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How ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Makeup Designer Miho Suzuki Transformed Star Brie Larson Into Scientist-Turned-TV Personality Elizabeth Zott


How 'Lessons in Chemistry' Makeup Designer Miho Suzuki Transformed Star Brie Larson Into Scientist-Turned-TV Personality Elizabeth Zott

“In the beginning, she couldn’t afford to put herself together with lots of makeup and hair and fancy clothes, because she was so focused on her studies and experiments,” she says. “I also wanted to contrast her with the other woman around her, so I didn’t do a lot of makeup.” Instead, the focus was on featuring the “beauty of the real skin”, including Larson’s freckles which Suzuki says she actually added more on to. She would wear this silky, matte foundation with more gradation with grays, and then [for the lipstick] I found this really beautiful burgundy with purple in it, but it’s not too dark.

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