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updated: 31/10/2007

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publicity makeups: Melissa ‘suddenly 65’

In October 2007 Melissa George took on the appearance of a – very well-preserved – 65-year-old woman for the launch of BT Financial’s BT Super for Life in Sydney, to help people imagine themselves in 30 years’ time.

The publicity referred to a four-hour makeup application and ‘some clever prosthetic makeup and a head of grey hair’. Looking at the high-resolution images, it seems to me that her wrinkles were probably created with latex stipple or Green Marble rather than prosthetics. Melissa said: ‘We started at 5am with latex. They put grey silver spray paint through my hair.’

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