GLOW Has the Most Crazy-Amazing '80s Makeup Looks of All Time

Even in the training scenes, prior to determining their personas in the ring, having a distinct look that represented each girl was important to the hair and makeup team. 

Although the fantasy match took place early in the series, it was shot after the rest of the episode in question had, roughly a month into training. "We hadn't gotten much into the actual wrestling at that point, but that was the moment everyone on the team was like, 'Oh my god, this show is going to be huge,'" says Grossman. "That was the first time we saw what Alison and Betty could do, and they killed it. I watched the transition from the previous scene, where Ruth has this ridiculous war paint makeup on, to this one a thousand times, and I think it's my favorite moment in television ever."

Because the roles were so physical, keeping the hair and makeup pristine was a constant challenge, but that's how things would react if the girls were actually fighting in the ring, so Grossman and her team decided to go with it. "It was a trial and error thing because makeup obviously wouldn't last through all of it, so we assumed that if it was going to sweat off, that's how it would be in real life," she tells us. "We would let it smear and fall apart, then set it so that the makeup looked the same in the following scene." 

Between the hair and Robert Palmer-esque contouring, these two could would easily look right at home within Contempo Casuals at the mall. "I loved getting to know the girls, and Kate Nash [Rhonda] as well as a few others would come over every Sunday to get spray-tanned," Grossman tells us. "Jackie Tohn [Melrose] was also so funny. Look, it wasn't a beautiful time! There was a ton of glitter, and more was definitely more. It was so fun to see how everything looked once it was put together, and when the crimpers came out, I was just like, 'YES!!'"

"With Debbie's makeup, we decided that, since she had a background as a soap actress, she likely knew how to do her makeup herself," Grossman tells us. "We had so much fun, and she was like my Barbie. Every time she changed her clothes, her eyeshadow or lipstick always matched her outfit." 

Sheila the She-Wolf's transformation scene was probably one of the more fascinating scenes out of the series, and in real life, Grossman described actor Gayle Rankin as a platinum pixie, which was a huge contrast from her on-screen persona. "The shots of her putting on her makeup are probably some of my favorites. We never saw her without the wig and makeup, except once," she tells us. "It was complicated because we wanted it to look like she had done her makeup herself, which was fun to put together."

Shoutout to Debbie with her matching patriotic makeup. Though Grossman had a hard time picking a favorite look or character from the series, the transition of Alison Brie's character Ruth from totally natural to a wrestler painted up like a Patrick Nagel painting was probably the most fascinating. "We filled in her eyebrows a lot, and I loved her makeup looks as Zoya," she tells us. "For the final match, we have her this solid eye of copper glitter, which faded out toward her eyebrow. It looked so cool in person."