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You have to go to great lengths to turn Margot Robbie, Cara Delevingne, and Jared Leto into hideous monsters. Alessandro Bertolazzi, the hair and makeup designer for the film Suicide Squad, walked us through his extreme toolkit.
TEMPORARY TATTOOS
Characters with head-to-toe ink had custom tattoos applied fresh daily. Robbie’s alone took about an hour to place.
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WALKING-CANE TIPS
“We needed something for Harley Quinn’s pigtails that was stiff and rigid,” Bertolazzi says. His team took rubber stoppers off the ends of walking canes, cut holes in them, painted them, and used them
to secure Margot Robbie’s hair.
BLOOD-RED LIPS
The classic “not pink, not orangey” red that Bertolazzi smudged on Robbie’s lips is no longer available, but
is a close match.
GOLD LEAF AND MUD
As Enchantress, Cara Delevingne was supposed to have skin with a texture somewhere between wood and scaly reptile skin, says Bertolazzi. He layered foundation, four different clays, and gold leaf over
her body to get there.
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MOP HEADS
Delevingne’s mangy wig included mop strings that “we dyed, burned, and glued together,” says Bertolazzi.
SILICONE PAINT
To coat Jared Leto’s entire body in translucent white for the Joker role, Bertolazzi mixed silicone-and water-based pigments for a truly psychopathic pallor.
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COMPLETE YOUR HARLEY QUINN COSTUME
