She was working nights at a restaurant in the Village, then going home to Brooklyn and waking in the dark to put on full makeup and stand in line for early-morning chorus calls back in Manhattan.

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"When you are younger, you don't mind taking two hours to put makeup on, " she says.

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GARCIA-NAVARRO: Before the offensive, Zianet used to put makeup on at night and wash it off in the morning before heading into work.

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Huong went to her room to brush her teeth and put on some makeup, and Lili handed me a scrap of paper with our destination a room at the Double Luck Hotel.

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We tend to go with thinner people who have a specific kind of bone structure, so when we put prosthetic on them, because makeup is an additive process, it doesn't look like we're building out their face too much.

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