With several decades of Barbies to pull references from and a story focused on the unlimited potential of individuality, hair and makeup designer Ivana Primorac assumed everything would be a piece of cake. But even finding the right shade of blonde for Margot Robbie’s Stereotypical Barbie was difficult. Early in the process of making “Barbie,” Primorac decided to go with a standard yellow hair coloring on Robbie. “The very first ever Barbie made, the one in a striped costume, she’s got very yellow hair,” Primorac said. “So we started with that, thinking that would be so cool (to) make Margot look like a doll because she’ll have that corn-yellow hair.”
How ‘Barbie’ Hairstylist Ivana Primorac Found the Perfect Shade of Blonde
TheWrap magazine: The challenge lay with the backgrounds and sets, which could alter how the camera picked up Margot Robbie’s hair
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The movie’s overall look is fine, but it was disconcerting seeing armpit hair on the Kens and when Barbie and Ken are in close-up, their normal human facial lines and pores could have been filtered for a more plastic look, don’t you think?
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