For Rish Shah, who plays Drea's love interest, Russ, in the film, the electric blue in his hair was no coincidence. In addition to adding to his character's bad-boy persona, the drastic change in hair color was something Shah had been itching to try for months. "Rish and I are great friends," Ballard says. "We had just worked together on 'Ms. Marvel,' and the color came together in a really amazing way," Ballard says, detailing a time when she dyed Shah's friend's hair pink, making the "Do Revenge" star eager to try the look for himself. "While we were doing it, Rish was dying. He was like, 'I want to do this to my hair so bad, but I could never change my hair because of work.'"
A month later, the pair met again on the set of "Do Revenge," and Shah's wish became a reality. "One of the first conversations I had with [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson], our director, was that she wanted to color his hair pastel, and it just could have not been more perfect," she says. "Rish really wanted to color his hair lavender, and it would have looked amazing on him, but the uniforms at the high school, some of them are lavender. We just felt it would be really weird for his hair to match the costumes, especially given that his character is this bad-boy artist."
From there, Shah and Ballard used Good Dye Young's Sky-High ($18) shade to achieve his final onscreen look. "We lifted him to a pale yellow so it would be a really soft pastel when we put the Sky-High on there," she explains. "From there, it was just maintenance. It was about every 10 days that we would touch up his hair and make sure it all stayed looking the same and it lined up really well with his fade. It was a really fun transformation to do on Rish."
