‘The Idol’ Makeup Artist on How Jocelyn’s ‘Femme Fatale’ Look Was Inspired by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera

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McKinley Franklin editor Kirsten Coleman spearheaded a wave of makeup fads in 2019 with HBO’s “Euphoria.” Now, she’s trying capture that magic for a second time with her work on “The Idol.”  “I wanted this story to be a more progressed version of ‘Euphoria,’” she says. “Sam Levinson was like, ‘Even though we’re combining the worlds, I want there to be a new experience here.’”  The show zeroes in on pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), who is at a crossroads after the death of her mother.

Vulnerable, Jocelyn is swiftly influenced by sex-cult sleaze Tedros (Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye), a relationship that changes the trajectory of her career for good.

The Levinson-directed series took the media by storm after its polarizing premiere at Cannes, following a Rolling Stone report that detailed allegations of a toxic work environment.

While Levinson (who also hails from “Euphoria”), co-creator the Weeknd and Depp said at a Cannes press conference that Jocelyn wasn’t modeled after Spears, Coleman reveals she took inspiration from the princess of pop to create Jocelyn’s look, in addition to another 2000s star. “I’d say Christina Aguilera and Britney [Spears], were really the stars we pulled from,” Coleman says. “When she’s performing as a pop star onstage as Jocelyn, it’s solely those two.”  Sporting shambolic blonde hair, sweaty skin and sleek, defined eyeliner, Coleman reveals that Aguilera’s “Dirrty” music video was the reference point for Jocelyn’s music video shoot look in Episode 2. “Her vibe is very steamy, sweaty, messy; it’s very sexy. ‘Dirrty’ was a very light reference,” Coleman says. “I think the music video was supposed to be a culmination of all the crazy things we saw in music videos back [in the 2000s],