The entire process started a few days before the actual event so that Gurira's hair grew a little higher in the area where the design was to be placed, with the hair around it cut close to the head for what Scott calls an "inversion" effect. "I wanted the design on the side of her head to literally levitate, to exist above everything else," he says. When it came time for the final touches, the stylist used white eyeliner finished off with a holding spray to ensure it stayed in place all night.