Just like her makeup, Robbie's hair evolves as the movie progresses, but her ever-changing styles pack a deeper meaning. "We just took her on her journey in that movie, and the hair went along with it," says Lee. "Whatever was going on in her life and in her head."
As a nurse, Robbie needed a softer look. "I pulled a lot of photos from the dust bowl period where the women just didn't have a lot to do their hair with, so we just tried to do something that was soft [and] framed her face pretty," says Lee. In the city of Amsterdam is where she really shined. "There were different hairstyles that came out of that, and one of them was the artsy looking straight-edge shingle haircut." To style this sleek look, they used the Tres Flores Three Flower Brilliantine ($6), which is a product from that period.
When she's sick and staying with her brother, we see her hair become loose and undone and have more of a lived-in feel. This symbolizes where she was mentally at the time. It's not long though before she returns to her more polished waves, which coincides with her reunion with her two best friends. "It's just an homage to the strength and being grounded with the good people in her life," says McCoy-Bell.
They used old-school styling techniques to keep the hair as authentic to the time as possible. For Robbie's undone look, Lee used paper towels as rags to create DIY rollers (because hot rollers wouldn't have been invented yet) and sprayed the hair with the Davines Oi All-in-One Milk ($38). She also used old-fashioned oven irons instead of the curling irons we have today. "We went as far as we needed to go to try to mimic that period," says Lee.
