From Ariana Grande and Stevie Nicks’ iconic efficiency on Saturday Night time Stay this previous weekend to the opening night time of the much-awaited movie Saturday Night time, based mostly on the legendary sketch comedy present, it’s secure to say that this has been an enormous week for all issues SNL.
Because the present celebrates its fiftieth season, the movie Saturday Night time takes viewers again to the start, specializing in the lead-up to the present’s very first broadcast. Not solely is Saturday Night time stuffed with laugh-out-loud moments from the comedic actors of right this moment like Rachel Sennott and Lamorne Morris, nevertheless it additionally transports viewers again to the ’70s, thanks largely to the meticulously created magnificence appears to be like. Forward, a few of the greatest ’70s magnificence secrets and techniques from the set of Saturday Night time, as informed to The Zoe Report.
Wigs, Keratin Therapies and Curling Irons: Reworking 2024 Actors into ’70s Icons
The hairstyles of the Nineteen Seventies are so distinct that there was no room for error in reworking the solid into the pioneers of SNL, make-up division head Tricia Sawyer and hair division head Janine Rath Thompson informed TZR. Thompson, in actual fact, needed to order 28 customized wigs for the primary solid and one other 50 for the ensemble. However, for the few actors who didn’t require wigs, like Bottoms star Rachel Sennott and The Fablemans actor Gabriel LaBelle, numerous effort was nonetheless wanted to convey the actors’ hair again 5 many years. Thompson explains that LaBelle—who performs SNL creator Lorne Michaels—needed to have his hair chemically straightened with keratin remedies each few weeks, whereas Sennott’s hair was hand-curled daily utilizing the T3 Swap Equipment Curl Professional ($280).
Skincare and make-up additionally performed an enormous position in nailing the appears to be like of the ’70s SNL icons. “Within the mornings, we often simply do a lightweight moisturizer,” Sawyer explains. “[Augustinus] Bader is nice for beneath make-up. It’s one in every of my favorites for that.” As soon as the pores and skin was prepped, although, the actual work started on actors like Nicholas Braun, who wanted to look a lot older. “We needed to age him,” Sawyer tells TZR. “I did a Bluebird Previous Age Stipple on his face and drew on damaged capillaries, and he had a full beard and mustache that [special effects wigmaker] Sasha Camacho in LA made for me. It was a enjoyable make-up. I feel the Jim Henson character was one in every of my favorites on the present.”