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HBO’s “The Idol” star Lily-Rose Depp’s make-up gets as messy as the show’s headline (and highly controversial) sex scenes.
And hearing the head of the makeup department, Kirsten Coleman, say that, that’s exactly what it’s about.
Coleman, who previously worked with showrunner Sam Levinson on “Euphoria,” tells Page Six Style, “It was really fun to let things get mixed up on this show… let it get a little messy when the weather was hot and steamy.”
24-year-old Depp plays Jocelyn, a troubled pop star stunned after her mother’s recent death when she falls into the clutches of eerie cult leader Tedros (played by Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye).
And Coleman says he wanted the character’s performance to sound like an “ode” to the two popular chart leaders who had weathered their own storms in the early 2000s: Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
The latter’s scandalous “Dirrty” visuals were a key reference to the Episode 2 scene, where Depp’s character shoots a similarly obscene music video; Having hit her breaking point after countless takes, Jocelyn eventually limped off the set with graphic, glittery winged eyeliner running down her face.
Coleman says the look’s “sharp lines” and “edges and dots” are meant to “reflect how hard her life was at the moment”, adding that she was “deliberate” in choosing products that couldn’t withstand tears and sweat.
“I knew she was going to cry and break down, and I wanted to see her start to break down on stage,” she explains, adding that she had to redo the look countless times over the course of three days to get the nail out. sequence.
“I think we were all having a realistic experience of what it would be like to shoot a music video where a pop star was destroyed like that.”
But Jocelyn’s stage appeal – false eyelashes, hot pink hair extensions, and eyes worthy of “Euphoria” – couldn’t be more different from the sultry, smudged cat eye, over-drawn nude lip and heavy blush she sports outside of work.
“For his everyday appearance, I referred to the hot 1980s movies like “9 1/2 Weeks,” “Basic Instinct,” and “Deadly Attraction,” Coleman says.
“I have a vision of him and his mom watching those movies when he was younger, so his character was like, ‘This is what my mom thinks is a beautiful woman.’ He is always looking for that confirmation.
These seductive references not only reflect Jocelyn’s obvious sexual confidence, but also the actress she perhaps wants to be.
“When ‘Performance is Jocelyn’… all these things are put on top of it to create the illusion of a person that everyone wants her to be. And then when she’s ‘everyday Jocelyn,’ she’s completely undressed,” says Coleman.
“You see these two competing versions of him in the show representing his inner struggle. Which one is the real Jocelyn… and one of them?
Maybe viewers will find out in the finale next Sunday, when the beautician teases her bigger makeup moments.
“She’s learning who she really is as an artist, who she wants to be as a musician and a singer, and I think Tedros takes that out of her and with that comes out how she presents herself,” Coleman hints.
“The more you begin to explore yourself, the more depth and dimension you see in her makeup.”
Here are some key products Coleman used to bring Jocelyn’s beauty to life:
“My favorite black eyeliner is absolutely,” Coleman lauds this gel formula, which Jocelyn used for both her Episode 1 album photoshoot and her Episode 2 music video look.
Coleman loves the “really natural” look of this pencil and tells us, “We used to overdo it.” [Jocelyn’s] lips to do it a little ’90s, which is her style, but we’d combine Cupid’s bow to give it a sultry Old Hollywood vibe.
Coleman likes the “natural blush” this all-purpose balm gives and says, “It’s very sexy and leaves a shine.”
“There are really a lot of flawless, perfect eyeliner shapes out there. [out there] For the often smudged cat eye that Jocelyn often creates with this pencil, I love it—one of my favorite things to do—but it was really fun to let things get messy on this show,” says Coleman.