ambitious-witch:

eponniia:

In the new Mary Queen of Scots trailer, I’ll willingly say the plot does not look historically accurate at all. However, I am very much enjoying how accurate the hairstyles and makeup seem to be. Okay, fine, in the time period plucking your hairline and caking your face in makeup was actually fashionable, and yet the movie is using it to make Elizabeth “ugly” (not that Margot Robbie could ever look ugly, but still). But the fact that those fashion styles are actually in there, even if they are included with an odd theme in mind, makes me happy. So few movies these days are willing to go the extra mile when it comes to *gasp* accurately depicting historical hairstyles. Audiences expect the actors to look “normal” and we’re definitely not used to plucking hairlines. I’m just glad its included at all.

If I may speak, I think that making Elizabeth ‘ugly’ in those scenes is a kind of symbolism of Elizabeth falling from grace on Mary’s eyes. Like, stopping being her friend and sister and more rival. And also can symbolize how Elizabeth tries to cover herself to not show her doubts and anxiety over another woman with an heir threatening her ruling. Costume designers use the clothes to show character development. Elizabeth seems more pretty in some scene that are maybe from the beginning of the movie and she goes more make up and “hidden” at the end.