The Flight Attendant season 2 immediately sets in motion a new mystery for Cassie Bowden (Emmy-nominated Kaley Cuoco) to entangle herself from, but perhaps the answer to the question we all want to know is, How do we get Cassie’s sexy-bombshell haircut and California-chic makeup?
While piecey bangs, long layers, and a messy top knot have become a Cassie/Cuoco staple, they’ve gotten a bit of an upgrade in season 2, which was by design and at a request from Cuoco herself. “I loved her makeup the first season,” makeup department head Erin Koplow tells Glamour. Koplow had previously overseen the makeup department for shows like For All Mankind and Nashville, and joined The Flight Attendant in season 2. “I said to Kaley, ‘Okay, I’m ready, we’re going to match it,’ and she said, ‘No, we’re going to make a change.’”
Koplow scoured Pinterest to give Cassie—who’s now sober, living in Los Angeles near the beach, and working as a CIA asset in addition to her day (and night) job as a flight attendant—a refresh. “I thought, Can we go with a softer version of herself? Not the signature eyeliner that you would see all the time, but monochromatic and soft, almost like a California beauty and just really natural. Nothing was too intense, and that was kind of the biggest change. And Kaley let me run with it. That meant her everyday look would just be really clean, and the eyes would match the cheeks, and the cheeks would match the lips.”
As for Cassie’s hair, the bangs are back, but in less of a curtain style and more piecey. “We wanted to open up the face a bit more so we could see more of Cassie,” hair department head Michael Marcellino (who has overseen your faves from Dead to Me to 24) tells Glamour. “We trimmed her bangs every other week.”
While Cassie’s everyday style is on the fast track to become the must-have cut and look of the summer, there’s also her alter-ego in the form of “gold-dress Cassie” (as she was called on set). That’s code for whenever our favorite messy heroine appears in the sequined gold dress from season 1 and has major bombshell hair with sexy makeup and loose curls. So how did Koplow and Marcellino achieve all the looks, and what did they use? Here, they give us the detailed run-down so you can create it yourself.