There is no doubt that Margot Robbie is one of the most striking-looking actresses in Hollywood today.

So when it came to transforming her into the perfect likeness of figure skater Tonya Harding, stylists were tasked with not only bringing back the 90s, but changing Margot’s runway looks into something more rink-ready.

Make-up artist Deborah La Mia Denaver explained to Refinery29 that many types of cosmetics left Margot looking like ‘a fashion model as opposed to a skater from that time period.’

Before and after: Margot Robbie had to undergo quite the transformation for her role as skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya

Getting the look: Make-up artist Deborah La Mia Denaver explained that Margot’s ‘fashion model’ looks made it difficult for them to use much make-up on her

Serious beauty: Margot, 27, sported a plunging black and silver gown to last night’s Golden Globe Awards

One of the challenges of the make-up team was to make Margot look more like she was in her teens and early 20s.

They discovered that Tonya’s preferred eyeliner only ‘enhanced Margot’s beauty’ and they skipped foundation entirely to give her a ‘fresher’ and ‘more innocent look.

They also bleached Margot’s brows to disguise their magazine cover-level perfection as a part of what the publication referred to as a ‘make-under.’

‘Margot’s are very arched and perfect, but Tonya had no discipline with her brows,’ Deborah said.

‘So once a week, I bleached Margot’s out as far as I could take them to try and fade that arch, and then filled in hairs, made them longer, and tried to drag them down.’

Flashback: Tonya Harding, pictured in 1994, was a fan of eyeliner at the time, but the make-up artist claims that Margot looked too striking when they put it on her

Making the date: Margot is pictured alongside Tonya, who is now 47, at Sunday’s Golden Globes

Made up: The artists made efforts to change the shape of Margot’s features, such as using glue to turn down the corner of her eyes and bleaching her eyebrows to hide their arch

But the eyebrows weren’t the only thing they had to ‘drag down,’ as Margot’s features are also just naturally more upturned than that of the young Tonya Harding.

‘At one point I actually had to glue down the corner of her eyes with a lash adhesive glue to give them a droopy position. I also drew little lines around her mouth to sort of pull it down.’

As for the beauty products themselves that the artist used, she stuck to drugstore make-up that Tonya herself would have been able to afford at the time, including Maybelline Great Lash Mascara and Press-On Nails by Lee.

Things were equally complicated on the hair styling side of things, as treating Margot’s hair to the sorts of styles popular for the age – not to mention how many changes in styles they were going through over the course of shooting – would have almost certainly ruined her natural locks.

The other part: The film’s hairstylist Adruitha Lee added that she had to ‘fry’ wigs for the movie to achieve the popular ‘crunchy’ texture of the time

Tip to toe: The hair stylist repeatedly permed and colored the wigs to achieve the effect

A little extra: The wigs even had beer poured into them and left to dry for the perfect crunch

So, the stylists resorted to many, many wigs that would be permed and colored over and over again to achieve ‘that permed crunchy look that we had back in the late ’80s and early ’90s.’

They often even resorted to pouring beer into the hair and letting it dry to achieve the perfect texture.

‘That look was very popular at the time, but Tonya Harding took it to a whole new level — so we had to really fry the wigs,’ the film’s hairstylist Adruitha Lee added to Refinery29.

But while it’s unlikely Margot will be using any of these styling tips in the future, the beauty experts did see her take a shine to one particular throwback hair accessory: the scrunchie – with Adruitha claiming that Margot left the set with large supply.

Source:https://www.dailymail.co.uk