“Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” hair department head Jaala Leis Wanless had the tall order of preluding the Pink Lady look that was to come in the “Grease” world. While the original Pink La…
of real people living in the time period set by the prequel series. “I tried to [fully] immerse myself into what I was seeing,” Wanless shared. “I went through a lot of print, advertising [and] movies from that era…I was trying to [make] our version swing right into [the 1950s].”
“I put a bible together for my team so that everybody had an idea of styles that they could do,” said Wanless. “[The] book explained cultural differences; what was happening in segregation, women’s rights, [etc.], and then I went into men’s hairstyles, the background of what the Greasers came from and then into women’s hairstyles.”
After the initial blow dry, moussing, curling and setting process has been completed, Wanless reveals that the “secret of having hairstyles last longer than 40 minutes” while actors are working is letting each hairstyle cool for about “35-40 minutes.” As a series so referential to its iconic predecessor, it is inevitable that some clear parallels between the two projects would arise.
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