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Rob Bottin was responsible for special makeup effects design and creation; Vince Prentice and Margaret Prentice were responsible for Lycia Naff and Sasha Rionda’s makeup. Henry Alvarez was sculptural designer for Rob Bottin Productions and his Alvarez Wax Models website has a number of images from his work on this and other movies.
I’m grateful to Vince Prentice for clarifying the credits for this makeup as follows:
In fact my wife Margaret and I applied the prosthetic appliance, facial makeup, and did the hairwork for ‘The Three Breasted Mutant’ and worked the same applying the makeup and hair for the ‘Daughter Mutant’ (the little girl who's mother was the mutant fortune teller). We both have worked very closely with Rob since the 1970s and were a part of Rob Bottin’s crew that worked at his shop to produce the makeup prosthetics/effects for the film. We both also did other appliance makeups, and worked on the makeup effects and puppets produced by Rob for Total Recall, and both of us worked in Mexico City during principal photography and later back home on inserts.