The glitter tears of fantasia are gone. With sparing use of corrective makeup, Davy and her team leaned into the realness of the cast's natural skin texture this season to express what was going on in each character's lives. In some instances, with Rue (Zendaya) specifically, she'd exaggerate what was naturally there to expose the character's struggle.
"We traced over Zendaya's veins around her eyes a lot to accentuate whatever drug-related stuff was going on," she said. With that, in addition to some bloody moments, we'll see what adds to the heart of Euphoria, which isn't just the ethereal, ultra-glam moments, but the gritty and scary ones, too. "A lot of the looks from season one were more fantastical, like a heightened more fantastical version of reality," Davy said. "[Season two] gives you a more exaggerated version of emotionally what's going when it's not all about good feelings."
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