In actual life, Bailey wears her hair in locs, and it was vital to her to maintain them within the movie — no wig. “After chatting with Halle, she actually wished to maintain her pure hair,” says Pal. That they had to determine how you can translate the type into this different world, becoming director Rob Marshall’s imaginative and prescient whereas altering its coloration.
When the subject of hair coloration got here up, Pal knew she needed to discover a answer that labored greatest for Bailey. She was involved about dyeing her total head pink 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 pink, 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 may keep in her hair anyplace from six to eight weeks after which be touched up in between, as a result of whenever you’re within the water, it is a bit of harsh on the hair,” says Pal.