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How ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Hair and Makeup Team Gave Jessica Chastain Those Outrageous Eyes, Brows and Hair

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people who recreated it in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” with a full-hearted “Hallelujah!”For the film’s makeup artist Linda Dowds and hairstylist Stephanie Ingram, nominated for Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling along with prosthetics whiz Justin Raleigh, Bakker’s commitment to her appearance was key to reproducing it on the film’s star, Jessica Chastain.

The movie traces several decades of Bakker’s life, from fresh-faced 1960s Bible college student to exhaustively made-up ex-television personality trying to bounce back from the scandal that sent her then husband to prison in 1989.

According to Dowds, the hardest era to nail was the tattooed, harder-edged later years. Any time Dowds worried that that last stroke of mascara, say, would push the look into clown-like parody, she thought about a scene from the 2000 documentary, also called “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” that the Chastain film is based on.“A makeup artist in that opening sequence wants to take off Tammy’s makeup.

And she’s saying, ‘No, no, no. This is permanent. A lot of this is permanent.’ And the makeup artist even tries to get her to soften the lashes.

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