Weekly Pics: Ina Mikkola
Weekly Pics is a peek into the visual diaries of designers and design professionals. This time, we travel to Los Angeles with a costume, hair & make up designer Ina Mikkola.
Weekly Pics is a peek into the visual diaries of designers and design professionals. This time we travel to Los Angeles with a costume, hair & make up designer Ina Mikkola.
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Since the last year, I have traveled between Helsinki and Los Angeles for both work and pleasure. At the moment, I am working on a film and being on a charge of the characters’ looks. I work as a costume, hair and make up designer, which means I have to plan and decide what the characters will look like and also put it into practice.
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I order lots of stuff online, so my workroom is full of cardboard boxes. I have thrown many of them away already, but saved a few to store the characters’ costume. Everything must be strictly organized to avoid chaos.
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Costume making takes time. The most important tools are definitely a measure, needles and scissors. Glue gun is convenient for a variety of purposes, for example for modifying shoes or gluing seams.
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I wanted to find a dress with a cloud pattern for one character, and when I did, I wasn’t compeletely happy with the design. That’s why I added collars and shirt buttons, that are made of white fake leather.
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This is one of the film locations.
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My goal for this week was to get one of the wigs done. It needed, for instance, four additional pieces to give it more volume.
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When the new pieces were ready, I attached them to the front part of the wig. I also needed to add more hair to hide the add-ons and to make them remain firmly.
On this picture, the wig is still unfinished. I can’t reveal the result yet, because it will make its debut in the film.