How The Batman’s Makeup Artist Perfected Robert Pattinson’s Emo Eye Shadow

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The Batman makeup designer Naomi Donne recently explained how she perfected Robert Pattinson's dark eye shadow look in the movie.Directed by Matt Reeves, The Batman focuses on a darker, grittier side of Bruce Wayne as he struggles to separate himself from his crime-fighting alter ego in his early years as the Caped Crusader. Pattinson's new take on the iconic DC character was largely inspired by the late Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, with Reeves' saying he regularly listened to the band's music while writing The Batman.

Pattinson is far from the first actor to portray the Dark Knight onscreen, but his take on the character does something none of his predecessors have done before: he wears a heavy smokey eye when his cowl comes off. In the film, Bruce can be seen wearing dark, smudged makeup around his eyes whenever he removes his suit. The eye makeup serves a more practical purpose for Bruce beyond its grungy aesthetic, however. As Bruce aims to hide his identity as the Batman, the eyeshadow supports the already ominous black cowl in shrouding his face. Other live-action Batman actors have also sported similar raccoon eye-style makeup, but The Batman is the first to recognize that the eye shadow doesn't simply disappear the moment Bruce takes his costume off.

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While speaking with Polygon, Donne further discussed how Reeves was largely inspired by Cobain when creating his Batman. Keeping with this, she created dark eyeliner looks for Pattinson's portrayal. According to Donne, achieving the look was a process of trial and error, and that between The Batman's rainy setting and intense action scenes, the makeup needed to stay in place. The end result