The renaissance of The Hunger Video games has started. More than a 10 years soon after the release of the Jennifer Lawrence-led dystopian movie franchise, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is completely ready for the highlight, with a manufacturer-new, straight fireplace cast — but not all new characters. Not-so-lover-faves like long term President Coriolanus Snow are entrance and middle during the prequel movie, which usually means there had been a good deal of prospects for clean make-up and hair thoughts (no signature braids listed here), as properly as nods to the primary seems to be.

According to Sherri Berman Laurence, the makeup designer and section head for the new Rachel Zegler- and Tom Blyth-helmed production — which can take area 64 many years prior to Katniss enters the arena — director Francis Lawrence desired the style and attractiveness appears to be like to be much more “dark and gritty” in contrast to the OG films, with modern day twists on the ‘30s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, based on the location. The apparel, hair, and make-up are even now intended to come to feel futuristic when compared to what audiences are used to IRL, but significantly a lot more buttoned-up than the wild models observed during the J.Law period. Think Outdated Hollywood glamour, but with purple eyeshadow or a holographic liner.

The makeup on Zegler’s nomadic Lucy Grey Baird, who’s served up as the woman tribute from District 12 à la Katniss, was held pretty practical. “‘What would she have accessibility to?’” Berman Laurence thought at the time. “Bugs and coal — that could be her eyeliner the stains on her cheeks could be raspberries, and beetles for the holographic eyeliner.”

Blyth’s Capitol-bred Snow doesn’t experiment far too a great deal in the makeup office, but TikTok’s owning a field working day with his Panem-fulfills-Eminem (aka Paneminem) haircut later in the film, which hair office head Nikki Gooley suggests was “definitely a coincidence.” The crew bleached the normal brunette actor’s hair (each and every two weeks, thoughts you) to make it extra in line with the character’s tresses in the OG sequence. “Donald Sutherland, [who played] the older dictator Snow in the other movies, is really blond, so we wanted [Blyth] to match as the more youthful blond teenager,” she describes.

Exactly where the staff received playful was with Hunter Schafer’s Tigris. Although the character’s search in the prequel (beneath, left) is considerably additional toned down in contrast to how she appears in The Hunger Video games: Mockingjay – Aspect 2 (appropriate, performed by Eugenie Bondurant) — the place her facial area is reconstructed and tattooed to look like an real tiger — Berman Laurence still needed to display how the character was on the path to feline modifications.

“I plucked [Schafer’s] eyebrows to a really critical cat-like pointed shape,” the MUA tells Elite Every day. “Then we bleached them out, pretty much invisible — just to give a minor nod to the commencing stages of what she finishes up turning out to be 60 many years later.”

Gooley also factors out the correlation involving the character’s earlier and existing mane: “I feel like we were able to give a exceptional commencing, but with some smaller nods to Tigris with her lush hair.”

Jason Schwartzman’s Blessed Flickerman also pays homage to a character in the initial movies. The Starvation Game titles host begins out as a “drab weatherman and really frumpy,” claims Berman Laurence. As the Video games come to be a lot more commercialized, the makeup artist extra large experience makeup, bronzer, eyeliner, and lip stain, whilst Gooley made his hair more substantial to signify the progression the display takes into becoming a legitimate spectacle.

“Lucky’s hair had a tale,” claims the hair designer. “It grew in dimension, and compensated homage to Caesar Flickerman,” Stanley Tucci’s THG character, who’s considered to be a descendant of Schwartman’s.

“In the beginning, we didn’t genuinely right him,” Berman Laurence explains of Lucky’s original lackluster search. “Then we added a layer of pancake makeup and bronzer. By the last seem, it was eyeliner and lip stain and a lot much more extraordinary, leaning far more towards what Caesar Flickerman seemed like, just to display the progression of exactly where the Capitol was likely.”

Everyone’s hair and make-up occur collectively to create people you are going to like to despise and loathe to really like in a movie evocative of what audiences know and have been obsessed with, while also revealing a absolutely new tale.

Look at the 10th once-a-year Hunger Game titles unfold when The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes hits theaters on Friday, Nov. 17.