On HBO’s “The Idol,” star Lily-Rose Depp’s make-up will get as messy because the present’s headline-making (and extremely controversial) intercourse scenes.

And to listen to make-up division head Kirsten Coleman inform it, that’s exactly the purpose.

“It was actually enjoyable on this present to let issues get messy … to let issues form of smear a bit of bit when it’s sizzling and steamy,” Coleman, who beforehand labored with showrunner Sam Levinson on “Euphoria,” tells Web page Six Type.

Depp, 24, portrays Jocelyn, a troubled pop star who’s reeling from the latest loss of life of her mom when she falls into the clutches of creepy cult chief Tedros (performed by Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye).

And Coleman says she needed the character’s efficiency seems to be to be an “ode” to 2 pop chart-toppers who weathered their very own storms within the early 2000s: Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

The latter’s scandalous “Dirrty” visuals have been a key reference for an Episode 2 scene by which Depp’s character shoots a equally racy music video; pushed to her breaking level after numerous takes, a sobbing Jocelyn finally hobbles off the set along with her graphic, glittery winged eyeliner working down her face.

Coleman says the look’s “laborious traces” and “edges and factors” have been meant to “mirror how laborious her life is in that second,” including that she was “intentional” in choosing merchandise that wouldn’t maintain as much as tears and sweat.

“I knew she was going to cry and break down, and I needed to see it begin breaking down within the scene,” she explains, telling us she needed to redo the look numerous instances over the course of the three days it took to nail the sequence.

“I believe we have been all having the practical expertise of what it might be to shoot a music video with a pop star actually breaking down like that.”

However Jocelyn’s stage glam — heavy on the false lashes, sizzling pink hair extensions and “Euphoria”-worthy eyes — couldn’t be extra completely different from the sultry, smudgy cat eye, overdrawn nude lip and heavy blush she sports activities whereas off the clock.

“For her on a regular basis look, I referenced steamy Eighties films like “9 1/2 Weeks,” “Primary Intuition” and “Deadly Attraction,” Coleman says.

“I’ve this imaginative and prescient that she and her mother watched these films when she was younger, so her character’s like, ‘That is what my mother thinks is an exquisite lady.’ At all times searching for that approval.”

These femme fatale references not solely mirror Jocelyn’s apparent sexual confidence, but additionally, maybe, the performer she’d wish to grow to be.

“When she’s ‘efficiency Jocelyn’ … all these things is placed on prime of her to kind of create this phantasm of an individual that everybody desires her to be. After which when she’s ‘on a regular basis Jocelyn,’ she’s utterly stripped down,” Coleman says.

“You see these two competing variations of her within the present that signify her inner wrestle. Which one is the actual Jocelyn … and is it both of them?”

Maybe viewers will discover out throughout subsequent Sunday’s finale, with the wonder professional teasing extra main make-up moments nonetheless to come back.

“She’s studying who she actually is as an artist, who she desires to be as a musician and a singer, and I believe Tedros is form of bringing that out of her, and with that comes how she presents herself,” Coleman hints.

“As she’s beginning to dig into herself, you’re seeing extra depth and dimension along with her make-up.”

Beneath, store a number of the key merchandise Coleman used to deliver Jocelyn’s magnificence seems to be to life:

“My favourite black eyeliner, arms down,” Coleman raves of this gel system, which she used for each Jocelyn’s album photoshoot in Episode 1 and her music video look in Episode 2.

Coleman loves the “actually pure” look of this pencil, telling us, “We might overdraw [Jocelyn’s] lips to make it a bit of ’90s, which is kinda her fashion, however we might join the Cupid’s bow to provide it a sultry Outdated Hollywood vibe.”

Coleman likes the “pure flush” this multipurpose balm delivers, saying, “It’s very horny and leaves a sheen.”

“There’s numerous actually actual, good eyeliner shapes [out there] and I adore it — it’s certainly one of my favourite issues to do — however it was actually enjoyable on this present to only let issues get messy,” Coleman says of Jocelyn’s regularly smudged cat eye, usually created with this pencil.