 While most productions opt to use makeup to remove the "sheen" and  facial hair stubble prior to shooting, Mystic Voices instead chose  to take the chance of alienating viewers by purposefully "greasing  up" the faces of the 17th century figures being represented on  screen, and even insisted upon weighing down the hair to give it an  unwashed, more historically accurate look. Going on the notion that  many people of the period being portrayed (1637) might have been  survivors of malnutrition, harsh elements and small pox, director  Guy Perrotta (qv) chose to encourage hair and makeup teams led by  Bernard de la Rivera to create an unromantic, less glamorous  depiction of the real life people being portrayed by actors during  the reenactments and dramatizations.