20-05-2025
TV makeup and hair panel: ‘Bridgerton,' ‘RuPaul's Drag Race,' and ‘The Wheel of Time'
Are makeup and hairstylists the most resourceful artisans? You could definitely make a case for it. During Gold Derby's Meet the Experts: Makeup and Hair panel, Erika Ökvist (Bridgerton), Natasha Marcelina (RuPaul's Drag Race), and Davina Lamont (The Wheel of Time) share the most creative solutions they've had to come up with in their careers.
For Ökvist, the answer turned out to be, well, herself. She was working on a drama documentary in the U.K. when she woke up with the mumps one day. "I literally got no neck and I'm totally gray, I'm so ill, but I've got to go [to work] because nobody else knows how to do it. So I arrive over there and the director looks like, 'Yeah, great, that looks great. Erika, looking at you now, how do you feel about playing the devil?' 'Cause you look so awful,'" the Emmy winner recalls. "And I was like, 'OK, I got the mumps and not only do get the mumps, I'm being typecast as the devil because I look so awful.' So there you go. I didn't have to do a lot of makeup for that look a little bit."
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Lamont's wig hack involves black silicone tape for boats. She used it on an actress actress who did not toupee clips or anything tight on her head. "It worked so well that I've used it again on this show with another actress that doesn't like it. And literally the silicone tape goes around the perimeter of the head and once you've stuck all the hair back and then over there and it sticks to itself. So one, it doesn't pull the hair out. It's unbelievable. It doesn't move," she says. "And then on top of that, I put a stocking cap and then I micropool the stocking cap to the silicone tape and put the wig on. And I used no toupee clips and the actress was super happy. And then at the end of the day, you can literally just take it off and reuse it."
For Marcelina, she resorted to a candy wrapper to complete a detail that might not even be that apparent on camera. After someone's nail fell off and no one could find the nail, she and her team searched backstage to look for anything that could pass for a nail.
"Someone from my team was like, 'Look at this candy wrapper. And we're just gonna cut it real quick and glue it on there with eyelash glue because we don't have any other choice,'" Marcelina says. "And we always laugh about that because that was kind of like just like, 'Here's, like, a gum wrapper that's kind of silver foil. It kind of looks like the nail. Let's just pop it on there because they only have to be on there for a second and then we can fix it later.' So, yes, trash works sometimes too."
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