Similar to the original story, the hair and makeup in "Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story" is magical. "I love the contemporisation of period drama," Collins tells POPSUGAR. To get inspiration, Collins says she looks all over, including magazines, fashion shows, and 18th-century diaries.
"We read a lot of diaries that were printed at the time and that gave us technical instructions," she says. Ultimately, they combined Regency Era wig-making practices with more modern techniques to get the wigs you see in the new show. This was necessary not only for time's sake and to make the wigs more wearable for the actors, but also because wigs from that period rarely featured natural hair — an important focus in "Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story."
Paintings of the real Queen Charlotte were another prominent source of inspiration but Collins and her team didn't replicate any of her looks — they just used them for ideating purposes.
"There is one portrait that I love of Queen Charlotte and she has the big oval shape of the 18th century," says Collins. That shape loosely inspired the bridal hairstyle we see on the young Queen Charlotte in the show (more on that later).