All through the movie, Shug Avery additionally has beautiful, deep pink nails—one thing Rasheed credit to Henson. “That was a call that Taraji really made on her personal by way of what shade pink she wished to make use of,” she says. “It is these very particular, seemingly little issues, that actually lean into the character be totally realized. The nail polish shade was completely necessary to her character.”
The Coloration Purple got here to screens in 1985. Steven Spielberg was on the helm as director, with Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, and Oprah Winfrey starring as Celie, Shug Avery, and Sofia. 2023’s model not solely has a Black make-up division head, but additionally a Black director, Blitz Bazawule. “Blitz and I had size conversations and created moodboards about how the characters ought to look of their make-up,” Rasheed says. “He wished our Black pores and skin to shine prefer it does. So I used to be willed with the chance to have the ability to current our pores and skin the way in which during which it shines.”
That meant stocking her make-up package with complexion merchandise that actually “mimic pores and skin,” title dropping Koh Gen Do, Kevyn Aucoin, Armani Beauty, Chantecaille, and NARS as favorites.
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For Rasheed, becoming a member of the crew and creating the wonder for The Coloration Purple was a dream come true. “I do not suppose there’s any of us that weren’t affected by that film in a roundabout way, form, or type,” she shares. “It was a really heavy film again then and I used to be actually moved by it.”
