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“you could do anything else, but my eyelashes stay where they are.”
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(She had an actualaddiction to Ativanandonce overdosed.)
But those jokes never came between Bakker and her mascara wand.
“What people don’t get is when they make fun of me, I’m in on it.
Garfield and Chastain inThe Eyes of Tammy Faye
So it’s OK,” Bakkeronce toldLarry King.
“I wanted to do something about it to honor her.”
(Andrew Garfield, who plays Jim, also wore prosthetics.)
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker greeting supporters during Jim’s trial.
“She’d always put herself together, and we wanted to honor that.”
“With the lip color, she loved pink, so we did a lot of that.”
The team applying prosthetics to Chastain.
The team applying prosthetics to Chastain.
I do it all the time.'
And so that’s what we did."
For eyeshadow, Dowds used quads from theRevlon ColorStay 16 HourandL’Oreal Paris Colour Richecollections.
Chastain as Bakker
For Bakker’s always-impeccable manicure, pre-paintedKiss Press On Nailswere used.
The Wigs of Tammy Faye
Touch-ups on set.
While her makeup became dramatically bolder over the years, Bakkers hair had an evolution of its own.
Tammy Faye Bakker
“I think every woman should have at least one wig for emergencies,” she writes.
She really believed in a full look!"
“Little fake hairs with black mascara on them how can they cause such a stir?”
Touch-ups on set.
“She was so grounded in the fact that that’s what made her happy.
She loved putting on makeup,” says Dowds.
“One of the things that I so respected about her was that she lived her own truth.
Chastain inThe Eyes of Tammy Faye
