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The glitter got EVERYWHERE.

Warning: This post contains *minor* plot descriptions from the first season of GLOW.

Ruth’s hairstyle was inspired by 1980s Sigourney Weaver.

Hairstylist Theraesa Rivers (who previously worked on Mad Men) told BuzzFeed that before filming, Alison Brie’s hair was “down to the middle of her back,” but that Brie was “gung ho” about the shag razor cut and perm that Rivers gave her.

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One of the biggest challenges was making sure the wrestlers’ makeup didn’t look too professional.

“The original [GLOW] show was very homemade,” makeup artist Lana Grossman (who also worked on Mad Men) told BuzzFeed. “We were trying to stay true to that.” It also had to look like something a bunch of out-of-work actresses could feasibly afford and do themselves. “Our instinct [as makeup artists] is, We’re here to make this perfect,” Grossman said. But they had to get comfortable leaving the makeup a little uneven, not perfectly blended, etc.

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Once exception to that? Debbie.

Unlike the other wrestlers, Debbie (Betty Gilpin) had actually worked as an actress — on a soap opera, no less — so Grossman said it made sense for her character to have a more polished look. “She spent a lot of time on a soap, learned some tricks,” Grossman said of their thought process when designing Debbie's look. “She just seemed like that sort of girl who was super put together all the time.”

Gilpin was given a slight perm to add a little texture to her naturally straight hair, and Rivers said they used mousse and “a lot of banana clips” to get her glam 80s looks. “There’s a lot of power in the comb and teasing,” she said.

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