The night of the show was hectic but in an organised way. Each of the four nights of the production were taken charge of by a separate styling team, ours had Zina in charge. Our team was tasked with the first night of the production and so nerves were on edge whilst waiting for the performers to arrive for make-up and hair. The six of us in our team each had our own station to work on the cast, each station being for a different make-up process. We had two stations for foundation application, two for the cheeks make-up, one for the black displaying Leonora’s blindness and the final one for eye make-up. Once all the basics were done we asked the cast to get changed into costume for us then to apply wigs and sort and style them ready for the show. We had a few first night issues with the make-up process in particular the problems caused by the badly mixed colour for the cheeks. One of the other stylists made the mistake of mixing a silicon-based colour with non-silicon based colour whilst trying to create a batch of the right colour. The problem being that the two don’t mix and what we had was blocking up all the air brushes leaving them needing extensive cleaning and also wasting a lot of product. Luckily we were ready any issue and finished the whole process with plenty of time, making sure to communicate to the other groups of this issue so that they could avoid it.
From here we all left for the theatre hall and set up backstage with any equipment we might need for re-applying make-up and hair when the cast come off stage during scenes. Backstage got a little heated at times with a few diva moments rearing their head from certain cast members but as a styling group we managed to work on the task at hand without distraction. We had a few first night issue’s with costumes breaking or timings between the cast coming off, then going back on again but in all we received positive reviews and I felt proud of being a part of the experience.
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