In actual life, Bailey wears her hair in locs, and it was vital to her to maintain them within the movie — no wig. “After talking to Halle, she actually wished to maintain her pure hair,” says Pal. That they had to determine the right way to translate the fashion into this different world, becoming director Rob Marshall’s imaginative and prescient whereas altering its colour.
When the subject of hair colour got here up, Pal knew she needed to discover a resolution that labored greatest for Bailey. She was involved about dyeing her total head crimson and the injury that will trigger, so Pal got here up with a workaround. In partnership with an organization known as Extensions Plus based mostly out of California, Pal received three customized shades of crimson, 30-inch hair extensions made to encase Bailey’s locs.
“We simply began mixing the colours, ranging from darker and dealing to lighter and, actually, taking and wrapping every of her locs with this hair,” Pal says. The method in whole required three stylists and took two days, however as soon as it was in, they had been set for some time. “It might keep in her hair wherever from six to eight weeks after which be touched up in between, as a result of while you’re within the water, it is just a little harsh on the hair,” says Pal.
