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How ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Makeup Designer Linda Dowds Resisted A Caricature Of Tammy Faye Bakker To “Honor Her And Not Make Fun”

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For The Eyes of Tammy Faye, makeup designer Linda Dowds was tasked with replicating the bold style of Tammy Faye Bakker. The real Tammy Faye was known for her extreme use of makeup, including tattooing lip and eyeliner on face.The Eyes of Tammy Faye follows the rise and fall of the televangelist Bakker family, with a focus on Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain).

The film shows the evolution from a young Tammy Faye into the Tammy Faye that everyone knew when the PTL scandal happened.Dowds says that one of the most common images that people think of when they hear Tammy Faye, with heavily running makeup, is actually a fallacy.

With that in mind, it was important for Dowds to stay true to reality.DEADLINE: What was so special about her eyes?LINDA DOWDS: I think we hadn’t seen anybody be on television with quite that much makeup.

And she wore black lashes on top of lashes. Her makeup was got fairly extreme. She tattooed the liner around her eyes. She tattooed liner around her lips and her brows.

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