she has so many tattoos, during the fitting, I would make note of what part of her skin would show [for each] outfit so then that way I don't waste time sitting in the makeup chair before filming," she said. "[Director Ridley Scott] shoots very fast, and sometimes completely out of order depending on the location — in any given day, she would be 40 years old in the morning, and then have to go back to being 25 — so we had to be prepared. Figuring out what tattoos were necessary to cover up and which weren't was really an art to making the schedule work."
This, as you can imagine, was no easy feat considering the sheer volume of body art. To help, the makeup team relied on the pro-favourite Skin Illustrator FX Palette (£91.50) to conceal all that ink, which is alcohol-based and heavily pigmented for easy cover-up.
"You start by canceling out the tattoos with an orange base all over the body, and then I would go in with something called Jordane (£59.50), a tattoo cover-up that you'd stipple that on," she said. "Then you have to use powder to seal it, and then spray a sealer on it. And she has so many. Then you're touching it up, and it has to look perfectly smooth, but then it rubs against the clothes. It's such a thing. I said to her, 'Your next role, I hope you're Catwoman or something, where you're in a cat suit the whole time. Because . . ."