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The Most Extreme Movie Makeup Transformations

Karen Gillan – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Special effects makeup artist David White told Business Insider that Karen Gillan’s prosthetic makeup was the “most complex and interesting” to apply. Gillan plays the blue villain and assassin Nebula. White said that it took about four hours and 15 minutes to do her make-up and another 30 minutes just to remove it.

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Source: Left – Shutterstock/ Right – Digital Spy

“The five-piece prosthetic was a puzzle of butt joins, and blend offs all on the same pieces and the density of the prosthetic changes to accommodate the need to control the amount of prosthetic movement from one piece to another,” White explained.