"Pam & Tommy" Hair, Makeup, Tattoos, and Prosthetics Details
The Beauty Secrets Behind the Transformations You See on "Pam & Tommy"
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The reason it's hard to tell James a part from Anderson is because of skillfully placed prosthetics. "When we first met Lily, we realised that she has these beautiful eyebrows, and they're really, really thick and luscious and amazing," Jason Collins, prosthetic and special effects makeup designer, tells POPSUGAR. He didn't want to tweeze them out of fear of damageing them, so they decided on a full forehead prosthetic. This piece also granted them more forehead space to work with, which is another aspect of Anderson's look.
Hand-sown eyebrows were then placed on top of the prosthetic. "Once we did that, we really realised that that gave us a lot of the likeness that we needed," says Collins. But they didn't stop there. James also wore full upper and lower teeth and fake birthmark tattoos on her shoulder. "[The teeth] give her that Hollywood smile — that sort of capped feel," he says. "Pushing out her lips was a secondary artifact . . . it really gave her that fullness and that voluptuousness."