You may have seen this before, but it's new to me and I thought it was funny. All the colors were chosen to show up well in B&W. TV lied to us!
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Really old movies had the actors and actresses wearing weird colors of makeup because the film wasn't equally sensitive to all colors. I sort of wonder if thats what’s going on with this as well, but idk what kind of film was used for this.
Here’s a bit about the colors, including blue for contour, and yellow or green lipstick because red looked black.
https://www.insp.com/stories/the-colorful-makeup-of-black-and-white-westerns/
It's a little sad to think of this as a (mostly)lost art.