Edward greets Bella at school on a rare sunny day in Forks, WA.

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union regulations forced her to choose between doing hair or makeup. She chose the latter but notes, I love them both. With makeup you can transform someone, make them look beautiful; you can change the eyebrows and make someones eyes look bigger. People dont really think of makeup, they dont realize makeup may be covering a blemish or black-and-blue mark. Were trained to make people look better, or older, or stressed out. We do all that! And hair is a big part of the transformation. Its a collaborative effort. Although Van Phue had Hardwickes trust and support, other makeup artists were after the Twilight assignmentshe had to earn her way back. At the outset, the directors only guideline had been to not give the Twilight vampires a typical deathly pale look. At that point, Kristen

Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Nikki Reed had been cast, so Van Phue used photographs of the young stars as reference during a whirlwind twoday concept session. Van Phue and Valdes both developed their visions for vampire makeup and hairstyle with artist Kathy Shorkey, who produced a series of illustrations and watercolor paintings that were detailed down to the piercing black eyes with red highlights. They came out amazingthose drawings got me the job! Van Phue said. We got it just right; it was not too pale. Van Phue also gave Bella a pale cast, just as she is described in the book, accentuating

Their eyes are described as honey or golden, Van Phue explained, but when theyre hungry they are a dark brown and black, you dont even see the pupils.

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Stewarts fair complexion. As with all makeup assignments, there were weeks of tests to bring to life the vision presented in the concept art. Van Phue experimented with the lightest shades

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