I Was A ... Hair Stylist on 'The Hunger Games'
23.05.12
Josh Hutcherson also needed a radical color change to play Peeta . He has really dark brown hair, almost black. They all have some element of color -- pieces, bangs, flashes of something interesting going on. I truly think that once they see the hair, people will say that nothing like this has ever been done. As soon as they wrapped, he came back and wanted his hair back to his natural color. Effie isn't the only one with crazy-colored hair. When you work with these colors, it's a challenge to make them look trendsetting and visionary and not clown-like. It was a matter of getting them colored, doing a camera test and making sure it was the end result they wanted. Wigs never need to be retouched, but they sometimes need a bit of refreshing. No, of course that wasn't Elizabeth Banks' real hair.
Source: NextMovie (blog)
'Hunger Games' hairstyles are intensely bright, polished
23.05.12
But the key was to keep a polished finish to the hair seen in the Capitol, even if it was an offbeat color. Petenbrink went with candy-colored pastels, including pink, lavender and chartreuse for Effie Trinket, played by Elizabeth Banks. The color couldn&rsquo. The people in the Capitol are very refined, almost like a big group of old moneyed people that get together,&rdquo. Getting an elegant and refined look while using eye-catching neon and pastel shades was no easy feat. To get the right feeling, Petenbrink says she looked to a mix of real time periods, referencing the 1920s and &lsquo. A very rich and disturbing group of people. 80s punk, it had to be very high fashion in a couture kind of way,&rdquo.
Source: Boston Herald
